The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-03-12
BREAKING OF THE LEVEF.
No Material Damage Suffered by the
Plantations Yet.

Plantations Yet.
ST. LOUIS, March 1.-Flood news from
the lower Mississippi river is meagre to-day.
Capt. Tallinger of the government service
is at the Sappington Hook crevasse, above
Arkansas City, with the government tug
Nldalia, pile-driver, barge, and various
appliances for closing the gap. Work is
| now In progress, and it is thought the Gre
vase can be closed. There IS no water in
Arkansas City yet, the flow passing to the
rear of the town and running into the
bayous leading down to Louisiana. The
levee from Arkanaas City to the Louisiana
line is said to be strong and able to with
! stand considerable more water.
NO MATERIAL DAMAGE YET.
No material damage has yet beenldone to
the plantations, and as the whole of the
Texas bayou region in Louisiana has been
notified by wire and otherwise of the situa-
tion, the planters will have time to save
| their stock and other property. The break
at Point Cnicot, below Arkansas City,
which occurred last week, has been stopped.
The levees on the Mississippi side of the
river to Vicksburg and below are reported
good, and there is a reasonable hope that
there will beno disastrous break or damage
| done.
A DISCoURAGING OUTLOOK.
ST. LOUIS, March II, LIP. MA specia
to the Republic from Charleston, Mo.
says: "All of that part of this county living
east and south of this city is almost entirely
| submerged, the exceptions being natural
aad artificial mounds, upon which the
farmers stock have taken refuge. Il is
raining tonight, and the outlook is dis
couraging. The levee protecting the Cairo
and Poplar Bluff railway transfer and
cradle at Birds Point, Mo-, opposite
Cairo, gave way last night and all
the movable railway property at that place
was hastily transferred to this city, as was
that of the cotton belt road, on which trains
were also abandoned. All trains from this
point over that road are abandoned, and
communication by rail with the east is had
only via the Belmont branch to Columbus,
KY, and the Mobile and Ohio road.n
RISING AT CAIRO.
CAIRO, ILL.,, March II. There has been
a heavy rainfall here since yesterday after
noon, and it is still raining. The Ohio river
rose $40 of a foot during the last twenty
four hours, the gauge at present reading 48
$40 feet.
STILL RISING.
CAIRO, ILL, II p. The river marks
48 $40 feet on the gauge and is still rising
slowly. The river has been falling almost
constantly since yesterday afternoon, and
still continues. The Ohio river is reported
falling all the way down from Gin
cinnati, aud slight rise reported in the
Mississippi river above. The probabilities
are that the Ohio will reach 50 feet here.
The Tennessee and Cumberland rivers
are both falling, and no rain is
reported from that section. The
Cairo, Vincennes and Chicago train due
here at II a. M. has not yet arrived on &C
count of a washout above. The abandoned
tunnel on the Mobile and Ohio road caved
in to-day, blocking the track so that trains
could not pass around it as heretofore. No
trains on the Iron Mountain or st. Louis,
Arkansas and Texas road have arrived
or departed since yesterday. The Iron
Mountain company are tran sferring their
trains at Belmont, Mo. Their levees have
been raised and strengthened, and the town
can stand stage of fifty-fiye feet on the
gauge. The highest water in 1882 was
fifty-two feet three inches
THE RISE AT ST. JOSEPH.
ST.. JOSEPH, La, March 1.-THE river
has risen an inch and a quarter in the past
twenty-four hours 1t is not believed here
that the break at Sappingtons will overflow
a single acre of cultivated lands in this
parish. Four-fifths of the water will go
into the Bayou Boeuf swamp and Teusas
river and Bayou Mercer, which are both
low and have sufficient capacity to carry off
all the water that is likely to reach them
from Sappngtons. The water from the
crevasse will cover very little, if any, culti-
waited land. The levees are safe from one
end of the parish to the other.