Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1897-04-22
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Memphis, Tenn, April Is. The river
continues to slowly rise at Vicksburg
and all points south, and the situation
along the Louisiana system of levees is
acute. Much suffering still exists in
the Sunfower and Bogue Phalia coun-
try. where hundreds OF negroes have
deserted their cabins and are hudd1ed
on high grounds and the railroad
tracks. Many cabins are submerged to
their very roofs, while several have
been swept away from their. fonnda-
tious and carried away by the swift cur
rent. On a plantation ten miles west
Of Helena, Sylvester Sanders, q colored
tenant, his wife and five children were
overwhelmed by the current, and all
persisted. Near Greenville two ne
groes were drowned in an attempt to
reach dry land.
Quincy, Ill.,, April 15.-Ten thousand
acres of the best land in the district are
now submerged under from four to ten
feet of water, and the rest of the region
is SO muddy that a horse could not make
his way through it. There is no pros
pect of decline i'm the food, and the
farmers say they will be satisfied now
if the water goes. down in six weeks,
so that they can plant corn crop.
On the Iowa side of the river, south of
Council Bluffs, the water has inundated
farms for. a distance of three or four
miles back from the stream. The wa
ter came up in the night, and the farm
sers reported much stock drowned.
These reports are coming in from every
point along the river as far soi1th as
St. Joseph. The flood is the worst
since the inundation of 1881 and is do
ing immense damage to property along
the rivers edge. ..:z-
Marshfeld. Mo-, April 15.-Many of
the best farms of this country are river
bottom lands. The water is already
over some of it and rising, causing farm
ers to move. It is feared there will be
rise nearly equal to the great food
of 1874, when large steamers ran
through the Wakenda prairie, ten miles
from the main channel.
Kansas City, Mo-, April 1.-THE Mis-
souri, river reached the danger line at
$3.50 o'clock Wednesday afternoon. AL
ready the effects of the rapid rise are
beginning to be felt in the west bot
toms, the water seeping through the
sand stratum which forms that land
and more than three feet below the bot
~ 40 IN To-, of
the bottoms. Some cellars are already
under water. Across the river, along
the Harlem shore, only a foot of banks
remains. Much green stuff is floating
down, AN evidence that the banks north
of here are being cut away.
Leavenworth, Kan, April 15.-A large
part of the Fort Leavenworth reserva-
tion on the Missouri side is under wa
ter, and the federal prison farm on the
Kansas side is covered with lakes. The
water is encroaching on Stillings, the
village across from Leavenworth, and
several families have been forced to
move.
Vicksburg, Miss, April II. - The
levee at Biggs, 21s miles below Delta,
La, broke at ten o'clock Friday night.
The crevasse was 100 feet wide 20 min
utes after it gave way. Delta is directly
opposite Viclasburg.
Leavenworth, Kan., April II. - The
river at this point has risen three-tenths
of foot since Thursday and at noon
was practically stationary. The river
here is fully three miles wide, extending
to the bluffs in Platte county. A score
or more of farms are almost complete
~ inundated and the damage done
amounts to several thousand dollars.
+ Washington, April lit is sug-
gested that ten days supply of ra-
tions be sent at the earliest practicable
moment to supply 1000 destitute per-
sons and 100 head of stock in Quitman
county, Miss, in which 10 townships
are inundated; also for 5000 destitute
persons and 500 head of stock in Goa
homa county where IL townships are
flooded; for 5000 destitute persons and
600 live stock in Bolivar county, where
nine townships are inundated. On the
Arkansas side it is reported there are
5000 destitute and 400 live stock in
Phillips and Monroe counties requiring
assistance. Thirty to 40 days is the
estimated period of time before labor
ers can 20 to work inthe inundated area.
To Honor Queen Victoria.
Washington, April 16.-The governor
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