Arizona republican., 1912-04-07
Missouri County Nearly All Under Water and the People Are in
 Distress
PRESIDENT HAS
 SENT RELIEF
Army Officers Have Gone to Flooded Districts to Learn Exact
 Situation
(ASS0cidted Press Disbotch1

1 Associated Press DisPotehl
 Two more important Mississippi river levees broke yesterday. flooding large areas in addition to that already inundated as a result of the onward rush of the increasing volume of water. The worst of these breaks was at St. Claire, Ark. which let the water into the St. Francis river, near Helena. Ark. Great damage and much suffering doubtless will result. The St Claire break already has inundated twenty square miles near Marion. Water from the Wyanoke break is sweeping over a sparsely settled area The big levee at Golden Lake, Ark. several miles above St. Claire. is ex- pected to go out at any minute. For two days every available man has been helping in the hard fight against the break. but it seemed they had lost when last night hurry call for forty thousand bags of sand was received. Transportation conditions preclude the removal of the sand there soon. There probably will be little or no loss of life.
 CAIRO. III, April e.-rhe Ohio river which with the Mississippi river surrounds Cairo, showed 54 feet on the governments gauge tonight but had no rising tendency. Condi- tions here, however. are oeisVe,l to be more favorable than tha.' have been since the danger mark was passed. Reports from New Madrid. Mo. say the water fell three inches there today. The force of leyee work CTS around the city was doubled to- night and 100000 sandbags were dis tributed for repairs in case they ara needed. There is not a dry acre on the east side of Mississippi county, Mo The Mississippi river is sweep ing through the country with great violence. Distress and destitution are reported among the poorer classes
 BATON ROUGE. April 6.-The Mississippi levee broke west of Baton Rouge today. There is a crevasse 260 feet wide. The water swept into the lowlands, but the damage was not great.
 MOBILE, April 6.-Nearly all the repair and manufacturing shops on the Mobile and Ohio between Mobile and St Louis were closed today be- cause of the high water. More than a thousand men are out ot work
 WASHINGTON, April 6.-The pres ident today sent a message to the members of congress from the flooded districts. stating the war department is doing and would do all it could to relieve the sufferers. ttc appropr;a- tion is necessary until the officers now in the field report the actua: conditions and the amount needed. when he would recommend immediate action.
 WASHINGTON. April 6-The war department has orderei five officer to the flooded districts to Investigate the needs of the people and r,port to Washington. Captain H. H Eageman reported from New Madri1, Mo ne would need supplies for about 1000 persons a day. He was directed to draw ten days supplies from the St. Louis army depot
 LA CROSSE, Wis. April 6.-Heavy rains north of here are melting the snows again and have sweIled the tributaries of the Black, Chippewa and Mississippi rivers and another rise is coming down the Mississippi; The second flood follows closely on the first in the upper Mississippi val ley coming within forty eight hours after the waters started to receie. A rise of at least two feet is expecte1 here tomorrow.
 WILLISTON, N. D., April 6-Flood conditions here were somewhat re- lieved today but the Missouri still stands at twenty-six feet, two feet above the flood stage
 Thousands of acres of bottom lands have been flooded, and many cattle and horses have been drowned. It is said the loss in Williams and Me- Kenzie counties will reach s59,0O0.
 This loss will be offset in part by the benefits to crops by the flooding of the benches No loss of life has been reported in this vicinity. but it is said several Indians have been drowned in Montana.
 GREAT FALLS, Mont. April G. Reports frem Chinook say portions of that town are again under water. Milk river began to rise last night. and it was necessary today to use a boat to take passengers from the ho- tels to the railroad station. The North Fork and West Fork overfiowed
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