The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-04-17
NINE DROWNED.
More Fatalities Due to the Floods
In the South
Thousands of Acres of Western Farm
Lands Submerged situation
Grows More Critical at
Kansas City.

Memphis, Tenn, April 15.-The river
continues to slowly rise at Vicksburg
and all points south. and the situation
along the Louisiana system of levees is
acute. The waters are being hurled
outward with tremendous force and
several thousand men are working and
watching night and day in one grand
effort 10 hold the embankments intact.
Reports from the overfiowed Missis-
sippi delta are not encouraging. The
expected fall in the waters that extend
for miles and miles over the fertile val
ley has not occurred. Many we'll
known planters express the fear that
the yellow stream will not recede until
June-too late 10 plant this years crop.
Much suffering still exists in the Sun
flower and Bogue Phalia country, where
hundreds of negroes have deserted their
cabins and are huddled ON high grounds
and the railroad tracks. Many cabins
are submerged to their very roofs. while
several have been swept from their
foundations and carried away by the
swift current. On plantation ten
miles west of Helena, Sylvester Sanders,
colored tenant, his wife and five chill
dren, were overwhelmed by the current
and all persisted.
Near Grecnville two negroes were
drowned in an attempt to reach dry
land.
Omaha, Neb., April 15.-There is now
less danger OF the threatened cutoff by
the Missouri river, and unless there is
an unlooked-for rise or high wind
from the north, il is not probable that
much more damage will be done. The
hastilybuilt dyke that stemmed the
torrent from Florence lake on Tuesday
was greatly strengthened Wednesday
and has almost stopped the flow at the
most threatening point. The water has
spread out over a wider stretch Of ter
ritory and surrounds few more
houses, but the change in channel of the
Missouri has been averted for the time
at least The workmen employed along
the leyee struck Wednesday for double
pay. They were getting IS cents an
hour and demanded 30. Their demands
were refused and they quit work. Other
men were easily secured.
Quincy, H., April 15.-Ten thousand
acres of the best land in the district are
now submerged under from four TO ten
feet of water, and the rest OF the region
is so muddy that's horse could not make
his way through il. There is no pros
pect of a decline in the flood, and the
farmers say they will be satisfied now
IL the water goes down in six weeks,
SO that they can plant corn crop.
On the Iowa side of the river, south
of Council Bluffs, the water has mum
dated farms for distance of three or
four miles back from the stream. The
water came up in the night and the
farmers report much stock drowned.
These reports are coming in from every
point along the river as far south MS
st. Joseph. The flood is the worst
since the inundation OF 1881 and is do
ing immense damage 10 property along
the rivers edge. The flood seems TO
have reached it's height and will prob
ably fall from now On.
Marshall, Mo-, April 15.--Many of the
best farms of this county sre river-bot-
tom lands. The water is already over
some of II and rising, causing farmers
to move. 1t is feared there will be
rise nearly equal TO the great flood OF
1874, when large steamers ran through
the WalSenda prairie, ten miles from
the main channel.
Kansas City, Mo-, April 1.-THE Mis-
souri, river reached the danger line at
2:30 o'clock Wednesday afternoon and
is rising more rapidly than on Tues
day, in spite of its greater width. The
gauge now reads 81. with an additional
Use of one foot predicted by Friday
noon. Already the effects of the rapid
rise are beginning - be felt in the
west bottoms, the water seeping
through the sand stratum which forms
that land and more than three feet be-
low the bottoms OF the cellars In
large section OF the bottoms. Some cell
lars are already under water. Across
the river, along the Harlem shore, only
foot OF banks remain. Much green
stuff is floating down, an evidence that
the banks north OF here are being cut
away. Warning has been sent out TO
make preparations for serious flood.
Leavenworth, Kan, April ia large
part Of the Fort Leavenworth reserva-
tion on the Missouri side is under water,
and the federal prison farm on the
Kansas side is covered with lakes. The
water is encrooching on Stillings. the
village across from Lcavcnworth, and
several families have been forced to
move. Work in the Western Target
company's factory has been stopped, as
baclSwater has flooded the village.
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No sign of break.
Frankfort, Ky, April l5.-The Frank
lin county grand jury is continuing its