Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1912-04-02
HICKMAN KEY
UNDER WATER
1000 Are Made Homeless
by Rushing Stream Flow.
ing Over Town
PEOPLE FLED Az MIDNIGHT
Three Miles of Burlington Track
Washed Out at Sheridan,
Wyoming.


j The most serious food condition 10.
day was reported from Hickman. XIV.
Where the waters of the Mississippi
rived broke through the levees. placed
a portion of the town under eight
feet OF water and made homeless two
!, thousand persons.
i No accurate estimate of the damage
from floods in various parts of tha
country during the last week is avail.
able, but it is known that it will ag-
, gregate many hundreds of thousands
+ OF dollars. So enormous, indeed, has
been the damage, that President TAFT
sent a message to Congress urging
the immediate appropriation of a half
million dollars to be used in strength.
ening the levee along the Mississippi
and Missouri rivers.
! No loss of life was reported as a
result of the floods, but serious con-
ditions were reported from Cairo.
Memphis and southeastern Missouri.
At Cairo, the river gauge registered
2%.5 feet, 1.3 feet higher than pre-
Vious records and many citizens there
I have abandoned their regular en-
ployment to devote themselves 20
Strengthening the levees.
The Mississippi has spread over the
low lands of southeastern Missouri
and Governor Hadley has been asked
to send regiment of National Guard
to assist the flood sufferers there.
Rains aggravated the situation at
Memphis, but the levees in that dis
trict remained intact.
AT Kansas City, the rivers contir-
ued to rise but fair weather prevails
and all immediate danger of flood
has passed.
Greatest Floods in History.
Washington. D. c., April I'm a
special forecast today, the Weather
Bureau experts here predicted the
floods in the lower Mississippi valley
would be the greatest in all history.
Heavy rains on the Tennessee, Cum
i berland and lower Ohio watersheds
have caused the Mississippi to rise
rapidly. At Cairo, H., a stage of
$40 feet is predicted for Wednesday
and possibility of sc feet in four Or
five days. At Memphis, stage of
! Al feet is predicted in five or six DAYS
with possibly a higher stage if the
levees hold
Cairo in Panic.
! Cairo, ILL.,, April 2.-The river
gauge registered $50 feet today, L.
feet higher than previous records. Re
ceipt here Of a prediction from Wash
ington that the rivers here will within
several days reach a height of Sc fee,
threw the citizens of Cairo into a
panic and started an exodus
/ All the levees are still holding but
! they cannot be made high enough to
! keep back the predicted rise.
Checked Temporarily
! 81. Louis, Mo, April 1.-THE rise in
the Mississippi river here apparently
has been checked temporarily. The
gauge today registered 29.S feet, the
same as yesterday.
| No Break as Yet.
! Memphis. Tenn, April 2-While
! the flood situation has been aggra-
waited by rains of yesterday and last
night, there had been no break in the
Mississippi river and today in this
district
Railroads Help Citizens.
Cairo, H., April 2.-Railroads and
citizens co-operated today in attempt
! ing to keep the Ohio and Mississippi
rivers out of Cairo
| The predicted rise to A feet an.
nounced by the Weather Bureau will
add greatly to the damage already
registered 419
Billings, Mont, April 2-Reports
from Basin, Wyoming, today state
that an ice gorge below that town
has caused the Big Horn river 10
overflow, inundating a large track Of
farm land. The municipal light plant
and water works have been put out of
commission and the town is threat
ened with a shortage of water for do
mestic purposes Reports from the un-
per Big Horn valley indicate that ice
gorges are forming in the Big Horn
and it is feared much damage will
follow.
Reports from Sheridan, Wyoming,
state three miles of the Burlington
track has been washed out by floods
/ in the Cheyenne river. Six hundred
men have been rushed to the scene
! from Sheridan and Alliance.
Milk River Rising.
Great Falls, Mont, April 2-It is
reported from Glasgow. Montana,
that the Milk river there has risen to
a depth of twenty-four feet and is
still rising. The Missouri river has
shown no further rise in the last
jtwenty-four hours.
1000 Homeless.
Hickman. KY, April Dawn today
revealed something of the damage
done here last night when the food
waters of the Mississippi river broke
through the west Hickman levee and
poured a current eight feet deep
through the town. From hill to hill
the river flows this morning, cover
ing farms and flooding stores and
factories.
| Two thousand persons are home