The Forrest City times., 1913-04-18
RAILROAD
 FLOODED.
Rock Island and Iron Mountain Tracks
 Submerged.

i While the breaks in tie leyee al ! Wilson and Random Shot have had the effect of relieving the high water tension al points along the Mississipp river between Cairo and Memphis the situation in tle lower reaches is exceedingly grave at many points That portion of the St. Francis ba- sin lying east of Forrest City and through which runs the Rock Island railroad is filling at an alarming rate with the flood waters from Wilson and Random Shot.
 Through adyices received by wire today The Times is informed that the water has risen twenty-five iucht $ at Ileth and that the flood water, to a depth of three and four inches. is pouring over the Rock Island dump for a distance Of nearly a mile, be- tween Proctor and Heth. The track west of the depot at the later station was also inundated a half to four in ches deep for a distance of four hun dred feet, It is reported that two worktraius, manned by large crews of laborers are patroling the Rock Is land tracks today -one between Proc tor and iIeth under command of Su- perintendent A. B, Copley and the other between Heth and Round Pond. in charge of Trainmaster Nj. c, Gay. These trains are engaged in putting down crushed rock and rirrap and raising all low places in the dump
 The struggle of the Rock Island off, cials against the omashing waters is proving q desperate one and two or three days must vet elapse before the victory is won
 Late reports from Round Pond is to the effect that the food waters are rushing into that station in perfect swirl and rising furiously at the rate .of more than an inch an hour, with railroad track ogerflowed a short dis tance east of the station.
 Blacktish bayou is booming and the rise at Whitmore has been very little less than those noted at Heth and Round Pond Perry's hickory mill at Whitmore is swamped.
 The guage in the St Francis river at Madison read 39.6, a rise of $ in twenty-four hours. At Widener the water is rising at about the same rate noted on the government guage at Madison.
 MT. Bob Jarratt of Mariana, al- rived ill the city this morning and reported the flood waters from the L'Anguille were running over the Iron Mountain tracks between Ca naan and Felton, just south of the railroad bridge, to depth of eighteen inches. It is feared that traffic over the Helena branch of the Iron Noun tain will be closed within the next three or four days when it will be necessary to transfer baggage, mail and passengers it L'Angui,le treStle as was the case during the 1912 flood. No freight trains will be operated over this branch if the water in lie L'Anguil'e reaches the high stages of 1912
 Every train from the bottoms brings in it's quota of refugees aHd the call for aid fiom the dWeliers in tAe low lands who have fled their homes be- comes more iusistant every day The first tssueofgngernmenr rati0us is being made here today Tie ship, meut. which was received this morn ing, was stored in the Gat'iug bui.i- ing on the corner of Washiutou and Hill streets, where tie d1sky horde has been gathered throughout the day every "feller" waiting his tarn for Uncle Sans free grub
 Sergt Arthur " Lear. of tue T.. < army, is here and is working in conjunction with eX-Senator F. ". DeBo,itt and Capt j.. G Stern. who have charge Of the relief work and the reception and distribution of sap plies al this point. No belter0r more capable gentlemen c5afd have been chosen for This important work.
 
 HoW's This,
 We 41ier One Hundred Uo ars Re ward for any case of Ca1arrh that