Evening star., 1897-04-02
Distressing State of Affairs at Green
vile, Mississippi.
BRINGING IN FLOOD REFUGEES
Little to Hope for From the
Bulletins.
THE SITUATION AT ST. PAUL

JACKSON, Miss. April 2.-The Associat-
eel Press representative at Greenvire. Miss
te.egraPhs at IL am as follows:
All was hurry and confusion here last
evening, AID Greenville's population IN
that part of the city north and Immediate
ly exposed to the Mound crevasse are today
suffering all the wee incident TO the over
flow.
Sooner than expected the water has
reached here, and at Is o'clock this morning
from doo to 1GS families were surrounded
with water. There is some bitterness OF
feeling expressed by people living to the
north Of Alexs nder street, through which
protective levee row runs They do not
think that the ievee should have been built
as 1t VIII in all probability make higher
stage of water in this section.
Yesterday evening citizens in that part
OF town dynamited the railroad tracks in
seven or eight places in order to let the
water pass out into the country east of
here This has checked the rise tenn
Icrarily, but when the outer basin fills the
rse Will begin again.
Water from the Deerfield or Lake Lee
break is already coming up slowly to the
south of us. and the TWO floods have met.
East of Greenvile skiff mail line from
here TO Elizabeth on the Southern railroad
mas been established. and camps of line
men also established at convenient
points working to keep up the telegraph
wires. so that communication from here
with the outside world will be maintained
for several days yet.
fleet of skiffs is securing the country
and hourly bringing in loads of refugees.
Thousands OF head of live stock are com
ing into here from every direction.
The worst features OF the disaster yet to
come 10 this country being suppressed
as far as possible But the river bulle tin
today has caused much additional alarm.
Ine high stage of water from Cairo down.
together with the continued heavy rise
al St Louis. means widespread destruction
to the Delta at all points south of the
Perthshire break. .
Conservative thinkers. people who are
keeping their heads, fully realize the gray
lty of the situation. There is calmness
here. it is true, but it is the lethargy OF
mute despair.
\ Thousand Families Homeless.
ST PAUL. Mimi. April 2.-The Misss-
sippi river here has reached the stage of
Ii feet. and is still rising slowly. This is
the highest point reached since the great
food Of 1881. The residents of the flats
have had ample warning to save them
selves and their property.
Between Minneapolis and ST. Paul 100
taIniiIes nave been made homeless by the
Hood They lived on the flats along the
riverside. and in the lowland of West ST.
Paul. The families that lived to the left
OF the inter-urban bridge in Minneapolis
have been driven out. and vast body OF
water rushes over the spot where the
homes used to be. 1t has swept awaS
many houses. on the west side the water
Is encroaching on the Robert street bridge
only two streets in the flats are free from
water, and those only for three squares.
The water is coming up. and is gradually
SuhmergIng all the lowIands. Already 2ou
homes over there are under water ana
more disappear with each succeeding hour
Looking from the pier of old Broadway
bridge toward the south the west side looks
like an immense lake with a house top
sti, king above the surface here and there
TO relieve the monotony. Many residences
further down are covered and the lake is
floating full of all sorts of household goods.
fences, barn roofs. trees and lumber of ali
descriptions.
On IL. upper flats, the east side of
tLe river the inhabitants awoke this morn
ing 10 find their yards. and in some cas- IS
their houses, flooded. They Immediately
began TO move. BY a sudden rise of the
river al South ST Paul last night 1aD sheep
Were drowned. There were 5000 sheep in
tfe pens at that point which were being
removed to other yards. Millions of feet
Of lumber got away from the boom com
Anthony Falls. The Mississippi and Rum
River Boom Company estimates its loss at
$ss,trO
have again swollen the Des Moines and
Mississippi rivers. threatening further de-
struction of property. The Fox river
which empties into the Mississippi near
mere, on the Missouri side is out of its
banks, and the people are fleeing from the
bottoms and taking their live stock with
them The vast tracts of land within the
levees are suffering greatly from deep
water The situation is growing more seri-