The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-04-05
|EN LIVES KNOWN
FOHAVE BEENLOST
|Ioperty Loss Will
Reach Millions and the
End Is Not in Sight;
Northern Montana Is
flooded; Ice Gorges in
HE Missouri.
,I.,srnatlonal News Ser1.icc

Ialemational News Service.
~. LOUIS, April 4.-The Mississippi
river rose seven -tenths Of a foot
N u 81. Louis In the forty-eIght
and predicted rises from Hannibal.
TO Grafton. III, in the Mississippi
N. here and on the Missouri a short
nre below Kansas City, together
further rise in the Missouri from
1sux, Mont, TO Herman, Mo, and In
Wabash and Ohio rivers, foretell
n trouble for Cairo and Memphis.
5aafe another day dawns, fears and
pm that have been rampant through
enllre Mississippi valley will in all
Aollty become grim reality. Ev-
es Sho has kept in close touch with
nustlon Is unanimous In the belief
l that the Memphis levees cannot
1and the strain through the night.
pa the stage reading S3.S feet at I
<s The river is but two-tenths or
nom the. mark where II has been
Fled by Weather Observer Emery
oI5srs That the banks would give
andcr the power OF the pressure Of
'ands OF acres OF water,
a5t Yet TO Come.
nr the upper river and its tribu-
come reports OF additional rises,
o0oas crest, or when 1t Will reach
SseT river. Is problematic.
~ Mound City. across the river from
9as' where long and bitter fight
gen Tagcd with the river. defeat
: monSand or more workers seemed
'eie tste tonight. Only 200 yards
Vhl'ed sacks were protecting thou
Of acres inland,
many other sections come reports
that seem imminent and Of
OF persons prepa ring to desert
u'ues and possessions.
o 'nousand people homeless. nearly
su'shd more fleeing their homes
A'ne Tor Instant fight, ten per-
'"aed' property loss extending
We lens of millions. dozens of
W ana down the rivar under wa
m-naced and levoes giving way
y" pressure OF the vast wastes
'7 IKE cardboard, briefly tells the
~ me greatest flood in history,
- Flooded.
: hhg the north Dire image dis
D es at Cairo carly today flooded
- Of over 5000 acres contain
. "VV buildings and the mill and
'u district, Breaks also oc-
we Mobile and Ohio and Big
Z WEES and water has been rush
m. we entire district all day. BY
1 NestrnctloD WILL be complete,
y ""l are a number OF farm
! ~. we negro town OF Future city,
/. III = e''ement OF Urba ndale. with
. nomes and The following
! = ss Mill & Lumber company.
y ~ company, Pioneer Pole
n. IT,, Apdnv. Farmers Handy Wag-
4 Wels Peterson Box com :
~ " Agier yards. Three states
~ ipany yards. rhistlewood
number OF other indus
no h, az tnnight the water was as
M,a the Greer Wllkerson com
VIZ Pioneer Pole & Shook corn
Xai usse places IT plunged into
IN pies and tore them to pieces
o1 havoc ON every hand. The
~ H., "" pushed four freight cars
th- A,,sO Oreak al the drainage district
nn,. - IN an effort to stem the
ne '''s' Their work was fruit.
,sS Ia,s- sa'lrhiF free from the drain
Isy. lh Hood. being separated b,
Ana s~ay. which WAS closed ant
,sc s,,. mel work Of cross 1evoes
IA all raised and strengthened
around Cairo are honrl,
h,N strengthened, and alter s
~, ppeel'nn OF the whole system
icos george Parsons issued
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