The Cairo bulletin., 1913-03-31
HEAVY EXODUS
OF CQRO|TES TO
OUTSIDE POINTS
Fully $500 Tickets Sold by ]. c.
Depot-All Outgoing Trains Be-
ing Filled With People.
OTHER INTERESTING ITEMS
Merchants Move Goods to higher
ouarters-Transfer Men Reap
Harvest-Trunks Piled High


the city yesteI day that was only
paralleled last spring when the peo-
pie left during the high water scare.
At the Illinois Central depot 1t il es.
|.timated that over $500 ickets were
sold to. out OF town points. Many
hundred tickets were sold also at the
other depots, which would swell the
lost of people who departed yester
day to over 1000 people. The trains
early this morning took out several
hundred.
In most cases the list was made up
of women and children, but there
was sprinkling Of men and boys
who had gotten cold feet" All
least half of the crowds were com
posed OF negroes, and they made
their presence generally obnoxious
with their pushing and crowding
and insolence, when requested by the
trainmcnt to be patient about get
ting into the cars.
The leaving was not In the form
|of panic as was greatly noticeable
last year, when most of the people
left at the time that the trains were
running through several feet Of wa
ter on tho north pf Cairo and 80
across the river below East TaIfu
There were many women III the hun.
dreds who left who were reiuetanl
to leave the city because. as they ex-
pressed 1t, ''the water won't come in
Cairo" But they needed the com
mands Of the paternal side Of the
family and took their departure post
haste.
Yesterday at noon when the NJ
g. @. and T.. G. trains were arriving
and departing the Second street de-
pot was solid mass of humanity
and trunks-with especial emphasis
on the trunks. IL was a puzzle to
work ones way through the maze oil
the distractions on the platforms.
the trunks being stacked every
place waiting to be loaded into the
baggage cars.
Baggagemaster Wiley had his
hands full, bat the rush on his re-.
sources was met In a most satisfae.
tory manner. He. had capable
force Of assistants and they handled
the hundreds OF trunks with remark
able dispatch.
Number 6. the I. G. northbound
train in the afternoon. had ITO take
on several extra coaches to accom-
modate the heavy list OF passengers
leaving Cairo.
Mounds, Villa Ridge. Dongola,
Anna and st. Louis seemed to be the
objective points of those going north
and towns in Kentucky including
Wiekliffe, Bardwell, Clinton and
Arlington, were to have their hos
pitality partaken of by those enrouts
southwark.
Iron Mountain Continues Service.
Contrary to report, the 1rof
Mountain will continue to run theii
passenger trains In and out of Cair,
today via Thebes, and every day un
til the water gets SO high over tn,
tracks that Il will be impossible fol
the engines to plough their way
through without interfering with
the fireboxes. Water is near Ia,
tracks at Miller City and il f.
thought that this win be the frs
place TO give the trains trouble Il
the water continues rising,
M. and 0. Traffic Safe.
Up and until the river gets slight
iy over SO feet. the Mobile & ohit
expect to continue traffic in aud on
of Cairo. South of wicklife In the
bottom lands over which the road
has several trestles, the back water
is becoming higher each day IS. tbs
river rises, and IL stage of 50 fee
or more is reached 1t Is probable TIL
trains win have to be annuled owe
those tracks, II the trains must rul
through several feet of water. Nortl
of Cairo on the line to Beech Ridg,
the road has as yet experienced n
trouble. .
Several officials of the NJ. Z @
have been in Cairo looking sfte