Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-03-31

Thousands upon thousands of families VIII
| be homeless. No losses of human life are
ye. reported. but hairbreadth escapes from
/ the destructive torrents are numerous anu
\ the suffering of the aflicted people is great.
Every lake and stream is out Of its banks
animals. Many thousands of horses, mules
and cattle are being swept away. Homes
and property are gladly abandoned IN me
10 estimate the. amount Of destruction IN
dollars and cents. F.
Every town and village; along the Hazo9
& Mississippi Valley railroad is fun OF
Won;ea 1S and Gs ehIldren are are grouped in squads
alonE tths aeyees in the vicinity Oh the
In the. next two days two-thirds of this
entile valley will be one waste OF water;
lated region, and has fully 100000 inhab-
itsnts.
questioned authenticity confirms the report
| that q break of immense proportions oc-
CURED at o'clock tonight at the Stokes
south of the Perthshire break. four miles
below Gunnison and few miles above
| levee and the water will join with that of
the Perthsfire break and add to the dis
tress of the people of the Bogue. Phaiia
Washington counties. Almost superhunaan
efforts have been used to save the levee in
the section of the break. The leyee board
money nor material, but in vain. The he
roic efforts of the people of the delta have
not been able to prevent one OF the most @
great delta That much is now settled
fact.
levee has broken at Luna, Ark, eight
miles above this city. This report cannot
be authenticated from here tonight, but
the river is falling rapidly and the indica-
tons are of another break.
Helena, Ark, March 30.-A telephone mes.
sage received at 1880 p. m. from the old
town tells of desperate struggle now 60
over, where sloughing of the levee oc-
cursed last week. The heavy wind of Sun
ltvees TO ar. alarming degree, and again to-
night stiff breeze is blowing from the
southeast. There is little chance of saving
the southern portion of this CPhillips) coun-
hundreds of acres of fertile SOIL Will De IN
undated.
just been received here by a special mes
senger that the leyee has broken at Stokes
or Sunny Wild plantation, two and half
miles south % OF Sunnison ; II indd is sald pg g9oa
thing south as far as Rosedale. and 1t is
thought 1t will put the latter place under
four feet of water. There will be great de-
struction of property. This break will put
Gunnison in a very precariouS position,
placing the town hItween two crevasses,
one az Perthshire, -four miles north, and the
under water from one 10 six feet, and the
break south of here will add to this. The
Perthshire break has caused much suffer-
ing and loss of property. The crevasse is
now 405 feet wide. ,.,
Washington. March 30.-The weather bu-
reau to-day issued the special river bulie-
TIM
During the past twenty-four hours the
Ohio, Cumberland, Tennessee and Arkansas
rivers have fallen slowly. and the Red has
risen. The upper Mississippi from ST. Paul
to Dubuque has risen slightly and is above
the danger line at La Crosse. The Missis-
sippi has fallen slightly from Keokuk to
Cairo. and risen from Helena to New Or
leans, except slight fall at Arkansas
City. due to a crevasse near that place. 1t
Orleans, and from Memphis to Arkansas
City is above the extreme high water of
any previous years. During the past twen-
ty-four hours rainfall has occurred in the
respective river basins as follows: Red,
20; Arkansas. 0.5: Cumberland and Ten
nessee, 0.6; central and lower MissisSip-
-pi, OF. From Davenport to st. Louis no
flooding has occurred except on the islands
and lowlands, of which ample warning was
given by the bureau last week. In no case
has water reached the tops of levees in
this district. nor is ii likely to from the
water now in sight. Serious breaks in the
levees have occurred within the past forty
eight hours at Australia, Stop landing and
creyasses will flow. into the Yazoo basin
and it is probable that the counties of Boil
war. Washington, Issaquena and Starkey@
Miss. win be flooded. The situation at
Greenyille, Miss. is considered extremely
critical"