Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1912-04-09
FLOOD VIClI...
ARE SUfFtI.,
Thousands Are Homelesss
and Many Are Without
Nourishment
SICKNESS AMONG CHILDREN
Soldiers and Sailor Are Working
to Rescue and Relieve
Refugees,

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Vicksburg, Miss, April 9.-The
center of the food situation has been
shifted from Memphis to Vicksburg,
in the last twenty-four hours Chief
anxiety centers at points between
here and the Modoc breaks south of
the Tennessee line. Federal Engin-
eer Woodruff, in charge of the situa-
ton, departed for a final inspection
of the dikes that must stand the
brunt of the tremendous tide rushing
down from the north.
Thousands of workmen Iabored by
moon and lantern light along the
! levee stretches last night and today
/ the fight continued. A levee board of
fetal today declared the dikes would
hold up to fifty-two feet of water. He
explained that if the water went high
er an overflow might be expected at
several points but that this would
amount to a gradual rise in the low
lands instead Of a tremendous tidal
sweep experienced in some of the
| Hooded districts north of Memphis.
Memphis Tenn, April 9.-Dikes
guarding thousands of fertile acres of
Arkansas and Mississippi, against The
flood tide of the Mississippi river.
held firm today. But where the tre-
11pA 80 !,
erted against the embankment at the
bends in the Giyer, breaches seemed
Imminent, In the long stretches of
Yazoo and Delta territory, thousands
OF men labored all night to strengthen
| the levees. In villages and on farms
in the threatened territory III N Jrth
Mississippi, ana North Arkansas. the
| people are ready for flight.
U. S. Soldiers and Sailors to Rescue,
The task of caring for the flood VIC
tins is proving a serious problem.
! The greater number have sought ref
uge at Hickman, KY, Tiptonvilla,
Tenn, Forrest City, and Helena, Ark,
and here. In Memphis the Tri-state
| fair grounds have been converted into
a tented city and the Associated Char
tiles is directing relief measures AT
Hickman, approximately, $500 per-
sons are being cared for. Captain Lo
gan of the United States army has
charge Of the situation.
The crew of the U. S. S. Amphitrite,
anchored in the Memphis harbor. has
| received instructions to assist in res
cuing flood victims. One of the Am
phitrite's boats went to Wyanoke to-
day to bring here a party reported
marooned aboard a raft at Wy
anoke, Ark.
1000 Without Meat.
, More than a thousand persons,
| nearly half of them refugees. are at
Rideely, Tenn, nine miles below Tip
tonville, without meat The one
story houses there. are no longer in
habitable and the two-story houses
are crowded. The remainder of the
community is out on a hillside with
out shelter. The stock is without
p provender Provisions will have to be
I loaded on skiffs and launches to reach
o Ridgey. A current running seven or
eight miles an hour must be encount-
: cred and the task of relieving the
4 town will be perilous. Two steam
t boats have reached Tiptonvile with
: provisions.
0 Louis Van Pool, aged II years, was
= drowned near Tiptonville, when his
S boat capsized.
Children Have Whooping Cough.
+ At Bass Landing, fifty-three suffer
e ers without shoes were picked up.
Mrs. Baker and two children on a
raft made of two logs, their place of
r. refuge for three days, were rescued
n near Cherokee, Tenn. Whooping
d cough has broken out among the chill
K dren Of refugees at Tiptonville. Two
p negro children have died and several
n. white children in the court house are
p in a critical condition.
Is Dyke Gives Way.
>, Memphis, Tenn, April 9.-AdVlce
i, received at Memphis this Afternoon
- say the main levee has broken a mill
Is and half north of Golden Lake, Al
'e kansas, about fifty miles north o
y Memphis. The water is spreadin,
over wide area.
" Canada Has Floods.
le Saskatoon, Sask, April 9.-With thu
waterworks submerged, wharves
houses and railway bridges swep
,r away by the Saskatchewan river,
n. large portion of the city resembled
s. lake today Many buildings were il
TX danger So rapid was the rise of tn
IN stream last night that those liTin
ne along its shores were caught una
wares. Within a few hours a tota
n rise of eighteen feet had been record
1T ed.
n Appeals for Aid.
IT, Charleston, Mo-, April 9.-Mayo
George c. Burns of Charleston toda
sent additional appeals for aid fc
e. flcod sufferers to state officials. Mi
sissippi county suffered great loss
n, i've stock and growing crops when tt
III M;seissiDDi river tODped the eipht