The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1903-04-16
FLOOD Winning VICTORY.
Cribbing at Hymelia Crevasse Is
Blown Out and Work May
Be Abandoned.
THE PLANTATIONS ARE SUBMERGED.
Heard Trying to Encourage The
Dishenrtened Workers-CycIonei in
Arkansas destroys Lives and Prop
erty-Sweeps White and CIeburne
COunties-Nine, Persons Killed.

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New Orleans, April 10.-The news
from the Hymelia %crevasses is-so dis
~couraging Thursday that an an
nouncement of ar abandonment of
the work is lot unlikely in the course
of the next "a hours. The .blow-out'''
of 40 feet of cribbing reported
Wednesday threatens the destruction
of all cribbing that has been built
around the break in the levee. Thurs
day morning the gap in the cribbing.
had reached a width of over 100 feet,
and a great volume of water is roar
ing through, submerging again the
plantations which had been relieved.
One final attempt is to be made TO
control the situation. That is by
means of a line of sewer piling driven
across the front of the
Gov. Heard-has asked the levee
board and planters to put in 48 hours
longer in the attempt to close the
break, but the latest disaster seems
to have taken the heart out of every
one.
The river here Thursday is 2o.1, the
same as Wednesday. night. If the
work at Hymelia is abandoned a
heavy decline at New Orleans will
probably follow.
Fury of Cyclone. in Arkansas.
Little Rock, Ark, April 10. Spe-
Gals to the Arkansas Gazette from
several towns in White and Cleburne
counties, Ark. tell of a cyclone
which swept through that section
Tuesday night, leaving death and
destruction in its wake. Thesmajor
portion of the country through@which
the storm plowed its way is remote
from railroads, telegraph and tele-
phone lines. A special correspond
ent of the Gazette wires from Searcy,
Ark, that he has gone owe a portion
of the track of the storm and that
trees were twisted from their trunks
and houses demolished. linus far it
has been impossible to ascertain.
where the storm began, but it is
known that it ragged in those two
counties, and the list of casualties
will, from indications, mount much
higher than it is now estimated. So
far as known, there are. nine dead,
three dying and IS others badly in
jured. The towns of Little Red, AL
bion, Bradford, Heber and Hangburn
have been heard from thus FAR.
List. of the Killed.
The dead so far reported are: Jim
Leggett, Little Red; Joe Leggett,
Little Red; Tom King and wife, Lit
tie Red; three King children;
young lady school teacher, who was
boarding at Kings; A. C. Williams,
near. Hebef!:
Town May Have Been Destroyed.
1t is feared the little town of Hiram,
with a population of $50, has been
wiped o" the map. It is near Heber
and in the storms track. Nothing has
been thus far heard from it. It prob
ably will be several days before the
names of all who were killed by the
tornado are known. Ks.
A special to the Gazette from Heber
says: In the tornado which swept
across this section Tuesday night A:C.
Williams, living ten miles south of
Heber, was killed. He was 70 years
old, and lived with his wife on top Of
n of the. mountains south of this
town. His house was caught up by the
wind and thrown down the mountain
side. he being killed. His wife was
badly injured, and is not expected to
live. A white man named Houston,
living near Williams, had both arms
broken. At Pangburn six residences
We're blown down and a flock of sheep
and'a lumber of cattle, hogssand horses
were killed. Alarge church nearPang-
burn was blown half a>mile. Forty
three residences and 16 barns destroyed
and other wreckage is the record of the
damage reported up to midnight.
Another Boxer Uprising.4
Victoria, B. c., April 1O.-News comes
from Chih-Li of a Boyer rising in that
province. Yuan Shin Kai, the gov
ernor, is ~endeavoring to:put:down5t the
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