The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1897-04-16
THH FLOODED south.
Vioksburg Calls on the Government
to Loan Tents,
FOR sHBLTER1Na 1000 PEOPLE.

There Are 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 1,500 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 by
representatives of the city council, the
board Of trade and the Cotton Ex-
change, which chose Mayor TrOwbrldge
chairman and ORGANIZED for the sys-
tematic relief of the needy by appoint
ing committees and sending a 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 ViclSsburg
and 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. G. Stubblefeld, correspondent OF
the agricultural department Of the
United States government at Indola,
Miss, says the suffering in Sunhower
county, which forms part of the delta
has been greatly alleviated, 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 win not require any assistane6
from the government.
Statistics of the number of flood suf.
ferers in Bolivar county have been
compiled by a committee appointed tC
look after the distribution of the GOV.
ernment provisions. They show % 0OC
people who are now or soon viii have
to be fed by charity, in addition tc
5000 head of live stock.
The water at Rosedale has not re,
ceded. The first train that has n
tered Clarksdale for many days has
arrived there. Trains are also being
run from Clarksdale to Minter City anG
Phillip. and from Lulu to Jamestown
AT GreenViHe the river remains station.
ary, the gauge reading 446 feet The
weather throughout the delta is clear
and pleasant, The river reports al
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
flood, 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 1t back from
sweeping to join the Missouri and turr
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
8 colored girl, was returning from q
visit to her sister in a canoe when the
frail craft sank in eight feet of water
This makes the sixth victim claimed
by the flood in two weeks in that vi
cinity. The body of Charley Claxton
who was drowned on the I'd inst, has
been recovered.