The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1912-04-07


farming lands.
United States engineer and levee officials
gave up hope OF saving tho st. Francis
Basin this morning when reports came in
from dozen different points Of threatened
breaks. The water is tapping tho top in
scores Of places and in many instances is
pouring over tho top into tho low country
behind Other levces must give way In
this district Virtually the whole eastern
part of Arkansas is covered by backwater
New Orleans reports that a crevassc on
the Atchafalaya River to-day flooded the
st. Mart in iowlands.
r. n. McWilhans. a'Mississippi planter
living opposite, Island No. 03. confirms
the report that the fevce at Rescue. Miss.
has br oxen. -
At Modoc. fifteen miles below Friar's
Point. the water is almost on a level with
the levec. Five hundred men are working
at this point to, save the levee.
At kangaroo Point two miles down
the river from Friar's Point on the Ar.
kansas side. water went over the levee
yesterday afternoon. Two hundred and
fifty mon with sand bags have been placed
at work in an effort to check the break
The levee at fiollybush. Ky. broke at
So'cloCk 3 this afternoon and efforts 10 save
the lev So ut Hurlburt. Ind. were aban-
doned this afternoon. The river has been
stationary. at Cairo. H.. since this morn
ing. ~
The break below Hickman. KY. was
more than 900 feet long late this at err
noon. which relieves the situation ut Cairo.
which is better than a. any time since last
Monday The Mississippi River above
its junction with,th Missouri River con
tinues rising between Hannibal, Mo-.
and CRATE on. ILL., The Missouri will con-
tinue rising for thirty-siX hours from
Bonneville. Mo. 10 Hermann. Mo, hut
from Kansas Ci,v TO Bonneville it will fall
tomorrow
The river a ST. Louis remained sta
tionary to-day. registering 3O.7 feet at
o p. NJ. II il expected TO rise 10 81 feet
and remain there several days the coming
week
The scope of country protected by the
levee which broke six miles below ,lIick-
man, Ky. yesterday, IL ten miles wide and
fifty miles long, making $40 square miles.
The damage will reach into hundreds of
thousands of dollars. Several small towns
were protected by this levee. and they
suffered heavy loss. Telephone wires
are down. There are many people still
are being sent out as fast as possible.
Last night men on the levee could hear
people calling for help. some being the
voices Of women. II il believed hat all will
be rescued before there il any loss of life
The river is gradually covering ne vast
territory below hickman Water il now
within three niles of Hickman. having
to fill the lower end of the territory before
turning this way. As a result of a levee
breaking below Hickman water has allen
five inches at Hickman since s =. NJ.
yesterday.
The steamer May Stewart left last
night to rescue men working ON the levee
who We're cur of and left on the other
side OF the gap bringing in fifty of these
men and also number of women and
children who were caugh below the gap.
With the Ohio River rising al Evansville.
Ind, and at all points below and with
rain threatened i'll the next twenty-fOur
hours things are not promising 10 thou
sands of faaarmers livinginthe lower Ohio
Valley lowlands. Many food warnings
were again set ojlt to-day.
The weat her observer at Evansville
says the river will go over the forty
four foot mark there and that the crest
of the rise should reach Evansville by
Tuesday or " eduesday.
Conditions along both the Waba sh
and White Rivers are more threatening
tonight than AZ any time since the be-
ginning o: the flood. Hundreds of homes
are surrounded by the high warer. A
great deal of live stock has perished in
the Wabash river bottoms. IL il es,i-
ted that the losses 10 log and tie men
along Green. Big Barren and Pond rivers
IN Kentucky Will amount tounany thousand
dollars.
A fisherman living in shanty boat near
Spottsville,. NY. on Green River. is re-
ported to have lost his life in the high
water last night while trying To place his
net. IN the river.
] ate reports from Shawneetown. III
to-day stated that the levees there were
still holding ~ New Madrid. Mo. the
river commenced to fall last night but
another rise is coming. All rail connec-
tion has been cut on for several days.
a, Before the food the county court or
dered local option election in New
Madrid county which was held to-day and
the vets and "drys" We're ont in launches
inviting the voters in. Some boats were
sent eight miles into the country after
voters Excitement ran high and while
the water was four feet deep at the polling
places II was not high enough TO dampen
the zeal of the partisans The Government
gauge at New Madrid to-day read 43 50
at p. NJ, a fall since morning of seven-
en-one-hundredths of "A foot.
AT Quincy. H., the Mississippi gauge
at p. M.was Us3 feet. a rise of six -tenths
Of foot. Rain fell there to-day The
swelling tides flooded Easements in fac
pension Of operation in some instances.
Much anxiety is felt for the Indian
Grave levee north of Quincy. II is re-
ported that il is leaking in places. Suffer
ings from food have become serious in
bottom lands on both sides of the river.
According TO engineers the Mississippi
has at las, sought IA new level through the
Cache River bottoms and il now making
achange in the geographical map of south
ern Illinois. If the food remains long
enough for the river o establish "A channel
engineers say il will repeat Kaskaskia
H.. history and make of Cairo and the
drainage district north Of that city an
Island on the Missouri side.
Government engineers have Contended
tor years that the giving way OF railroad
levees guarding the Cache River country
near the mississippi would force the big
river to seek a new course. Fettered by
levees near the junction of the rivers just
below Cairo and further harassed by the
intermingling floods from the Ohio what
more natural thing than for the Mississippi
to seek the path of least resist ance through
the wide Cache River bottoms now that
The leyees guarding the slough through
the few miles of low lands TO the Ohio are
gone al n lime when the lesser river is
two feet the lower the engineers ask.
NEW OKi.tASS. April 6.-The first
break in I,oui sianalevee occurred to-day
and according 10 state and parish officials
was not accilentul About $50 feet on
the east bank of the Atchafalaya river
us miles from New Orleans. went
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