The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-04-06

they viii, we suppose, temporarily close the
preak so that the crops may be protected
against future rise this season.
THE FLOOD OF 1882.
Returning to 1882 for comparison, the
nigh water this year is nearly d month
later. Tsis is discouraging, though the
situation has its hopeful feature. too. The
Lake Bolivar crevasse in 1882 let in per-
haps as mich water as all of these we have
now. and the Riverton crevasse nearly as
much as all Of them, while the river had to
fall below thirty-seven feet before Lake
Bolivar quit feeding the floods over the
fields. The Offutt's aud Huntington Gre
vases will cease to be serious feeders, it is
presumable, at forty feet and the Easton at
thlrty-nine feet, but there is menace and
danger as long as the present hight is ap-
proximRted.
SECOND FLOOD.
I'm 1882 there was a most disastrous
second food, beginning May Z. Newly
planted crops were drowned out. Despite
the nnrnberless outlets TIE river rose to
within ! = feet of its previous hight. ard
broke the levee May 25 at Clark's front
This rise. which was mainly from the
Arkansas river, did not go off until late in
June, and on many plantations no cotton
was raised. There is the consolation that
II the levees have gone to pieces in spots it
took the highest water on record to do it.
BEATS THE RECORD.
"The highest point has not been touched
at Cairo, but in the dcration of the floods
the hight, the truest test, 1890 takes prece-
dence OF all recent years No year of which
there is a fullrecord but 1892 compares with
1t. For illustration, the water passed above
forty-six feet at Cairo this year three times,
and it will not, it is safe to say, 90 below
that stage before April Is. Forty-three
days of such a stage at Cairo is unpreca-
dented. In 1882 it was reached Feb. 20 and
passed below March 2l, or lasted twenty
nine days.
"The average of the Arkansas is about
the same for the two years, but there was
phenomenal flood out of the White river
this year.
'The condition of the upper rivers is not
hopeful, Cairo still standing above forty
eight feet, and there is rise out of the
Arkansas which will probably check the
fall here"
THREE woMEN DROWNED.
The Picdyuate'S Greenville special says:
Yesterday while colored man with three
women in a skif were fleeing from the ap-
preaching food in Bogue county, on the
Georgia Pacific railroad. the skiff over
turned. The man escaped, but the three
women were swallowed up by the food"
BARGEs GO TO THE BREAK.
The PicdWHle'S Arkansas City special
says: Yesterday as soon as the news Of
the break at Catfish point reached here, the
government steamers Speed and Graham
took several barges TO that point and
brought away about $50 people and their
effects; and also lot of stock, etc. Capt
Toilinger Of the government survey is
on the ground doing everything
be can to save life and prop
erty. Those who wish to come
will be brought here by the government
boats, and quarters provided for them.
Parties who visited the scene of the disaster
to-day state that the torrent coming out of
the opening has about spent its force.
Although this is much the largest break
thai has yet occurred on the Mississippi side,
the territory that will be affected by it will
be comparatively small.
FEARFUL DESTRUCTION
Outside of the Catfish Point peninsula
the water from this crevasse will reach but
little territory that was not already inun-
dated by the crevasses at Mound, Hunting
ton, and Ofutt's, but the destruction
of property in this little peninsula
is fearful. Planters who owned
plantations around Catfish Point
are almost ruined. 1t is estimated that
over 100 houses have been washed away,
and there is very little hay corn or plant
ing seed left. Planters will be so badly
crippled that they will meet considerable
difficulty in making crop even
it the water recedes in time. The
food has left almost nothing. The whole
bend filed with water as high as that in the
river within few hours after the break
occurred. To-day the back water broke
through the levee at Eutaw ledge in the
lower end Of the bend, and is now running
back into the river. 1t is thought that sew
eral lives have been lost