Mississippi Is Raging

St. Louis, March 16.- In southeastern Missouri on the Mississippi river Birds' Point is almost entirely inundated, and he Cotton Belt and Iron Mountain railvays will probably have to abandon heir trains into that place. The water s over the Cotton Belt track nearly one oot at several points between Birds' Point and Smithton, the first station outh. Porty thousand acres of land in Misissippi county, Mo., are protected by evees which were built since the last ood. They are holding against the ater, but the Iron Mountain railway mbankment, which forms the southern joundary of this drainage district, is not raised to the grade of the levees. Water has commenced pouring over the ailway and will flood all this territory. Many farmers in this district planted vheat for the first time this year feelng safe from floods, and the growing rop, which was half a foot high, Will je entirely destroyed. Work Night and Day. At Caruthersville, Mo., work on the evee is being kept up night and day, and in Pemiscot county the levee is in good condition. Twelve miles below Osceola, Ark., the levee broke and the flood is great damage in that ection. At Tyler, thirteen miles beow Caruthersville, there were ten famiies on a sawdust pile for protection, having been driven from their homes. At Cottonwood, nine miles below Cauthersville, be water is in nearly all louses, both business and dwellings. A.t Gayoso, six miles above Caruthersille, the water is all over the town and from three inches to two feet deep In he houses. Prisoners had to be moved from the jail to the court house to escape the water. Gayoso is the county seat of Pemiscot county.