Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1897 — FLOOD OF 1897 OVER AT LAST. [ARTICLE]

FLOOD OF 1897 OVER AT LAST.

Relief Work Practically AbandonedLoss Inti mated at $14,520,000. The rapid fall of Ihe Mississippi at all points from Memphis to the gulf gives notice that the flood of 1897 is over. It is now conceded by all the engineers, State as well as national, that there is no longer need for any fear from high water. Not even from the rise which comes down the Mississippi in .Tune. The Mississippi will have fallen so by June that it can take care of any rise that may come down from the Ohio or upper Mississippi. It has been decided also to abandon all relief work, except in a few localities. The colored relief committee at Vicksburg has disbanded because its services are no longer needed. The refugee camps at Natchez and Vicksburg have been broken up and the refugees sent home. An estimate of the actual damage done in the loss of stock and crops, houses destroyed and swept away, and railroad track injured is: Louisiana, $1,975,000; Arkansas, $4,325,000; Mississippi, SB,220,000; total, $14,520,000.