The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1903-06-11
REACHED ITS ZENITH
Flood Is Thought to Have Arrived
at the Maximum Height.
RESCUING REFUGEES
It Is More Than Possible That the
h Estimate of Twenty Lives HaV.
ing Been Lost Is Below
the Real Number.

st. Louis, June 10.-The food has
probably reached the zenith of ITS de-
vastating power. and the situation is
appalling. The climax came Sunday
night when. by the breaking of ievee
near Granite City, a wall Of water six
feet high rushed down on Madison and
engulfed the already stricken city,
sweeping houses from their founda-
ton and drowning fifteen refugees, who
were vainly fleeing for their lives. The
report was current that fifteen work.
men In the st. Louis foundry works had
been drowned. but later it was found
that while seven employees had lost
their lives, thirteen others. men, wo-
men and children. had persisted. Hun
dreds of persons were forced to the
roofs of their floating houses. and an
appeal was sent to st. Louis for as
sistance Every one was made to force
steamers against the heavy current
four miles to the stricken town, but it
was noon before the steamers, Mark
Twain and the Annie Russell, dashed
together. and their engines WORKING
under every ounce of steam after Ave
hours OF battle with the current. were
able to reach Madison.
For the remainder of the day and
into the night the work of rescuing ref
ugees from floating or flooded houses.
treetops and various high places. pro
ceededs and there being no place t.
take them nearer than st. Louis they
are pouring into the city by hundreds.
wet. hungry and dispirited. 1t is more
than possible that the estimate OF
twenty lives lost is below the actual
number: On all sides people are found
who tell Of having seen men struggling
in the water too far from land to re-
ceive assistance, or of women, appar-
entity drowned under various circum-
stances. -..
River thieves are loot.Ug the vacant
houses. ....
At East ST. Louis Monday Mayor
Cook ordered all business suspended
and called upon every male citizen to
render service in preventing thf inun-
datica of the city.
Mayor Cook went about seeing that
signs were posted offering men 81 cents
an hour to build the levees. but the Of
fers were ignored by most of the
throngs of unemployed negroes ard
white men.
Henry Edmeunds. eighty years old
left his home in West Madison Sunday
a few minutes before the water came
to drive two cows to higher ground
He was caught by the water and swept
away His aged wife was rescued by
skiH Monday morning and carried to
st. Louis on Terminal train
A woman and seven children fell
from high fence to which thew were
clinging. and sank from sight. A Ter
minal telegraph operator at Madison
saw their plight and ran in search Of
boat They screamed to him for helm
put before he could secure the boa,
they were carried away before his eyes
woman ran close to high fence
IN Madison toward the American ca
shops The torrent of water struck rhe
renee. and it fell with crash, crushing
her beneath it.
W A. Greenwich, proprietor of a res
taurant at BIOS North Broadway. saved
an entire family from drowning q
Madison Monday afternoon After res
culng John Dublin and his four chill !.
.uren together with his daughter. Dora
who was lying critically ill at her
nome. Mr. GreenWeIl brought the dis.
Tessed family to st. Louis and rrovid :.
ed Tor them at his own home.