Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1912-04-13
1000 MILES DELUGED.
Trains and Boats Rescue Thousands
Marooned on Housetops and
High Lands.

Reports received in Memphis, Tenn.
April Sth, from throughout the flooded
Mississippi Valley indicate that condi.
tons are improved and that the worst oi
the food is probably past. The river il
falling at all points, having gone down
two feet since Saturday. The breaking
of the levees relieved the situation
greatly although resulting in millions of
dollars damage to property 1000 square
miles is now flooded and 10000 people
are homeless.
Government steamers, boats of all
kinds and trains, where possible, are be-
ing rushed to all points in an effort to
rescue marooned food victims and live
stock. In the st. Francis basin 800
square miles are covered with water.
The town Of Modoc, near the break,
is 20 feet under water. The steamer
Kate Adams was near Modoc when the
levee broke and rescued those imper-
| lied.
Memphis is filled with thousands of
homeless and the State has established
a refugee camp in Montgomery Park.
st. Louis, April 9.-The Mississippi
food is moving gradually down the
valley, and unless the levees hold more
territory will be inundated. A rise of
four-tenths of foot is noted at New
Orleans.
Cairo, Ill.,. April 9.-The river at Cairo
showed falling tendency today. though
still standing at the same mark as yes.
terday-53.e feet. The levees are stand
ing firm, and while the food danger is
not considered grave, strict watch is
being kept on the dikes.
Memphis, April 9.-More than 500, 900
acres of rich farming land in northeast.
ern Arkansas in the st. Francis basin
are effected by break in the main line
levee system, about so miles north of
Memphis. near Golden Lake, Arkansas.
Towns which engineers say are under
water from three to ten feet deep are
Marked Tree, 1900 persons; Wilson,
500; Big Lake, 200; Deckerville, 500;
Trycena, l50 The loss to sawmills at
Wilson and Marked Tree will reach
81 10000
Relief parties have been dispatched
from Osceola, Ark. Supplies, tents, bed
ding and clothing, have arrived at Reel
foot Lake, in the territory of Tennes-
see.
One of the Lee Line steamers from
the Arkansas country which reached
here today told of a desperate fight with
negro who refused to leave a raft on
which he foated, unless he was allowed
to bring his mule. AS last resort the
captain of the boat tied the raft bearing
the mule behind the steamer and towed
raft, mule, negro and all into Memphis.
SASKATCHEWAN FLOOD DAMAGE.
Saskatoon, Sask., April 9.-With the
waterworks submerged, wharves, houses
and railway bridges swept away by the
Saskatchewan River, large portion Of
the city resembled lake today. Many
buildings are in danger. So rapid was
the rise of the stream that those living
along its shore were caught unawares.
Within few hours total rise of Is feet
had been recorded.
Early this morning everything in the
path of the stream began to give way.
First wharves were swept into the eddies
and carried away. The lighthouses and
other buildings along the shore went
out. All this debris was hurled against
the railroad bridge of the Canadian
Pacific Railway, where it hung for a
time, when the structure Joined the
wreckage and went by the board.