The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-03-30

JACKSON, Miss, March ss.-A spec
iaI from Greenvllle. Miss, says: A Gre
vase occurred last night at Lake Lee,
seven miles south Of Grecnvllle. on the
Mississippi side, through which an ini-
mense volume Of water Is pouring into
the Black and the Steele Bayou country.
The opening Is fiYe hundred feet Wide.
and unless It can be stopped, which S
highly improbable, all OF tho country
west OF Deer Creek and the most fertile
and prosperous in tho Delta will be over
flowed from Arcola south to the mouth
Of the YRzOo river
A later dispatch from GreenyiTle.
dated pm, says the break at Lake Lee
Is now COO feet wide and widening. An
hope OF closing the crevasse has been
abandoned. The leyee along the Green
vile front Is san holding and su-
perhuman effort IS being made TO keep
intact The weather continues very un-
favorable, the rain now coming down IN
torrents.
QUINCY, ILL.,, March 2s-The Mhl5ls-
sippl keeps up its record Of the past
week at this point. and another rise Is
registered making the stage Is feet
above low water mark. Thousands OF
sight Beers line the river banlns and
blufs to SEQ the muddy water which
has submerged all Of the islands and
stretched back over the Missouri bot
toms for a distance of several miles With
only the tops OF trees and partly sub
merged houses visible here and there 70
mark the former places Of abode Of the
thrifty farmer.
Reports from North Of here are very
dlScourOglng and the rain storm which
prevailed Sunday only increased the
fears Of the owners Of land in the leyes
districts.
ALTON, III, March 20.-F1ood condi-s
lions become graVer every hour. Men
were put to work this morning overhaul.
ing all the levee9 protecting hf;her bot-
tom lands.
The railroad companies are putting
their tracks In American and st Charles
bottoms in the best possible condition TO
Withstand floods, for less than twelve
feet more water win bring the stage OF
1882, when the tracks Of all railroads
were submerged between Alton and st,
Louis.
The gauge shows an advance Of tpur
teuthS oe 3 foot in the last tERenty y-tour
hours. The river IS within less than
three feet OF the stage reached In the
middle Of May last year and with nearly
two months OF wet weather anead, me
outlook X gloomy.
Thousands OF dollars have already been
swept away In crop products and Il -
raining AgRth 50 that the pra4rie9 even
back from the river look like lakes and
(ile preparation Of lands for spring crops
Is again deferred.
RosEDALE, Miss, March 29.-At last
two links In the chain Of Mtssisslppl
ievees have snapped. At Wayside, feW
miles south Of Greenville, about mIias
nigfIt serious break occurred, tnundA-
ting many OF the 6nest farms Ia tha
south. The large forest trees went Gown
before this mighty torrent, which poured
aRainst them as grain before che reap
blade, But no Hives were lost AZ
O'clock D. m. to-day another dlsastro1!
breas occurred q few miles west O
Perthshire, near Gunnington. Mss On
the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley railroad q.
/ An also reliably informed that there =
much apprehension felt for bhe hVes; oe
fhe people living east Of the breals, - ttle
fiood viii come upon many OF enem Y tCili1
out warning tonight.