St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-03-15
MEMPHIS INUNDATED.
Water at That Point Reaches
the Highest Stage Ever
Known.
The Mississippi Lowlands and
Lagoons Are Over
flowed.
Scenes Of Desolation and
Waste Along the Father
Of Waters.
Great Gaps in the Levees at
Newport and New Or
leans.

MEMPHIS. Tenn, March 14.-The
riverrose one-tenth of an inch to-day,
and is now 1854 on the gauge-the high
est point ever recorded-and is still ris.
ing. The steamer Emma Etheridge ar
rived at noon from Paducah. and after
loading with lumber. sacks and supplies.
left for the threatened district below
the Arkansas river in charge of En-
gineer Sears. The concensus of opin-
ion here is that the levees on the
Mississippi side will be able to
withstand the pressure of the great
flood. The splendid levees and
equipment Of the Mississippi valley
railroad are contributing in material
degree to the preservation of the levces
In the Yazoo delta. Nothing is being
left undOne by the railroad to maintain
the levees and prevent disaster. The
situation on the Arkansas side below
Arkansas City is far from reassuring,
although the damage, should the leveeS
give way, would be slight if cOmpari-
son were made with the destruction
which would enSue should the east
bank break. Passengers on the Louis
vile, New Orleans & Texas railroad, on
the train leaving New Orleans last
night and arriving here this morning.
were treated to novel scenes along the
road. The iOWlandS and lagoOns in the
Mississippi delta are flooded until the
dry land visible is the ridge On which
the track runs and few prOmOntOries,
whose black hulks prOtrude above the
water now and then. These places
afford shelter for hundreds of squirrels
and small game, driven to them by the
inundatiOn. Huts and cabins in the
lower lands are submerged several feet
in water. Tied at their doors are SkitfS
and dugOuts, which afford the occupants
their only means of transit from one
place to another. Everything presents
an air of waste and deSolation. The
railroad embankment Is still twelve or
fifteen feet above water and in no immi-
nent danger. The scene is picturesque
in the extreme between Vicksburg and
Lula. Miss. In that, district the water
is higher. and farmers who have not al
ready moved are making every prepare
tlon to do so. Along the line of the
Memphis & Little Rock railroad, as
2 far as McCalley'S ridge, the same state
of affairs exist. Unless the waters in
Mississippi and Arkansas are receded
more rapidly than before the untor-
tunate people who are unable to leave
will suffer great privations before they
can again resume work.
NEGROES WILL SUFFER FROM HUNGER.
The Circle levee back OF Laconia
will break before Tuesday next. The
water is within ten inches Of the
top and rising rapidly. There are
1000 people living inside the cir
Gle, of whom 100 are white.
The negroes will suffer from hunger
unless ratons are served by the govern
ment. The whites are able to take care
of themselves. Destruction to stock
and other property will be enormous.
Arkansas levee. which commences at
Opossum Fork at about 100 miles above
the Louisiana line, is not to be COM
pared with the Mississippi levees, and
will be washed almost entirely away by
the present high water if the
coming rise proves as great as ex-
pected. The government boat Vidalia
will leave here tomorrow with 200 men
to assist in the work of closing the
break at Sappington's Hook by piling
and revetting.