The Sentinel=record., 1912-04-17
GOVERNORS
 WILL MEET
GOVERNOR DoNAGHEY CALLS MEETING OF EXECUTIVES OF
 THE FLOODED STATES.
President WinchelI, of Rock Island, Suggests immediate Action Flood Situation Is Ma
 terially improved.

Jackson, Miss, April Ex-Governor Brewer today received telegram from Governor Donaghey of Arkansas, asking for a conference to be held next Saturday at Helena, Ark, be- tween the governors of Arkansas, Mississippi and Louisiana.
 Governor Brewer wired that the conference met with his approval and suggested that the governors of Ten nezsee, Kentucky, Missouri and Hi nois he also invited to take part in the discussion regarding precaution against future levee breaks and floods in the Mississippi valley.
 Suggested by WincheII
 Little Rock, Ark, April 16.-The conference called by Governor Don aghey is the result of a suggestion made by President B. L. Winchell of the Frisco Railroad suggesting the necessity of rebuilding at once the levees broken by recent floods. Governor D0naghey approved the suggestion and at once took steps to call a meeting of the governors of the states affected in order to secure l government aid.
 The governor states in view of the | fact that the river always rises in June it is imperative that the gaps in 1 the levees be filled, that the crops which the people will plant as soon as the water subsidies ils the flooded districts may be protected 1 Situation Is improved.
 New Orleans, La, Apfs l6--Al. ]. ]. though the general fls zSltustfs '. along the Mississippi river south of vicksburg has materially improved, other conditions in the vast terri tory of northern Louisiana, where a dozen or more parishes are partly l under from five to ten feet Of water, are steady growing worse. The Salem clevasse near Alsatio, La, con- tinues to empty it's IS foot of muddy waters over some of the finest graz ing and farming lands of the upper state
 A large force of men was rushed to Kemp Bend. s miles north of Natchez today, where 100 feet of the west bank levee began to slough off. Reports from there state that the leyee will be saved. Persons living near the threatened sectioF have moved their belongings to safer places.
 At Talulah, where much suffering has been experienced since the waters reached that little town last Sunday. the flood has spread to practically all parts of the town and is rising rap idly. All rail communication has been suspended Provisions are about exhausted and unless aid Is re- ceived immediately there will be great suffering among the negroes, who, as a rule, are destitute. For almost the entire distance be. tween Tallulah and Lake Providence the tracks of the Iron Mountain Rail- road are washed out On the vicks burg, Shreveport and Pacific for | stretch of fifteen miles west water is high over the roadbed and to the east from seven to ten feet of the flood is being he'd back oy the enl bankments of this road. The water today is tapping the top of these ana by tomorrow night will begin "a flood the southeastern portion of Madison Parish.
 Three hundred persons were res cued at Sondheim today and brought to the leyees to await boats to take them to the emergency camps along the rivers.
 Weak places in the levee which had developed at Lake Providence and Ben Lomond have been strength ened and reports from there state they will hold.
 According to forecast issued by the weather bureau. there will be a slight fall in the river at Natehez within the next few days and the stages will come to stand at points below that place as result of the widening of creyasses in southeast. ern Arkansas and northeastern l I o,,isiana
 This will be followed by another rise.
 | The guage at New Orleans tonight at ' o'clock registered 20 feet, rise of onetenth during the past 2a hours.