Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-05-10
ANOTHER RISE IN
MISSISSIPPI RIVER
STAGE FORTY FEET AT MEMPHIS
NOW IN SIGHT.
UPPER RIVERS ARE RISING
Rains Heavy Over Almost Entire Val
ley, and Indications Are That
They VIII Be Followed by
Another General Storm.

Memphis, Tenn.-The heavy rains of
che past week viii cause the river TO
rise at Memphis during the next ten
days or two weeks.
And in addition to these things the
indications on the weather map point to
one OF the severest storms of the season
to reach the Mississippi valley by We'd
nesday. All over the entire length OF
the Pacific coast and extending for hun
dreds of miles inland, in area of very
intense low barometric pressure prevailed
last night and it was travelling this way
ct a very rapid rate. That the Missis-
eippi valley will receive a heavy down.
l pour from this storm condition is almost
a certainty.
The rains OF Sunday night were heavy
very heavy-and they were more gen.
eral than those of Friday night. The
only part of the Mississippi valley that
escaped from the downpour was the ex-
treme northwestern portion along the
upper Missouri river. Over the Ohio,
most Of the upper Mississippi, the Cum
berland and Tennessee, the lower Missis-
sippi and the Arkansas and Red river
basins and watersheds the precipitation
was great and has resulted in the start
ing of large volumes of water toward
the lower river.
At most points over the Ohio and its
northern tributaries rain fell all day.
IN In response to the heavy rainfall, the
rivers nearly all over the system regis
tered heavy rises during the twenty-four
hours. The biggest rises are coming out
of the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers,
although with additional rains the other
upper tributaries will probably go on the
rampage and send out huge volumes Of
water.
The Cumberland river continues on its
way toward the high water record. 1t
added four feet to its previous big rises
for the last three days. AT Chattanooga
stage of 20.3 feet, and there was a great
deal of water to come from the noun
ltains on account of the rains.
At Jacksonville, in West Tennessee,
the Tennessee was out of its banks, the
gauge having registered a stage of 2s
feet. The river is still rising rapidly,
and bids to continue doing so for several
days.
ID In the upper Ohio the biggest rise was
N at Cincinnati, where a rise of 2.S feet
occurred in twenty-four hours. At other
places above the mouths of the Tennes-
jsee and Cumberland rivers the rise was
slight, but the northern tributaries are
on the faanpage and will probably start
Tie Ohio %gising rapidly.
AT Padu1ah the river is rising rapidly.
THE rise fbr twenty-four hours was 81
feet, to a stage of 35.3 feet. A rapidly
rising river is expected there for the
next several days.
The water from the Ohio and its trib-
utaries is being augmented by water
from the upper Mississippi and is caus.
ing a sharp rise at Cairo, which bids fair
to continue for several days. The Mis-
sissippi rose IL feet at st. Louis during
twenty-four hours.
Without taking into consideration any
water but that which has already fallen
over the watersheds and basins, the de-
lay in the fall of the river will amount
Ito at least two weeks, according to Mr..
Emery. Basing his calculations upon the
amount of water in sight, he says that
the river will not be back within its
banks before between the fifteenth or
twentieth of May. Should further rains
lfall this time would, of course, be
heightened.
With the falling of the rains and the
announcement that the river would rise
for several days, the flood situation over
the Mississippi valley assumed the most
serious aspect it has yet presented.
Planters and tenants alike from the
pverflowed sections were depressed over
Ehe situation.
The delay to farming interests has be-
ZONE most serious. Should no further
fains occur the farmers will yet have
lime to plant a successful crop, but with
further rains, the situation would become
A serious one for the overflowed sec.
lions.
The levee situation remained practi.
tally unchanged. No great danger is an.
licipated in the lower st. Francis levee
district and the fight against the waters
will be kept up along the White river
ront and the upper Yazoo levee line.
Eaar Anothor D;-a