The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1903-03-19
RIVER OUTLOOK
MORE HOPEFUL.
Delta Levees Reported Able to
Stand the Strain.
WEAK SPOTS BEING REPAIRED.
Tendency to Take an Optimistic View Of
the Situation. ---Break at Bouras Be.
low New Orleans and One Near Mem
pills On the Arkansas Side.

phls On the Arkansas Side.
vicksburg.-The following stages
are reported: Cincinnati. river
falling. hight rain, warm; Pitts
burg. river stationary. mild; st.
Louis, river stationary. warm;
Cairo. river stationary, fair, warm;
Memphis. river rising. clear, cool;
Greenville, river rising, clear.
The Vicksburg Herald, IL sum-
ming up the river situation, Tues
day, says: "The recent rains missed
the Ohio and its tributary valleys.
There has been no precipitation of
| consequence north OF Memphis in u
week past. The upper streams are
all running out rapidly, and the
river at Cairo is practically sta
tionary."
News received here is to the
effect that the river at Memphis
Tuesday morning shows 1877 feet OH
the gauge and there is no sIacken-
Ing in the rise. This is an advance
OF foot and two tenths in twelve
hours, or an inch an hour, which is
an extreme increase with the river
spread over such vast terri tory.
The break above here may make
some slight check in the speed OF
the rise at Memphis, but there is
! every indication that forty feet will
be reached before morning. There
is no forecasting what will be the
maximum reached, as the crest of
the wave is not considered to have
been reached by any means.
The st. Francis levee gave way
Tuesday afternoon at Trice's Lano-
ing, Ark, twenty miles north of
Memphis, and the waters of the
Mississippi are running tn rough a
three-quarters of a mile crevasse in
the embankment with a roar that
can be heard for miles. This is, the
first break that has been made in
the viciEity of Memphis, but the
fact that hewater is still rising at
a rapid rate and that three other
points on the ArkansasAlevee, north
OF Memphis. are in a precarious
condition, leads to the fear that re-
ports tomorrow will tell of several
other serious crevasses.
The river, Tuesday, stood within
one foot of the 1897 water at Green
vile, but with a few more days of
sunshine and enough meE to work
on the levees, unless some unfore-
seen or thought of danger presents
itself, the people and their property
protected by the long line of earth
works that today guides the turbu-
lent waters of the Mississippi river
On its way to the gulf, can feel safe
from an overflow this year, as the
levees here can stand two more
feet without great danger.
. Superintendent George Calder, OF
the Planters Compress, of Vicks-
burg. states that at the present
stage of the river the hig.board
fence along the western side of the
big plant is more than half sub
merged. He states that it is as little
as pilots and masters of boats, can do
that they slow up in pa ssing along
their frcnt, as the wave wash has
already caused considerable trouble
ard by running at low rate of
speed this can be materially OBJ
viated. This seems reasonable re-
quest, and no doubt the steamboat
men will respect it and thereby OBJ
viate the damage comp lined of.
DR.. Robert G. Cart {, of Concor-
dia parish, La, arrived at Natchez,
having ridden horseback over the
entire Sycamore levee in his parish.
This leveee protects Vidalia, the
parish seat, and was reported as
shaky at each end. DR.. Carter SAID
that the levee is low in two places
but will hold, as with two days of
fine weather the levee has been ma
terially strengthened and will be
made perfectly safe. A stretch of
500 feet at one end and 1OOU at the
other are weak, but it will stand
another 2 liz feet in it's present con-
dition. Another levee outfit, in
Plague Disappearing.
Mazatian, Mex. There have been
no deaths from the plague here for