Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-02-20
ALONG THE MISSISSIPPI.
EXTENSIVE BREAKS IN TWO OF
THE LEVEES.

The Back Country Flooded-The River
Rising at Cairo--Distress in the Low
lands-The Condition of the OhfO-A
Card from the Cincinnati Relief Com
mIttee.
| NEW ORLEANS, Feb. IA special to
the F'cdyane from Vicksburg says: 'sThe
steamer Parasol arrived from the Bends
last night. The officers report that the Illa-
"ara ieVee, about fifty miles above vicks-
burg, on the Louisiana side of the river.
broke on Saturday night. About three
hundred feet OF the levee is gone. and the
water is running through the break rapid-
ly and about three feet deep. The point
where the levee broke is new work. The
continued rains and waves, occasioned
by the strong winds, have been beat
ing hard against the levee for the
last forty-eight hours and caused It
TO give way. The water going through
the creYasse will overflow the plantations
of DIR. Devine and G. G. Linche, and many
others on the line of the Little Tensa-
The water is going directly into Bayou
Mason. The new protection levee at AL
satla, on the Louisiana side, is reported In
dangerous condition.
CINCINNATI, Feb. 19.-The Ohio river
was stationary from to O'Clock this
morning, but fell one inch between and
lO O'Clock, when it was fifty-nine feet two
inches in height. The work of manufac-
turing gas is progressing, and a portion OF
fthe city may be lighted tonight, All
danger of water famine is past, as more
engines are pumping the water. The soup
house VIII be closed tonight, and the re-
llet work turned over TO an organized
charitable association.
AThe Relief Committee this afternoon is
sued the following: E'The Relief Commits
tees of the Chamber of Commerce and the
Common Council, desire to thank their
friends in other places who have so gener-
ously come forward with subscriptions
for the sufferers by the floods, and to an
nounce that having resolved in the Begin
ming to use all funds derived from abroad
only IN relieving our neighboring cities
ana towns, we have all we can use judi
cIously for such purpose" The address
is signed NJ. 4. Ingles, Chairman.
NICKsBURG, MISS, Feb. 19.-Newe was
received here to-day that the protection
leVee at GOodrich's gave way on Saturday
night, and the water is now running
through Mt that point. The Illawara and
Edgewood breaks are about 300 yards
wide, and the water, from one to four feet
deep, is spreading over the country back
of these points.
CAIRO, ILL, Feb. 19.-At O'Clock this
evening the river marked fitty-one feet,
and was rising half an inch an hour. The
lOwlands below here are inundated, and
the loss OF stock, grain, ETC., is great.
There is foot of water in the floor Of the
Iron Mountain Railroad depot at
Birds Point. The jackson road is
transferring passengers by boat
across Mayteld creek, the em5ankment at
that place having given way. Business is
entirely suspended at this end of the Iron
Mountain and Texas and st. Louis Roads.
1t is thought the river will come to it and
by tomorrow night, and there is little fear
of breakage Of the levees. The work Of
bulkheading the Ohio levee is going on
rapidly. Reports of distress are coming
from the low land of Kentucky and Mis-
souri,