The Elbert County tribune., 1916-02-04
WORK TO SAVE LEvEES
DYNAMITE USED TO CLEAR RAIL
LINES IN COLORADO.
Diego River, Breaks, Creates New
Flood Menace in District
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service
Little Rock, Ark, Feb. Fifty
families, more than 250 persons, are
lowering behind the Arkansas river
levee at Redfield between Little Rock
and Pine Bluff and unless they are
rescued within few hours they will
be drowned. according to word re-
ceiyed by the Board of Commerce
here from a planter named McNeill
In Pine Bluff the collapse of wing
dikes against the levee extremities is
feared.
More than 1000 convicts are at
work placing 10000 sacks on levees
at the state penal farm at Cummins
in an effort TO save the threatened
camp.
Part of Kentucky Town Flooded.
Hickman, KY. Feb. 1.-The West
Hickman levee gave way Monday and
the Mississippi river flooded a large
area in the manufacturing district.
About 800 persons so far have been
rendered homeless.
Colorado Railways Still Blocked.
Durango, Colo, Feb. dynamite
crews were sent out by the railroads
lin southwestern Colorado Monday to
open the lines. The wet snow of the
the last week turned into ice, and in
many places solid walls of ice blocked
transportation. The big rotary plows
were unable to make any headway.
Crews have been our on the main
line of the Denver & Rio Grande over
Cumbres pass from Chama to Anto-
nito. and on the Rio Grande Southern
to clear a way between Durango, Rico
and Telluride
Efforts are being made to open the
Silverton branch, where slides have
tied up communication. In places, it
is said, the ice and Snow are from
twenty to fifty feet deep.
A drop in the temperature to 20 be-
low zero. coming on TIE heels of the
six-day snowstorm, added to the suf-
fering. Isolated livestock on the
ranges is reported to be freezing. Wa
ter systems in several towns have
been greatly damaged
A relief party has set out for an
abandoned mine near Sliverton, where
linemen of the Western Colorado
Power Company are marooned.
San Diego, Cal, Jan. 31.-Telephone
reports were received Sunday night
from two sources that the Cuyamaca
dam, at the source of the San Diego
river, had broken, releasing 5000 000,-
900 gallons of water. which has Great
ed new flood menace in district al
ready inundated. Morena dam is also
reported to have broken. 1t is the up
permost of the three storage units of
the San Diego water system and
empties it's overflow into Tia Juana
river Thousands, including residents
of Imperial Beach, on the north of the
mouth of the Tia Juana, have been
ordered to flee for their lives.
Yuma Believed Safe.
Yuma, Ariz., Feb. Yuma is be-
lieved to be safe from the ravages
of flood waters of the Colorado river
Wyoming Weather Back to Normal.
Cheyenne, Wyo., Feb. 1.-Milder
weather prevailed throughout Wyom-
ing Monday after the below-zero tenn
peratures. Railroad traffic was re-
ported normal except where affected
D1 COuuitiOuS Ol tut IaClllC coast.
Sheridan, with 129 below, was the
coldest point in the state Range
conditions are reported favorable.
with plenty of hay. No great losses
of livestock have been reported.
Big Stocks Lower on War Warning.
New York.-Losses of from one to
/ two points on many leading stocks
marked trading in Wall Street Mon
J day as result of the warning to tho
American people to prepare for q
possible war at any minute sounded
by President Wilson in his speeches
at Pittsburg and Cleveland Sat
urday. United States Steel. mar
/ ket leader, was offered for sale
in large blocks, and fell to 80.
+ Other stocks were similarly treated
although the sales were less and the
decline in price not so marked.