Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1884-03-27
No Improvement i'm the COnditiO of the
Mississfppi-The YazOO and TaIIahat-
chic Falling.

The Vicksburg Commercial Herald, 25th
Pilot George Shaw, of the Thompson, re-
ports the Mississippi falling in Eagle Bend
He says the Thompson run along the
levee from Milliken's Bend, and distrib.
uted lumber at weak points. The people
on the Mississippi side are all in good
cheer, plowing and confident OF escaping
The steamer Captain Miller arrived up
from Natchez yesterday and from her
commander, Capt. w. A. Randlett, we
learned that the Kemp's levee gave way
Sunday afternoon and that when the
Miller passed there yesterday the break
was seventy feet wide and all hope oi
closing it had been abandoned. At New
town the Miller took ON forty refugees
from the flood, whose dwellings had been
overflowed and otherwise rendered un-
tenantable by the vast volume of water
which is now doing such great damage
along the banks of the lower Mississippi
river. Twenty passengers also took pass
age on the Miller at Hard Times, their
residences, like the poor unfortunates at
Newtown, having been submerged.
Nearly every house at Point Pleasant
has been flooded, and the residents of that
place are contemplating move. No
freight was received yesterday by the
Miller for any landing between this city
and Natchez, as there is not single dry
spot on which it could be landed. The
leyee on the Towner place, just opposite
the old courthouse in the lower end of
Delta, La, gave way at l o'clock yester-
day morning, flooding the whole town
and all high ground between Delta and
the waters from the Biggs crevassc. AT 5
o'clock last evening the water was one foot
deep in Van Os Bros store, and but few
stores were out except those built upon
elevated pillars. All the upper stories of
the two-story houses in the town are
crowded and many families are moving to
this city. The water at dark was steadily
rising at the rate of two inches per hour.
The officers of the Carroll report more
cheerful state of affairs in upper Yazoo
and Tallahatchie rivers. At Sharkey's
on last Friday, the water had fallen
twenty-one inches and was falling at the
rate OF three inches in twenty-four hours,
and had been up to within nine inches of
the water of 1882. At Greenwood it had
fallen fourteen inches and was receding
at the rate OF three inches in twenty-four
hours, and was falling all the way down
to Yazoo City. From Satartia down there
is very little land out.
Col. II. b. Thompson, of the State Levee
Board OF Louisiana, arrived in this city at
IL o'clock last night on the steamer CITY
of Cairo, and from him a Commercial Her
aid reporter learned that yesterday morn
ing the river began falling at Lake Provi-
dence and fell half sn inch in the four
hours ending at noon yesterday. The
river is also falling at all points from Lake
Providence down, and it is thought that
the levees can now be held against the
present flood. The Ashton levee, which
at one time was thought to he in dan
gerous condition, is now out of all danger.
Col. Thompson reports that the one who
made the statement a heavy pressure OF
logs is now against the Ashton levee was
in error, as in no place are the drift-logs
closer than twenty feet to the leyee. They
are held back from the leVee by heavy
trees. At Ashton the river reaches q
point eight inches above the flood hight
L of 1882