The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-04-04
WORST YET TO CONE.
HOPE FOR srBsIDEScE OF THE
FLOOD DIsPELLED.
Government Appealed 20 for Ffnsn-
1ey's Prompt Aesfon-Local Relief
Committees Unable 10 Cope With
the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Increase.
Daily and Cries for Help Come
From All Parts of the Submerged
Districts.

viii throw another weird % water into tire
Already sled g.. Francis basin. ard "a al
this win have 20 pass through the narrow
levse-ssounG channel beginning ten mites
above Helena 70 the FIRST break ten miles
below thaf city, the fate OF Helena and
the low and fertile country behind Tuukca
county, dissisSir~d. levee Is pro5lemasfeal
II the MssSAszspp4 deisa water - fast
spreading over the entire country Many
thcusa NJ people hsve been made homeless
and aTgs%sSs for ard have gone forth In
the lowtansss OF ARIA nsss a caE for food
has been made ami he people % Little
Rock VIII take immediate action. Ssarva-
ton csutronss 50 co people
T'onsghf r. &. Graves and j. $. Menax.
OF the Memphis relset committee. go %
Washington 20 ask the general govern
nsent 10 render assistance. The local
rs.ief comm3ttss has demands that vii ex-
haust al present funds. They are from
AisssSsfgsp4 as Far down as Greeuvtlle and
from nearly AL Eastern Arkansas. The
visitors 20 W a<shington will ask for IS 900
20 oe used IN buying ratons- Ten thou
sand dollars has already been expended
By the local committee and probably $1,000
more OF the contributed provisions have
been distributed. II now looks as Il rars-
Inc Is ahead.
No more breaks in the levees are report
ed tonight. but II is feared no human
power can overcome the force OF nature be-
low Sicksburg, and Il il believed by many
TO De only a question OF few days before
the same conditions that now obtain In
the delta Will exist in Southeastern Arkan-
sas and Northeastern louisiana
Al Memphis the water Is reported sta
tionaTy tonight. The hopeful view OF the
food situation has been dissipated by re-
ports from the upper Mississippi and its
tributaries which are rising at "A RAPID
rate Immense volumes Of water may be
expected 10 pour into the upper Missis-
sippi through its tributaries and eventu-
ally Increase the already appalling con-
aiiions existing in the middle and lower
Mississippi valley.
Arkansas Needs $4,000.
LITTLE ROCK. Ark, April s.--This has
been a day OF incessant rains with re-
peated storms OF violence. lowering clouds
and increasing appeals for help from the
suffering people or the overfiowed por-
ton of the state.
In View or the rapidly increasing num-
Der OF sufferers and the increasing area
OF the oyerfiowed country telegram was
today sent 10 the Arkansas delegation
In congress urging an appropriation Of
at least s5a.aoo FOR tho relief Of flood SUI
ferers in Arkansas.
Gov. Jones today received a telegram
from the war department by Secretary
Alger requesting an Immediate report as
10 the number of persons suffering from
the want OF food and shelter in the flooded
district of this state. and the probable sum
required fov relieving their distress. Gov.
Jones replied thas he would furnish the
Information as soon as II could be gath
cred and added that he believed that SO. 0oo
added by the government 10 the funds
raised by local subscription would not be
too much to meet the exigencies-
StiIl Rising at st. Louis.
ST. LOUIS, April S-The Mississippi
river rose i've inches here today and to-
night the water is nineteen inches be-
low the danger point. There is every in
dlcation that the food Will be above the
danger line within O few hours Tonight
the food has risen 20 nearly the level OF
Chestnut street. which Is one Of the high
est streets In the levee districts In the
NOT IN end the water IS already in the
streets. but as this district Is occupied
mostly by squatters the fact attracts lit
tie attention. Business men along the
ievee are very uneasy and are continuing
with Increased visor their efforts TO pro-
tect their property.
Mckinley Lends a Hand.
WASHINGTON. April s.-The presiden;
Is showing great interest in the news OF
the floods in the West. On his own iniua-
tive he can do little for them. but he In
tends to appeal at once 10 congress TO
come 10 the relief OF the sufferers. II was
first supposed that the Joint resolution
making Immediately available s25oo0o OF
the total appropriation made IN the sun
dry civil appropriation bin for the inn
prevenlent Of the lower Mississippi river
under direction OF the Mississippi river
commission would go far toward alleviat-
ing the distress Of the submerged section.
but II has been discovered that not cent
az this money can be legally applied 70
feeding or caring for the people starving
and shivering along the banks Of the
rivers.
To meet this cxigency the president has
determined 20 bring the unfortunate state
az the people 20 the attention OF congress.
irusfinE 70 that hranch Of the government
10 p~ovtee means Of relief To this end he
has made inquiries by telegraph OF the
governors OF the states where the floods
prevail as 70 the extent os the floods and
the needs OF their people.
The Missouri Coming III.
rEAvFNwORTH. Kan. April s-The
Missouri river at this point has risen two
fset ard Two inches within the past TWEEN