TOOK MANY LIVES

Friday , May 27, 1892

Transcribed by : Tina Easley

 

Sad Results of the Floods in

Thirty or More Persons Known

Have Been Drowned !!!

Urgent Appeals for Aid

 

THIRTY-TWO LIVES LOST

 

MARIANA , Ark. , May 25.

Thirty - Two lives have already been lost in the

Arkansas river bottom, and a report from the St. Francis and White rivers

says many negroes and Indians there have been swept away. Sarah

McLeod, a school-teacher, was drowned Tuesday near Paragould.

 

Tina Easley
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