The Forrest City times., 1913-04-25
FLOOD FIGHT SHIFTS
 TO THE LOWER VALLEY
Ne" Break in Dyke at Mayersyille. Miss, Floods Rich Area Threat. ened Blowout in Leyee at
 Leehter, La.. Forty Miles
 Above New Orleans,

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 The flood fight has shifted 10 the lower reaches of the Mississippi val. ley. A most disastrous break in the main le9ee at MayersvilIe. Miss. has wrought untold damage this week and has resulted in flooding three counties on the Mississippi side of the river several thousand people residing be- hind this break in fancied security had to flee in terror for their lives and Il was reported in the dispatches that large number of live stock had been drowned, and much property. fences and young crops destroyed.
 Ihs morning report, burdened With distress and alarm, came to the elect that another break in the main leVee was seriously threatened at Lutcher, La, about forty miles above New Orleans. More than a thousand men have been rushed 10 this noint and put to work reinforcing and strengthening the leyee, in hopes of holding the flood of of highly deyel- oped and populous section of the val. ley.
 Every indication, so far as this sec. tlon Is concerned, points to the fact that the flood is spent. The drum merS, like the blue birds in spring. are again putting in an appearance and the hearts of the country mer- chants are correspondingly glad.
 Uncle sam hae quit issuing free grub at this point, and Sergt. Leah. who, assisted by Senator k. ". De- Rositt, Capt. J. G. Stern, CaptJames Russell, Ma. II. r. German, and Judge L. A. Rolfe, had charge of the distri. button fgoYernment rations here, left Wednesday for the south, where the relief work is being kept up. The army officer made many friends here by the impartial and consistent manner in which he discharged his duties. All the other gentlemen connected with this most important work deserve the thanks and good will of all for their fairness in seeing that the wants of those who we're destitute and in need were supplied.
 Tine officials of the Rock Island rail- road have won signal victory over the flood and those two gentlemen. uperintendent A. B. Copley and Trainmaster NJ. c. Gay. who have di- rected the successful tight, are enti- tied to the ribbon for efficiency. and determination, through the fact that they have succeeded in keeping traf- tc over their route open into Mem phis, despite the fact that such a feat. was pronounced impossible by all who talked about the situation There Is no doubt about the fact that the light the Rock Island has made iu the Nt. Francis valley. was d man $ i0b in every sense of the word. however. the two officials mentioned have never weakened. but have gone ahead with their duty in the face of difficulties, that at times seemed insurmountable
 The work of repairing the flood damage k well in hand Ballast is being throw in all places where there is the least probability of a slide on the dump, which is being reinforced and strengthened by heavy blocks of stone, to be followed immediately by the laying of heavy steel through the bottoms, as well as all along the main line of the Rock Island in Arkansas The flood waters are falling rapidly.
 The Times informed that the St. Francis river at Madison has fallen something like two inches today, which makes the guage at that point read just a fraction above 40l.
 Never again, perhaps, in the mem- ory of the living, will such another disastrous chapter in the history of the Mississippi valley be written,