The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-03-22
THE FLOODED REGION.
Tb, sltu.t,on Does Not ImpFovs-Lerses
breaking At several POlhtS-To" OF
MarioA Stricken.

The sItRatiou Does Not lmpFoTe-heTees
nr,aktng AZ several Polhts Town OF
HarioA Stricken.
MEMPHIS. Tenn, March N.-To-
night for the flrst time in many weeks
the Misslssippl river is reported falling
nj Memphis, che gauge reading % feet
against N.1 at I O'Clock this morning.
Several breaks in the levee are known
10 hove occurred. between osceolR, ARK.
aud Memphis. and the fall Of the river
S"re il attributed to these crevas9es
The break at Sans Soucl Is widening
and mad rush OF the waters throuEh
ihs openInE can be heard for miles.
Three additional breaks, all near sAnS
SSucI. are repaired to-day and the SUI
Serjng Of the people In the eastern Ar
kansas will surely be greatly intensI-
fed ,.h =,
Memphis Is about the same as on yes
tsrday. 4 dispatch from Vlekso1iEs
says that the reported creNasse az MO- 10
doc, Ark, near Helena, ts connTneu oy
officers OF the steamer STATE OF hHnS4s, i1 ~.
,vhiCh pnssed there last evening, anu oy
SisnnirSeS received at VlckBburg. The
Ievse al Nodoc has been concldered In
4 bnneleSs condition for several DAYS
The wnter will run into the White river
very fast, and will find It's way BACK
into the Mississippi In a day or tWO.
I,syee men say the effect will be merely
tsnnnorRrY, but to-day n decline is re-
,,ny.ted ~ from one 60 four Inches along
tbs CoRhnI county, Miss. levee, where
tbe struggle against the high water
bos been most desperate, The Kansas
also reported breaks lower down out
these are probably protecuon ieSGSs.
THE officers OF the Kansas say thaI tne
scenes along the shores OF the DIG river
from Memphis south everywhere s.,TW hSS
the gcneral anxiety LAEhts aFe E''sI' ~
Inv alonG the leVee und guards and IN
gneciors are covering every mch OF
Tse river at ViUksburR has risen
thrre INCHES since I R.T1I.i and tO-niEht
registers 46.4, ,,.., a.,
,.,So randy and a stage OF - feet may
bS cTpected before April first II the
levees remain intact. ,.,.,,,,
The break hast night at Modoc i0Wereu
the Wuter along the front OF FLlaE .
Point lve inches, but Will give no ~. IT,
lief 10 the levses and PROPERTY oe'oW
the mouth Of the Arkansas river TN, ~ iS
Inc waters from the crcvasse VIII nj .liu tIil
its wNy back Into Ghe Father OF waters
tsropgh the White and Arkansas rivers,
swelling those streams Tar ABOVE t''e
danger line. :. vtcuu-
burg, -,,. :. ,TsrnhIs IL
,orSu,hnt better tonight. The fasoo
sDd NiiSsissippI Valley sent its train TO
Sew orleans tonight, the tracks pc
tween Memphis and LakevlSw haEIns ~
S"cn roIsed nbOve the water level The
JIlInoiS Central South and the Kansas
ritv, Memphis & Birmingham East, are
r,,TnInr trains on time. The Memphis
q Charleston, and NASHVILLE Ghattn-
Tnogn & st. Louis roads are moving
ioc1i m agenRcr trains, but the FORMER
cannot 10 beyond the Big Hatchle river
,"hiIct he latter road cannot cross She
T"nreusre. Railroad communication
win Nachvlllc Is entirely cut on.
sISba iron Mountain tracks on the
west aide ore still above water anu al
roads entering the city from thal ~
rcctInn nrc moving passenger trains
rho Iron Mountain tracks
Ovrr iuArkRnsaH the town or Marion
1, In bnd condition All the houses
80, S,,Tr,,,ntIed by water, and the whole
Sacc ~ the earth IL submerged except
Lnro and there a small Indian mound
,I,at 10 obnve water. There are many
nrSSLS ,s In the Ievee like q mill race. The
,vaicr Ig pouring over tho Kansas CITY
rniiVnv nj three 1laces in the town OF
NT,rIon ana possibly at more. AZ these
niorcs Inc current In exceedingly rapid
nnI ,bc waves roll and dash eight anu
ten feet high, No other loss OF HE Is
repOrtod to-day.