The Cairo bulletin., 1912-03-26
Southeastern Missouri Communities
Cut Off BY High Water Hick.
man Levee Worries
BELT QUITS
Water Running Over Levee At Point
Pleasant Causes Road to Stop
Trains for Bird. Point

NhllG CAIRO ~ in no danger ami
will not b.. during the present rise,
other parts OF the surrounding
country are In such condition that
the residents OF many places have
been compelled to move from their
homes to higher and safer ground.
Tho river below Cairo point and In
many places south, Is many miles
wide and still spreading.
At Hickman. KY, where the levee
gave cause for alarm Saturday night.
the water began eneroaching again
last night and a crew OF forty men
were put TO work throwing dirt into
the threatened break. The Nashville.
Chattanooga & Tennessee railroad
ordered large crew of men from
Martin, Tenn, to Hickman, to work
on the threatened break mile be-
low the town. ~r "wrw7yNKMa
Should the levee go out the resi-
fence section of Hickman will be-
flooded. The citizens are sure that
tho leyee can be saved and are TAX
ing no steps to get out, as they be-
lovo that they will have plenty If
time to save their belongings should
n break occur.
Cotton Belts Quit.
Owing TO the water running over
the levee at Point Pleasant, Mo.
and other points near New Madrid,
the Cotton Belt yesterday afternoon
annulled all trains from Cairo to
East Prairie. The last trip for the
transfer boat, Henry Marquand, left
Cairo at 2.l0 o'clock yesterday after
noon and the passengers were able
to land within three feet of the
train. The boat was run into the
9ulch, alongside the track and the
gang plank let down close to the
trait ii
When the t1ain crew got ready to
transfer the Baggage, express and
mail from the boat, the engine ran
through water three feet deep and
which covered the wheels III the car.
as II pulled through.
General superintendent Peck of
the Cotton Belt travelled over the
right OF way In his special car and
personally gave the order cancelling
the train. w. H. Bean, the local
Cotton Belt agent, announced that
passengers for the Cotton Belt
should take the Iron Mountain trai&
at 11:20 a, m. and connect with the
Cotton Belt at Thebes or by boat to
Birds Point and thence to Dxter, Mo.
Towns to Be Isolated.
All the towns between Farren-
gurg, Mo, q miles out, will be iso-
lated within twenty-four hours. The
"ailroad officials have notified ship
pers that they cannot handle freight
between Cairo and any point north
OF East Prairie and Ferrenburg.
The Iron Mountain Is still run
ming into Birds Point but 1t Is doubt
full whether the trains can get
through more than day or two
more The transfer boat now runs
alongside tho train and passengers
can step from the boat rail to the
second step of the passenger coaches.
1t Is feared that the road viii be cut
of between Birds Point and Charles
ton and it is almost certain that the
trains will not be able to run closer
to the regular landing than the
leyee, 250 yeards distant,
At Birds Point, whenever a resi-
dent wishes to go visiting he takes
d rowboat for his carriage and rows
into the doors of his neighbor's
house. Only two or three places
have not had their doors flooded and
some houses are submerged to the
windows. The residents OF all but
the postoffoe and one or two other
places have gone inside the leyee
to safety.
Mississippi Very Wide.
The Mississippi river Is many
miles wide In many places south oil
Cairo. The water has spread to the
hills On the East and approximately
s5 miles inland On the Missouri side.
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