The Forrest City times., 1897-04-23
FOR THE SIXTH Time!
The Dreadful Alarm of "Leyee
Broke" Again Repeated
IN THE YAzO0 MISSISSIPPI DELTA.
The Levee at Shipland Landing, Below
Lake Providence, La, Gives Way,
and the Consequences Must
be Disastrous.
River bulletin.

WASHINGTON. April 22.-The follow
Ing changes in the rivers lin feet and
tenthsl have occurred:
Risen-Keokuk. OIL; St. Louis, OF; New Or
leans, OIL
Fallen-Cairo. or Helena Ark, OIL: Kansas
City, 0S; Lacrosse, OIL; Dubuque, 04; Memphis
OIL
Above the danger line and rising Keokuk.
l6; New Orleans 80
Above the danger line and faIling-Cairo Al.
Helena. Ark. lOl; Arkansas City. 7.3; Kansas
City, LIB; Dubuque, LIZ; Memphis, 81 sta
tionary at Vicksburg, 1917.
JACKSON. Miss, April 22.-The Green
vile correspondent of the Associated
Press wires as follows:
AT 9:30 a. M, the dreadful alarm cry
of ''Levee broke" was repeated for the
sixth time in the Mississippi
delta, when the huge 1s-foot levee at
Shipland Landing, Issaquena county,
suddenly crumbled away, letting in
with mighty rush and roar, the pom
derous torrent of the great river.
Shipland is on Promised Land planta-
ton, about two miles below Lake
Providence, La. At the time of the
break backwater from the upper
crevasses was already against the levee
ten or twelve inches deep, and many
high places around were still I'M
covered. Many of the plantations
upon which partial crops might
have been made must now share
the fate of the rest. and in all
of lower Issaquena, Sharkey and
Yazoo counties, where there was foot
of water before, there will now be
three feet or more. Places which have
heretofore been Ravens of refuge for
live stock and human beings will now
have to be abandoned and in a few
days there will scarcely be dry spot in
all the county south of this break and
between the levees and the Yazoo
in the region affected depends upon the
question whe Their the people are pro-
vided with boats In addition to the
disastrous local consequences, it will
also have the effect of raising the water
in the Yazoo river and keeping that
stream up at it's mouth to such an ex-
tent as to retard the outflow Of flood
water in the upper Delta country.
Camping On the Weak Spots
New ORLEANS, April 22.-The gauge
rose LIZ at one time Tuesday, and the
impression along the Louisiana line, in
view of the subsequent fall, is that the
flood wave came on a fair day, found
the people prepared and passed on,
nevertheless, the crest of the flood
wave has not yet been here offci-
ally, and the river may go higher. The
work of the past is as nothing to that
going on now. Planters and farmers,
laborers and merchants, have aban-
doned everything else and are camping
on the weak spots, nursing them with
tender care and holding them against
a weight and mass of water which is
almost inconceivable. More material is
going out now than ever before, and the
activity is superhuman. Miles of new
work of box levees, of piles of filled
sacks and earth have sprung up in
every section. Railroads are carrying
men and material free, and no money
has been spared by the levee boards or
the people. Still all the new work is
but temporary, only calculated to hold
the flood from crossing the levee line,
and when the water falls nearly the
entire system will need substantial re-
pair, if not rebuilding.
Steadily Rising at Quincy.
QUINCY, H., April The Missis-
sippi river at this point is steadily ris-
ing. The steamer Harry Hook rescued
six families whose homes in the bot
toms north of the city were surrounded
by water.
A. VyarSavy I'll tho M;SSisSippi haS