Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-03-24
AID FOR SUFFERERS.
ST louis suBscRIBEs ron BENE-
FIT or FLOOD VICTIMS.
SITUATION NOT MUCH CHANGED,
Appeals for Relief from Various
Quartcrs-Dangcr Point at Helena
Reached and Pnssed-Rescue Work
Being Continued.

ST. LOUIS. MO. March 23.-Acting
upon an appeal from Governor Jones, Of
Arkansas. for assistance. the Merchants
Exchange OF this city to-day subscribed
$4,000 for the relief Of the food sufferers.
This money and future donations will
be handed over to the Memphis Relief
Committee. Statements from Mayor W.
L. Clapp and Chicf-of-Police T. r. Nose
ly, Of Memphis, were received by the
Exchange The Mayor says that nearly
ali the refugees come from Arkansas.
The Chief says that Memphis has two
funds to draw upon-balances left from
the yellow-fever fund and the cash do
mated for the Johnstown pa hood-suf-
ferers. neither Of them having been ex-
hausted.
The following telegram from the Mayor
OF Helena, Ark, was also read:
HELENA, ARK, March @.-rhe dan
ger-point has been reached and passed
We are in such shape now that we can
lhuild our levoc up az fast as the river
can rise. No matter how high 1t goes
we can keep above IL. 1, therefore WISH
10 allay the alarm that has been spread
abroad regarding the situation mere
Appeals for aid were also received rom
Crittendon and Mississippi counties. Ark.
Dispatches from many points IN the
flooded section show but sight changes
from Yesterday. Slight rises are re-
ported from New Madrid. Mo-; Columbus
and Paducah. Ky. and Cairo ana Metro
polls. Ill. The greatest increase was az
Paducah. That town is now an island
and only reached By one Tairoad-ihe
Illinois Central
MEMPHIS GAUGE STEADY.
At noon to-day the gauge at Memphis
read exactly IS feet and was stationary;
hut tho rises at points above and below
there show that the steady gauge was
caused by the levee breaks at Hopeheld
and ST. Francis. in Arkansas. South
of Helena to Chicot there is scarcely any
more EFFORT to save the leyees. At Mo-
doc the break Is now nearly mile wide
The levees IN Mississippi are older
higher and better aligned TO resist the
torrent than those on the west bank OF
the river, and the area under eater is
much less. The worst break Is below
Friars Point, but cross-leyees restrict
the overflow.
A dispatch from Greenvllle. MISS, says
the SunlDNNl lAAtI - Ao NiAN et4A* -''A'
of water as the Mississippi at ordinary
stages. and that the sluggish Hazoo river
is now a raging torrent.
Rescue work continues undated from
Vicksburg, Helena, Memphis. and Hlck-
man. Ky. Steamer expeditions never re-
turn fruitess. and ii would seem that
only a start had been made TO save the
suffering The misery undergone by
these people is beyond description. Ma
turally an improvident class, they were
not prepared for the calamity that came
so suddenly. All are without extra cloth
ing, and many had not eaten morsel
for twenty-four hours when rescued.
A startling statement by river plSt
is published here to-day. He says; "Ah
the rescue work seems to be done on the
Mississippi river Nothing is known OF
the fate of the poor people in the low
lands of the White, Arkansas, and Black
rivers. in Arkansas. When the death
roll is made up it will be largely from
these villages"
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