FLOODS IN UNITED STATES.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1408, 8 April 1912, Page 5

FLOODS IN UNITED STATES.

DEATH LIST GROWING, THOUSANDS HOMELESS, THE MISSISSIPPI STILL RISING. By Telegraph—Press Association -Copyright New York, April 5. St. Louis reports that (ho death list through tho Hoods is growing. Ten persons uro known to hnvo been drowned. The river is ever increasing in volume, and the steamer services have had to be suspended. The water supplies are polluted, and food is short in some districts. Five thousand refugees.from Hickman, Kentucky, are living in tents. They aro being feci by charity. Their homes in the majority of cases havo been wrecked. (Kec. April 7, 5.5 p.m.) Washington, April 6. President Taft has ordered the utilisation of army supplies for the sufferers by the floods, and Congress is ready to provide monetary relief whenever a clear idea as to tho extent of tho losses is received. Tho town of Carruthersville, in Missouri, is threatened, and a largo area of thicklysettled country will be affected if the flood defence works give way. Thousands are homeless. An area of over 150 square miles west of Hickman, Kentucky, was inundated when the levee at Hickman broke. Considerable loss of life is reported, and all trains have stopped running. Tho Mississippi River is still rising in the vicinity of Cairo and its neighbourhood. Fully GOO miles of country along the Mississippi is affected. , Altogether the death list totals 20.