Pocahontas star herald., 1916-02-11
FLOOD CONDITIONS
WITHOUT PARALLEL


brought the Mississippi river to the
highest stage ever recorded at Ak
ansas City and other points. A. 81
o'clock Tuesday night the gauge
showed Boz feet, In the food OF
1919, the highest food ever before
recorded on tue Mississippi river,
The stage was a5.35, according to a
report by Cot. c. Med. Townsend,
L. 5. A, president of the MIsslss-
lppi River Commission.
During the food Of 1919, accord.
ing To Colonel Townsend's report,
the maximum aow Of tue Mississip.
pi river was 2,8OO, 600 cubic feet Of
water per second, or I9 times the
amount Of water that passes over
the Niagara Falls per second. The
maximum discharge Of the upper
Mississippi river is estimated at
10000 second feet; that OF the
Missouri, 100000 seoond-ieet; that
OF the Ohio, i,40O,OO second.feet;
of the Arkansas 10000 second.
feet, aud of the Red, 22O, 900 sec.
oudteet. Ia addition the White,
st. Francis. Yazoo, Tensas aud
Ouachita rivers pour huge volumes
OF water to the Mississippi during
food stage.
/ The combination which now
exists does not include floods Of
maximum heights to all the trlbu.
taries Of the Mississippi, but comes
nearer than ever before to receiving
the maximum discharge from sever
al of the rivers. The Arkansas,
White and Red rivers are practI.
eally as high as ever before, and III
addition there have been floods in
tie upper Misslss,ppl, the lever
White and the lower Missouri
rivers.
At Arkansas City the Mississippi
river is higher than was ever known
before and the people are IN great
distress.
At Lake Village the water was
still rising yesterday. More than
5000 meu are at work on the leyees
in Cblcot county. 1000 people are
said to be homeless in thus county.
/ All the lower and down river
counties Of the state are under wa
ter and millions Of dollars worth OF
property have been destroyed. All
along the Arkansas river from Lit.
tie Rock down the entire low coun.
try is overflowed. The towns OF
Gould, Douglas, Grady, Watson
and Warner are inundated. In
many places fat boots have been
constructed and people are living
on them. The town of McCleland
in Desha county is reported to be
eleven feet under water and is de-
populated.
At Clarendon, on White river,
the levees roke Monday and the
entire town was flooded from SIX to
ten feet deep. The people had been
warned however and were prepared
for the worst. It is said that 200
people are living In the court house
there, and that as many or more
are at the New South Inn, the lead.
ing hotel of the town.
In most of the upper river ooun-
ties the danger has past and the
waters are falling rapidly. The
conditions at Newport are much
improved: The washouts on the
Iron Mountain railroad were repair
ed and train service, both north and
south, was resumed Monday.
Black river at Pocahontas reached
a stage nine inches higher than it
was during the August overflow.
The levee at Skaggs broke Friday
and a considerable portion of the
east side was overhowed. Had 1t
not been for this break IN the
Skaggs Ievee the river would have
reached a much higher stage at
this place.
No regular trains have been run
IN and out of Pocahontas since Sun
day, Jan. 80, but 1t is thought that