Made Homeless By Floods

Memphis, Term., March 16.- Nearly 2,000 homeless and half-starved persons rescued from the overflowed districts of eastern Arkansas were being cared lor in this city Tuesday. The refugees are mostly negroes of the lower classes who show scant appreciation of the charity extended. The citizens' relief eommission, practically backed by unimited capital, merchants, bankers and corporations having subscribed great sums of money to prosecute the work of rescuing the inhabitants of the territory, forty miles north and an equal distance south of Memphis. The entire government fieetstationed here, througii Captain Fitch, engineer in charge, has been pressed into service. Manned by crews familiar with the father of waters, the fleet gives great assistance to other rescue steamers. The situatkm is critical. News is expected hourly of breaks in the levees in either direction, and when this happens, as it surely will. ihe loss to property and stock will reach into the thousands. The flrst loss of life has been reported, a whole family of five negroes having been drowned at Marión. Sensational stories of wholesale drowning at Nodena, Ark., are denied by steamer hands fresh from the scène.