The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-04-22
Inundating Thousands Of Acres of Val
liable Land.
Will Result in Entirely Submerging
the Town of rlayOrsville, County
Seat of the COunty-Every Planta-
ton South of the YaZOO River Will
be Put From Ten to Twenty Feet
Under Water.

GREENVILLE (Miss), April p. -
There was another break in the levee
on the Mississippi side at Shipland, or
The Promised Land" levee at 10
o'clock this morning, forty miles by rail
south of Greenville. The break will
cover 10000 acres of land near the
flood, and will add to the volume of
water already covering most of the
lands in it's vicinity. The levee is ten
feet high, and the break is fully 300
feet wide. There was a foot on the
inside of the levee when it gave way.
The break will entirely submerge
Mayorsvile, the county seat of the
county, a town of 400 people. The town
is situated twelve miles north of the
break. From Mayorsville south to the
Yazoo River every plantation in lssa-
quena and two thirds of those in
Sharkey, besides a number of others in
Yazoo and Warren Counties, will be
put under water from ten to twenty
feet deep.
While this section was in large
measure already overlooked, there were
hundreds of farmhouses and cabins and
numerous ridges and mounds and
hastily erected scaffoldS which still af-
forded protection to man and beast
These are now being rapidly abandoned
and terror reigns.
QUINCY THREATENED.
QUINCY Ull), April 21.-The Missis-
sippi River at this point is steadily rls-
ing The steamer Harry Hook rescued
six families whose homes in the bot
toms north of the city were surrounded
by water At Warsaw, ILL.,, the Missis-
sippi has passed the eighteen-foot mark
and people are now leaving portions of
the districts protected by the levees.
At Keithburg, ILL.,, the river is now at
its highest point for several years, and
the condition of the bottom lands farm
ers is pitiful.
SITUATION ABOUT NEW ORLEANS.
NEW ORLEANS, April 21.-People
here are still greatly alarmed over the
flood situation. The scenes along the
levee are picturesque. Thousands of
feet of wharf space has gone under
water, and in many portions freighting
on the Ievees is attended with diff
culties
Slowly the water has crept up until
it has menaced merchandise and ship
pers have had their hands full trying
to keep their goods dry.
At many points water is seeping
through the levees to a considerable ex-
tent, and from Carrollton to the bar
racks forces Of men are constantly en-
p,oyed in sacking and revetting to pre-
vent the corrosive influences Of the
water.
There is of course great consolation
in the fact that thus far all the levees
have held and that the brave fight of
four weeks is being maintained from
enc to the other But people are asking
each other how long this fearful strain
is to last, and whether or not in the
end all this work is to be found to
have been in vain.
At nearly every point on the banks
of the old MeSchacebe rises were noted,
and in the Fifth District the rise was
time 1t is scarcely to be believed that
the sorely tried Fifth District can stand
the strain much longer, and in the
meantime the lower districts are be
ginning to catch the force of the ire
mendous wave
Here in New Orleans the situation is
almost as unc2nfortab BILE as it very well
could be; and yet there is no chance
that it will not be much more uncom-
Portable a week hence unless some of
fourche districts burst their bonds.