The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-03-20

WASHINGTON, March 14.-The following
changes in the rivers lin feet and inchesl
have occurred: Risen at st. Louis, SO;
Memphis, OIL Helena, OF; Vicksburg, O. q
New Orleans, 0.2; Cincinnati, 10; Louis
vile, 49, Nashville, 90. Fallen: At
Cairo, 0.4. The rivers are above the danger
line "a at Cairo, "a at Memphis, IL at
Helena, 6.S at Vicksburg, 35 at New
Orleans.
THE OHIO.
CAIRO, Ill.,, March 14-The Ohio river
fell three-tenths of foot last night and is
still falling here slowly. Late rains ni
this section are supposed to have all run
out by'this time and the rise coming from
above will not materially check the fall
here. The river i'll the upper Mississippi
unless very high, will not affect the staga
OF the water here or below, the Ohio being
SO high will cause back water in the Miss
issippi, and this water will run out through
the low lands of Missouri. Trains from
the north are all running, and also from
he south on the illinois Central and Mo-
bile and Chicago. A wreck on the Illinois
Central between Golden and Makanda has
delayed trains some on that road, bat they
expect to have everything going by noon.
Weather cloudy and cold.
AT NEW ORLEANS.
New ORLEANS, La, March 14.-The gov
eminent gauge at 1880 a. m. reads is feet
Cloths, fall of 4-10ths from the highest
point reached yesterday afternoon. The
streets this morning are free of overflow
water along the river front except at st.
Peters street, and there the flow will soon
b. stopped. 1t rained slowly all night and
is drizzling this morning
A northeast storm prevails. The river
went down to l2H feet but is again swell
ing, and water is now running over at
Bienville, Cont and St. Peters streets but
the overflow is not enough to cause much
inconvenience. A telephone message re-
ceived from Nita plantation says that the
crevaSse there is now 100 feet wide and
that there is a wide batture in trort of it;
the crevasse will be closed by the Missis
sippi Valley railroad. Several small breaks
in the old levee in that vicinity aggregat-
ing fifty feet are also reported.
LEvEE BROKEN.
The levees at A. Bourgeois &c Sons Nita
plantation, sixty five miles above this city
on the New o. leans side of the river, broke
at IL o'clock last night and in less than
two hours the break was twenty-five feet
wide. The levee was new one and had
| become soft Water from the cravasse
| will do but little damage, as it will flow in
TO Lake Ponchartrain.
A GLOOMY OUTLOOK.
WASHINGTON, March 14.-The rain storm
of the past four days in the lower Missis-
| sippi valley has practically ended. so that
water dangerous to the lower valley is now
| in the Mississippi or its tributaries There
are no encouraging prospects for any por-
ton of the lower Mississippi valley. The
stage of the water at New Orleans is now
three-tenths of foot above the highest
ever known and last night
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has fallen slightly at Cairo, but sharp rises
at ST. Louis and particularly Cincinnati,
Louisville and Nashville make it evident
that the recess ion at Cairo is only temp
orary and the thence southwark river must
continue at its present high stage for at
least a week. Although the stage of the
water at Cairo and Helena is about four feet
below the extreme floods in the past, yet
the prospects are very decided at even these
places the greatest flood ever known will
obtain during the seven days. AT Vicks-
burg the river is one half foot below the
& eat flood of 1882 but a very high stage of
water in lower A kansas renders it certain
that there will be no relief in Vicksburg,
unless indeed the whole country should be
flooded. Warnings given by the signal
Office several days since that all stock
and all other movable property in the
lower Mississippi valley should be removed
to localities above the extreme flood level
are reiterated. Ordinary prudence de-
mands under present prospects that ex-
IRENE flood conditions should everywh
be provided against.
THE TEMPERATURE NORTH.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, March 14.-The S n
bureau here has received dispatch from
Washington stating that the thermometer
in the States of Illinois, Michigan and In
diana will fall to 2 degrees above zero by 8
o'clock tomorrow morning.
BRIDGE CARRIED AWAY.
JACKSON, Miss, March 1.-The fine iron
bridge, several hundred feet in length,
yer bayou Pierre, on the Natchez,
Jackson and Columbus railroad, between
Jackson and Harristown, was washed
away by the flood last night. Pearl river,
at this place. is higher than ever before
known. The city toll bridge, iron struc-
ture, and bridge of the Alabama and Vicks-
burg railroad are safe SO far. 1t is still
raining.