The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-04-27
STILL RISING At HELENA.
TIE HIeH.WATER MARX OF 1889
PASStD.
Breaks in the Leyees at Arkansas
City and Below Friars POint-
4aOther Dangerous Point.
lsP1oIAL TO THE APPEIL.l

HELENA, AEx., April o. To-day, at
y o'clock, the Mississippi river at this
point reached the high-1ater mark OF
1852, having risen in the twenty-four
hours ending at that time fifteen
inches. 1t has steadily continued to
rise since at the rate of one-half inch
per hour, now being four inches above
the highest water everknown. The fact
of the river getting to high water at
the time it did demonstrated better
than anything could have done
the wonderful calculations made
by Col. Miles, he having predicted
. seven days ago that the stage of the
river would be to-day at noon to the
high-water mark, and that it would
continue to rise six feet higher if the
levees did not give way. All OF the
government engineers and quite a
number of the local press, who saw
fit to characterize Col. Miles as
crcnk, and crazy as loon on ac-
count OF these predictions, will now
be forced to take a back seat and adj
NIT that he knows more about the
Mississippi river than any living man.
lie has saved the planters of the Mis-.
sissippi Valley
MILLIONS OF DOLLARS
by forewarning them, and many Sc
rious losses could have been averted
had his advice been taken. The tow
boat Lioness passed up this evening
and stopped here and reported that
large br ak had occurred at Arkansas
City, Ark and that the Anchor Line
boat Belle Memphis had been drawn
into the crevasse. The officials of the
boat stated that they had made an Ell
fort to pull her out of the Gre
vase but had failed, and came
off and left her, but that the steamers
Billy Ezell and Natchez had gone to
her restue. From Fred Nicholson, a
white man, and three colored men
who came to Helena this evening
about 6 O'Clock, it was learned that
the levee had broken on the Missis-
sippi side, four miles below Friars
Point, at the stovall place There
is IA large force of men at
work on the levee at Delta, Miss,
but gentleman from that place this
evening stated that if the river cen
tinued to rise at the rate that it is now,
for twelve hours. it would be impes-
sible for the levee to stand, and it
would have to go. About fifty men
are at work near Trotter's Landing.
About five miles above Helera, en-
the Mississippi side,
,ANorHER vFRy- ANGFRol-s pLAc',
: as the full current of the great rush
of water out of the st. Francis sets
against it, but those at work there are
more sanguine and think they can
mold it. The L'Anguile at Mariana is
rising at the rate of an inch an hour.
The levees protecting Helena are all
iin good condition and no danger is
apprehended from them. 1t is more
than prObsble, however, that the
rtGwn will be flooded with back-water,
as the levee between here and CASTLE
,creVasse, in several places, some of
them near the town, to-day at u
O'Clock did not lack but five inches Of
being over. As the river has sen
four inches since that time, it is al
most a dead certainty that they will |
get the other inch to-day, unless the |
river should come to''a stand, which is
impossible from the amount of water
still insthe st. 2'rancis bottoms.
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