The Cairo bulletin., 1912-03-31
Babies Drowned at Cairo and Hick-
man Mother Drops One, Other
Falls in Water
THIRTY.FlvE ARE RESCUED
Three States Takes Dog Tooth Bend
Inhabitants Out Much Coun-
try Covered

Two drowned is the toll cxactad
by the high water UP to date. Both
are babies. One was drowned at
Hickman, Ky.ss Fridg sghts when
its mother dropped itaJ J, he water,
while being rowed &s2aRe /. and the
other is 2-year-old Edwass.x Winston,
negro, who yesterday afternoon
crawled off the porch OF his home in
to the sipe water in the north part
of the city
The water situation In the outly-
ing districts, is growing worse. The
Interurban, between Cairo and
Mound City was stopped yesterday
afternoon when water got up to the
tracks at Cache creek.
South is Suffering.
The cities to the south OF Caro-
are suffering the effects OF the high
water to great extent Water was
in the stores and main business se1-
tion OF Columbus to depth OF four
feet, at 10 O'Clock. At Hickman.
the water Is nearly two feet deep in
part of the business section and rap
idly rising. The water. at the lat
ter place, is running over the leyae
and break is momentarily expected.
III the break occurs, the high water
at Cairo may be reduced, as the
whole Of the Reelfoot district will be
flooded.
The Iron Mountain has abandoned
all trains Into Belmont. BIO, and ID
carrying the mail In skiffs. The
people Of many other towns are fee
ing for safety.
Drinkwater's Looks Bad.
The leyee at Texas Bend Is out
and Drinkwater's levee Is expected
to go at any time. The Iron Noun
tain is still working a large force
there, but it is hardly expected that
the bank will hold through the day.
In Cairo Mayor Parsons yesterday
ordered the openings In the sea wall
at Eighth and Sixth streets bulk
headed. A force of men worked all
night hauling sandbags into these
places.
The city is now prepared for any
emergency and can stand more than
SIS feet of water in the Ohio.
All records for hlgn water at
Cairo are expected to be broken by
noon today. At midnight. the water
stood at fraction below So feet and
522 feet is the high water mark.
Three States Rescues.
Thirty-fve people were rescued at
Dog Tooth Bend, yesterday by the
ferryboat eTfisess ~SStates. They were
found, their homes, entirely sur
roundeS by the waters OF the Mis-
-sfss1ppi Word was ts'ee5alSo care 1gA
telephone Friday night that Help
was needed. The boat left Cairo at
6 O'Clock yesterday and returned to
Cairo with the refugees at 1 p. M.
Tucker Foster went to the scene
of the rescue and reports the situa-
tion all along the river very bad
The water in the vicinity of Dog
Tooth Bend yesterday morning was
2 feet higher than the 1883 mark.
This is attributed to the levees
across the river which have
confined the water TO narrower
channel In passing .Thompsons
landing they saw about 20 head of
cattle standing or an elevation. They
stood in one foot of water on top oi
an old levee.
1t was learned that the levee at
Prices landing broke yesterday. this
break causing the inundation ot
about 1000 acres of land. The levee
at Perry Drinkwater's place about 3
miles northwest of Greenfield's land
ing still holds but it was in bad
shape.
The water has covered the main
road at Willard and is standing
foot deep in John Bowers black
smith shop.
The ferryboat left last evening for
another trip to Dog Tooth Bend TO
get the stock owned by the farmers
who were brought to Cairo on the
previous trip
The farmers in Horseshoe Bend
have nearly all lost their feed corn.
C. f. Rehey. A. Cunningham,
Thomas Darragh and William Hawf
made trip Friday to Barlow. KY,
in Mr.. Riehey's boat. This was
probably the first motor boat to make
such trip over the Kentucky bot
toms. Barlow is about six miles
from the river bank. They went
through the woods nearly all the
way. About four miles from the