New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-04-07
NEVER BEFORE OTERFLOWED.
NEW AND STARTLING RECORDS MADE
BY THE FLOODS OF 1897.
SEVEN HUNDRED TOWNS UNDER WATERWAY
LEvEEs HOLDING wEII-FARGO y. D..
IN GREAT STRAITS.


LEvEEs HOLDING wELI,-FARGo. y. D..
IN GREAT STRAITS.
Memphis Tenn April G-The feature OF the
flood condition In the Mississippi Delta to-day
is the gradual spread Of water over an area
that hitherto was never overfowed The upper
crevasse in Tunica County is 1000 feet wide, and
so great is the outpour that water from below
the break is being drawn up to and forced out
over the fertile valley through the crevasse.
All Of the country east to the main line OF the
Yazoo and Mississippi Valley road is flooded. and
in many places the water has gone over the
tracks, filing the Yazoo River.
The fall In the main channel at Helena, Green
VILE Vicksburg and Arkansas City is due to the
filing up Of the delta and the lower White
River country. If the lower levees along Louisi-
ana and Southeastern Arkansas should hold. the
emptying of the delta and st. Francis Basin
will be slow If they break and the river CON
tinues TO fall at Cairo, the upper St Francis
Basin and the delta Will he clear of water by
May :. IF this should prove true there Will be
no difficulty in growing cotton. But breaks in
Louisiana and Southeastern Arkansas VIII hold
water in that locality until the middle of May,
after the usual time for planting cotton IN that
territory. The river at Memphis is stationary
tonight.
Greenville. Miss. April G.-The situation In
the Yazoo-Mississippl Delta Valley ia growing
daily more desperate. The community Is con-
fronted with a calamity the like OF which mas
Fully seven hundred towns are to-day under wa
ter. and many are surrounded and cut of. There
is no cessation Of the constant inpouT OF flood
water into this valley from five rivers.
New Orleans. April 6.-Another day of good
weather has aided the work OF protection, and
the Louisiana levees are still safe. Supplies We're
hurried in every direction. and mud forts are
rising above the levees. making them safer and
stronger TO resist a general yielding. In the city
are many fiat cars loaded with gravel-hl!ed
sacks. ready to be moved at moments notice.
The levees all over the State are holding out
splendidly; even the La Fourche Line given up
several days ago. Is still intact. Each or the
Levee Boards reports that it's line Is holding ana
that the outlook Is encouraging.
Jackson. Miss. April 6.-The Governor tonight
telegraphed Secretary Alger asking for ap-
propria ton Of 500 900 from Congress. which he
says will close the Crevasses in this State give
employment 10 all the needy and allow people to
work land in thirty days.
st. Joseph. Mo. April 6.-The Missouri River
is rising rapidly again, having risen thirteen
inches here In the last twenty-four hours. The
river is now ten feet above low-water mark and
indications are that it will continue to rise
Kansas City, Mo. April 6.-The Weather Blu
officials at this point have given warning
against a flood in the Kansas City bottoms. The
danger line is 2l.4 The river has already passed
the eiehteen-fOOt stage, and for two days has
risen at the rate Of a foot every twenty-four
hours.
St. Paul. MINI. April Ga special telegram
from Fargo. y. D.. to The Dispatch says The
situation is appalling While the Red River rose
only three inches last night. the big Coulee, west
OF the city. took n second squirt and went up four-
teen inches flooding the entire west side OF town
and driving hundreds OF people from their homes.
The water reaches down 70 Eighth-st. from Six
teenth-st., and as far south Of the Northern Pa
cifc tracks as the eye reach. 1t is a popuous
residence district and the effect of the food is
most kecnly felt All that part Of the city south
Of Front-st is inundated. Six blocks OF Eighth
st have gone out this morning. and the food from
the west side of town is so high that paving on
West Front-st is going out rapidly. Sidewalks
are all ahoat and are being used RATS upon
which families are moving to dry land