THE MISSISSIPPI FLOOD.

Kumara Times, Issue 1735, 22 April 1882, Page 2

THE MISSISSIPPI FLOOD.

The following is a brief summary of the disastrous floods which recently occurred in several of the Southard State's, in the Mississippi Valley : " \ For nearly two thousand miles of. the lower Mississippi Rivef th'e adjoining country is generally low" tends, and most of the cities along the -bftnk£ ,o£ the river from Cairo, t<j New Orleans, Louisana, and protected from the spring floods' by substantial levels built above high water-mark,- and iti some instances, almost entirely around the towns. The " Spring-rise" of the Mississippi, with its thousand broad commenced early in February this year, and continued to rise rapidly and gradually until the 2nd of March, when/ie reached a higher point than ever before' known in the history of the country. Chios and villages on the banks of the river were swept away in a single day, hundreds of people have been drowned* and thousands have lost every thing they possessed except the clothes on their backs, and notwithstanding the local aid and the prompt action of the Government in sending a large fleet of steamboats loaded with provisions and supplies for the sufferers, .the suffering has* been something dreadful. All of