From October, 1926, when the Neosho River overran its banks in Kansas and Oklahoma to last week when the Mississippi attacked levees in southern Louisiana, flood conditions have prevailed in the Mississippi Valley. Since the middle of April the Mississippi has been on the greatest flood of its history. Last week best estimates of the situation gave the following summary:
Extent. From Cairo, Ill., to the Gulf is 570 miles air line but 1,090 miles by the river line. Southwestern Illinois, western Tennessee and Mississippi,...
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