The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-04-07
|1UO BREAKS IN
| LEVEE SYSTEM
| NEAR MEMP HIS
|Nall of Water Twenty Feet
High Sweeping Across the
Lowlands of Arkansas;
Inestimable Loss.
no LIVES LOST SO
FAR AS REPORTED
Thousands OF Men Working
at the Weak Spots; Cairo
May Emerge From Flood
on Missouri Side.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. April 6.-The
svee at BTodoc, Ark. on the White
river, thirty miles south Of Helena,
ia reported to haye broken.


II LOUIS. April 6.-Two serious
10 brealis in the main system of the
IN 81. Francis levee system occurred
III opposite Memphis on tho Arkan-
SIS Side of the Mississippi river
.hi. today and tonigh, raging food.
STR a cres, twenty feet high. IL sweep
. rs across the -. Francis lowlands and
sl not be checked until the first high
.hr4 crowlcy's ridge. forty mites away.
los been reached.
. The first break occurred between uol-
. .Jtph and 81. Claire. Ark The levee
.tse Is lower than (, Is at other points.
.rfn working on the lcrce had to flee
their lives when the flood, lashed
. bio fury by a high south wind. began
. d now over tho lcvce. aud soon tho cm-
hnsment was cut through. The food
.nached Marion. Ark, shortly before mid
.;yht, and thousands OF acres have been
.tsndsted and homes swept away No
. .stiJs have been reported up until a late
. ", tonight
Amcst simultaneously with tic first
hsik, the St Francis lcvec wns broken
% At Wyanolle. ten miles below Mem
.,et Seven hundred men have been
rn,sntrated at this point. Two mann
10Th streams will join before morning,
.t !, said and by noon sunday tho river
Fio.ite Memphis will be a lake clear
9 crowley's ridgc, forty miles away.
Ths water is expected to flow back into
Ae Mississippi near Helena, Ark, All
h cri,endon, part OF Lee. Phillips. Cross
ird ST. Francis counties will ba inun-
h,sd
late dispatches say e is almost GER
hr ths 81. Francis leyee will break at
thG points.
Host Serious Disaster.
lnis is the most serious disaster that
"a YET befallen the flood dridden section.
)hlcns OF dollars are invested In prop
fr IN thc valley and the loss in prop
sw ard livestock Will be inestimable.
PTea!dent o. y. KIllough Of the st.
'Isn6s leVca board expects tho orevasse
oe mile wide by Sunday morning,
ina 10 the same spot where the levee
'nke IN 1903 and what the food did then
Ww fairly good idea OF what the
'eIsat one will dc. The first barrier 10
encountered by tho food was tho
'aSo railroad tracks. built high from
Wrsounding country, 1t was a mat
hnt few moments until the
lFoad embankments were topped by
- ehcomlng food, This was repeated
ne Iron Mountain and Rock Island
'se8a Memphis, therefore, is practl-
NY cut or from tho west,
aanphis proper has profited by the
esins OF tho st. Francis levec. The
" break OCCURRED at about 5 o'clock in
evening, and by o'clock the river
snen from a stage Of i5.3 TO Nlo
~ al Memphis and the fall was In
Ahs as the creyasses in the levee
fsH Wider.
o'oditions in North Memphis have been
saY growing worse as the river rose
!" osTond the widest predictions.
lAboregs Conscripted.
eecrers. both negroes and white have
eonsuripted and taken to the Ar
-" side to aid In the uphill fight
Ihs' tho Father OF Waters. North
'Aphis hhs been practically cut OF
me rost OF the city. the last car
'h Poplar avenue being compelled 10
running this morning.
mg to steady fall OF rain and 4
Wind from the Mississippi side OF
wy the force OF levee workers was
ea at Cairo tonight, and every foot
AZ gTeal levee system la being given
inspection. Nearly 100000 sand =
we're scattered around the levecs 10
!" most convenient places in case they
% heedod.
ieyees were all reported substan
=, ,,'sbt. The river reached nfty-four
h ~ o'clock with q rising tendency
h." one foot and right-tcnthB high
H.Sa al previous records.
knL Ky, reports tonight that the
IN the government levee there il
~, Iedsl 1000 feet wide. The water
suhg through at a very rapid rate.
s-pth on best information obtain
~ ~ about fifteen feet. One OF the best
~ NJ, men down there says IT VIII
MI or SIX DAYS before the Reclfoo'
ehb an basin will be illed.
ms. me announcement OF the break
o. OF francis levee comes word that
,nattr3 are on the WAY down the
h-pW and that there is no hope now
ea ns he leVces in the lower Missis-
Is. hIeh Tor days have been strained