The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-07
Levees Break and Whole Side of Arkansas is
Being Washed By the Waves Of the
Mighty Mississippi
MILLION AND A HALF ACRES SUBMERGED
By Daylight on Easter Sunday Fifteen Thousand
People Have No Home on Account
of the Flood.

road tracks washing away are enter
tained this evening. This might pre-
vent rescuing parties from reaching
the scene.
Another break occurred in the levee
at Wyanoka, Ark, shortly after four
o'clock. Water from this break is
covering territory south of Marion,
Ark
Hubert is reported in serious dan
ger of being destroyed.
A government boat has been sent
to President Island Bend to rescue
those fleeing from Hubert.
Weather Observer 5. c.. Emery re-
ceived a telephone message from
Helena, Ark, at six O'Clock that that
city of $4,000 is threatened
The levees are weakening and a
break is expected at any time. Major
Clark S. Smith, United States en-
gineer, said tonight that he expected
the entire levee system from Missouri
to Louisiana to go down.
Red Cross to Aid.
WASHINGTON, April 6.-Following
an extended conference this afternoon
between Major General Wood and Miss
Mabel Boardman, national Red Cross
secretary, ce4plete plans for relief OF
10000 homeless from the Mississippi
flood were announced tonight. Five
officers have been sent to the river to
oversee the work and give Washington
some idea of what may be expected.
These officers are now either pres
ent or enroute to New Madrid, Mo-,
Columbus, KY, Hickman, KY, Upton
Vile, Tenn, and Helena, Ark. To the
credit each of Captains Hegeman and
Normoyle, at New Madrid and Colum-
bus, have been deposited $4,000 to be
used in purchasing rations, blankets,
shelter, etc. The other officers will
later be supplied with funds.
The money is to be drawn from the
accounts of the quartermasters and
commissary's funds. There is no war
rant in law for this action, but being
justified by the emergency, officials
expect to have congressional sanction
| later
| General Wood tonight ordered ra.
tions fer 10000 people for ten days
sent to Normoyle at New Madrid
Normoyle reported he might have to
feed 1000 people for three weeks. The
rations sent are the simplest the army
supplies-bacon, -four, sugar and cof
/ fee. each ration weighing a pound and
half
The army has chartered the steam
er Minnetonka to carry food supplies
rations to New Madrid from the army
depot in st. Louis. Some of these ra
tions will also be used on the Ken
lucky side of the river.
| Cairo Sleeps Peacefully.
! CAIRO, H., April 6.--With heavy
wind blowing from the west and pros
poets of an immediate fall, due to the
break in the Reel Foot levee, Cairo
tonight for the first time in week
4 uOGS UOU Ieel III lGdI luc llOOu. i uS
Mississippi is throwing great waves
against the levee on that side, but on
the troublous Ohio levee all is quiet
Most of the workers rested this
afternoon, after toiling day and nighi
! with but few hours rest since last
Monday. A small force was kept
busy placing sacks of sand to prevent
washing on the west side of the city
and another force is filing sacks and
loading them on fiat cars for emerg
4 ency use.
! A second levee, to meet any con
/ tingency, is being built inside the ses
wall and bulkheads. This was start
ed when the Tenth street drainage
pump burst its outlet pipe, and is now
about finished Following the flood in
all surrounding territories. there il
much suffering. Two hundred refu
gees from Future City, Arbandale and
i Patierdale IN the drainage district
which was flooded Thursday, are be
ing cared for. Tents have been pro
vided by the state.
i a woman was brought in today who
4 Win her husband and several others
had been marooned in a barn for 9
week. with her was her two day OLD
icbfld. horn In the barn without medt