Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1912-04-08
FLOOD WATERS
ARE SURSIDING
Conditions Still Critical at
Many Points on
Mississippi
ORYS Win At NEW MADRID
Many Pathetic Incidents Coming
to Light During the
Rescue Work.

showed some Improvement this morn
ing, when a sunny day gave further
| encouragement to those conducting
the work of rescue among the hun
dreds driven from their homes by
high water. All levees in the food
menaced district were holding strong
and at this point the river had sub
sided seven-tenths of foot
Narrow Escape of Workers.
With the upper district levees
holding. however, the strain on the
dikes in the Yazoo section, increased,
and the men worked all night on the
embankments south of Memphis to
bolster weak spots. The danger at
several points along the Arkansas
shore has not passed
Two hundred levee workers narrow
ly escaped being swept away when the
embankment cayed in at milepost "a,
sixteen miles south of Helena. Ark,
yesterday. The town of Modoc. near
the break, is 20 feet under water TO-
day.
WORK or Rescue.
The steamer Kate Adams was near
Modoc when the levee broke and res
cued those imperiled. A hundred or
more panic-stricken negroes were TAX
en- from government barge. Later
motor launches went into the floods
and rescued a number of farm hands
from the roofs of their cabins, the
trees and the peaks Of knolls which
We're above the water The work of
caring for the refugees from the low,
lands is fast being systematized.
Tents and supplies have been re.
ceiVed at the more important centers
and arrangements have been made
for the establishment of central re-
lief headquarters at Helena
Captain w. P. Baker, Fourth infan.
try, U. S. A, stationed at Fort Logan
H. Root, will be in charge of the Reel
foot Lake region with Headquarters
at Tiptonville. Tenn.
Relief Train for Refugees.
A relief train sent out from Forrest
City, Ark, yesterday, to rescue farm
ers in the OverfiOwed sections of St
Francis and Crittenden counties, re-
turned last night with 100 refugees
aboard. The train could not proceed
, further than the town of Heth, twen-
ty miles east of this city. Beyond that
point where many persons are believ-
ed to be marooned, only boats can be
j of service
Drys Win at New Madrid
New Madrid, Mo, overfowed to a
depth of several feet, is nevertheless
dry At least the 'drys" won in
local option election Saturday. Vot-
ers came to the polls in skiffs. in mo-
| tor launches and on RATS, and when
/ the rubber-boOted election clerks COM
| pleted their count, it was shown that
the vets" were beaten by 800 votes.
| Belated returns from the election
| We're received here today.
Hundreds Saved BY Steamer.
| The steamer Kate Adams. which
was near Modoc when the crevasse
occurred, near there, probably saved
hundreds of lives by taking refugees
from rafts and house tops. In the
midst of the rescue work, the steam
er put out skiff to a woman who sat
on the roof of her floating house. She
sent word back to the captain that
! she would not leave unless he would
consent to take her dead baby aboard
the steamer
Baby's Corpse on Soap Box.
| Accordingly, soap box was sent to
the floating house. The woman
brought out the babes corpse, placed
it in the box and was rowed to the
steamer. The little boy was brought
to Memphis and buried here today.
Negro Refused to Leave Raft.
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 floated unless he was
allowed to bring his mule.
AS last resort, the captain of the
toat tied the raft bearing the mule be-
hind the steamer and towed raft.
mule, negro and all into Memphis.
Water Ten Feet Above Cairo.
| Cairo. H., April S.-The Ohio river
is stationary at "a feet at Cairo, and
residents, although the city is entirely
surrounded by water at ten feet high
er than the general level of the city,
are much encouraged. They believe
they are out Of danger unless some.
thing unforeseen happens.
Refugees from other flooded dis
tricts We're brought here today in a
half-starved condition.
The breaking of the telephone lines
has prevented the gathering of much
information regarding the flooded
districts of Missouri and points north
l Of here.
Rations Will Not Last.
Major J. f. Normoyle, quartermas.
ter at st. Louis, who is investigating
the situation at New Madrid. Mo-, re-
ported by telephone that conditions
are acute and that rations now on
: hand will not last more than foul
: days.
Still Above Danger Line.
st. Louis, Mo, April S.-The Mis-
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