Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-02-05

" 1FOIH one tO lD I@eJ QeCp, q LHTee-
 foot rise in 12 hours. The stage
 of the river is 55.5. l* Mail and passengers are being
 transferred by motSrboats. The post office has moved into box
 cars. The local newspaper office is about four feet deep in water
 and it is impossible to issue | * paper. While assistance has reached all
 the white refugees at Douglas,
 Gould and other points in the flood
 covered section where 1t has been
 known they were gathered; and
 while it is known there are many
 hundreds of negro refugees in the
 more remote sections who are in frn-
 minent danger because of the high
 water it is believed new that the
 most critical portion of the flood
 dangers in this immediate section of
 the s.ate has passed.
 | The opinion is held in well-in-
 formed circes. and among the men 1 in cl2se touch with conditions over ILinccln Desha and other flooded
 counties that there will be compare
 tivey heavy loss of life, especially
 among the negroes, when the full re-
 ports are at hand from the rfimOter
 sections, although only one addition
 al death as the result of the storm
 was reported yesterday
 Finds Dead Negro Standing l Carter E. wood was here yesterday
 from Grady and reports that when
 he visited negrO's cabin on the
 Wood place near Grady, he found the negro dead in the cabin. standing up- right in the floodwaters. The negro had been missed since the flood first arrived. but there had been no means
 70 reaching his cabin until MT. Wood obtained the skiff yesterday morning. From Could, w. T. Leatherman of Leatherman & Moss tclephoned that all the white people have been safely
 renloved from that town, although
 there are many negroes marooned Tn
 the higher buildings of that place. The whites have been moved to points
 along the Gould Southwestern rail- read. between F'erda and star City, and are not in need of assistance at tfis time.
 A supply of rubber boots was
 rushed from, Pine Bluff to Star City yesterday, to be used by rescuers ID the Gould section.
 Refugees Crowd Dumas. From Dumas came the report that although the town is filled with re- fugees, and more are arriving hourly: sr far the town is able to care Tor al! Of them. The whites are quartered
 with white residents of the city, while the scores of negro refugees nave
 been placed in the negro section, where some .cf the houses are badly crowded. Empty railroad cars are
 being used to house some Of rne
 l.e groes, as well as to store house. hold goods and stocks.
 The water is said to be virtually stationary at Gould, late last night.
 It was 8 to 10 feet deep In the town at that time. In the country around Gould there are many negroes ma
 rconed. MT. Leatherman said there is enough focd for two or three days among the negro refugees at Gould,
 but clothing Is badly needed. Rescue Many at Douglass. At Douglas, great progress is being made in the work of rescuing whites and blacks marooned in buildings fe- mote from the town itself. Large numbers of refugees are being brought into Douglas by the few
 boats and more boats are needed Tor the work there.
 At Grady, the water is still rising, but slowly. One side Of the track is still dry in that section. although south of Grady nearly everything E under water.
 From all sources comes the news that the worst of the flood situation,
 so far as the flood itself is concerned Els about over. except in the lower reaches of the Arkansas. All interest now centers in the work of rescuing
 marooned persons and affording re-
 lief to the refugees and the seml- starved live stock which occupied the Thigh spots and ridges.
 Little Rock to Send Heli6. Little Rock. Feb. 4.-Reltef to the 2COO flcod sufferers in the lower Ar
 kansas river hpttons will he sent out
 from Little Rock tomorrow. The