The sun., 1897-03-22
MANY LEvBEs BREAK DOWN
Arkansas Is snnerinE NIost from the Grea
Rush or water.


ST. LOUIS, March 21.-Latest advices from
the flooded country south of here say that the
situation Is growing worse. Tho water has
beaten down the levees at many places. Out Of
thirty eight kilograms received here from tho
lower river only one records n cessation OF tho
rise. This was from Cairo, Ill., but tho halt Of
the flood to-day lie duo to the breaks in the levoes
adjacent in Kentucky and Missouri.
The most dsheartening intelligence comes
from the Iowa and Dakota valleys of the Mis-
souri, River. Warm weather has turned tho
snow to water which is added to tho already
ovcrfowed streams.
Work on the levec barriers is practically aban-
doned in Arkansas and Mississippi as useless
At Chicot, Ark. a bargeload OF sand bags was
dumped into leveo break. They only served
to widen the breach.
A despatch from Ripley, Tenn, says there is a
strong current through Peel Foot Lake and the
old river bayou. 1t is feared the river will seek
its old channel through the lake. which was
shifted twenty miles west by the earthquake
of 1912.
South Of Helena, Ark, the levee breaks arc
most numerous and the damage greatest. Tho
ive steamers employed by the Memphis Relief
Committee were reinforced to-day by two Gov
ernment boats towing barges. These steamers
pick their way through tho treetops.
The G. b. Bryan steamed due west from Mem
phis yesterday thirty-eight miles and returned
with 100 people and q barge load Of livestock.
At Austin, Miss, forty miles below Memphis.
these twenty -four people were rescued.
work s nov Snp
sSt RoSh G2R yestsrdSy MEMPHIS continues az ' to
save life and property unaided by the Govern
Last night Major Ambury, in ch arge OF the
river and har6oF barb work at st. Louis s;n rsGelved
help aud rescue measures be at once undertak ken
by the United States fleet in this vicinity. The
yesterday. A Wholesale shoe merchant received
this appeal from q customer at Osceola, Ark:
overflow enFe Geed hsp &
Another establishment received the following
from the Mayor OF Osceola:
AT the request of our citizens write for the
assistance Of our people. We are In the flood; /;
our people are suffering and We must have help.
Gov Jones of Arkansas yesterday sent q COM
Of militia to sS"fd the G
men might try to save their own homes by cut
ting the levee on the Arkansas side.
met at every hand. but the death roll cannot
even be aPproxim4ted till the food subsidies.
The situation 10 indeed gloomy, with small pros
poets Of immediate betterment.
MEMPHIS. Tenn, March 2l.-Tho levees for .
Of Wen ali m nieces sy There
some twelve or fifteen breaks, in extent from
200 TO !, 900 yards.
The water from the overburdencd river Is
sweeping over the st. Francis basin to return to
the river Just above Helena. Breaks are ex-
pected at luxora on the same side. but abovo
Osceola. Most OF the women and children had
already left Osceola. only the ren remaining to
strengthen and guard the levees.
These were to-day taken across the river to
the Tennessee side. which is secure by reason OF
n tall BLUM. Below, also on the Arkansas, side
there Is q break at Modoc. Along the Mississippi
front every evee Is reported intact and in no Inn
mediate danger. Engineers here are rather
dubious, however, about their holding out. al
though every material break on the opposi to
side is a relief TO just that extent.
The acres Of farming lands submerged through
in the thousands. No drownings were reported
to-day. The river fell oue-tenth Of q foot to-day.