The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1916-02-03
.LEVEES BREAK;
s TOWNS FLOODED
Villages in Mississippi Inundated
~ Ss5 '-Many Z omeIess.
200 PERSONS FACE DEATH
Fifty Square Miles Of Land Is Under
Water In Arka nsas-LeVes at
JaeksonPort Ready to Break
49, --Loaansport Threatened.

49,. --Losansport Threatened.
Memphis, Tenn, Feb. 1.--Leyees on
the Mississippi river have broken at
two points and six towns in Missis-
sippi have been inundated. Thou
sands of families have been rendered
homeless on account of the food,
which threatens every farm along the
Mississippi in Mississippi and Arkan'
sas. AK.
United States Weather Forcaster.
s. C. Emery issued a river bulletin
warning people in the valley that the
Mississippi would rise to stage OF
forty-hve feet within ten days and
might go higher. The highest water
known was in 1913, when the river
went to forty-six and half feet. The
highest levees are built to hold forty
FIVE feet. h. ". - 8. s..
$500 Acres Flooded. sr
Little Rock, Ark, Feb. 1.-Twen-
ty-five thousand acres of the finest
plantation farms we're flooded when
the Fourche river dam broke under
the pressure Of the waters. A strip
OF land covering fifty square miles
was inundated. Six hundred farmers
and share troopers fed to safety.
Eighty convicts of the Pulaski county
farm are marooned on a ridge.
Two hundred persons are facing
death by drowning and are hemmed
in behind the Red Fork levee between
Little Rock and Pine Bluff. O.,
A report received from Jacksonport
said that the main levee protecting
that town cannot hold out. Inhabi-
tants are leaving the place and bust"
d ness stores are placing stocks OF
goods in second and third stories. The
water at noon was pouring over the
levee tops and crews Of men are only
checking 1t to give women and chill
dren an opportunity to escape; The
White river is higher than ever
known, and still rising.
The captain of the steamer Kate
Adams reports relief parties in Ar
kansas cannot reach those living in
tops of trees because of swift cur
rent.
The steamer picked up a man, his
wife and two-year-old girl that had
been drifting about with nothing to
eat since last Thursday.
River Rising at Cairo.
Cairo, ILL.,, Feb. 1.-THE river stage
ii 81 7-1O and rising. The indications
at present, barring rain, are that wa
ter will reach "a feet. The Iron Noun
tain railroad between Cairo and
Thebes is under water and operations
suspended. Flood gates between Cairo
and the drainage district have been
lowered.
s. Less Danger at indianapolis.
indianapolis, Ind, Feb. IL. H.
Arlington, local meteorological, pre-
diets the White river food crest in
indianapolis will be reached at mid,
night.
Danger of the food breaking
through the new levee was lessened
when large force Of workmen, after
Hours of frantic toll, completed tenn.
porary food wall in portion Of the
new leVee not completed. H.,
After thrilling fight from their food,
bound home in Glenns Valley, Mr.. and
Mrs. A. ]. Jarrett arrived in Indianapo-
lis to find that one Of their babies had
been wrapped so closely in u blanket
1t had died OF suffocation. ~
.,.,1 Logansport 10 Threatened.
Logansport, Ind, Feb. 1.-The Wa
bash and Eel rivers are the highest
here since the food of 1918. Both
rivers are out of their banks in the
lowlands and many families have
moved to higher ground.
Fed by many smaller streams, swol.
len by the heavy rains, the Wabash
was rising at the rate of nearly a foot
an hour. -
Forty families have been driven
from their homes in the Cicero creek
bottoms.
Part of the east section of Marion
is under water. Merchants are NOV.
ing their goods.
Thirty-Four Drown Near San Diego.
San Diego, Cal, Feb. 1.-The death
list in the food in San Diego county
has reached "a. '.a .s. .. ....,T +
No accurate figures can be given as
to property damage. estimates varying
from $3.50, 900 to more than $1,000, 600.
GOVERNOR OF SMYRNA FLEES