Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1897-04-03
len THOUSAND MEN
AN ARMY OF WORKERS on TTzss
MISSISSIPPI LEyEES.
Angry Waters Are Pouring T,,rou.h
II Number of CrevnSses-Heurs
of Intense ANXIETY.

Memphis, March 29.-The river aefol
IN the Vicinity of Greenville Miss. i
alarming. The reported break at Maysi,le
lilhe miles soutn OF that city, is fully CON
| III i1leo' ana the latest reports are TO the
erect that water is pouring through q
creVasse 800 yards in width with tremen-
| oous Iofce. But the most startling news
| reached Memphis at o'clock this even
! ing. A telegram from Porthshire, IS miles
! noFth OF Greenville, states that a break
| nas occurred in the main levee there
| Several trains loaded with lumber and
| SACKS OF sand have been hurried by de-
| spatch to the scene. If the break at
Ferthshlre assumes anything like the pro-
portions of the crevasse at Maysde the
destruction will be enormous.
Zen thousand men line the levees be-
tween Memphis and Vicksburg, watching
ana working with a desperation most pit
lable Many of the inhabitants of the
delta nave corralled their animals on
hlgh strips of land and moved their fam
ll1es out of dangers reach The river
at Memphis continues to fall slowly, the
gauge tonight registering 362 feet
a dlspatch from Gunnison, Miss. says
that a break in the levee is momentariy
expected at Sunnyside. One hundred
white men We're dispatched OH a special
traln from this city to the scene The
negroes at Camp Congo were offered a
dollar a day and all expenses to lend a
helplng hand, but with one exception the
offer was refused. There is much indig-
nation among the citizens at this action
OF the negro refugees.
Bringing in Refugees.
Helena, Ark, March 29-Today has
been the most critical day in the history
OF the city. The river has been steadily
rising, and stands tonight at 500 feet.
Tonight the wind was abated somewhat
but watching and working still goes on.
The government rescue boat Titan arriv- |
ed at 10 o'clock this morning with 81
refugees from Knowlton. Captain Nolty |
OF the Titan reports another break about |
300 yards from Wood Cottage landing. |
Which is a mile and a half above knowl- |
ton. This break floods the entire county. |
and as that section is more thichly set |
tied than Modoc Avenue front, the loss
and suffering will be greater.
The levee at Knowlton is also in dam
ger, and Captain Nolty adheres to his
opinion that it will go to pieces from there
to Laconia, and also that the Iaconia
circle levee will crumble to pieces.
Washington, March 29.-Colonel Giles
pie, president of the Mississippi commits
sion, has telegraphed General Wilson,
chief of engineers from Vicksburg, I'M
der date of yesterday:
Gauges along the river from Mem
ohis to Vicksburg give flood readings
varying from one and one-third to three
-eet above any previously recorded read
ngs. The feeling everywhere is one of
1neasness. All the state levee boards are
battling against the rising floods, regard
ess of cost. AS yet no widely spread
lamage has been reported, though sever
u breaks in levees above Greenville, on
both banks, have occurred. Levees are
seriously strained at all points,
Greenville, Miss, March 29.-A crevasse
occurred last night in Lake Leo, seven
niles south of Greenville on the Missis-
ippi side, through which an immense {
'olume of water is pouring into the | t
Slack and Steele bayou country. The | {
penlnS is So feet wiae. GI4less it 20 | t
re stopped, which is highly improbable /
IL the country west of Deer Creek and | |
he most prosperous part of the Delta s
7ill be overf1oWed south of the Yazoo riv-
r. This break relieved the pressure +
on the GreenvilIe front
Jackson Miss, March ga late dis +
atch from Greenvlle, dated p. M, says
he break at Lake Leo is now 600 feet
tide, and widening. All hope of closing
ne crevasse has been abandoned The
wee along the Greenville front is still {
oldlng, and a superhuman effort is be
lg made to keep it intact. The wealth
conditions are very unfavora Bile the =
I'm now coming down in torrents | !