New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-04-27
TIE MISSISSIPPI LEVEES.

LATER FROM THE GREAT CREvASsE-THF CUR
RENT DECREASING - oNE-sIXTH OF THE
VOLUME OF THE MISSISSIPPI PASSING
THROUGH THE BREACH.
NEw-0RLEANs, April 2G.-The following is
from the official report of Chief Engineer of the state
Thompson:
NEw-ORLEANs April 2G-9 p. NIPPON my return from
Bonnet Care Crevasse this evening, found very linn
ed news IRON the other ereyasses-no'hg DEFINITE oo
worth publishing by kilograms Il learn tne
river has fallen three inches at Vicksburg, two
and half inches at Baton Rouge. and is eight feet
inches below the high water mark OF 1857 vickspurg
and 10 inches below the high water marx Oh thS year aI
found Bonnet Carrie Crevasse lOO feet wide, to-day,
but the current and waves had decreased In proportion
surface of the river lowered High-water
marx at L0g1e's is almost 9 22 feet aG % ,e
feet high. The natural surface of the ground at Parcnes
TSe the STs Oeg S%. river Se sd
aen plantations covered with water to the base Of
the level dhereiHre repeat @o shJ no nre wafer
Walton for calculation OF the volume of water pass
ing, that he made tails morning. before our
arrival, which shows 10000 cubic feet per
second one-sxth Of the whole volume OF the Mssls-
spp at that point The work OF saving the ends OF the
leyee proceeding slowly account Of the want Of
skilled labor and the changing conditions Of ene ne nt
hard Op aground AWAY from its work, and
the hand piledrver only is working, doing good ser
vice at the lower end. The temporary works at the
upper END were washed away, and the end Is now
Financial arrangements must be made to prosecute the
work with systematic concentrated aDOr OfWual VIC are
doing Will simply he thrown away.
my opinion IL is utterly useless 10 attempt 10 close
the crevas preparations could not he made before
falls and the damage yet 10 be done Is ques-
ton Of months duration and not so much OF extent
He closes by hoping that means will be provided to
save the end Of the evee that less may have TO be re-
built
1t is officially stated that the Bonnet Carrie Crevasse
was 100 feet wide at p. M to-day Immense volumes
of water are pouring through the break at the l2me
post of the Jackson Railroad and the water running
over the breach six inches deep.
Engineers who came down from the cribbng, report
that Walkell's Swamp is wholly submerged with water
coming into the fields around Kemmerve and that the
swamps back of the city commencing to fill up from
water backing in from the lake.
| CARELESSNFss OF AUTHORITIES AND CITIZENS.
The Ne,c- Orleans Times differs with Mr. I. c.
De Leon whose card published in this paper yescr
day morning. regard to the responsibility Of the people
of New-Oreans for the condition Of the neighboIng
evees In its issue of the 22d instant when the Bonnet
Care threatened serious danger The Times sd
1.-THE city authorities have been crminally delinquent
in emitting TO construct protection lcyee above Car
rotonsuch would from the recurrence or the
caames OF lSl9. That work ought 20 be entered upon
immediately 1t would appear that no experience can
teach people and authorities the necessity or the
most ordinary precautions against great and always
threatening disasters"