The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1908-current, 1915-05-29
RIVER EXPECTED TO
CREST HERE SUNDAY
MUCH LAND OVERLOOKED
THOUSANDS OF ACRES IN BOT
TOMS OF ARKANSAS AND
TRIBUTARIES UNDER.
RIVER STAGES. MAY %

Stage z a. m. "a hr
Fort Smith ...... % POI IL
Dardanelle ..... 20 26.1 8
Little Rock ...... 23 24.1 q
Thousands of acres of Faulkner
county farm lands, in the bottoms of
the Arkansas river and its tributar-
les, are now under water as a result
of the flood stages in the river. While
the rise is diminishing in rapidity as
the waters go higher, the crest had
not yet passed Fort Smith early this
morning.
Section Director H. S. Cole of the
United States weather bureau. how.
ever, has not changed his prediction
of yesterday tnat the river would
come to stand at Little Rock Mon
day at 26.5 feet, three and one-halt
feet above flood stage. There was nc
ram IN the basin in the west during
the 2-h4our period ending this morn
ing apd fair weather is prevailing to-
day.
The river rose five inches durine
last night, according to measurements
taken at the mouth Of the Cadron and
on the Little farm in this county
Up to 3 o'clock this afternoon a
further rise of about three inches had
been recorded. The crest of the ov-
erf1ow is expected to reach the river
along this county sometime tomor-
row.
While the leveed lands are still out
of danger, much unprotected bottom
lands on which crops were growing
are already under water. About $50
acres on the Little farm, outside the
levee, are overfowed, about 100 acres
on the upper Moss place, 200 acres on
the Wiley Mosley place, while -prac-
tlcally all of the Storthz place is COW
cred. Portions of the Burr and Dan
lels farms are also overfiowed.
Along the Palarm and Cadron
,reeks backwater from the river is
,ausing great damage to crops, the
high waters already extending as far
back on the Cadron as Holland mum
dating hundreds of acres of land
The overflowed lands are generally
planted in cotton and the farmers are
preparing to plant them in early
maturing varieties of corn as soon as
the waters recede.
Little Rock, May 29.-The Arkan
sas still is rising, is above flood stage
at nearly every point in Arkansas
and eastern Oklahoma, is overflow
ing the lands on either side and caus
ing heavy damage to property. Lew
ees have broken at several places in
Arkansas, railroad service has been
discontinued by the Kansas City
Southern between Fort Smith and
Heavenener, Okla, and telephone and
telegraph service in eastern Oklaho-
ma is demoralized
The river is four miles wide for a
distance of seven or eight miles near
Mulberry, has flooded the lowlands
a few miles above Dardanelle, is over
flowing the banks near Morrilton
and has broken through the levee
near Rob Roy, below Pine Bluff. At
Bigelow, on the Fourcha river, water
from the Arkansas has backed up and
overf1owed the bottom lands and was
expected to reach the mill of the
Fourche River Lumber Company
this morning. Train service on the
Fourche River Valley railroad was
discontinued Thursday.
At Van Buren last night the river
was at stage of 20 feet, having ris-
en- foot III Y hours. 1t was still
rising last night at the rate of about
a half inch an hour. The lowlands
near there were being inundated by
stream three feet deep pouring
through break in the levee. DAM
age to crops in that section will be
enormous, it is said.
At Fort Smith, the stage was 2S
feet, six feet above food stage. Hun
dreds of acres of land on both the
Arkansas and Oklahoma sides of the
river near Fort Smith are under
water and the river still is rising.
1t is expected that the river will
reach its crest tonight or tomorrow,
when the water reaches a stage of
29.5 feet
At Little Rock at II o'clock last
night the river was at a stage of "a
feet. Section Director II. S. Cole of
the weather bureau predicted yester-
day that the river will reach a stage
of 26 or 26.5 feet at this point by
Monday. This will lack only one foot
of breaking the record at Little Rock.
Huge logs and driftwood were rushing
downstream continuously yesterday,
much of it lodging against the piers
of the bridges.
At Pine Bluff the river had reached
flood stage of % feet last night and