Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-05-04
FOURTEEN BODIES
 ARE RECOVERED Several Others Perished When Rescue Steamer
 Went Down. GRE ASsE OVERFLOW RegaIhlng tie Riyer-i.ecori Stages Will Result From Red River
 South.
GRE VASsE3 OVERFLOW

Clayton, La, May 3.--The bodies of fourteen victims Of the steamer dis aster, which cost the lives of nearly a score of people on the big river liner l Concordia, had been recovered up to / clock this morning. Anotl1r vic tim John Daniels, a negro) died of his injuries today and several others among the injured are expected to die. Of the dead only two arc white, the others being negro flood refugees l and negro members of the steamer S crew.
 The Concordia carried seventy-two negro refugees, twenty-three negro fCuSt tabouts, ten negro deck hands, White crew and five white passengers. After striking the railroad bridge 1 across the Tensas river the Concorda was carried down the river almost twenty miles before it sank ill about twenty feet of water.
 CrumbIing of Leyee Ceased.
 Vidalia, La. May 3.-With the. broken ends of the crevasse in the Mississippi river levee near Gibsons Landing securely wrapped with tar paulins the crumbling of the levee had ceased this morning. The cre- Vasse water now covers the lower end of Tensas Parish, part of Cata- houla Parish and three-fourths of COncCrdia Parish, about 600 square miles of territory being inundated. Reports th.s morning from engineers stationed along the river in the fifth Louisiana levee district state that the levees north of Torras are in good condition.
 Will Hold the Embankmeits.
 Natchez, Miss, May 3.-All points in the district flooded by the crevasse at Gibson's Landing reported a slow rise aud the water fighters ill the fifth Louisiana levee district eX pressed confidence in their ability to hold the embankments. Kemp's Bend leyee, said to be the weakest in the district and which would flood the upper end of Tensas Parish should a crevasse develop is reported as being in good condition.
 The slow rise is accounted for by the fact that the water is extended northwest seventeen miles above the break and is running into Lake St. Esther, is backing up the Ouachita and some is being carried off through the Black River into the Red river.
 Vicksburg reports the situation in that section much improved, accord ing to reports received by Major Wodoruff, United States engineer in charge of the third Mississippi dis trict
 Lower Mississippi Situation.
 New Orleans, May 3.-With more water in the Mississippi river along the entire stretch of 325 miles from New Orleans to Vicksburg than in 1912, when the rise was started at Red River Landing, the crevasse wa ter from the big half-mile gap in the levee at Gibson's Landing, La, began pouring back into the Mississippi rlV- CT through the Red river this morn ing. A rise of one-tenth of foot for the past twenty-four hours ending at ' q. m. was recorded by the gauge at Red River Landing and at every point south, including New Orleans. Natchez remained stationary and a | fall of one-tenth was recorded al Vicksburg. The rise from Red river south is expected for about ten days, giving record stages in the Mlsslsslp- nj at Baton Rouge, Dcnaldsonvllle and New Orleans The weather bu reau forecast is for stages of 44 rect at Baton Rouge, 2 higher than last years record; 35 feet at Donaldson vile ? above last years record ana 22 fete at New Orleans, depending up on winds, or equaling last years re- cord at this place. These forecasts are based upon the assumption that all remaining levees hold.
 Compared with April 27, l9l2' when the crevasse water started on it's return to the Mississippi river through the Red river, there are 4.6 feet more water in the Mississippi river at Vicksburg, 13 feet more at Natchez and one-tenth more at Baton Rouge and Donaldsonville. At New orleans the comparative stages are 1 the same.
 Four days after the beginning ol the regular wave at Red River Land ing in 1912, or on May 1, the disas' irons crevasse at Troreas occurred i.r-t