Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-03-29
THE FLOOD CONDITIONS.
Tho Rivers Of Minnesota Driving
People Ont Of Their Homes.
Thousands of Dollars worth OF crop
Products swept Away
btiit Raining.

ST. PAUL, Mimi, March 2c.-rhe
rivers Of Minnesota are rising very
rapidly following a day OF heavy
thawing.
The Mississippi at this point has
passed the ten-foot mark and is still
raising rapidly.
Water 10 h1wlng Ina from the Mime.
sofa in torrent. A telephone mes.
sage from South PARK, five miles south,
says a gorge of Ice twenty feet high
has formed there.
AS the prediction Ia for warmer
weather 10 Ia believed the gorge Will
break without doing any serious dam
age.
The water is now running through
the Bohemian flats and the residents
OF that locality are moving out.
Tne basemsnts OF many concerns on
the west side are full OF wafer.
A LARGE FORCE AT WORK.
QUINCY, His, March 90 The Mis-
sissippi keeps up It's record OF the past
week at this point ana another rise is
registered, making the ntage fifteen
feet above low wafer mark.
Thousnnds Of sightseers line the
river banks and bluffs TO see the
muddy water winch has submerged
all OF tue islands anu stretched back
over the Missouri bottoms Tor dis.
lance of several miles with only the
top, OF trees and partly tubm erged
houses visible here and there 10 lark
the abode OF the thrifty farmer. The
situation in tho levee district 10 the
a. R,fs
force OF men are working heroicalIy to
strengthen the weak places in the
levees and thereby save their homes
and crops but II Is now believed their
task IL a hopeless one, as old rivermen
say that the river will 20 beyond the
mark of 1883.
MUCH PROPERTY DESTROYED.
ST. LOUIS. March 29.-Phe food
conditions mere grow grRver every
hour. The railroad companies are
putting their tracks in American and
st. Charles bottoms In the best posi-
BILE oonuition to Withstand floods, for
less than twelve feet more water will
bring the stage OF 1892, when the
tracks OF all RAILROADS. were suD-
merged between Alton and ST. Louis.
The guage shows rise OF 4.lU OF u
feet In the last twenty.four hours.
The river ia within less than three
feet OF u stage reached in the middle
Of May last year anu with nearly Two
months OF wet weather ahead the out.
look Is gloomy.
Thousands OF dollars have already
been swept away In crop piotucts and
1t ia raining again, 40 that tue
prairieB, even back from the river
look like lakes and the preparation OF
lands for spring crops Is again de.
ierrej.
INUNDATIoN THREATENED.
GREENvILLE, Miles,. Msron GA
crevasse occurred last night Ia Lake
Lee, seven miles south OF 9reenville,
on the Miseissippi side, through which
an immense volume OF water lie pOur-
Ing into the Black aud Steel Bayou
country. Tho opening Is 800 feet wide.
Unlees II can be stopped, which 10
impre battle, all the country west OF
Deer Greek and the most prosperous
part OF the Delta will be oveitl wed,
south II YazjO river. This break
relieved the pressure somewhat at the
Greenvllls front.
AN UNEASY FEELING.
WARRINGTON, March 29.-CoI. Gil
lespie, president Of the Mississippi
commission, has telegraphed General
Wilson, CHIEF of engineers, from
Vicksburg under date OF yesterday:
"rhe gauges along the river from
Memphis to Vicksburg give flood
readings varying from II to 3 ieet
above any previously recorded read.
inge. The feeling every where IL Que
OF uneasiness. All the state levee
boards are battling against the rising
floods, regardless OF cost. AS yet no
widely spread damage has been re-.
ported, though several breaks OF the
Isvees above Greepsville on both banks
have occurred. The levees are ser.
iously strained nj all points,"
Decision of tho Powers.
ATHENS, March pa dispatch
from Relimo, Crete, says British anu
Russian officers with u strong detach.
mept OF marines arrived there today 10
notify the Insurgents OF the decision
of the powers to grant autonomy TO
the Islaud. While the officers were
parleying with the insurgent chiefs
under n flag 0f truce, the hostilitles
between Turks and Christians in the
town re.opsnOd and the detachment
rstireE.