The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-04-10
eREENr1I1E,s pLEA ZOE AID.
Asks for S19S. o 20 Feed ana shelter
90, 900 Victims or the EIood.

| ASK Tor HIHbs OOD 10 Feeo nuo bholtcF
aO,Ooo Victims or the Flood.
G~REENvnLE, Miss, April 9.-The citisens of
Greenville have appealed to the United States
Government TO feed and shelter 10000 people
In this county. For this purpose they ask
S125,ooo for use during the next thirty days.
Sixteen other counties are to DO affected in
whole or in part by this flood.
All last night a heavy windstorm prevailed,
blowing the water against the levees on the
Mississippi aldo and causing fresh alarm. Tele-
graphic communication Ia cut OF from time to
time and squads Of linemen are kept busy all the
time taking up tho fallen wires and fastening
them TO trees.
NEW ORLEANS. April e.-Stormy weather still
continues to prevail along the lower Mississippi
TO the great danger Of tho levee system, and
rendering the navigation OF the Mississippi dan
gerous. The telegraph wires were blown down
here and at other places, completely cutting on
Groonville. At New Orleans the levees were
washed badly and weakened at various places.
In the Tensas levee district of North Louisi-
ana, in Difference to the proclamation Of Gov.
e eSshs5 ana shs Sspof Sssp taEs.j n 9Ss r NEARLY t.a snS
ap T Ws6,o on the ieyees; Tho police tgEy
other riparian parishes will send money. Tho
Interior parishes back of the river are also doing
their share. Terrebonne sent 400 laborers to the
front to-day to work on the Lafourche levee. The
population seems to DO aroused to tho danger
and Is urging the authorities to use all available
money. and even their credit to save the levees.
The Mayor of Plaquemino has prohibited all
steamboats, from landing there on account Of
the danger to tho levoes. A ievee patrol train
is now run daily between Baton Rouge and New
Orleans over the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley
Railroad 70. inspect the levees and report on
their condition. As usual. the deer and other
wild animals in the Mississippi swamps arc be-
ing driven to the river front by the overflow.
The steamer Ruth on her last trip down saw
eight deer swimming the river to escape into
Louisiana. Four were captured.
Gov. Foster received to-day q tender from the
Secretary of War of assistance in tho form of ra-
tons and supplies for flood sufferers, but replied
that there was no overflow in Louisiana yet,
and consequently no need Of assistance from the
Government.
MELLErrE, 8. D., April Sowing to the floods
there have been no mails here for two weeks.
The James River has risen seven feet higher
than ever before and Is a mile wide. 1t has
washed out the three large iron bridges In this
| county.
ST. PAUL. MINI. April s.-The Mississippi
tuyer, began to rise here again to-day. At 8
o'clock tonight the gauge. marked 17.9 feet.
The people along the river have begun to move
again. Signal service officers say the rise is oc-
casioned by melting snow in the woods. It
showed heavily for two hours this morning and
1t had all disappeared by 8 o'clock this after
noon. The relief society found I've families with
seventeen children huddled together in ono little
house on Commercial street to-day.