The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-05-12
A BROKEN IENEE.

| NEW ORLEANS, May ia levee broke
! today at I.akeport, Ark, and the water is
! filling up Black river and the Tensas basin.
! Both are said to be low and able to hold
| water. AT O'Clock the break was 200 feet
wide aud was increasing hourly.
A dispatch from Greensville, Miss, SAYS
! that at noon the break was 700 feet wide
and that the prospects are that Arkansas
! City, Ark, viii be under water by night,
! as it is said that the levee in front OF the
| city cannot hold.
| MEMPHIS. Tenn. May 1.-The levee
! broke this morning on Tensls Front at
| Lakeport, twelve miles below Greenville,
and on the next place below, Sunuyside
landing. The crevasse was 200 feet wide
when he first news came here from Green
vile, Miss, at 10:30 O'Clock this forenoon
| The leyee was constructed during the
winter season. It's breaking means the
flooding of the lower portion OF Chicoto
county, Ark, in which county the cotton
production annually averages p, 900 bales
The back portion of the county has al
ready been flooded by water out of the
! lower Arkansas passing out over the
county and backing mp from the rear
| The breaking OF the levee may also flood
the upper portion of Carroll parish, La a
| rich coUton-p producing region lyug in the
Tensas basin between the Mississippi
river and Bayou Macon. The overdowed
land will not be relieved OF the water in
, time to make a cotton crop this year. Bus
mess circles are agitated over the matter
Parties from above this city today inter-
ested III cotton plantations report large
areas under water up about Cenetttal
island aud around Bradiey's, twenty miles
or more above this city. It means no crop
of cotton for the land flooded. aud nearly
all land subject o inundation is now under
water up that way. The outlook is not
II
rise Is expected to continue for two or
three days yet. We!i-posted observers be-
leve that ii will reach The level of extreme
high water, and may break the record \
slight decline has set in at Cairo. The
level thereis now three feet sc3nt below he
highest known record. The lower Ohio
river Is forty feet deep. and its decline
viii he very SLOW Tor some time to cone.
Meantime the water continues to flow
across the upper portion OF the -. Francis
basin aud Is fast covering that fine coun-
try. At Nicksburs today - 6 feet is reg
iStered on the gauge, a rise Of about four
feet within a week The levees along the
entire GHZoo front continue firm, AID will
doubtless hold against the water The
Arkansas SIDE. however Is Ia jeopardy.
and il l. feared that much damage will re-
salt from the fools flowing over tillable
lands.
ARKANSAS CITY, Ark, May 1.-THE
levee> are la good condition b0,h here ana
Immediately below. The gauge registered
forty ieet tonight, JUST one foot be-
low nigh water mark. Tue bacAWater i
rising rapidly IN Tie town and Is encroach
ing on the plantations above the CITY
Within forty eight hours there viii be
very little dry land along the river front
near this place Il ports irora tie cum
swampS are that the water there IS
stationary The weather Is t-lrealeaing.
The outlook l. that the water WI msiu
over the country so long tlls season thaJ
no crops eau ee gTown. The people are
already impoverished bF the floods II
previous years, and Ia maaS Instances are
almost destitute Ii WAS with difficulty
mat they succeeded IN morrSagjnG their
..tHd> 10 secure advance, J8Is year, aua
now THAT the hood has come, greac'uesgI-
tuition VIII prevail.
kEOhUk. Ia, May 1.-THE Nississ ppi
river y tonight fourteen feet above iow
water mark. aud the dweilesS ia the low
lands axe again alarmed. Fears are en-
ier51juei that the predictions cl the ..reat-
est flood IN years wlil he verified.