Sacramento daily record-union., 1890-03-13
Latest Reports Along the Mississippi
and Arkansas Rivers.

Latest Reports Along the Mississippi
and Arkansas Rivers.
ST. LOUIS, March 12th.-The food news from
various points along the Mississippi river and
other streams this morning is that the White
and Black rivers in Arkansas are on the ram
page. Both are out of the banks and overflow
ing the country on each side for miles.
Heavy rains have fallen and continue TO fall
along these streams, and a general inundation
is looked for at Fort Smith on the Arkansas
There was q rise OF over eighteen feet in twenty
four hours. AT last accounts the swell was pro-
ceeding at the same rate. This rise, added to
the minor floods pouring out of all the small
tributaries below Fort Smith, will greatly add to
the volume of water in the Mississippi below
the mouth of the Arkansas and increase the
peril to the lower country.
All the railroads in the vicinity OF Fort Smith
are suffering from serious washouts or lost
bridges, and trains are abandoned temporarily.
At Arkansas City, on the Mississippi, the
water from the Suppington Hook crevasse inun-
dated the rear part of the town and the lands in
the back country are being flooded 1t is not
thought, however, that great damage will result,
as the bayous and interior streams are capable
of carrying the water away rapidly.
All the available boats of the Government
meets nave been put into leyee service. The
river front, from Arkansas City down, is being
carefully watched. All low places are being
filed up with sacks of sand and earth and other
means used TO hold back the waters.
The report prevailed that the levee of Alsatia,
Louisiana, twenty miles south of Lake Prov
idence, had broken, but this has not been yeri.
fed.
LATEST FROM ARKANSAS
ARKANSAS CITY (Ark.), March 12th-It has
been raining here for about forty hours. and
about four hundred feet wide. The people are
much alarmed and some are seeking high
ground.
At Poplar Bluff the situation is serious. In
Helena, Arkansas District, the river continues
rising rapidly The rise in the Arkansas west
OF Little Rock, is unprecedented. 1t is feared
another day will bring out unwelcome news of
the waters ravages.
Arkansas City is not yet badly submerged, as
some of the water is finding its way off into the
bayous back of town. Should there be no more
breaks, it will not rise much here.
IN TENNESSEE.
MEMPHIS (Tenn.), March l2th-The food out
look to-day is more threatening than at any
time since the present high water began tc ex-
cite attention. The Arkansas and White I. 5ers
are pouring out immense volumes, and the sit
uation below their mouth is anything but en-
couraging.
IN MISSISSIPPI.
VI KsBuRG (NIiss), March 12th.-At midnight
the Mississippi Valley Road is flooded for sew
eral hundred yards. A heavy rain is falling
all over Central and Southern Mississippi.
FROM NEW ORLEANS.
NEW ORLEANS March 12th.- Dispatches from
still rising, and that the city is flooded with
water from eighteen inches to two feet deep. A
heavy rain is falling and assisting the rising
waters.
AN ENGINEERS WARNING.
GREENvILLE (Miss), March I2th-Captain
Young. chief engineer of the Government fleet
has just returned from an inspection trip along
the Arkansas shores. He says the levees on
that side are in immediate danger, as it will be
impossible for tnem to stand more than six
inches rise, and from the volume OF water ex-
pected in the next few days it is oct of the
question to think of saving that country from
overflow. He warns everybody who lives and
has any interest in the adjacent lotions and
the Tensas basin, to prepare for the inevitable,
and move all their live stock and other move
able property to the front or The hills.