The record-union., 1897-04-11
Streams in Those Parts Now Reported
to be Falling.
Heavy Rainfall Continues in All the
Country Tributary to the Mississ-
ippi-The Vast Extent of Human
Suffering and Destruction of Prop
erty Hard to Conceive.

SIOUX CITY, April 10.-Forty lives
at least have been lost in the floods in
South Dakota. Iowa and Nebraska. Two
| persons are known to have been lost on
the Floyd, three have been reported
drowned on the Big Sioux, two on the
Missouri and two on the Coon, all in the
immediate vicinity. Cases of a similar
character are being reported every day
from points farther away, and a sharp
watch is being kept by the local authori-
ties for floaters in the Missouri. Many
people are missing, of whose deaths
their friends have no positive informa-
ton. Most of them have probably been
| carried down the Missouri, and their
bodies will probably never be recovered.
The bodies of two more victims were
brought into Sioux City last evening
Danford Magee and Harry Faville-who
were drowned while attempting to ford
the Elkhorn River in Nebraska. There
has been a general fall in all streams in
the locality.
IN THE MISSISSIPPI DELTA.
GREENVILLE, April 10-There can
be no exaggeration of the fiod situation
in the Yazoo- Mississippi delta. River
bulletins of Friday evening indicate an
indefinite prolongation of the flood
hight in the Mississippi Valley from
Cairo south. Throughout all the coun-
try tributary to the Mississippi there
have been heavy rainfalls. The crisis
is yet to come, and the vast extent of
human suffering and destruction of
property cannot be conceived. Here in
the delta alone it may be truthfully said
that the half has not yet been told The
river is still at standstill because of
the water coming back into it from the
st. Francis at Helena, and the White
and Arkansas just above Arkansas City
keep up the rise at the latter point in
spite of all the breaks in the levees south
of that place. People here, and where
the water has not reached them, strange
to say, have only just begun to realize
the magnitude of the calamity. Yester-
day afternoon a call was issued by rep
resentative colored men for a meeting to
organize standing relief committee.
The river bulletin just received prom
ises' a further rise at Cairo, to be-
gin about tomorrow and continue for
several days.
The Ohio is again rising from Pitts
rising Nature seems to be determined
to do her worst for the Lower Missis-
sippf Valley this year, and when the
end viii be reached, or where the whole
sale destruction viii stop no one can
foretell.
RED RIVER RISING.
MINNEAPOLIS, April 10.-A special
to the Journal from Grand Forks, N
D., says: The Red River is rising more
than ever, and a still greater rise is
looked for from Red Lake River, where
the gorge has broken. The farmers in
the country down the stream say that
between this city and Pembina 30 fam
lilies are camped in the second stories
of their dwellings and on top the barns
and strawstacks. together with all the
| cattle that can be got up. At Pembina
| the water is rising an inch an hour, but
! the waters from up the river that have
done such damage at Fargo and Grand
Forks have not reached them yet.
| NO ABATEMENT IN THE FLOOD.
MEMPHIS (Tenn), April 10.-There
is no abatement in the great flood in
the Mississippi. The waters continue
| to pour into the lowlands through five
| rivers tributary to the Mississippi are
Overlooking. This has been a rainy and
stormy day in the flooded district. and
extra guards are being placed on the
| levees tonight. With the river sta
tionary at Memphis and Cairo, and the
upper Mississippi rising, the duration of
the food is now a question that only the
future can determine. The great volume
of water that for weeks has filled the
| Arkansas bottoms, and which is now
rushing into the delta, continues slowly
to pass into the main channel again and
adds TO the already swift current which
now threatens the Louisiana levees.
At Helena the situation is slowly i'm
proving. In North Helena the water has
fallen enough to allow some smaller res
| licences to be occupied while those
now in second stories are preparing to
move down again. The river at that
| place has fallen two-tenths of a foot in
| twenty-four hours.
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