New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-03-14
FLOODS ABATING LITTLE.
A FALLING GAUGE AT CAIRO, BUT A NEW
OVERFLOW ADVANCING.
IOWA AND MISSOURI COVERED WITH
WATER MILES wIDE-BROKEN LEvEES
AT ARKANSAS CITY AND NEW.
ORLEANS - HOPES FOR THE
SAFETY OF THE
TENSAS BASIN.


St Louis, March 13.-Reports from points on
the Missouri and Mississippi rivers above here
show the rivers TO be rising. Dispatches from
the interior show all the smaller streams to be
high, and the lowlands near creeks and rivers
to be under water. 4 dispatch from Simpson,
H.. slys All the streams from Carbondale TO
Paducah, KY, are miles and miles out of their
banks. Crab Orchard Creek is eight miles wide,
while Big Bay covers territory hardly short Of
ton miles wide -Four trains are waterbound
here and cannot turn wheel until the waters
subsdc The loss to the nilroad company and
farmers will bc thousands of dollars"
\ dispatch from Vienna, H., says that a num-
bcr Of families in the eastern part of that town
have left their homes, while fences and vast
amount of lumber from the planning mill near the
depot have hoatcd away. The lowlands in various
portions of Illinois, Iowa and Mississippi are over
flowed.
The river fell about three inches at Cairo to-day
The Gauge reads 4s feet and six and one-half
,cnths. The Ohio River was reported falling fast
nj Shawncetown and Paducah. and rising from
Evansville up II is thought that the Mississippi
Rivcr has reached about its highest point, but
the heavy rise from above may cause IL 20 rise
AGAIN. or materially check its decline. The Illinois
Central and Mobile and Ohio roads began running
trains regularly.
Only mcagrc details Of the floods in Arkansas
have hccn received. Al Batesvillc the White
River rose thirty-two feet in twcnty-four hours,
and all the lower part OF tho town was Hooded
Tho depof and freight houss Of the Iron Mountain
Railroad are two feet under water. 4he dcstruc-
ton 10 property at Black Rock was heavy. The
wafer stands six feet deep in the hotels and busi-
ness places Orders TO remove all the cars from
the Iron Mountain yards 10 Newport were given.
No trains have reached there since Tuesday nlgh'.
The news from the interior towns Is that all the
streams are high. and that large number ot
bridges have been washed away. No trains nave
reached there from Fort Smith since Monday, and
on all the roads traffic is badly delayed Inc Ar
kansas River rose rapidly at Pine BUN,
cndangerng the Government dykes.
The rainfall of the last three days has been
from two TO three inches over the country ying
west of the Mississippi TO the Indian territory
and south Of the Ozark range, and from TWO To
five inches between the Ohio and Cumberland
valleys The river at Memphis is three-tenths
above the great rise of lss2 and one-tenth pc-
low that Of 1857, the highest on recoru'
40 trains have reached Little Rock from Fort
Smith since Monday. and il is impossible 10 SAY
uhcn travel will bc resumed The Arkansas
River rose over twenty feet at the mouth OF the
Mulberry on Tuesday, and railroad bridge cross
inc the latter stream was carried away Inc iron
Mountain Railroad north OF Little Rock and the
cotton belt north of Pine BLUM suffered severely
from washouts and lost bridges, and trains were
abandoned.
Last night crcvassc was threatened in thr
Icvcc oppositc the Eureka Hotel directly in front
If Arkansas City The evee began to slide. and
Il, rcnuircd a long hard struggle to save 1t. \
LARGO supply of sandbags at hand, however.
and bv using them literally the break was
stoppcd aud the place strengthened Arkansas
City is not completely submerged. The water
filled the bitches and low places and IN some
places was a foot and a half deep. IL passed of
into the baSous below the town. and in the past
twelve hours the rise has been slight. From Clay
and Boggs bayous the water passes into the
BAYOU Mason and on to Louisiana. Captain wells.
prcsidcnt of the Tensas Lcvccs District. to-day
cxprrsscd the opinion that Tcnsas Basin will not
he submerged from the Sappington crcvasse
The Mississippi Valley Railroad below Harris
ton was flooded by heavy rain, several huhdr'd
yards being entirely submerged. On the Ii''e
j" road the bridge over Coles Creek has oeeil
washed out of line. Heavy rains have fallen all
over Central and Southwestern Mississippi
The entire coal fleet at Natchcz broke loose from
moorings in Lst nights storm The steamer
Alarm succeeded in saving fifteen barScs OF the
coal 49, . Il; ,
At Ncw-O Orleans the river at n. m was sixteen
feet and thrce-tcnths at 40 IL was sixteen iert
nine inches and at > 80 at seventeen iect.
II then rccedcd TO sixteen feet eisht lhchcs where
!, ra,o;ned iii late tonight. This SIN inches
above the record of other years, and the water
went over the levces all along the city 'front.' at
every depression low place. ana soon nooucd
,hs st,ccts and sidewalks of Il large part OF the
cty' The greatest damage was that sustained
hv merchants who had sugar stored IN the bonded
,,,rehnusc i'm Old Icvcc-st The overflow took
,no., ,roplc by surprise though all who had
business on the lcvcc made preparations for 1t To
thc extent of removing their goods to safe quarters
brcok in the icycc occurred nt the Hatch Place,
,ear Uorycv's Canal but it only reached width
nf four feet when il discovered and closed
The Icvcc at Sharp's Place. five miles above
Grctna. where there was serious crcvassr some
,nars oon oooin created anxiety, as il showed
signs of weakening. and force worked all night