The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-03-21
EngIne Walers.

P1dueah, and after loading witt
mber, sacks and supplies, lef
the threatened district below
tAe Arkansas river, in charge o
engineer Sears. The consensus O.
opinion here, Is that the levees OF
the Mississippi side will be able tc
withstand the pressure of the
great food. The splendid equip
ment of the Mississippi Valley
railroad Is contributing in a nate
rial degree to the preservation of
levees in the Yaaoo delta. Moth
ing is being left undone by the
railroads to maintain the levees
and prevent disaster.
A special to the Appeal from
Newport, Ark, says: "Rivers com
menced running over the levees at
10 o'clock last night, and the whole
town except Front street is now
four inches to two feet under We
Ter. Business is entirely suspend
ed. The White and Black rivers
commenced falling this afternoon,
and it is hoped the worst is over.
The damage to adjacent country
is immense, The oil trough coun-
try containing 10000 acres of eul-
tivated land, is now under water
from SIX inches to two feet The
rise was sudden and without warn
ing. Fences and every thing NOV
able are gone. The country south
Of Newport, which embraces some
of the finest farms in the state, is
also inundated The loss in New
port is very heavy, regardless of
the loss of business"
A Helena special to the Appeal
says: The river rose four inches
during the last twenty-four hours,
and is now four feet below high
water mark. Mr.. J. B. Miles, an
authority on river matters, says:
The present indications are that
the river viii go to or over high
water of 1SS6-fortz=eieht feat
one inch-at this place, and will {
probably be at least one foot above l
that at Friar's Point, Miss" {
Below the old town the water t
viii be but little above 1856. The !
Arkansas river is now more than t
twenty inches higher than ever c
known, and the levees on the Ar {
kansas side viii have TO give way +
when the fall reaches New Or u
leans. Many viii suppose the dan D
ger Is over, but the overflow into n
the Tensas swamp will return at I
the mouth of the Red river in two i
or three weeks and with the addi- a
tional water here will raise below i
Baton Rouge until there are one T
or more crevasses. The east side i
of the river mast be held until the +
west side gives way i
Washington, March 1.-THE /
following changes in the rivers, IN f
feet and tenths, have occurred:
Risen-at St Louis, Sc; Memphis,
OIL; Helena, OF; Yicksburg, 0. 2;
New Orleans, OF; Cincinnati, 10;
Louisville, 43; Nashville, 90;
fallen-at Cairo, 0.4 The rivers +;
are above danger line: 81 at Cairo, :
"a at Memphis, IL at Helena, 6.S ,
at yicksburg, So at New Orleans. f
New Orleans, La, March Is
The situation here slightly i'm L
proved to-day. The river stood /
at sixteen and seyen-tenihs feet all \
day, half a foot over the highest I
mark known until this year, but Y
somewhat below Thursday. The
commissioner Of public works, t
however, had begun the building q
OF a new leYee two feet high at g
tho low points on the river front G
between Esplanade and Cont and a
out the water. It was I
troublesome only at Gerald street, Il
where it annoyed the Louisville G
and Nashville railroad by food t
ing its tracks. The new levee will n
be continued froi q. day to-day +
along the entire fro. 1T Of New Or "
leans. The lowest T 'oint on it viii o
be eighteen and a llalf feet and n
viii allow of nearly ts 70 feet more :,
rise before the water flows over n
into the streets. t.
The Louisiana lottery company h
followed up its gift of 100000 to h
the city yesterday with on e ofslOO,- Il
600 to the state to-day, tn, money
to be used in holding AID repair
ing the Ievees. The che ok was p,
returned by the governor, who ex- f E
pressed the opinion that the state II
ought not to receive any gift from 2,
he lottery company, as the latter K
would come before the legislature +"
It its next session, asking for an F
extension of its charter It is CO CO
that the donation win be c
endered the district leyee boards K
r.