The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-04-22
NORTH DAKOTA ASkSAlD
GREAT DESTIrUTION THERE FROM
Wind AND WATER.
More Creyasses In the L~vces-Tbe Dams
age to Property Amounts to Over
Ninety Millions.

WASHINGTON, April 2i.-Secretary
Alger to-day received the following tele-
gram from the Mayor and city Coun-
ell OF Grafton. n. D.: "a raging Hood
along the Red river, aggravated by the
cold high winds and zero temperature.
have caused great destruction of proper
~ and suffering. Buildings with con-
tents, stock, and seed grain have been
swept away. Immediate relief rs nccpssa-
~, or great suffering will prevail. The re-
quirements, etc, are beyond local aid.
The assistance of the government is in
voked. and at once. Can you aid US? n
so. wire funds 10 be distributed by the
relief committee"
In response TO this appeal Secretary Al
ger telegraphed 10 Major Sanno az Fort
Smelling. Mimi. the army officer who re-
Gently visited the vicinity OF Grafton, ana
who IS now at ST. Paul. Mimi. TO return
Immediately TO the Hooded districts in
North Dakota and render all possible re-
lief
WASHINGTON. April 21.-The Bureau
OF Statistics OF the Treasury Department
has made the following report on the
damage caused agricultural interests hy
the Mississippi river flood:
The total area submerged at this date
Is over 10000 square miles. II contained
at the last census 90 g,,J farms. with a
total area Of 1904. 4O1 acres nearly half Of
which was improved. ana total popuia-
liNIf dEflfHifAlfl ana OfNfIWl~f. OF -
hfl. If the value OF It's farms. farm build
ings and farm machinery, according 10
the census Of 1890 there be added the
value Of its live stock on January lst last
fN'.lI4.Gi6l. and Of its products or last
season still on hand on March lst last
- j13. l19). the total Of S9O,lIGlI VIII
represent the approximate value Of the
agricutural property of the submerged
portion. Among the products OF TINS re-
gion last year were 4bb,uJO nalcs or cot
ton, worth Sl6.3l2VN, l2,J2o.bi1 pushels
OF corn worth So 90 Us. and oU33.o :
pounds Of sugar. worth S27l ,Ol0. the total
production including minor crops repre-
senting a value Of S21, IS, $50 IN the plan
tation"
WASHINGTON, d. c., April I.-Sec-
Iler this afternoon received the
following dispatch from the inspecting
officer at Memphis:
Have just returned from an inspection
Of the interior Of the Yazoo basin coun-
try between the Sunhower and Rogue
phalia rivers. Along the line Of the
railway as far south as Mound Bayou
n'antng IS I'm progress where land IS free
Of water
Eighty per cent. Of the land usually cul-
tivated is known as high land. a fall OF
two feet will clear this high land OF
water The rate Of fall IS at presen.
about inches a day In week or ten
days the worst will be over in the upper
Yazoo basin and very little restitution
Will have resulted. From Mound bayou
south. ten days should be added 20 the
above estimate. This will carry the ter
ritory as far south as the line Of the
Georgia Pacific railway IL is believes!
here now that if any portion Of the basin
is covered with water beyond date too
late for "A crop this year. il will be in
that portion lying between Rolling Fork
and Vicksburg The local commissary
at Memphis should be instructed not 10
send supplies into the Upper basin for
longer periods than above stated
MEMPHIS. TENN. April A.--The sixth
break 10 the Mississippi delta levcc sys
TEN occurred AZ t. o'clock this morning
az a point a few miles south OF, Lake
Providence. La. on tho Mississippi side
OF the river. The break IS quite large
che and o. great volume Of water is rush
"a ."rtv NJ IS. The
county with the adjacent counties OF
Sharkcy and NazOn has already be- n
Partly inundated from the early breaks.
and tO-day's crevasse * is believed VIII
not materially aifect the situation III thdl
vicinity
No new breaks are reported from the
Louisiana district. The water is gradu-
ally spreading over Madison parish rom
The Biggs creNas and IL VIII be several
Memphis is slowly falling.
GREENNILLE. MISS, April 2l-There
was another break IN the levee on the
Mississippi side az Shpland az o'clock
this morning forty miles by rail, south
~ Greenville. The break will cover a
few thousand acres of land not flooded
ald will add TO the volume Of water al
ready covering nest of the lands i'm It's
vicinity. The lcvec is ten feet high and
the break is fully 800 feet wide. There
was already more than a foot of water
ON the inside OF the levee when II gave
way.
VICKSBURG. MISS. April 2l.-Reports
from the sixth Mississippi crevasse IN
Issaquena county on Promised LAM
plantation. up 70 =. NJ. show that IL is
not widening and that the row Of water
through IL is slackening 10 stiffness AZ
ready. The water inside the levee was
only six feet below the level Of the river.
This creyasse has already caused some
hundreds OF persons 20 leave their houses
and may be severely felt on Lower Deer
Creek where much land is still above
water The flood situation in Madison
Parish Is daily growing worse, owing TO
the unexpected spread OF water from
Biggs creyasse. This reached and over
flowed to-day the plantation OF the Sahiey
Land CO.. at Omega thirty miles above
this city and thirty-six miles north OF
Biggs creyasse. The cOmpany's mana
ger telegraphed here tonight for
steamer