Evening star., 1912-04-05
DANGER ZONE EXTENDS
SOUTHWARK TO BAYOUS
Farmers Desert the Lowlands and
Merchants Move Stocks.
RELIEF WORK Is SUCCESSFUL
Government Dredges and Militia
Aiding in Various Sections of
Desolated Districts-Cairo
in Panic.

MEMPHIS, Tenn, April 3. New
breaches that appeared in the leyees
holding back the Missssippis tawny tide
ADDED TO the menace Of the flood situation
last night. and at dawn couriers were on
tneir way behind the long stretches of
weakening embankments, warning plant
ers out OF the danger path. The nights
travel OF the flood crest has sent the
trend OF the menace southwark From
Golden Lake. fifty miles north of Mern-
PMS, to Hubert Ark, conditions this
morning seem particularly threatening
Near Hubert stretch OF revetment 300
yards threatens to col apse. Farmers
have abandoned the lowlands, and resi-
dents Of Hubert have moved to upper
floors. while merchants are packing their
stocks to be shipped to places of safety.
Star Landing, Ark, Menaced.
Star Landing. Ark, also is in imme-
olate danger, and at half a dozen points
the levees south Of Cairo threaten to coll
lapse.
AS far south as Bayou Sara, "a, the
loWlands outside the levees are inundated.
Farmers have moved their families to the
towns and their stock and farming i'm
plements to high ground.
The government dredge fleet at Men,
phis is being utilized in saving life and
property. Gasoline launches were sent
out from Charleston, Mo-, to Birds Mill
and Wyatt TO rescue residents of the two
villages. who are reported clinging to
house to- ) and in trees.
Militia Conveys Supplies.
In answer to an appeal from Randolph.
Of Iaf
phis this morning with tents and supplies
for refugees.
Tickle" Sanders. a Memphis pugilist.
found opportunity last night to make him.
self hero. Sanders was rowing about
the flooded district in North Memphis
when a skiff containing man and woman
making their way to their submerged
home to rescue a few of their belongings
overturned. Sanders pulled the two from
the water just in time to save them from
being drowned
AT Memphis this morning the river stage
was 44.2 feet. rise of four-tenths since
Ia o'clock last night.
Hickman, KY, Desolated.
HICKMAN, KY, April 5.-A picture OF
utter desolation is presented by this food
ed town. whether it be view of the tent
ed city which shelters 5000 homeless,
helpless persons, or the apparently limit
less waste of muddy water that stretches
cut before them, and the thread of levee
on which men are working with feNerIsh
energy to thwart the rivers expanding.
The climax of the catastrophe may
come at any moment with the breaking
of the Reelfoot levee below here. i3un-
dreds of men are trying to strengthen IL
against the erosions OF the tide, ana
should it go out unexpectedly 1T is feared
many lives would be lost. as the means OF
escape for the workers is limited. The
crest of the river already is washing
over the top of the levee in many places,
and several oninous leaks have been as
covered and stopped in the last twenty
four hours.
Thieves Becoming Active.
Thieves are becoming active I'm the
flooded section of West Hickman Coun-
ty authorities are discussing the advisa-
bility of asking for a company OF MILL
tia to protect property.
Refugees continue to arrive in great
numbers. Their losses are temporarily
obscured i'm their minds by personal SUI
fering and anxiety ov-r their kinsmen.
Mrs William Nenters OF Island NO ;,
who was rescued by launch, is almost
distracted because her husband and chill
dren were left behind, having taken rel
uge in the attic of their home, where she
says the inhabitants of the island were
driven several days ago. She thinks tho
water must be to the housetopS Dy now.
Relief Successfully Extended.
One woman walked twelve miles in
eight hours with six children. She car
ried the youngest
A family from Missouri spent a half
day in rowing across the river i'm skiff.
and the men were nearly exhausted be-
fore they got out of the current. 4
rlx-in al ha ri
here picking up marooned residents.
Scores nave been rescued I'm this man
ner from perilous positions. Three hun
dred are quartered at Tiptonville, Tenn.
Organized relief work Is being successr
fully carried on here with the means at
hand and as funds arrive the refugees will
at least be spared the hardship of hunger.
Wagon trains of provisions and bedding
have arrived from Fulton. KY, and
Union City, Tenn.
The Nashville, Chattanooga and st.
Louis railroad is running trains to East
Hickman, a mile away, where Temporal
ry station has been erected.
On the hill where tents have been put
I'D the women of Hickman assisted in
preparing the camp for the refugees. dis
tributing food. clothing and bedding.
Report Causes Panic.
CAIRO, ILL.,, April 5.-The backing OF
water from the 10th street drainage pump
this morning, tnreW ctizehs IN panic
and the report spread that the levee
which holds the Ohio river out of Cairo
had broken at 10th street. The report
proved untrue.
This message is being sent from the
Western Union office, less than two
blocks from the 10th street levee.
The rumor that the levee had broken
snread RAPIDLY and caused residents to
rush to the second stories OF their homes
and the buildings they were in. Then
couriers went through the city reassuring
the citizens that no break had occurred.
The Ievees. according to reports OF men
patrolling them. are considered frm and
the city safe from danger.
Seven Reported Drowned.
william Lynn, wife and three children
were drowned in the food between Birds
Point and Wyatt Mo. Lynn was farm
er and was oveTtakeu. with his family