The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1900-04-27
DELUGED WITH WATER.
Additional Rains in the South Add
to the Gravity Of the Situation.
Many small Places Have ueen En-
tireiy Cut On From the Outside
world for over "a Week. MAX
Ina the situation Desperate.

tnE the situation Desperate.
New Orleans. April ai.One of the
heaviest rain storms of the season
occurred here during the night and
New Orleans was flooded. Monday In
the upper and rear sections OF the
city water still covered streets and
sidewalks, and RATS had 10 be used
TO reach street ears. The city Is suf
fcring commercially a. result OF
the Mississippi floods. and the Grip
Piled condition OF four railroad lines
entering new Orleans. The Missis-
sippi Valley has made some Roadway
In getting it's tracks In condition aud
tie Illinois Central is operating par
tial service. but the Northeastern l.
still completely blocked. Not until
Wednesday or Thursday will traffic
be resumed.
The carrying away OF the Pasca.
eouia bridge has badly crippled the
louisville and Nashville. which has
announced that all night trains viii
be- temporarily suspended. Through
day trains. however will be operated.
arrangements having been made 20
ferry passengers. mail and baggage
across the hay at PascngOula. The
moyemen. OF freight has been tenn
porariiy stopped.
II Is harmed that two more spans
% the pascagoula bridge were car
ried away by floating logs Monday
morning.
Meridian. Miss. April Addition
al ruins have added gravity 10 the
food situation In the surrounding
country. Small streams are all out
Of the banks. and larger ones will be-
gin TO rise again by nightfall. The
temporary trackwork which has been
done will be damaged on all railroads
entering the city and resumption of
traffic viii h. longer delayed. The
situation In cutoff towns Is growing
desperate. Foodstufs are running
hort AMI relief i nowhere In sight.
Reports from the interior continue
TO come IN showing grrai devastation.
Farmers are abandoning farms a.
worthless and entering TIE service Of
railroads. which semploy all appli.
cants. Meridian suffered great dam.
age in Sundays rain by severe wash
outs. Fifteen inches Of rain have
fallen 80 far this month.
Mobile. Ala. April ea.-The Zoo
situation around Mobile showed
more desperate condition Monday
morning. aud every hour the loss +
growing greater The Louisville a
Nashville railroad. which has hereto.
fore been FREE from any damage anl
has been hauling the freight aud
passengers OF the Illinois Central.
Northeastern and Mobile a Ohio raj
roads for the past six days, Is now
. sufferer also.
The condition Of the Mobil- 4
Ohio was worse han ever. The WA
ter has fallen very much. but the
damage can not possibly be- re
paired before Friday morning suf-
ciently TO allow trains TO go through.
In one place ON the Mobile a Ohio
three or four hundred feet Of track
has been washed entirely away, and
where the roadbed was there Is now
gully fse feet deep. The damage
Is incalculablc and nearly all the
roadbcd for twenty-five miles viii
have to be entirely built over again.
Mobile. Ala. April ga heroic
fight Is going ON at Scranton and
Moss Point, Miss, by railroad and
lumber men to save the large proper
~ in that locality from further dam
age by floods. The Louisville d Nash
willie railroad forces. headed by Gen
eral Manager Metcalf. are trying to
hold their tracks against the rising
water. The logs and driffwood com
ing down on the food have TO be
guided between the bents of the tres.
tie at the bridge there. and pushed
away where they lodge. The work of
rebuilding the big steel bridge al the
break will be rushed, and temporary
bridge thrown across the gap made
by the loss OF three spans Of the Pas
caRoula bridge. The road expects TO
be in working order by Friday. There
il great danger. however. that the
Scranton bridge, two miles east of
the Pascagoula bridge, may go. All
depends upon whether the enormous
log boom at Moss Point holds or not.
Jackson. Miss. reports that Pearl
river has dropped one inch. The
weather Is clear. and IL is believed
that the worst Of the food in that Vi
entity Is over.
From Meridian south the food has
changed for the worst. Heavy rains
caused a decided rise in all the
streams, and every report from that
locality Is disheartening 90 railroad
officials. who fear full traffic can not
be resumed inside of three weeks.
Citizens in small towns shut out
from the outside world are growing
IL being one week in many
instances since they have received
pound of freight or mail. In Meridian
The situation is bad. only the Mobile /
& Ohio road being able 10 handle
freight.
May Day Parade In New York.
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