The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-04-14
Great Damage Being Wrought
in Northern Louisiana; 800
Square Miles of Rich
Lands Under Water.
FEARS THAT MANY
LIVES MAY BE LOST
Thousands of Families Rem
dered Homeless; Impossible
to Estimate Amount of
Damage to Property.


The Mississippi is taking its
NJ tithe in southern Arkansas and
northern Louisiana today. The
food is pouring through two gaps in
the levees-at Panther, Ja,-over fer
tile fat lands in the Louisiana-Arkan-
mated. thousand square miles in East
Carroll and Madison parishes, Louis
lana. and Chicot and Desha counties,
Arkansas, will be flooded.
In the meantime, the river has
paused in its assault on its east banks
and prospects Of holding the dykes On
the Mississippi side have frightened,
At Greenville and as far south as
Vicksburc the water Is falling
Breaks Serious.
The breaks last night are regarded
as the most serious since the flood be-
gan. The territory which will be in
undated is popuous, villages are nu-
merous and Arkansas City and Lake
Village, Ark, and Lake Providence,
Tallulah and Delhi. La, and other i'm
peItant towns are in its path
While the damage will be heavy it is
not believed the loss Of life will be
large. When the leyees collapsed
courlers were sent from every point
reached by telephone to warn those liv-
ing in remote sections, and special
trains went from Vicksburg, Greenville
and New Orleans to take aboard ref
ugees.
All the steamboats, available in the
Vicksburg and Greenville harbors were
dispatched to points along the river
to take off those who held to the levee
and small craft began an exploration
of the territory flooded Preparations
have been made at Vicksburg and
Greenville TO care for the refugees.
Weather conditions were not favor.
able to the levees. Rain is reported
at several points. Natchez reports all
levees holding as far south as Bayou
Sara, La,
Rescue Party Fails.
Tho largest rescue party left aboard
the steamer Alice B. Miller with skiffs
and barge. but advices from the
steamer Falls City later were that the
Miller had been forced to tie up TWEEN
ty miles south Of Salem. The Falls
CITY. which arrived at Vicksburg to-
dav passed the Salem break early last
night. Thomas Morrisey, the owner,
said
81 wanted to stop and help the food
sufferers but it would have been fatal
to my passengers to have tried it. The
roar Of the crevasses could be heard
boat, although we were hugglng the
east bank of the river. The gap is TAX
ing the water with terrific rush in
land.
"The food already covers Il section
visible for twenty miles south OF the
break. rs far as Tallabina. La.
Much Stock Drowned.
NEW ORLEANS, April ia tele-
phone message received from East Car
roll parish was to the effect that 100
feet of the Mississippi levee there gave
way and some of the most modern
plantations Of northern Louisiana are
in danger of being flooded.
Hundreds of head OF stock were re.
ported drowned. A number Of small
towns are in the flooded path. An
other telephone message from Lake
Providence said plantations in the
neighborhood Of the break were under
from five 10 seven feet of water, Fear
was expressed that there would be loss
of life in tho back country where there
is no wire communication.
The Alsatia crevasse and the waters
from the break ut Panther Fork, Ark,
will flood practically the entire Tensns
river basin. large section OF east
West Carroll, Morehouse, Madison and
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