Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-04-29
BREAK OF THE LEVEE.
A Belief that Railroad Trafnc Will
Have to Be Suspended.

A Belief that Railroad Trafnc VIII
Have TO Be Suspended.
MEMPHIS, tenn, April 2s.-OnIy mea-
gre details have been received of the
break which occurred last evening at
Austin, Mss The water in the bottoms
rose three feet last night, and is now
within two feet of the track of the Louis
| vile, New Orleans Il Texas railroad.
Inc onclals fear that the break will cause
a suspension OF travel over that line with
In the neXttwodays. The country that
Will be Oveffi0wed is one of the most
productive in the Mississippi val
ley. Planters in low lands will,
1t IS feared, lose many of their stock by
drowning.
SteambOatmen from below report
oceans of water in the neighbOrhoOd of
Helena and as far north as Commerce,
Miss, which is only 80 miles be-
low here. The flood that has been pour
ing out OF st. Francis river, just below
Helena, has held the river stationary
mere Tor the past six days.
TRAFFIC IMPEDED.
No train has arrived from New Orleans
on the Illinois Central railroad, nor from
Natchez on the Natchez. jackson and CO.
lumbus railroad since MondaY.
EIGHT INCHES OF RAIN.
NEW ORLEANS, April 2S.-A special
from Natchez, Miss, report a rainfall Of
eight inches in the past three days, caus-
ing rise OF seven inches in the river.
HIGHER THAN IN 1882.
A dispatch from Helena, Ark,
says: "The river is now above
the highest point reached in
1882. Both the st. Francis and Missis-
sippi rivers are now at a stand. There
was general break up in the Arkansas
levees from the break on the Rabb place,
ten miles below here, down to where the
leVee ends at Old Town. a distance of
twenty miles. All Efforts to hold the
remaining parts of the levee from Rabb
crevasse south have been abandoned, and
the water is now sweeping through
In numerous places, the breaks ranging
from 100 feet to half mile wide. e. ID.
Pillow, President of the Levee Board, has
just arrived from the kabb crevasse. Re
says he thinks the leVee from Helena to
the crevasse will stand, but that every
acre OF land subject to an overflow from
Helena to LacOna will be inundated from
the river and back water. The back
water is now coming into the city slowly,
but Will probably only Gil the bitches.
A later dispatch says the levee a mile
below Austin has been swept away for
the overflow of large portion OF Tunicu
and CoahOma counties, Miss. The loss
from this creVasse will be great, because
all the crops had been planted and were
growing. Portions Of the track Of the
Iron Mountain railroad between Helena
and Mariana are 10 inches under water.
HAIL AT BATON ROUGE
BATON ROUGE, April 2S. A hail storm
on Monday destroyed 800 acres of young
corn and 800 acres OF cotton on the plan
tatiOn of james r. Devall. .All will have
to be replanted. Hail stones fell in
places to a depth of 3 inches. Dispatches
from various points throughout the lower
Mississippi valley report heavy rains dur
ing the past days.
CESSATION OF A DOwNPoUR.
JACKSON, MISS, April 2S.-The ram
ceased at daylight this morning, alter an
almost continuous fall for fOrty-eight
hours, doing much damage to crops.
Trains are delayed. The Illinois Central
road has bad washouts in the Bogue Chit
TO swamps. Aspecial train sent to repair
the damage ran into washOut. Conduc-
tor Arid and the firemen were killed, and
the engineer was badly hurt.