The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-26
DANGER is PASSING.
Mississippi Stationary at New Orleans
and No Further Crevasses.

and No Further Crevasses.
NEW ORLEANS, March 25.-At 8 o'clock
the river here was stationary at pol. with
no change anywhere as far known on
the lower Mississippi. The break near
Howells. on Bayou La Fourche. has re-
lieved the tension against those levees and
no other orevasses are likely there.
A report from Baton Rouge says Cover
nor Heard and a party returned from
the Arlington levee this evening. The mud
box has been completed and planked
throughout and willow revetments, we'll
sacked. have been laid over its length.
The situation there is entirely satisfactory
A message received from Monroe from
President Barham, OF the Tensas levee
board, who has just completed an inspec-
ton of the levee as far up as Arkansas
City, says: Rise here three-quarters of
an inch in twenty-four hours. River about
on a stand and the outlook for levees hold
ing is more hopeful
AT meeting yesterday or the representa-
tives of the combined business exchanges
of New Orleans, held in the rooms of
the Progressive Union, the following leso-
lutions were adopted:
"A dispatch sent by a news or corre-
spondence agency of this city on March IA
and others sent by private newspaper cor
respondents, have been of so alarming
nature as to cause serious distress and
anxiety to a great many people residing in
the United States who have friends or
relatives residents of the city of New Or
leans. Some of these dispatches have been
to the effect that New Orleans was in dan
ger of being cut off by the river and be-
coming an island; others that the citizens
of New Orleans are panic-stricken and In
fear of an overflow which Will destroy
their homes and probably cause serious loss
of life. The constant receipt of letters and
kilograms from friends shows the citizens
of New Orleans that widespread state of
fear exists regarding the city and knowing
the absolutely unfounded nature of these
stupid lies it has been decided to make
denial in as widespread and effective man.
ner as the original alarming publications.
1.-THE levees in front of the commercial
part of New Orleans have been for half
century past gradually raised so that they
are now formed by a gradual slope OF the
streets from far back in the city to the
river bank, forming an embankment up 20
is graded several hundred yards back from
the river. Under no stage or condition Of
the river could this levee be destroyed or
the water break through it and there Is so-
solutely-and all citizens Of New Orleans
know 1t well-not the remotest risk, or has
there been for a quarter Of a century, of the
city of New Orleans being seriously dis
commoded or in danger from high water
in the Mississippi river.
1.-The exchanges and other commercial
bodies met together at the rooms of the
New Orleans Progressive Union yesterday
and decided to demand that the forego-
ing should be published in every newspaper
that had published the original alarming
and utterly false statements to which our
attention has been called
This is signed by M. j. Sanders. New
Orleans Progressive Union, chairman; S. p.
Walmesly, Cotton Exchange; c. M. Smith,
Stock Exchanges: w. Il. Conke. Board of
Trade; p. NJ. Schoindeau, Merchants and
Marine Association; w. s. Delaney. Me
chanics', Dealers and Lumbermen's Ex-
change.