Omaha daily bee., 1903-03-10
ANALYSIS FREE.

the White, Black and Red rivers are now
At food stage.
Another disturbance now over the upper
Missouri valley threatens to cause more
rain Tuesday and Wednesday in the Ohio
and lower Missouri valleys. II this rain
should fall In considerable quantity It will
still further intensity food conditions and
all preparations should be made for still
higher stages.
Additional bulletins win be issued daily,
or oftener should occasion require. giving
latest information and prospects.
One Hundred Families Homeless.
ALTON, H., March s.-One hundred fam
lilies living below here have been rendered
homeless and have lost their belongings as
q result Of the rise in the Mississippi river.
The river aIso threatens to inundate the
hne farming lands on Missouri Point, across
the river. and farmers and stockmen are
preparing to move out
The rising Of Saline and Bankston creeks
caused considerable loss, some abandoning
stock to the food. For miles the country
hereabouts Is a vast sheet Of water.
Reports from Hannibal, No, state that
the upper Mississippi is sending down great
volumes Of water and the river is higher
for this time of the season than for years.
CAIRO. ILL.,. March 9.-lThe river is grad
ually rising and registered forty-seTen feet
at tonight. II is expected that the gauge
viii show fifty feet by Wednesday.
Reports from South Cairo say that people
are removing all live stock to high ground
The area covered by water below Cairo ex-
tends for miles each way and the water is
rapidly spreading. The record high water
mark at Cairo is b2.2. registered on Feb
| ruary 20. 1884.
CINCINNATI. March s.-At IL tonight
! the stage Of the river here was 49,, a fall
Of siK-tenths Of a foot since g.
Weather torecaster Bassler tonight said
the river would become stationary tomor-
row and then rise again, probably four or
| i've feet
Floods sSs Across Country.
| COLUMBIA, Tex, March s.-The crest
| OF the flood In the Brazos river has reached
this point and the town is under water.
Rail communication with Houston has been
cut on and there Is no likelihood of it's
restoration for several days. The river Is
about ten miles wide and farms are under
water. The water is going across the eoun-
try to the Gulf, the regular channels not
being sufficient TO carry It,
! DALLAS, Tex. March 9.-Anothsr terrific
rain fell In northern and central Texas to-
| day and continues tonight.
| PkDUCAH, KY, March s.-The Ohio river
is forty three feet tonight and rising There
is great suffering in the lowlands and much
property is floating away Several miles
Of the Illinois Central railroad are under
water between Padueah and Metropolis, Ill.
and trains run only with the greatest dim
Guilty. The loss in ties alone will amount
10 many thousands Of dollars.
oWENsBORO. KY, March Sat 6 to-
night the Ohio river is rising half an inch
an hour and rapidly nearing the 1854 mark
Several towbOats are busy carrying corn
from the bottoms
EVANSVILLE. Ind, March s.-The Ohio
river continues TO rise here and today sp-
peared like a vast lake
The Wabash and White rivers are turn
ing a great food into the Ohio and at some
points the Ohio is ten or twelve miles
wide. In southwestern Indiana many
bridges have been swept away aud miles o.
bottom lands are under water.