The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-03-31
FEARFUL DESTRUCTION.
Vast Regions Of Fertile Laud viii >oon
re Under Mater.


Memphis. Tenn. March 70 There are
now three breaks in the leVers that
protect the Mississippi delta from the
waters 0f the river one l~ srNrUal
miles below Grrenyillc, Miss at Way
side, which Is l ,su0 feet Wide Dup W
miles north of GrepuVille, which s .pnu
feet wide and becoming deeper and
longer as the water Tushrs through u
The third occurred at AN early hour
ms morning seven miles north ut
point opposite Arkansas city and az
last reports the strcam was Hs wide as
a house At the middle crcVassc the
floods from the north have already
Joined forces with these waters and to-
gether thcy arv inundatlng the country
southwards The upper waters win
reach the lower pr'Vdssr Tonight. and
united. the ihrr, Hoods viii. with hourly
| Increasing force and volume. rush over
the country and be- finally thrown back
into the main river at III" mouth NJ the
Nazou, few miles north nj NiCksburg.
| The whole territory from hc main
river east 10 these streams VIII hc, FOR
the most part. under water within Is
hours,
The regions marked for destruction
Is probably 100 mites long and from 70
tu 70 miles wide The country Is AS FER
tile as any In the country. frccnVillr
Is In danger, n the lcvcr In front ~
GreenNillr should break no man can
conceive what the loss to life and prop
erty would he. Railroad CommuniCa-
tton has already been cut In places and
before tomorrow night the Georgia
railroad running east from Grecnvllle
viii be flooded.
Probably 10000 people are working
with desperation born ~ despair To
save their homes and property. The
whole machinery of the state and the
| Illinois Central railroad is being
brought into play. II Is currently re-
ported Tonight that the lcycc In front
Of Latonia Circle. Ark,, has broken. II
this should h. true, and most probably
] II Is correct. 10000 acres of fertile cot
ton land viii he Hooded by morning
News has reached Memphis through n
| telegram from Captain VI. Cheek, ~
the steamer Kate Adams. that at an
early hour this morning the levee near
stokes landing, four miles above
! Huntington. on the Mississippi side
gave way The water from this break
will reach the yazuo and Mississippi
valley tracts at SCOTS station. n
miles south OF Roscdale and also at
MoOre's station un the Huntington
branch. The width ~ the crcvasse can
not he ascertained, hut the worst is
| wv ltNfF Alittf lNi UllifN Ia
| considered rather weak.
The river is stationary At Memphis
tonight, the gauge indicating S6.2 feet
| This stationary condition. instead of
the usual fall. Is thought To have been
/ brought about by the rainfalls in the
North. For the same reason II is pre-
| dicted that there will probably he n
slight rise in the river at Memphis
during the ensuing ~ hours. Al Hell
ena. a rise Of but two-tcnths ~ foot
In the ~ hours ending to-day is record
| ed. Al Arkansas city. instead Of n
considerable rise. a fan ~ two-tenths of
foot is Indicated This fall In the
river AT that point is attributed to the
| fact that the breaks In the Arkansas
| lcVte above Arkansas city have afford
I'd an outlet for "A big volume Of water.
| which would otherwise have swollen
the volume within the river channel
| proper,
The river at Arkansas city Is 81 feet
above danger line At GreenVille. Miss.
a similar fall Of two-tenths OF "A foot Is
Indicated The fall here is attributed
to breaks IN the levee on the Mississippi
| side above Groenvill".
News received here AT 10 o'clock to-
night confirms the report that "A break
| of immense proportions occurred at \
| O'Clock Tonight NJ Stokes plantation.
| la Bolivar county, seven miles south ~
the Perthshifr break. four miles below
| Gunnison and few miles above Rose
| dale The creyasse Is In an immense leVsc
and the water win Join with that NJ the
| Perthsbirr break and add greatly to
| the distress The last break is 50 situ-
ated that the water flowing through II
| added Ia that nf the Perthshirr Gre
/ vase. will inundate an immens" terri
1 tory, and will soon stop the trains ON
the Yazoo and Mississippi valley lines
| and also on the southern.
| Washington. March 10.-Thc weather
| bureau to-day issued the following spe-
cial river bulletin. During the past ~
hours the ohio. Cumberland. Tennessee
! and Arkansas rivers have fallen slowly
| and the Red river has risen. The Upper
/ Mississippi from ST. Paul tn Dubuque
has risen slightly and IN about up to
| the danger line at La Crusse. The Mis-
| sissippi has fallen slightly from keo-
| WI 7" Cairo and risen from Helena Ia
New DrlearS. except n light fall Mt
| Arkansas City. due to a crcvasse near
.t .. o. O.. ~ .,uust tn- danger iin~
from Cairo To- New orleans aud from
| Memphis to Arkansas city n above the
! extrern. high water mark Of many pre-
/ viuus years Serious breaks in the
| l.vees have occurred within the past ~
hours ~ Australia. stop Landing and
! Wayside, Miss, The water from these
| crevasses will flow into the Nazoo ha-
I sin and IL h probable that the counties
/ ~ Bolivar. Washington. Issaqu-rna
and Starkey VIII be Hooded Tn. situH-
| ton at Gre-nyilir Miss. h considered
| extremely critical tutil the period ~
| extreme danger from Hoods Ia the Low
/ 81 Mississippi H. passed, "A daily hulle-
tin giving river and rainfall conditions
/ Will bc Issued by the weather bureau.