The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1912-04-11
NUMBER OF TOWNS IN THAT
STATE NOW THOUGHT TO
BE IN DANGER.
Thousands of Men Risk Lives to Re-
pair Levees a: Danger Points, White
Hundreds Of Women and C',Idren
are Rescued by Trains and Boats.

Vicksburg, Miss, April 10.-An all
night vigil by thousands of anxious
men watching the flood threatened
dykes of the lower Mississippi river
was rewarded with assurance that thc
embankments were holding firm this
forenoon. AS word passed down the
lower valley that there had been an
other break in the upper sire: :;hes--
the Golden Lake creyasse-a cnorus
OF, thanks went up from thousands Cf
thro ats. This break will act as
delay to the flood crest co.lrsing
-souahward AMI thus give a chance
to make the levees along the Missis-
sippi and Louisiana shores more sure
Greenville this forenoon remains the
conspicuous point in the impressive
food picture. For three days the tor
rent of the river has threatened to
break through dykes guarding the
bustling city in the center Of the
worlds richest cotton country.
Last night it was felt the crisis had
come, and when the thousands Of bags
OF sand that had been thrown into
the floods nav by state conyiets and
battalions of plantation workers, held
off the current, cry of relief went
up from the delta country. There
have been periods of stress in the
town for the last several days.
Women and Children Leave.
Many women and children have
been sent away and while the great
majority of the $4,000 inhabitants
have reactioned, they have passed
through nervous moments. The city
is built almost under the great en-
bankment holding off the river. A
break would mean rapid inundation.
A telegraph operator on duty in
Greenville provided an impressive pic
ture of conditions there. A corre-
spon1ent of the Associated Press sta
toned at Vicksburg at an early hour
this r>orning asked the Vicksburg OPP
orator to raise Greenville for an
other report on the condition of the
dykes.
The lVicksburg operator conversed
for moment over the wires, rrien
turn I'd to. the correspondent and re-
piled:
The dykes are holding, according
to the Greenville operator" -,
How does he know?" insisted the
corr espondent, who want to assure
himself that he might take a chance
and sleep two hours before daybreak.
How does he know?" repeated the
Vicksburg operator, scornfully. "Well,
if he didn't know, l wouldn't be
pounding this brass into ,Greenyille.
The operator up there is almost di-
rectly behind the leVee. He may have
to swim at my moment"
Throughout the night there had
been reports that the Greenville dykes
were crumbling. These were unveri-
fed, and this morning it seem1d sure
the embankmeLts would hold. The
rivers rise there for the last twenty
four hou1g was only three-tenths of
foot, while at Vicksburg it was six
tenchs. At Arkansas City the rise was
still less. Nevertheless, there is
more water in the territory about
Memphis and the points below will
be compelled to stand rise OF still
greater stress. There seems to be
a slight haitus in the flood, probably
because of the breaks north of here.
The kreak at Golden Lake, however,
has lad no effect on the lower levee
I'D to this time.
Government engineers directing the
fight at Greenville thought they would
see the crest of the flood there by
next Saturday. Meanwhile great arm
les CT men are at work there and in
the st etches below Vicksburg piling
the fl.al pound of strength on the
dykes that must protect the fertile
fields of Louisiana snd Mississippi
from the foods.
If the dykes about Greenville and
Arkansas City hold. then the pres
sure to be exerted by the river against
the enbankments of the Tensas and
mid-state basins of Louisiana will
tran ,fer, probably within the next
four or five days, the crisis to those
points.
The situation near Natehez, where
there has been slight break in the
subsidiary Giles Bend levee, was re-
ported unchanged this morning. Gov
eminent engineers said they thought