Omaha daily bee., 1912-04-14
Water Will Reach Seven More
Within Twenty-Four Hours.
GREAT LOSS OF LIFE FEARED
UnconfiIIned RuInors that Number
Of Persons Are Drowned.
FIRST TRAIN INTO CAIRO, Ill
Upper River Is Failing Slightly, hut
IL Ia stiiI Above Flood Stage
Traffic BeIow Cairo Is
Still Blocked.

NEW ORLEANS. April iS-Great prop
erty damage has been wrought in North
Louisiana by the sudden breaking last
night of the west lsvee OF the Missis-
sippi near Alsatia. 1t is feared that many
lives may be claimed by the onrushing
waters.
1t Is estimated that 500 square miles are
now flooded with prospects that twice
that amount OF territory will be inun-
dated by night. Thousands of families
will be made homeless. @ <..- -<
Hundreds of Persons Marooned.
NICKsBURG. Miss. April i3.-Urgent
appeals for aid for flood sufferers have
been received here. From Roosevelt. La.
came Telephone cali asking that
boat be sent to rescue score Of persons
marooned In store there.
Telephone messages from different parts
OF Madison parish. La. confirm reports
that the entire parish is flooded. Hun
dreds OF persons are marooned on house
tops and in trees where they took refuge
when the flood descended. Many persons
are floating through the parish on RATS.
Reports OF life loss have not been veri-
fled BY Associated Press correspondents
A herd OF fine cattle. owned by Lee
Shields. postmaster at Roosevelt. was
swept away. Scores Of fine 1--we stock
owned by T.. J. Davis. q well known
planted. were drowned.
Eight Towns Are Flooded.
MONROE. La. April Isl-t Is feared
there has been loss OF life where the
Mississippi flood swept through towns OF
northeast louisiana The breaks in the
river dixie came so Unexpectedly that
thousands OF persons were caught almost
unprepared The towns Of Roosevelt.
Lynchyille, Hesper. Enoka. Omega. Talla-
bena. Mansford and Mason are flooded.
South OF Tallulah. Ia., a dozen more
towns will be flooded within twenty-four
hours.
Two Brenks I'm Levee.
GREENvILLE. Miss. April l3.-The
Mississippi is taking its 1.-THE in southern
Arkansas and northern Louisiana today.
The flood is pouring through two gaps IN
the leveo at Panther Forest In Arkansas
and near Roosevelt La. over the flat
AANuh "a Ant l4ullaidnd -ATkdUedb lGttAs
Before nghtfaIl Il Is estimated that loo
square miles In East Carroll and Madi-
son parishes. Louisiana. and Chicot and
Dcsps counties in Arkansas viii be
flooded.
In the meantime the river has paused
in its assault ON its east banks and pros
poets Of holding the dlkes on the Mis-
sissippi side have frightened. At Green
vile and as far south as vicksburg the
water is falling.
1he breaks last night are regarded as
the most serious that have occurred since
the flood period set in. The territory
which will me Inundated is populous, viii
lages are numerous and Arkansas City
and Lake Village. Ark. and Lake Pro-
violence. Tallulah and Deini La. and
other important towns are directly I'm the
path OF the overflow.
Damage IL Heavy.
While the damage to property will be
heavy IT is not believed the loss to life
will be large. When the levees collapsed
couriers were sent from every point
reached by the telephone TO warn those
living N Ierlolc seSlOils anu special tfstAn5
went FROM Ylcksburg. Greenviile ard New
Orleans 70 isSa aboard refugees.
All the steamboats, available IN the
Vicksburg and Greenville barbors were
dispatched TO points along the river to
take off those who held to the leyees.
and small craft began an exploration OF
the territory flooded with the first rush
os tie water. Preparations have been
made at vieksbuIg and GreenvilIe to
care .or the refugees.
Weather conditions this morning were
not favorable to the levees. Rain Is re-
ported at several points. Natchez re-
ports all ieyees holding as fa= south as
Bayou sara, Ls
First Train Into Cairo.
CAIRO, ILL.,. April I2-The first train
in or out OF Cairo for more than a week
arrived today over the Mobile & Ohio
railroad from the north. Traffic south
Of here is still blocked The river gauge
stood at SO feet today. a slight tau
since yesterday.
Bodies Washed from Cemetery.
LEXINGTON, KY. April E--Reports Of
drownings at Lestherwood. Floyd county.
in the Kentucky river flood were dis
proved today BY the discovery that the
bodies recovered from the river had been
washed out Of negro cemetery.