The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-03-23
UNDER WATER.
Heavy Rains IN the South and West Swell
the Rivers-In Some Localities the Flood
is the Hig hest Ever Known.

rose two inches Thursday night. For
many miles the country is flooded, and
the water is up to the Iron Mountain
tracks Hundreds of section hands are
striving to keep the water back with
dirt bags At every station the Ne
groes are gathering, waiting to be
taken away. Many get on the trains
are carried without pay. Superin-
tendent Roe, of the Iron Mountain,
has given orders that none are to be
put off.
The list of fatalities is enormous
and probably will never be known.
Mr. MiddleSton, who arrived here
with his family from near Rosebud is
land, four miles from Arkansas City,
reports the death of a woman and five
children Wednesday night. The wa
ter came up, and though the unfor-
Inmates climbed on the tables and
chairs, the flood finally reached over
their heads.
William Cartwright and William Cox,
working on Judge Hodges farm at
Rosebud island, lost their lives Thurs
day. They were in dugout starting
for stock and the current upset the
dugout- Cartwright could not swim
and Cox tried to save him, out both
persisted.
Jake Carter lost his life at Gavin
Thursday night. His dugout was up
set by rushing water. His compan-
ion, Sterling, was saved by climbing a
tree
Amanda Chapman, an old colored
woman, just arrived from below, re-
ported the death of six persons she
could not name. father tried to
save his wife and children in a dugout,
and it tipped, drowning three. The
water killed others in the house.
Charles Burlkey was drowned while
trying to save his hogs Thursday night
near Gavin. He could not manage a
dugout
A mountain of household goods is
piled up at every railroad station.
Whites and Negroes beg for help from
every train crew. Houses along the
road are submerged to the roofs, and
| cattle standing in the fields with only
| their heads above water. Many corpses
of hogs and cows are washed up by
| the water.
| LILLE, 4Cuu-, -hdICA LC
| Cum berland river Friday morning reg
istered 46 feet on the gauge. Rain fell
all day Thursday, all Thursday night
| and continued to come down inces-
sanity Friday. There is prospects of
! the greatest food on record. The
highest recorded water in the Cumber-
land river was in 1888, when it regis
tered So feet, higher than now. The
outlook now is that this mark will be
exceeded. Much damage has already
resulted from the overflow in the low
land, and more will follow when the
flood increases.
HELENA, Ark, March 20.-The river
at noon was within two inches of the
highest water on record here. The sun
shone Friday after one of the most pro-
longed heavy and downpours of rain for
years, and conditions are more hope
| FIJI. The observer here says that from
the looks of things above he would
not attempt to estimate, and urges all
the people in the lowlands to move out
at once to higher ground.
The levees in front and north Of the
city are having the attention of the
officers Of the city and the levee
boards and the levees are being raised
and strengthened. Heavy rains Friday
and Thursday nights have partly in
undated a portion of the northern
suburbs of the city, but the water is
now fast receding.
A report fir ON Modoc Friday morning
is to the effect that the levees are still
holding, although report Thursday
night at 10 o'clock was that they could
not be held until this time. A reporter
who returned from there Friday morn
ing says that, with the recent recruits
to the already large army or
levee workers, there is now
bright chance of holding the
levees, but if the water continues to
rise it does not look possible, as there
is but 70 to Is inches clear levee in a
great many places. The levees on the
Mississippi side appear to be in good
shape, and as they have plenty of men
and money and no comparatively new
levees to look after, it is hardly pos
sible there will be a break on that
side.
MILWAUKEE, Wis, March 2O.-The
heavy rainfall during the day and part
of the evening caused the Menominee
river to overflow its banks Friday
night at Wauwatosa, a suburb some
miles distant from Milwaukee,
and from point at Fortieth
street and Mount Vernon aven-
ue the whole neighborhood for
a distance of ten blocks is submerged
The water at midnight was from to 9
feet deep and is still rising. About
$50 small houses are located in the dis
trict, but up to midnight no fatalities
have been reported. The work of ress
cuing the victims of the flood has been
going on all evening, the veterans of
the National Soldiers Home helping
with small boats At 9 o'clock the
Milwaukee police department was
asked for help and boat was sent
out. The life saving station on Jones
island was notified, and two boats
were taken out to the scene of the
flood by the fire tug Foley. The res
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