Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-02-20

RIVERS MAKE
 RAPID RISE
trkanSa. and White Scheduled for Il Further Rise in tbe Next .i Hours Stage at Little Rock If.f, and White at Clarendon Shows 23.S.

NtiCllCi ooStl Ntt AlClblOG2 nd5 been kept busy today answering queries of parties with reference t1 the sudden and rapid rise of the Arkansas and White rivers, says yes terday's Little Rock Democrat. Both fstreams have been steadily rising, tn A volume of water being swell ed Df local rains and the contr buttons oi numerous branches until they have reached a stage which is causinG some alarm.
 Mir. Alciatorc gave out the fo'- lowing concerning the rivers and the probability Of further rises within the next few days. He said:
 This morning the Arkansas d, l. tile Rock showed | stage of 1t.4, which is a rise of 9 i-2 feet in the past six days. or during the last ra ny spell. At Dardanelle the stasn was 13.7, g risn Of ll.3. At Fort Smith, 14.6, 6 rise of 12,6 and al Pine Bluff 4.6, rise of 7.l. The river is still rising at Fort Smith but not so rapidly in the past 24 four hours as during the preced- ing day. At Dardanelle the rise Is rapid. With today's rain the river will rise probably two or three feel more south of Fort Smith in the next 24 hours.
 At Pine Bluff it will continue to rise for two or three days as the re suit of the final rain of the week.
 White River is Up.
 Theupper White river at Calico and BatesvilIe, after an II foot r's3 in three days began to fall yester, day and is still falling today.
 The new telephone station at Jacksonport, made necessary by the destruction and loss of the govern ment guage at Newport, daily tele- phone reports being received from the engineer nS station at the form CT place, reported this morning that there had been nine foot rise at that point in the past five days and that the river is still rising but no at such rapid rate.
 The Black river, wh ch empties into the White at Jacksonport, is rising and pouring it's waters into the White and from this combina- ton 8 rise of one or two feet more may be expected at Newport durin3 the next q hours. The Lower White at Clarendon has been rising for several days at the rate of six inches per day, and enough water is in sight above this point to indicate a rise of half a foot a day for several days more. AS the stage there this morning was 23.S, l it is more than likely that the large area of bottom lands in the valley of the Lower White will be covered with water.
 Weather LGoks Better. Mir. Alciatore makes the pleasing nouncement that the present rain, so far as Arkansas is concerned, is a thing of the past and that we may reasonably expect cool and fair , weather for time. He said: 1 "A storm of considerable inten- sity moved from the Rocky Mountains to the Mississippi Valley in record time. The movement of this storm has been more rapid than any storm of late years, which accounts for the very sudden changes from warm to cold and from fair to wet weather. This storm, however, is rapidly dis appearing towards the east, and so far as Arkansas is concerned the rain is over.
 There is cold, fair weather coming from the west with 8 temperture be- low zero in Montana. We announce fair and cool weather for tonight, and fair and cold weather for Wednes- i dav