Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-02-04
Four Charges Explo d q Last Evening and Night
 Across the River.
FRAME BUILDING
 GOES INTO STREAM
All Attempts to Stop Caving at Nc- braska Street Futile, Thus Far-Oi! Tanks and Cotton Belt Tracks in
 Danger-D. F. Miller Hurt.

That an explosion of dynamite, which shook Pine Bluff houae. and startled Pine Bluff people shortly after ' o'clock last night. was set off by unknown persons in an attempt t1 tear away" the point which iuts ln,u the river immediately opposite Pine Bluff, was the substance of the in- formation obtained after an investi- gatiOn last night and early this morn ing
 What result if any, was achieved, it was impossible to tell, early this mcrning. The actual place at which the charges was exploded, and the person or person who lit the fuse, also are not known at this writing.
 There appears no doubt the inten- tion was to blow away the point of land which serves no apparent pur- nel and the strcng current of the rives againsi the bank, in East Pine Bluff. Whether tho charge was set at the tip of the point, or at the old government levee about mile farther north, is not known.
 The eld governm ant levee was erected several wears ago. Across the point, about a mile, or a little more, north of Pine Bluff, there ex- tends low strip c' land. During a flood some years ago, the river began to eat across the point, in this low strip. Government employees built the levee hurriedly, and stopped the progress of the river.
 If the intention was to blow up this cid levee, and the intention was car ried out, by this m!crning the Arkan- sas river will be flowing through that low strip, getting into it's old chan Tel again considerable iistanca e2st of the Gotten Belt shops prop erty.
 No Noticeable Effect. At midnight last night, the cur rent was striking the southern bank Of the river about 100 feet east of the spot where it had been striking earlier in the evening.
 Unless this was caused by the re- suits If the explosion, there was no noticeable effect of the explosion re- ported last night, from any of tho workers and watchers along the bank m East Pine Bluff.
 The caving at Nebraska, Pennsyl- vania and Ohio streets was continu- ing at that hour, and the situation vas still reported as very serious. he city's street department. all the prisoners from the city jail, and scores of other laborers, were assist ing employees of the government and of the Cotton Belt railroad. to fight the inroads; of the river. The work continued by the light Of carpfires, throughout the night.
 While the workers may be check ing the progress of the river to some extent, the stream is still eating it's way into the bank. Owners Of property in the vicinity are greatly excited ever the conditions prevailing. One frame building went into the river yesterday afternoon, while several hundred sightseers watched with awe. The river is striking the bank with a roar as of monster waterfall.
 Early this morning, the roar could be heard more than mile away. It could be heard distinctly in Main stree. The scene is reached only by
 boat from the edge of the submerged section of East Pine Bluff, but this did not deter many from going to witness the Slgnt.
 One Man Is Injured. D. E. Miller, an employe of the Pine Bluff Sand & Gravel company, suffered fracture of the left leg yes terday forenoon, when he was caught
 iE a guy wire, while aiding in saving boom belonging to the company. He
 Was removed to a hospital.
 The caving of land closer to the plant of the Standard Oil company
 left a strip of Cotton Belt track sus- pended in the air, and the track can
 be saved, if no further caving occurs
 at that point.
 Several tanks of oil are in grave
 danger. The Standard Oil company
 and the Magnolia company both have valuable properties that may sink
 into the river before daylight today. None Of the engineers at work az
 the scene would hazard an opinion as
 to what might result. None would
 say anything about the chances Of stepping the caving and saving the remainder of the bank.
 MAny Cars of Rock. 1 Eighteen cars of rip rap TOOK, pur-
 chased by the government engineers
 and sent here by special train, were dumped onto the bank, in the. effort
 to atop the caving yesterday and last night. Hundreds of bags of sand anu \ CONTINUED ON PAGE THBEE.