Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1912-04-05
DeadIine Nearly Reached by
Waters on Levees Guarding
Vast Area ard a Stage of Ten
Feet Above is Yet Predicted,
TEN LIVES PAY TRIBUTE
TO RAGE OF GIANT RIVER
Relief Brought to Thirty-Five
Hundred People Driven Into
Hickman from Inundated
Territory,
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The casualty list resulting from
the Mississippi river flood has
been heightened according TO re-
. ports brought TO Charleston, Mo,
. by refugees from the inundated
. towns of Birds Mill and wyatt.
They say several persons have
been drowned and many are
. perched upon housetops and In
. trees awaiting rescue, There are
. no boats at Charleston to go to
. their assistance, but motor boats
enroute from Poular Bluff and
Moorehouse should reach them
. BY tomorrow.
All communication with the
two villages has been cut off.
The number OF drowned or in
great danger could not be OBJ
. tained from the refugees,
No sign of abatement of the
. flood that for days has dealt or
. threatened disaster all along the
. banks of the Mississippi river
. from St Louis to Arkansas
. points, was apparent last night.
. Instead the water came from the
. north in ever increasing volume,
. along with predictions that more
. would follow.
The river has come within
. two-tenths of a foot Of what the
. Memphis weather forcaster has
. tcrmcd the dead line-4i feet.
. In his opinion the levees VIII go
. when the pressure represented
by that much water IL REACHED.
A stage of i5 feet, ten feet above
. the danger line. is predicted.
. Weak spots have developed at
. Mound city. Arkansas. and at
. the Reelfoot levec, west of Hick- Z
man. Kentucky. All along the Z
river shifts of men engaged In
. reinforcing the levees were urged .
to reduubled efforts, while be-
hind the dykes those who had .
not Obeyed the warning and flea, .
. gathered up or secured their
. movable property and hastened
. To the hills. Numerous uncon-
firmed reports of breaks In .
levees not designed to Withstand .
an unheard of flood. increased. .
The day brought relief in the
shape of provisions and tents to
8 500 refugees at Hickman. KY, .
the number including the two .
thousand driven from their .
. homes in the factory districts
there and the l,500 gathered In
from the submerged area across
on the Missouri side. Governor
. Harmon of ohio. yesterday Of.
. fered more tents for the Tennes-
. see and Kentucky sufferers. At .
. Memphis where no less than .
. dozen first class river steam
. boats are tied up. the flooding
. of the whole of the low lying .
. north section, II Is feared, has
. polluted the water supply. The
. health authorities have warned .
. the residents of the closed-in .
. section to boil their drinking .
. water.
. The death list has reached ten.
. AT Burkesville. KY, Miss Allen
. Alexander was drowned when
. boat capsizzed in the overflowed .
. section Of Red river. \ negro .
. was drowned at New Madrid, .
. Mo.
. one OF the phases Of III flood .
. Is the tieing up OF practically all .
. traffic not only on the Missis-
. sippi. but on the ohio and the .
. other nnvigable tributaries of .
. the Father of Waters. Usually .
. big river Is the signal for an
. unusual amount OF traffic Es-
0 peciallv Is this true of the coal
. fleets" from Pittsburgh. which .
. go down the ohio whenever pos
. sible. on a rise. Now. however. .
. hundreds of barges and coal
. boats are fast. waiting until the
. the Mississippi Is open for tow
. boats again. High water. too,
. on most OF the streams. keeps
, the larger steamboats, tied up
, because they cannot get under
D The bridges.