The morning news., 1897-04-03
uFL ENA FAST LOSING HOPE.
..vrrS ABOVE AND BELOW THE
CITY FAST GIVING WAY.

pocl,water Now Attacking the Levee
-, the Hubbard Place Fros" the
po,r and Cutting on the supply
as Drv Dirt with Which to
strourthen the EIubanISment-Thc
pon,s Mt KyIc's store and the One
- Austin About TO Give Way.
15.,,na Ark. April 2.-The river rose
.n.o tentbs Of an inch in the twenty-four
ro,,r. ending AT o'clock this morning,
ard is stn rising.
The three-foot rise at st. Louis yester-
s,y and q rise of two-tenths at Marked
Tr.e carry doom to the people who have
hoon boping for the river to begin to halt.
,rh. 1svee at the Hubbard place, eight
.uuos below here, will probably break be-
g,ro many hours Already five incipient
hrooks have been closed by the desperate
,u,rl,ere and now that the back water is
ottaclzing in from the rear, cutting off the
-,,,ri,. of dry dirt, the situation is still
- honafuI There is no lack of men and
p,ol,e at that point. 1t is simply inability
- secnre sufficient quantities of dry dirt
~ t;r,a Help was sent down from here
M NJ r1srIje steamer Maude came up at
-, apd will return this afternoon with
frasb crew Of men for Capt. Brame at
Vastoyer. His men have been so con-
etantlv at work that they are worn out.
ME break at Westover is widening, now
being over 800 feet in width.
rumor has just reached here that the
Nissisippi levee ct Kyle's store, three
miles above here, is about to give way and
that the Austin, Miss, leVee is in very
nracarious condition. Both points catch
The force of a big current and are bound
10 go if the rise continues, which seems
to be inevitable.
county. are known to have been drown
ed while fleeing from the rising waters in
White river bottom.
on the whole the situation is very dis
tressing.
New Orleans, La, April 2.-The second
break in the Lower Louisiana levee sys-
TEN occurred this morning on Bayou la
Fourche. This afternoon, the break had
Widened to 100 feet, and there is no hope
that it will be closed. The break is thirty
six miles below Thibodaux, where the
levees are neither large nor modern.
In that section there are a large num-
Der Of truck farmers, who have well cul-
tlNdltl ana GALEtultly ltA Tic 4dlitASs ~ -
quite probable that these unfortunate peo-
pie Will suffer severely because the Gre
vase comes too late for the water to run
off in time for them to make another
crop
The situation at New Orleans to-day, In
spite of the brimming fun river, is not
discouraging. The river is rising slowly,
and it will continue to rise for eight or
ten days more. The high water here is
81 Of no rppnr1 n 1Sl3
The authorities are on the alert, and have
prepared to meet any emergency. New
Orleans can stand a foot and half more
water and escape a flood.
Jackson, Miss, April 2-The only change
in the situation in the delta is for the
worse The water is still pouring through
the breaks and encroaching upon places
heretofore thought above the danger line.
Plantations, never before under water,
now are submerged. The streets of Green
vile are now navigable only by boats.
The flood from above having met and
joined forces with that from below, near.y
Loo families in Greenville are surrounded
by water, although some portions of the
little city are still dry. The levees there
sdll hold, however.
Citizens of Huntingdon telegraphed the
governor this morning to send fifty tents
at once. They were forwarded on the first
train, but will have to make several miles
Of the journey by skiff
The state is doing all in its power to as
sst its delta people, but from the depict
ed condition of her treasury can offer lit
lie else than the labor of her 500 able-b bod
Ted convcts
Thousands OF delta negroes are now
homeless and will remain so until the
hoods subside, but planters are feeding
ana caring for their hands as far as possi-
j. F. Price of this city, returned this
morning from Lefevre, which is in a bor-
oer delta county. He reports that the wa
ttr from the Mississippi has not yet reach
ed there, but the small streams are all
oNeri!oWeo on their own account. The bot
tom lands are under water but blowing
ana planting are going right along on all
the higher places and even down to the
waters edge.
st. Louis, Mo, April "A special from
cairo, ILL.,, states that information was
brought to Cairo by a commercial traveller
mat relief boat yesterday found the
poIles OF a young girl and aged woman
anu enid, in a flooded house, on the Mis-
syurl side of the river, at a point about
'"'Ily miles south of New Madrid. The
pcople mad either starved to death or died
IIlsnt The water was at the caves
attic. '''''' ~ ''0
negro and a white man are also re-
poIteu as having been starved to death
M me platoon of a temporary refuge in
lhe same locality.