Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-04-13
PASTORS GIVE AID MORE LEVEES YIELD
Urge City-Wide Cleanup in Water Covers 800 Square
Sermons Tomorrow. Miles in Louisiana.
VOLUNTEER FORCE GROWS THOUSANDS ARE HOMELESS
Be Devoted Improv Eighteen Lives Town
ing Alley Conditions. Named After Roosevelt
DONATIONS RECEIVED MISSISSIPPI RAPIDLY
Bodies Washed
to Cause to Be Made terry in Kentucky-Tran
Water Covers 800 Square
Miles in Louisiana.
THOUSANDS ARE HOMELESS
Eighteen Lives in Peril in Town
Named After Roosevelt.
MISSISSIPPI Is RISING RAPIDLY
Bodies Washed Out of Negro Gene
terry in Kentucky-Train
Reaches Cairo.

NEW ORLEANS, April 1a-cr... ,,
erty damage has been wrought IN north
ern Louisiana as a result OF the s,aao,
preak last night in the west leyee of tba
Mississippi. near Aisatia. Fears arc on
tertained that many lives may be claimed
os the onrushing waters
1t is estimated that 500 souara ,,,i,a.
are now flooded, with nrosnects ,h..
twice uiat amount of territory viii he in
undated by nightfaIl. Thousands OF famI-
lies will be made homeless
The Alsatia crevasse and the wa,er.
from the break at Panther Fork. Ark
VIII nood practically the entire Tensas
river basin, large section of East and
re. carroll Morehouse, Madison ard
parish, according to indications at noon
hundreds of families are marooned on
housetops awaiting rescue.
Parker Plantation Flooded.
John M. Parkers plantation. where Col
Roosevelt made his Headquarters during
MS southern bear hunt, is under wafer
ranging from six to ten feet I'm depth
Eighteen lives are in peril at the little
town OF Roosevelt, named i'm honor of the
colonel. following his hunt A rescue
party is now making for Roosevelt in a
river steamer
During the last twenty-four hours the
mississippi had risen rapidly from
Natchez south. The rise at Baton Rouge
exceeded one foot
Water Pours Through Gaps.
GREENvILLE, Miss, April l3.-The
Mississippi is taking its tithe in southern
Arkansas and northern Louisiana today.
ha in1f
tide in the history of the waterway be-
hind 1t, the flood is pouring through two
gaps in the levee-at Panther Forest i'm
Arkansas, and near Roosevelt La-over
fertile fiat lands of the Louisiana-Arkan-
sas delta Before nghtfall 1t is esti-
mated that thousand square miles in
East Carroll and Madison parishes, La
and Chicot and Desha counties, Ark
will be flooded.
In the meantime the river has paused
in its assault on it's east banks. and
prospects of holding the dikes on the
sWfssfssip ppf side have frightened At
Greenville, and as far south as Vicksburg
the water is falling.
The breaks last night are regarded as
the most serious that have occurred since
the flood period set in. The territory that
will be inundated is populous, villages are
numerous, and Arkansas City and Lake
Village, Ark. and Lake Providence, Tall
lulah and Delhi, La, and other important
flow.
Loss of Life Not Large.
While the damage to property will be
heavy, it is not believed that the loss of
life will be large. When the levees coll
lapsed courers were sent from every
point reached by telephone to warn those
living i'm remote sections and special
trains went from Vicksburg, Greenville
and New Orleans to take aboard refugees.
All of the steamboats, available in the
Vicksburg and Greenville harbors were
dispatched to points along the river to
take off those who held to the levees. and
small craft began an exploration OF the
territory flooded with the first rush or
the water. Preparations have been made
at Vicksburg and Greenville to care for
the refugees.
Weather conditions this morning We're
not favorable to the levees. Rain is re-
ported at several points. Natchez reports
all the levees holding as far south as
Bayou Sara. La.
Bodies Washed Away
LEXINGTON. KY, April 13.-Reports
Of drownings at Leatherwood. Floyd coun-
ty, in the Kentucky river flood, were dis
proved today by the discovery that the
bodies recovered from the river had been
washed out of negro cemetery Some
were caught by logmen several miles
from the cemetery. which has been prac-
tically swept away.
CAIRO. ILL.,, April 3.-The first train
in or out of Cairo for more than a week
arrived today over the Mobile and ONO
railroad. The train came from the north.
Trains south will not be run until the
water Subsides.
The river gauge stood at 53.3 feet to-
day, slight fall since yesterday.