The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-04-03
|S1IUATION IS ACUTE.
CT Pressure on the Lcvecs Below
the St. Francis.
|u,pNING TELEGRAMS FROM AUSTIN.
|stt,ia on the Levces at Helena Is
Very Heavy.
u,pHING TELEGRAMS FROM AUSTIN.
voSBDALE is NOW SUBMERGED.
v,iIc Is Surrounded and Par.
.,.,,v covered by Wntcr-People
4. Distrcss Near Mound city.

,,,,,rbis Tenn, April 1.-The flood sit
nation has once more become acute from
,,,r, n few miles above Austin, Miss, as
4, aowu as the first break at Perthshire,
a.. and A creyasse in this line oil levees
..r,d not be surprising. The pressure on
,bo leyee is brought almost entirely by the
water of the St. Francis basin, which Is
horo contested between the levees In front
/ NJ Helena. There is no levee on the Arki,n-
ems shore from San Souc! down TO a point
.hoyo Helena. a distance OF 100 miles and
Il is at Austin that the levee system on
each side Of the river begins and goes to
tbe masses below New Orleans. The waters
are now SO high in the st. Francis basin
that the current rushes from the west and
cuts along the east shore levee for miles.
Several alarming kilograms have been re-
ceiyed from near Austin today and the sit
uaton is most grave. Boats nave been re-
uuested TO run on slow bells and laborers
are constantly strengthening the embank-
nent. A creyasse at Austin would inLn-
date q strip OF fertile country In Tunica
and Coahoma counties thirty miles wide
and sixty miles long
Reports from Helena, Ark. show that
| the river there is stil slowly rising and it
. Is almost miraculous that the levees at
. Helena have not been swept away. Thous-
ands Of people have boon working day and
night and their energies are seemingly ex-
| haustless. The Missouri Pacific aud Cot
| ton Belt railways have rushed trainload af-
. ter trainload Of sacked sand into tho te-
| leagured country and stu staud ready TO
/ help the Helena people. The railways
have rendered great assistance to tho leVec
boards. The Illinois Central, Missouri Pa
cifc and Cotton Belt systems have devoted
all their great forces to the WORK of saving
the country and that without charge.
Greenyille is on an island and Rosedale,
Miss. Is In water from five 10 ten feet
deep. The funds Of bank in Rosedale have
b. moved to the second story. Thousands
q .sai OF cattle are standing on the levee
and many unfortunate refugees sleep there
Win no covering to protect their water
soaked forms from the night winds.
Back OF Roeedale and throughout the
i'wef and middle delta country everything
unaer water. In many villages no COM
munication with the outside world has been
had for several days
The threatened rise at Cairo is now
certainty The Mississippi above Cairo and
lne cumberland and Tennessee rivers will
Is ceNI great mood into the already filed
o. francis basin and from Cairo to Mem
pnn J. feared that the gauge will mark
high water mark thar viii he without
percedeut. w "''iou'
Az hemphis the river is slowly falling
'olEnt the gauge reading SO 3 feet. a fall
" soae.lehth of foot since last night. The
s sa's iof assistance from numerous points
%ons inc river are becoming more and
. mon lfequent at the headquarters of tho
ieia committee. The committee is in re-
feipt OF Information to the effect that there
Io tome fifteen or twenty white people, |
',i,'acipally women and children, in great |
isuess at IL point near st. Glars Land |
" about fifteen miles up the river, which |
some six miles from Mound City. These |
eopie are located in houses. the lower |
oors OF which are overiiowed and they |
A'e no iood and no means OF obtaining |
!, Arrangements We're made to send sup |
lies at once.