The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1897-04-16
T'HE FLOODED SOUTH.
Vicksburg Calls on the Government
to Loan Tents.
FOR sHELyERING 1000 PEOPLE.

There Arc Already 1900 Flood VIC
Tins In That City Alone, While in
Bolivar County There Are 22 900.
The Missouri Merges With Lakes.
Vicgsburg Miss, April 16.-The pres
ence of at least 1900 flood refugees in
the city, and the strong probability
that there would be more, moved the
city authorities and the commercial
bodies yesterday to decide on a course
of action. Accordingly the mayor call
ed a meeting, which was attended hy
representatives of the city council. the
board of trade and the Cotton Ex-
change, which chose Mayor Trowbridge
chairman, and organizd for the sys-
tematic relief of the needy by appoint
ing committees and sending request,
through Governor McLaurin, to WASH
ington for tents to shelter 1000 persons.
The steamer Florence arrived last
night from Davis Island with another
large batch of refugees. There are re-
ports of additional loss of life on parts
of the island not yet visited by the re-
lief boats, SO far as heard from, but as
yet but one death by drowning is au-
thenticated
The situation between Yicksburg
anu New Orleans is causing the great
est apprehension. The river continues
to rise in the Louisiana levee district,
and weak spots in the levee are being
strengthened and watched day and
night. .,
o. c. Stubblefeld, correspondent of
the agricultural department of the
United States government at Indola,
Miss, says the suffering in Sunfower
county, which forms part of the delta,
has been greatly allevated, and that
much of the county now is dry Farm
ers are busy plowing and planting cot
ton, and If matters grow no worse that
county will not require any assistance
from the government
Statistics of the number of flood suf-
ferers In Bolivar county have been
compiled by committee appointed to
look after the distribution of the gov
ernment provisions. They show $4,000
people who are now or soon will have
to be fed by charity in addition to
5000 head of live stock.
The water at Rosedale has not re-
ceded. The first train that has a.
tered Clarksdale for many days has
arrived there. Trains are also being
run from Clarksdale to Minter City and
Phillip, and from Lulu to Jamestown.
AT Greenyille the river remains station
ary, the gauge reading 446 feet. The
weather throughout the delta is clear
and pleasant. The river reports at
Greenville for the last three days have
given the people no hope.
A dispatch from Omaha, Neb says
The flood situation is grave. All night
torrents poured from the Missouri
across the North Omaha gardens into
Florence and Cutoff lakes. The former
has lost its identity In the general
food, and the latter may soon. 1t Is
seven feet higher than it was on Tues
day morning, and Is surely cutting
away the dykes that hold it back from
sweeping to join the Missouri and turn
the long abandoned course Of that
stream again into use.
At Rosedale, Miss, the water Is sta
tionary. Another drowning occurred
near there yesterday. Mary Robinson,
o colored girl, was returning from a
visit to her sister in canoe when the
frail craft sank in eight feet of water.
This makes the sixth victim claimed
by the food in two weeks in that Vi
cinity. The body Of Charley Claxton:
who was drowned on the I'd inst, has
been recovered.