New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-05-18
POURING THROUGH CREVASSES.
EFFORTS TO CLOSE THE BREAKS IN MlSs1S
SIPPI LEVEES.
rrscr1SG SCORES OF PEOPLE FROM ISLANDS
ABOVE AND BELOW ST. LOUIs-D.S-
COIrPACFD FARMERS.

ABONf NM BEltc" 81 hOSA~ DN~
COURAGED FARMERS.
| w.Orlcans Nav 17-"The Picayune's" Greenville'
Miss. dispatch, says: Nothing new has been heard
from the Panther Forest break on the Arkansas side
to-day, except that the ends OF the crevassc had not
! been tied and The water inundatng almost the
entire country. \ considerable amount OF cattle,
stock and hogs have been drowned. A complete sys-
tom Of lcvec guarding now maintained on this side OF
The vvcr and all lcvees reported in good condition.
The heavy rise in the Arkansas and Mississippi at st.
Louis and Cairo has given some uneasiness here Tor
the future but the engineers OF the Mississippi Levee
Board Of the opinion that our levees are In good
condition and will stand all the water in sight
4 dispatch from Lake Providence say, STATE
Engineer H. b. Thompson left here In "a SKIN AT D
p. m. to-day. An interview with him developed
strong fear, of a deuge in this evee district. Many
valuable promising crops will be destroyed III thi'
parish from the floods In Arkansas. Information
from shreveport says the Red River l. rising rapidly"
The latest advice received from the Gypsy creva.sc
Is the effect that the break continues TO widen az inc
rate Of about ten feet an hour. United states and
state engineers and railway officials will make con-
centratcd effort to close the break. Materials ana
men have been sent from this place. Neither labor
nor expense will be spared to repair the break zen
oral Manager Cook and Division superintendent KING
Of the Mississippi Valley road. and number Of lnos
Central officers at the crevaSse BY day
be on hand. when the work Of closing Will be viSor-
Cusly pressed.
A message received at > O'Clock this morning from
John C. Chanee at La Place. near the Gypsy break
SAYS THE break Is now from 80 TO 10 leet widc'
We have .tartcd cribbing, and it stands very we'll
There is large batture in front Of the break at least
- 900 feet wide The water stands at depth of four
Ia five feet all this bature. except about thir
five feet which Is slough running from the river direct
in lpypp. This channcl IS dDohb
twelve feet deep We need all the assistance We can
get and with heroic efforts hope to close the
break,
= LouIs. MAY 1.-THE crest of the hooa
reached this point about noon to-day with the WAFER
marking 35.5 but the signal service reports hea'S
rains in Kansas last night, and SAYS anoher do""po
will reach the lower Missouri and central Mississippi
,,IIo-. from tho north tonight This will not only
chcck am fall that may set In, but IL VIII cause
another rise and add still water to the immense
volume that Is now rushing down the great sueiiir
and carrying destruction and desolation WIFI " i"o
outlook is gloomy in the extreme
The rise in the Mississippi continues ou' ''o''
slowly beinc scarcely than half an lnch III
hour The damage to crops, etc, IN the Do''"i
,ords crows daily I'm the immense districts up ana
down the stream from here now under water MANY
small bridges are reported carried away ana o'ue'
-lmlla~ damage The steamer ldewid returned l'Vi
trip down the river and reports the rescue Vi UNI"
six familics-2OO personsfrom various isiands oeio"
here. now covered with water
The breaking Of the Madison dyke In Easl 81 LouS
Yesterday threatens to bring on coal famine, WHICH
may .end the price of coal 10 twice it, present hsure'
The coal dealers Of the city keep supply OF iioni
three day, 10 week. hut owing TO the hooi iat "ee,
and tho scarcity of hatcars the Shipment WIS ho'
large Today the coal dealers found that tne euPpn
now on hand could not last more tiah TWO anss a"'
that II coal did not In by wednesday nisht some
,,,,r,o. and notwithstanding plants would be COM
pelled 10 -rn, down. for lack Of fuel.
Alton H. May 11.-Numerous families have been
rescued from the tops Of their hoatins houses os S'
boats specially chartered for the purpose ana me WORK
is being sim continued. so far. no hVes OK human
beings have been lost. but the suffering OF those o''e
frnn, their homes f., intense and to add 10 the mis-
fortune 200 men will be thrown out OF WORK ps inc
compulsory suspension Of the ILLINOIS, "a'S "o'N''
which reports state cannot resume Dnsih'>s lo s'N
months, All the -four mills also have been compeileu
to close Railroad traffic between II. Louis and thS
city has temporarily ceased, the only means oil con
,.,,nce navy belng by water. Fully 10000 acres of
icb farm land, have been flooded and tho crops dc-
str,yed The river has now reached thirty feet ABOVE
low-waer mark, the highest point attained since ioti'
-, ,utoni, Ten. May l7.-"outhwcslern Texas
has becn visited the last twenty four hours by heavy
rain, i'm SOME place, the first for three years Inc
rain fell over An area 800 miles square from BrowS
Vile TO ri rl,o and TO Corpn, thlhn. Inc rahiai'
Wa, Two inches - , I'm, -, s,t,,s,ov
NIGHT, nuN,d a perfect delugc. For miles crops ale
ruin,d More than 200 feet OF santa Fe track has
c,, washed away between this city ahd Purcell l. L.
while nearly every bridge Is gone. Nc tr'ils nave
arrived from the North since NituuaE - , ~,
Marshalltown, Iowa, May l'-Aiter TWO days Oh
fair weather the hardest in,torm OF the season. Desa
fhis afternoon This about completes thc di>couiafe
nIent of Central Iowa farmers. The highways arc
mpassabl, in all direTtions -
rimwood Ncb May Ia terrible tornado passed
near this town last night. O. Cooks dwelling was
torn To pieces and four persons were hurt. ~ Is
feared that many are killed In the country di.Iict,;
ST. Paul MINI, May IA special TO " me DIS
noich- from Pierre, d.. coudburst last nigh
I'D much damage in that city 10 streets ana Duia
ne Train service WAS greatly inerfetd WILL
iJ1,cn rcnoris much damage alTeady done and more
feared from the high water
Montcrlo MAY II ,speclall.-The heaviest rains
over known through Genital lllinoi, continue To lall
rhc one which fcll today ruined hundreds OF acres
,f ub.,t and onta. There has been no corn crop
u,u,,,l In this the greatest corn county or lnlnlS.
and farmers deopairns Of raising crop his
season.