The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-03-16
Further Effects or the Great munda
tiOns.

A Nashville (Tenn.) dispatch says; "Ah n
cessant rain has fallen here, and the rainfall
already measures 1.99 inches. The Cnmber-
land river is rising rapidly, and will reach the
line of fofty-two feet above low water mark by
tomorrow afternoon. Ten RATS have been
lost since last night The rain storm OF to-
night extends from Texas eastward 70 Georgia,
thence northward to Ohio, thence westward to
Kansas"
The following dispatch from Helena, Ark,
gives distressing account of the situation:
"The position here becomes more appalling
every hour. The levees are built up as high
and strong as is possible under the circum-
stances aud still the river continues to rise aud
the water lacks but a few inches Of sweeping
everything. Tho town is protected above by a
cross lovee and it has been thought that this
would save the city from sweeping overflow
The levees above are pierced by great crevasse,
snd the water is up to the top of this second
levee, There is no hope now that tho flood
can be kept from the town, and at any moment
the alarm bell may ring out tho terrible news
that the water is flooding the streets. Those
who occupy homes in the exposed places have
moved to the second stories of business houaes
and to buildings on the highest point. Yhe
overflow from the back-watcr occupies two
thirds of tho town) and is still rising. regu-
lar business is done by boats and scows carry
ing people around tho overlowed district, and
scores of big boats arc at work moving furni-
ture and other property. The news from
below telIs of great distress and incroas-
ing loss of stock and buildings.
Tho break at Bolivar, MISS, is ono of
the greatest ever made in the leveo system,
and floods vast territory. The water can 10
seen from the steamers dashing through to the
iiohs below with tho force and roar of q catar-
act. Terrence, Miss, because of its central po-
sftiOn, has been made the point for distribu-
ton for thesection around Bolivar and River
| ton, and every boat leaving the section for the
| IL.
and yet tie cries for help come up from every
hand. The immense extent of the flood must
be understood before any correct idea eau be
fopned Of tho demands Of the case
Nle distress is not confined to miles, but
TO scores and hundreds of miles. Mr. s. Krow
OF Trenton, twenty miles southwest of Helena
came in to-day in the interest of a considerable
| number of white sufferers from Big Creek bot
| tom, who are quartered at Trenton for the
| present. as objects of public aid. For several
| Gays they were cooped up i'll gin houses and
| lodged in trees, and would be there now but for
the presence OF some charitable people who
| brought them to Trenton, where they were
received by Mr.. Krow, and everything was
| done that could be done. They are
in e terrible state, and their ex-
| periences in trees and in outhouses during the
past ten nights are terrible to contemplate.
| Their Losses have been great and Mr.. Krow
| SAYS that they are but the beginning Of what
is sure to follow. lie is certain that many more
| persons are in the same condition that these
were, and efforts will be made as soon as pos
tible to bring them to Trenton, which is the
nearest high land to their locality. The overflow
water from tho Mississippi sweeping in a
western direction has thrown Big Creek out oil
| its banks, and caused this misery and destitu-
| tion."
| dispatch from Memphis, Tenn, says: 'Thc
river remains stationary here, with thirty-siS
feet on the gauge. Passengers who arrived
from below this morning report that at Austin
Miss, between Memphis and Helena, the rvel
had cut through the town, DESTROYING he prin-
| Temple. The Centennial block, a large brick
building, is almost demolished, the water be ng
twenty feet deep all around it. Several store
houses and dwellings, were washed away ant
carried distance of half mile. The loss o
stock continues, and the situation is hourly
growing more desperate"