Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-02-02
HUNDREDS MADE
 HOMELESS; MANY |
 PEOPLE IN WANT
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to arrange for a boat tC go to the
 rescue of the refugees. but nothing
 could be done, because there was no
 beat at hand which was net already i busy at just the same kind of work 1 elsewhere
 The dredgeb at Arkansas is lying
 at Pine Bluff Secretary E B Bloom
 comn unicated by long distance tele-
 phon, with Major Dent, engineer in
 charge, at Little Rock, and Major
 Dent ordered the boat to go tc Doug l las, for the sufferers Later Major
 Dent telephoned MT Bloom that after
 a conference with the captain of the
 boat, he had decided she could not
 make the trip, not being able to nayi-
 gate safely fhe swift current, especi-
 ally past the breaks, and not being
 able to pass the Rob Roy bridge
 without great danger.
 l Governor George w. Hays. Manag- ing Editor Fred Heiskell of the Little | Rock Gazette. and a dozsn other in l fluental men, appealed tc, Major Dent to order the boat to make the l trip, but without avail, according to MT. Bloom.
 COnvfcts are MarOOned. | 'WncH lHG 0Oo WdlCc CSANioIo WSl V 1 moved from Cunmins to the penlten- tiary at Little Rock Monday night, approximately 900 negro convicts re- l mained at Cummins. These were uE- able to reach the railroad at Warner when the breaks occurred, and they were marooned on high ground throughout yesterday.
 Ccmaissione Ferguson remained at the farm, and yesterday Commits sioner Burkett came to Pine Bluff, to obtain a boat with which to- move the convicts from the farm. The steamer Bay Queen, which was moored near the Rcb Roy bridge, was. obtained, and started for Cummins yesterday afternoon. Secretary Blcom for the chamber of consa,srce, Mayor Simon Bloom, and other local men made every pos s;ble effort to prevail upon MT. Bur kett to, have the Bay Queen first rescue the refugees at Douglas.
 All the livestock and other move able property that could be moved, was moved, to Warner from the Cum .nlins convict farm before the breaks eccurred, and will be saved, with 'lrttle if any damage, according to re- ports received last night from Var nar. The convict farm buildings, with few exceptions, are expected to be destroyed CT so badly damaged they will have to be rebuilt, as a result of the breaks.
 Plum Bayou Levee Safe.
 The Plum Bayou levee is valiantly holding its own, and according to a 1ot to 1oct Duoninu R Core, at Plum Bayou, there is no sign of danger yet, at any point.
 Pine Bluff men wllai were in Little Rock yesterday, read with some mis- givings, a report in, the Litle ROCK Democrat that ths levee had broken at Wildcat. Hurried communication brought the news here, and long dis tance telephone elicited the fact the report was unfounded, being an eX- aggeration of an earlier report that the high wind was causing some water to lap the top of the embank- msnt near that place
 All the waterways behind Plumi Bayou levee are bank full. as are all other streams in this section, and at many places it is reported consider able back water has accumulated. but from no placa comes any report or danger
 Boatmen Rescue Refugees A gasoline boat from Little Rcck spent all of yesterday rescuing peo- pie and livestock from the lowlands not protected by 'Plun Bayou levee across the river from Redfleld and that section TE2se refuga3s were landed at the Oliver place, and are now safe, if not altogether comfort able The captain of the boat sent word to Little Rock fer more assistance, saying there are $50 or 400 more people and "a world of stock yet to be removed from the submerged sec- tion to higher ground. It was expect cd another gasoline boat would reach the scene late last night or early to- day.
 FrenchtOwn Levee Fine The water is not over the bank yet in the Frenchtown levee section, said Lee, M. Andrews last night. lm- il edia,sly after his return from that section.
 "The 300 feet of levee which gave way last year is being rebuilt, as i' precautionary measure. Slncs ouhuay the work has been going on, ana there were 75 men engaged at 1t tc- day. There is no danger whatever, as the water will have to rise consld- erably more befare it tops the bank and back of that we have already five feet or more of levee. l do not expect the levee will be needed, as ,be breaks dcwn the river will check the rise here."
 Forecast Is Borne Out.
 The conditions around Cummins and Douglas and the forecast as to probabilities, printed in The Grapnlc Tuesday morning, were borne out by yesterdays occurrences.
 Two breaks, one at Goree's camp and one at Mrs. R. c. Weeks p'anta- sion, were chronicled in Tuesdays Graphic. Later, breaks occurra a, Cummins itself, at Middle Camp, le,.