The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-01
PILING SAND BAGS
ON TOP OF LEVEEs
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city has fair chance to withstand
the food providing enough men can
be secured to work on the levees.
Arrival of more militiamen is expect
ed to remove that handicap.
When the slides occurred every
available man was rushed to the dis
trict with a train load Of sandbags
and In short time the water was
under control.
Conditions around the drainage dis
trict are very grave but levees are
still holding out against the raging
Ohio.
The second section OF the Seventh
regiment arrived a. q. M, and pitch
ed camp in St Mary's park. Five
regiments of militia are quartered on
: the Barrett wharf boat in the Ohio
river.
: The Mobile and Ohio levee broke
at Columbus, KY, last night and with
in three hours the town was inundat
ed Most persons had taken warning
and moved stocks and other property
+ to upper floors.
/ On tho Mississippi
MEMPHIS, Tenn. April 1.-Levees
along the Mississippi, north OF here
are being topped by sand bags and
every effort being made to prepare fol
46-foct stage. Levee engineers sa,
they expect the water to be running
over the levee at forty-five feet sc
that higher stage is improbable.
4 ST. Francis levee officers here todal
began sending telephone bulletins t.
all towns behind the main levees tina
would be endangered should breal
occur.
Teams and convicts have been plac
ed at work on the levee at Noun,
City and Wyanoke and 1t will be rats
| ed two feet from the north end to tn
St Francis river.
The. crest of the flood is e1pectet
to reach here April 8.
Backing up.
CARMI, ILL.,, April Little relic
for flood sufferers was reflected b
water conditions in the Wabash va
i ley today. While the Wabash is at
standstill the Ohio is backing int
! the stream and may cause anothe
, flood stage The Little wabash swell
{ ed into New Haven. Illinois, fftee
I miles south of here, last night, floot
4 ing stores and residences. Scores {
q refugees are quartered and food SUI
!. plies are scant.
6 Refugees In Maunie, Illinois, al
Z we'll taken care Of, supplies bein
q plentiful, but business houses and re
n licences still stand in water. The floo
!, loss in White county probably will e
! coed 100000.
q strengthening the Levees.
. MEMPHIS. Tenn, April It'll
: Mississippi river rose eight-tenths
a foot during the last twenty-for
), hours, registering 36.s feet this NOR
ing. Every available men and tea
, has been put to work strengthenir
=, the levees along the exposed te
blocks On the north side.
!, Government forces claim that ever
: thing is safe on the levee lines
: Vicksburg. but are making desperat
: efforts to strengthe levees at Mado
Arkansas, and close the Buelah, Miss
I, creyasse. The upper St. Francis di
: trict is already under water fro
. neglected levee gaps.
:. camp is being established by I'll
city in which to care for flood ref
: gees arriving here.
:. Request for Boats.
SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,. April Go
ernor Dunno today wired the war d
partment at Washington asking Il
= the use of four quarter boats belon
: ing to the United States, lying
y GRANVILLE. They are wanted for us
in housing soldiers during the floo
period
2 A request for aid came from Sal