The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1912-04-01
FAMILIES FLEE
TO CAIRO FOR
AID IN FLOOD
Fifty Households, from Drinkwater
Country Here for Safety
Many Destitute
IRON MOUNTAIN STOPS
Cairo and Thsbes Line Out Of Com
mission Tracks Washed Away
in Missouri
RON MOUNTAIN STOPS

With all high water marks broken
at Cairo and the Ohio and Msssis-
slppi rivers expected TO rise for sew
eral days longer, suffering through
out the flooded districts is growing
verse and more and more people are
coming to Cairo each day for safety.
About fifty families came to Cairo
yesterday and are being cared for by
Cairo people
The river gauge here showed SIS
feet at 6 O'Clock last night, which Is
3 foot ahead of the old record, made
years ago, when the levees were not
as strong or as high as now.
A newspaper man came In
town of Cairo is dusty and there Is
no sign of a food, inside, although
Saturday night expecting to
see water In the streets and prepared
for the occasion only to find business
going on as usual and no one, ap-
parently, worried in the least.
The levce at Drinkwater's, which
has been causing trobule for several
days and on which eco men have
been working day and night, went
out at 6 o'clock with rush yester-
day morning. 1t broke In four or
five places and the workmen had TO
fee for their lives.
The families In the Drinkwater and
Texas Bend districts have been COM
ing to Cairo several days. The men
remained behind to work on the
levees and only came out when 1T
was impossible to remain. Hundreds
of head of live stock have been ship
ped out of the district to safety.
Losses Are Heavy.
The loss In money, throughout the
flood district is enormous. Thous-
ands of acres of wheat land have
been covered from two to ten feet
deep and the crops will be total
loss. Houses have been washed away
and live stock drowned
The Iron Mountain now has no In
let or outlet to Cairo. Train service
yesterday was stopped on the Cairo
and Thebes road. which runs along
the Cairo and Thebes road, which
runs along the Mississippi for 25
miles. The breaking of the levee In
Mississippi county yesterday put the
track between Charleston and Ha"-
veys landing out Of commission
The water is now within quarter
mile of Charleston, but can hardly
reach that place, because 1t is pro-
tected by levee.
The Mobile and Ohio rail-
road is having hard time south
Of here, The trains run through six
inches of water at some points and it
Is feared that they will have to stop
south of Columbus.
Right of Ways Bad.
The Illinois Central, between
Cairo and Hickman. on the Ken
lucky side is almost under water
Thousands of sandbags have been
placed along the right-of-way. to
prevent washing
The Iron Mountain has 200 men.
working day and night, putting
sandbags along its rightofway be-
tween here and Thebes and 1t is
feared several miles Of track will be
washed out Several miles OF track
between Harvey's landing and
Charleston went out yesterday after
noon, entailing loss of more than
100000. II the Cairo and Thebes
tracks go, the loss will run close to
a million,
North of Cairo. in the drainage
district, the Big Four Is putting
everybody, who will go, to work
sandbagging its tracks. Ten miles
have been covered this way and the
road may soon stop traffic and put
bags on the tracks. as the road runs
on top of the levee and water is now
washing the rails.
Should the water get through the
drainage district levee. 1t will cause
millions OF dollars of loss. Fifteen
or twenty lumber companies have
hundreds OF millions OF feet of lum-
Der stored and all would be ruined.
One lumber man placed the possible
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