Telegram-herald., 1890-04-06
4 DOOMED SECTION.
Ths Waters OF ths Lower AHlsals-
sippi Continue 70 Rise
MORE LEYEES ARE CRUYBLISC lWn.
Vat Tr@cts u fsFrit~ry Covered by ths
AEgrs W~tsrs Crss4sss a. Cst.
asa fSiut K@lirosd Irscks
Washed Away.

NEw OGLEASS April "A dispatch
received from kolhng Fork. Aisz saws.
TIE water IN Deep creek has risen tour
feet in he l@stthiFty six hours, sna is
nov running over is banks On Tie east
sl4s, aud Is stlll rising al the rate " halt
al inch az hour Every fooI % dry land
in Roll.hg Fork vii sooE be under
water Passenger train No Z, from
Memphis, due here Friday night did
not arrive TIL this morning. and
could 20 no further. After remain
ing here for several hours IL was
turned around and ordered back
10 Leland. The tEal. .men ssy IL is
impossible 10 get back there Nith IL ss
the track between PsnthurburR and
Nitta Yuma foated Of OF It's bed after
the train passed over H. The water Was
eighteen inches deep here in ies2, asd
il will undoubtedly be much deeper
this year.
ARKANSAS CITY. Ark, April a-News
has reached here of bad break in the
leyee Just above Catfish Point Miss.
Tho break occurred az o'clock Friday
morning. and Was a complete surprise.
as the river was falling ana the leyee
was thought 70 be safe. The levee WAS
about fifteen feet high and WAS con
structed principally of sand. The
creyasse is nearly 800 feet wide and very
deep. It's rapidly widening, and there
is no telling how much wider IL will
become before the ends can DO fas tened.
Catfish Poin, is on big bead In the
river Mound Landing being about ten
miles below and Bolivar Landing about
the same distance above. The entire
bend IS in cultivation. and the principal
plantations are the Miller, the Connolly,
tho Martin, the Edmunds and the
Ousley places. The break occurred be-
tween the Miller and the Connolly
places. Every plantation is flooded, and
tho depth OF the water will not fall
short OF twelve 20 fifteen feet. The
water will back up TO Bolivar Landing.
viii help 10 increase the depths there
and will make matters worse below
Mound Landing.
The break Is said 70 be by far
the worst that has yet occurred Oh
the Mississippi side. A tremendous
volume OF water is coming out OF the
crevasse and is sweeping every thing
before IL. Houses, cribs, stables and
fences are being washed away, and
many head OF stock have already been
lost Mrs l.. T. Martin lost fifteen
mules, and nearly all the corn, hay and
cotton seed on two or three plantations
have been swept away. No
lives have bser lost. The suf-
fering that will necessarily follow
this disaster will be great. The oondi-
tion Of affairs on the other side of the
river was bad enough, but this break
will make matters much worse. The
planters on the other side are getting
into somewhat better shape. They have
been loading their stock upon barges
preparatory TO removing to the prairie.
HELENA, Ark. April 5.-The river
has fallen ono inch. The present rise
az Cairo will probably reach here in
about ten days. Mr.. Miles, the river
prophet, said Friday:
'The most terrible and destructive rise viii
be below Red river when the overflow Of waters
come out Of the Tensas swamps All the water
we have had here will meet there, aud both the
Yazoo ard the Tensas levees will break in a
hurry IL the people below Red river. especial
ly below MorganZa would take cur advice they
would get out in a hurry"