The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-04-03
NEW POINT OF DANGER
FLOOD SITUATION NOW MOST GRAVE
NEAR AUSTIN, MISS.
Water from the st. Francis Basin
Rushing Against the East shore
and ImperiIing the Levees.
CEASELESS WORK At HELENA
NECESSARY TO SAVE THE BELEA-
GUERED CITY FROM DISASTER.
Railroads Rushing Sacked Sand Into
the Place and the People Work.
ing Night and Day.
GREENVILLE IS STILL SAFE
But WATER Is FIVE TO TEN FEET
DEEP IN MANY OTHER PLACES.
Worst Yet to Come When the Flood
from the North Reaches the south
danger mt st. Louis.
Railroads Rushing Sacked Sand Into
the Place and the People Work.
ing Night and Day.
But WATER Is FIVE TO TEN FEET
DEEP IN MANY OTHER PLACES.
Worst Yet to Come When the Flood
from the North Reaches the south
danger mt st. Louis.

MEMPHIS. Tenn, April 2.-The flood
situation has once more become acute from
a point few miles above Austin, Miss,
as far down as the first break at Perth
shire Miss. and a crevasse in this line of
levees would not be surprising. The pres
sure on the levee is brought about by the
waters of the St. Francis basin, which is
here congested between the levees in front
of Helena. There is no ievee the Ar
kansas side down to Sans Souc, to point
above Helena. a distance of a hundred
miles, and il is at Austin that the levee
system on each side Of the river begins
and goes to the passes below New Or
leans. The waters are now so high in the
ST. Francis basin that the current rushes
from the west and cuts along the east
shore levee for miles and several kilograms
have been received from near Austin to-
day stating that the situation is most
grave. Boats have been requested to run
on slow bells and laborers are constantly
STRENGTHENING the embankments. A ere
vase at Austin would inundate strip of
fertile country in Tunica cnd Coahama
counties twenty miles wide and sixty miles
long
Reports from Helena, Ark. show that
the river there is still slowly rising and it
is almost marvellous that the levees at
Helena have not been swept away. Thou
sands of people have been working day
and night and their energies are SEEM
ingIy exhaustless. The Missouri Pacific and
the Cotton-belt roads have rushed train
load after trainload of sacked sand into the
beleagured city and still stand ready TO
help the Helena people. The railroads have
rendered great assistance 10 the leVee
boards. The Illinois Central. Missouri Pa
cific and Cotton-belt Railways have de-
voted all their great forces 10 the work
of saving the country, and that without
charge.
Gree. willie is on an island and Rosedale.
Miss, is in water from five to ten feet
deep. The funds OF a bank in Rosedale
have been moved to the second story.
Back of Rosedale and throughout the low
er and middle delta country everything is
under water. In many villages no COM
munication with the outside world has been
had for several days.
The threatened rise at Cairo is now a
certainty. The Mississippi above Cairo and
the Cumberland and Tennessee rivers will
send a great food into the already filled
ST. Francis basin and from Cairo to Mem
phis II is feared that the deluges will
mark a high-water figure that will be with
out precedent. At Memphis the river is
steadily falling tonight.
The calls for assistance from numerous
points along the river are becoming more
and more frequent at headquarters of the
relief committee in Memphis. The commit
tee is in receipt of information TO the ef-
feet that there are some fifteen twenty
white people, principally women and chill
dren in great distress at point near st.
Clar's Landing. about fifteen miles up the
river, which is about six miles from
Mound City. These people are located in
houses. the lower floors of which are over
flowed and they have no food and no means
of obtaining it, Arrangements were made
to send supplies.