Evening star., 1927-04-23
PLANES AND BOATS
RACE TO REFUGEES
MENACED BY FLOOD
1850 Taken From Green
ViIIe-Hundreds Still Cling
to HouSetopS and Trees.
NEW ARKANSAS TOWNS
i ENDANGERED BY BREAKS
known Dead Placed at 48, 75,00O
Homeless, 100000 Endangered as
Crest Rushes Toward Delta.
~ the Associated Press.

~ The Associated Press.
MEMPHIS, April 23.--Eyery con
reivable method of rescue, from arr
planes TO river barges, was pressed
into service today in the.race to reach
refugees ahead Of the flood waters
that are overspreading the flood
States.
Several hundred negroes, without
food since Thursday and scantily clad
are on housetops and in trees near
Scott, Miss, L. X. salisbury, head OF
4he Delta and Pine Land Co, was IN
formed lfere today.
The New Orleans Weather Bureau
again revised upward its river lore
cast, placing the expected crest az
from 23.2 to "A feet, depending on Ille
winds. The last previous torecasl
placed 2S.2 as a maximum.
The death list in the flood was
steadily mounting, with the known
dead placed at as early today ana re
norts of other drownlngs IN various
sections. and especially in the AazoG
Rasin. hooded by the Mississippi ana
the backwater from the Hazoo h4Vel'
Delta Floods Spreading.
while no new breaks in the protect.
Spe levees on the lower Mississippi
we're reDorted. the waters noWlns
4broT,ph the crevasses at knowltons
Tan5ing and other places were fapid'
H. srreadjng over the delta country
snundating additional plantations anu
rendering more thousands fiomeiess.
Even approximate estimates OF prop
ertv damage were impossible ana prop
ably will be for weeks until aItef : the
food waters in Arkansas, Mlsslss.p !.
and States further north have subsld'
- Crons cver thousands of square
-,9ifae have been ruined and the flood
sands probably will be useless Tor TINS
season
New Break Near Greenville.
Another break in an emergency
1eyee at Leland, 10 miles from
17reenvilIe. Miss. occurred during the
morning, flooding Leland with p
10 feel of water. People began
leaving In boats. TWO lovernhleIit 81 !
harges are there to assist in the
Tha steamer Cincinnati, which
passed GreenvilIe yesterday. carry :
ing Mayor William Thompson OF
Chicago. turned back today and took
aboard a load of refugees for Nacks-
burg. Thompson and his party ieit
she steamer at Vicksburg before IL
was turned back. ~
Above Greenville, from which all
women. children and refugees are
being evacuated. renewed eITorts al
STRENGTHENING the dykes have peen
made. but rising waters carried
earjo,1s threat to houses crowded with
,-efneeas who could not be removed
because of insufficient number oi
boats 10 transport them through Ine
flooded streets.
1900 Rescued at Greenyille.
Fifteen hundred refugees have beer
taken off the main levee at Green
ayiIIa by the steamboat Tollinger anc
4ransnorted to Vicksburg, a radio mes
sage from the barge line boat Mime
sofa to the ssissippi-Warrior River
Service offices said today.
II The Minnesota, with wireless equip
Inerit, was standing by ready TO take
off additional refugees
The Tollinger towed four steel
barges, one covered barge being hiied
with women and children.
The message adds that 1900 refu
-ees were ouartered in the courthouse
and 100 more in two cotton ware
houses. A fleet Of small boats was
needed to convey them to the Mime
sofa, 49,
T5. 600 are homeless, while nearly lo0'
900 others are endangered as the Tor
rent assailed the delta defense.
THE death toll exacted by the breaH
an the Ieyee at Stops Landing will no'
he known until the waters have SUB
sided, An Associated Press CORE
snondent advised from Greenville las
night that bodies had been seen II
the water which was coursing through
the CITY in a swift current. All the
dead noted were negroes.
Boats Remove Refugees.
throughout the Arkansas lowlands
boats continued the work OF removing
refugees. Trains We're beginning L
move over some stretches and the frs
train in several days from Little Rocl
10 Memphis left the Arkansas capita
last night. Government Seaplane
from the Pensacola, Fla, base hav'
been sent to aid the rescue WorN In TN
Little Rock area.
Southeast Arkansas faced neV
dangers today with breaks on tw
major levees on the Arkansas Rive
declared imminent. Hundreds OF me-
5attIed at Sarrasa. 6 miles fror
Grady, Ark, and loop at SoutI
Bend.
The Red River near TeXarkan
threatened to burst the levees j
Homestead County, and armed guard
patrolled an embankment at Bowl
Levee, II miles from TeXarkans
More than $4,000 acres were sui
merged by breaks near Garland City
Thousands Going TO Cities.
Toward the havens OF safety-th
cities of Memphis, Nicksburg. Yazo
city, Miss, and Helena, Ark.-th
refugees by the thousands came trool
ing by rail, boats and on foot-wher
roads were passable, scores of whit
and negro farmers led or rode the
mules, followed by their families, a
laden with the few precious hous
hold possessions they could carry.
IN Iae refugee concentration camT
every precaution against disease Wa
taken, vaccination and typhoid i
oculations being compulsory, whi
the relief agencies handed out thol
sands of garments and bedding ar
fed the refugees, many Of them houl