The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-04-21
FATE OF A FAMILY.
Seven Persons Drowned by Flood In
Arkansas.


Arkansas.
Memphis, Tenn, April 15.-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 founda-
| tions and carried away by the swift cur
tent. On plantation ten miles west
| OF Helena, Sylvester Sanders, a colored
| tenant, his wife and five children were
overwhelmed by the current, and all
| perished. 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
| feet of water, and the rest of the region
is so muddy that horse could not make
| his way through it. There is no pros
pect of a decline in 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
ers reported much stock drowned.
These reports are coming in from every
point along the river as far south as
ST. Joseph. The food is the worst
since the inundation of 1881 and is do
ing immense damage to property along
the rivers edge.
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. 1t is feared there will be
q rise nearly equal to the great flood
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
| . "
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
toms of the cellars in a large section of
the bottoms. Some cellars are already
under water. Across the river, along
the Harlem shore, only 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 ia large
Part of the Fort Leavenworth reserva-
ton on the Missouri side is under wa
ter, and the federal prison farm on the
| Kansas side is covered with lakes. The
water is encroachfng on Stillings, the
village across from Leavenworth, and
several families have been forced to
| move.
Vicksburg, Miss, April II. = The
levee at Biggs, 211a 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 Vicl1sburg.
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. \ 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 a ten days supply of "a
tions be sent at the earliest practicable
moment to supply 1000 destitute per
sons and 100 head of stock in Quitman
county, Miss, i'll which 13 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
GOO 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 GO to work in the inundated area.
To Honor Queen Victoria.
Washington, April 16.-The governor
of Florida has notified the secretary of
| H. ,,a1-,- tho oifizopS of 'Tar0na arr,