Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-03-20
RIVER OUTLOOK
MORE HOPEFUL.
WEAK SPOTS BEING REPAIRED.
Tendency to Take an Optimistic View Of
the Situation. ---Break at Bouras Be-
low New Orleans and Ga: Near Mem
phis On the Arkansas Side.

Ficksburg.- The following stages
are reported Cincinnati, river
falling, light 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 Vicksourg Herald, ir SUM
ming up the river situation, Tues
day, says: 1.-THE recent rains missed
the Ohio and its tributary valleys.
There has bseu no precipitation OF
consequence north of Memphis in
week past. The upper sire inns 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 1871 feet OIL
the gauge and there is no slacken-
ing in tae rise. This is an advance
of foot and two tenths in twelve
hours, or an inch an hour, which is
an extreme incre lse with the river
spread over such vast terri tory.
The break above here MY 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 relche1, as the crest of
the wave is not considerei to have
been reached by anv mans.
The ST. Fran lis levee gave way
Tuesday afternoon at Trice's Llnu-
ing, Ark, twenty mites north Of
Memphis, aud the waters of the
Mississippi are running tn rough Q
three-quarters of 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 vicinity of Memphis. but the
fact that the water is still rising at
rapid rate aud that three other
points on the Arkansas levee, 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, Tuesdly. stood within
Que foot of the 1897 water at Green
vile, but with few mere days of
sunshine and enough mer to work
on the levees, unless some unfore-
seen or thought of danger presents
itself, the people and their property
protected by the long liae of earth
works that today guides the trrbu-
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 tie wave wash has
already caused considerable trouble
ard by running at a low rate of
speed this can be materially OBJ
waited. This seems a reasonable re-
quest, and no doubt the steamboat
men will respect it and thereby OBJ
viate the damage complained of.
DR.. Robert c. Carter, 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 sad
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
800 feet at one end and 100U at the
other are weak. but it will stand
another 2 IL feet in It's present coz
dition. Another levee outfit, in