The age-herald., 1902-03-28
IncGSSant Rains Have Flooded
 State Causing Great Damage
R. R. SCHEDULES ANNULLEO
Jackson Is Almost Isolated From tho Outside World-At One Place
 Seven Miles of Railroad
 Track Washed Away.

vicl1sburg. Mss, March T-Near1y eight inches of rain fell in the past twen- , ty-four hours and has almost isolated ! Vicltsburg so far as railroad traffic and wire communication is concerned. Not a tram on the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley road has entered or left the city since ] 9:30 o'clock last night, when mail and passenger train left for New Orleans. This train only succeeded in getting as far as Port Gibson. twenty-five miles south, where 1t Is st;n held, the tracks south of that point for two miles being washed away. Train No 6. due here at 12:15 this morning. ran into a washout at Melton. between Harriston and Port Gibson, the engine. baggage and mail cars going Into the ditch. Nobody was serious ly injured. Passenger and freight traina north and south of this city are stalled all along the road, the tracks being cov- cred with water at a ccore or places.
 In this city the damage will amount to several thousand dollars. Many stores and residences in the eastern section have heen flooded to a depth of several feet Streets are washed out and many bridges undermined. At the national cem- etery many terraces were cut to pieces. and the fine steel bridge across Mint Springs Bayou, built by the government five years ago, IS st the point of collapse, and traffic acroFs it has been stopped
 Planter Has Narrow Escape.
 Horace Gibson, a planter living near Russum, mad rarrow escape. The waters I R-t- z..
 fly were compelled to abandon thei- house at midnight, the building being swepS
 awey few minutes later They took [ | refuge on nearby eIninence- Very little news has been obtained from ' the outlying district Telephone wires arc
 down in every direction. The loss Is un-
 doubtedly heavy, and it Is feared a num-
 Der of casualties will be recorded D Work ir the Yazoo and Mississippi Rail- road shops at this pc1nt has come to a - complete standsti1l on account of the high waters
 1hacker's Creek, between this city and
 Jackson. is out of it's banks, causing {
 eUspersion of traffic cn the Alabama and
 Vickshurg road
 At Yazoo City the greater part of the town is flooded and many buildings have g been undermined and washouts gre re- d ported at mary points on the railroad a near there
 In east Missirsfppd tine downpour has
 been terrific. All the crezlrs are roaring Q | torrents, and much damage has beeen = WIG ught-
 2 The town of West Point, On the Mobile and Ohio RaIlroad, suffered severely.
 Jackson is Esolated. g Jackson. Miss. March A--This city l | is almost completely cut off from the r world today. The rain which started 7 | yesterday evening kept up all night and part of today. It was unprecedented 9 The weather bureau station reported this morning at o'clock that the rainfall = from o'clock last evening until this l evening had been six inches and twenty f eight one-hundrcdthE-
 r Out of the twenty-efght passenger trains which come in and ont of the city , every day, only one was enabled to reach , Jackson today. This train came from , Meridian and when it arrived about 2 I o'clock 1t found that there were a nurrber l of washouts between this city and Vhcks- burg and it was unable to proceed fur ther. The train was to have started back this afternoon. but about noon the rail- road officials received word that there was a washout between here and Bran don and the train was unable to make the trip. There were washouts on the Ini- , nois Central on both the North end and
 the South end, and no trains were run | on that road On the Little ] road two
 washouts were reported, one at Utica and the other at Harriston- On the Gulf y and Ship Island the track in several - places was under water and a number of n bridges and sulverts had been washed q away. On the Yazoo branch there was & e washout at Anding and other places along l. the line. Railroad men say that the tic r up in traffic is more complete than ever
 before in the history of the state. e In the city the havoc wrought by the f unprecedented rain was visible or all
 sides. Town Creek. which runs through F. the center of the town, overfowed It's a banks, ran into houses in the neighbor- hood. compelling the people to make hasty exit.
 g The property losses in this section, ex- | elusive of the railroad losses will amount
 to thousands of dollars
 Cyclone in Arkansas.
 little Rock. Ark. March N--Advices today from Befrne, Clark County, state l that a cyclone swept over that town yes- terday, destroying much property and in- , turing several persons.
 The Yeager hardwood plant and the J. C.. Clark mill were unroofed. The school house, which was a one-story frame build ing, was blown down, was part of J. B. Robbins' hotel, a cottage occupied by Judge Dallas and another occupied by w. E. Hay The wife and baby of the latter were injured The family of Davis miraculously escaped unhurt
 string of twenty-five cars standing on the Iron Mountain Railroad track was blown almost a mile down the road
 Heavy Rains in Louisiana.
 Lake Providence. La, March T.-A most unprecedented rain, accompanied by an electric storm began last night at 12 o'clock and 1t has been raging continu- ously ever since. Up to D. m. 6h inches of rain had fallen. The back country is all overfowed. The temporary bridge on the lake is floating and communica- tion is interrupted from the West of the parish.
 Seven Miles of Track Washed Away
 New Orleans. March 21 = special l from Brookhaven, Miss, says:
 Seven miles of railroad track south of | this place were washed out by the ue- menoous downpour of rain last night. 1 Seven inches of water fell during tho