The evening world., 1890-03-28

isovery probability that all the districts bor-
dering.upon the Lower Mississippi River will
experience the greatest food ever known.
The river il now up to its highest water
mark, and the increasing floods from the
tributaries now emptying into the Missis-
sippi will make II impossible for those living
i'll the lowlands to escape IL they do not
make haste.
THE Siqnal.Sorvicc Office. Z" says Sergt.
Dunn. sent out bulletins to these districts
two weeks ago, warning them OF their
danger and advising everybody to move out
Of the valleys and protect their stock.
MANY, II has boon learned. have Needed
tho warning, and while q good many negroes
refused TO 20, and thoro IL a good deal OF
stock remaining in the lovlands, they have
practically been evacuated by the farmers.
Already = great many lives have been
lost, and focks and herds destroyed by the
floods, and this new storm mAkes matters
all the moro critical. 1t will be the greatest
calamity that has ever befallen that section
Of the country.
THE damage will be greatest below
Memphis. Tho storm Ia Just like an onor.
nous pitcher Of water poured upon a coun-
try already flooded.
Although several immense crevasses
have been found In the ievees below vickA-
burg, from 200 TO 1900 feet wide and 20
to IS feet deep, carrying of millions Of gal
Ions Of water every second. the height Of
the river at Yicksburg and Cairo has re-
NAMED almost stationary at the top food
limit.
This shows that the channel of the river
below IN all chokod up with alluvium and
debris from the first food. and that this Ia
acting as a dam which will eventually work
havoc with all the lcvecs.
when the wave crest from this new storm
comes down the river things arc bound to
be carried away and the entire surrounding
country covered.
This will probably arrive at Cairo IN
two or three days, but IL may be thrco weeks
before it reaches New Orleans. New Orleans
will be visited without doubt by ono OF the
most disastrous foods ever known, and I
would not give five cents for my life in that
city When the wave crcst strikes it,
- do not say thist to frighten people. but
am simply stating facts that will be verified.
j have been stationed at Cairo. New Orleans
and Cincinnati during times OF great floods,
and / know what they are.
II believe that ono of the greatest calam-
tiles the country has ever seen Ia imminent,
and il IN only our duty TO warn the people OF
the Lower Mississippi Valley to prepare for
the worst"
Some OF the strongest loyecs on tho
river, " ho continued. ''those at Helena,
Ark, have been swept away completely in
the last two days.
To-day IL IL showing all through the
Northwest. the lake regions. the Northern
Mississippi Valley and in New ENGLAND. and
raining to tho South. the storm covering
every State west of the Rockies.
1.-The indications arc for severe local
storms along the coast. high winds south
OF New York and tornndoes in Tennessee
and Virginia. Storm signals are flying all
along the Atlantic Coast"
At II O'Clock to-day Chief Operator Bald
win, of tile Western Union. said that a wire
to louisville had been secured through In
diannpolis and another through Cincinnati.
but they were not in good working order.
Another wire had been secured through
to Memphis by way of LynchbuIG. Va. but
all the wires direct to the Kentucky ard
Tennessee districts were stLl down INT the
Company very much crippled.
The wires between Chicago and Toledo
were damaged by sleet and working very
poorly, and several wires to st. Louis.
crossing Southern Illinois, are down. He
could not tell when they would have . wire
to Louisville in working order.