The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-02-05
FLOOD crest
MOVES SOUTH;
LEVEES HOLD
Recession Of Waters Seen
at Cairo. Hickman and
New Madrid, Mo.
DIKES STRENGTHENED
so PCT. AT POINTS

CAIRO, Ill.,, Feb. 5.-UP)-
The crest Of the nations worst
flood swung down the Mississippi
river toward Memphis last night
with levees all along the line hold
ing Stoutly against the yellow wa
ter.
The flood began to recede here,
1T Hickman, KY, and at New Ma
.irid, Mo.-oliginally believed to
De the danger points along the
1900 miles of levees from Cairo
to New Orleans.
Water was down one inch at
Hickman, and a half an inch on
the levee that protects Reeifoot
Lake. An engineer estimated that
S2JO,000 will have been spent on
a l7-milc section there before the
battle is ended. These bikes, how
ever, are 80 per cent stronger
now, because of sand-bagging OPP
erationS, than they were when
the flood menace began. Splash
boards have been built on top of
most of them, adding to the
height of the protection.
New Madrid, Mo-, was helped
by a break in a secondary dixie
near Bessie, Tenn. The water
flowed through crevasses in the
diKe, diverting pressure from New
Madrid and leaving engineers
that the town was safe.
Sandboils developed at two
places along the long leyee line
here and opposite Clayton and
dundee, Miss.
An official communique from
me army engineers said:
after hanging stationary at
1902 feet from 8 p. M, last
Cairo gauge had drop
ped a quarter of an inch TO $500
loday. Within the flood defenses
II Cairo, the situation is good.
Maintenance crews are working
IN q new sandboil that developed
C. ais morning.
1.-The Memphis guage register
cd 1920 feet at Beale street
MS is a rise Of $50 feet or about
,even inches in "a hours. MEM
yyhis is built on bluffs except for
the extreme northern and south
crn sections ard there is no dam
ger that the main section Of the
city will be tlooded.)
"ihe guage at Helena, Ark, is
rising at about the same rate.
"IodGy's best maintenance fight
is being waged opposite Clayton
and Dundee, Miss, wnere large
sandDoil had developed. A ring
of sacks, 800 or 40 feet in dame
ter was built promptly around the
boil, and even before this work
was completed, maintenance crews
began to construct sub-levee
26 acres around the
trouble zone. Several pumps are
in operation. the situation was
under control. There will be no
of vigilance, however.
GAS crest waters poured into
the Mississippi river from the
Ohio ample freeboard (the mar
gin Of walls and levees above the
yater) was reported on all
fronts"
Two boils behind the main line
evee in the Elaine-Mellwood,
Ark, vicinity was reported today.
sandbagged the boils
and brought them under control.
In that same vicinity, near Lo-
,onia Circle. engineers cut the
I'D line levee to permit an area
pack of the main levee to fill up.
This will relieve pressure against
he levee from the river.
Lieut.. w. NJ. Anderson, of the
Arkansas national guard, told the
United Press that the Big Greek
cvee mot on the Mississippi
lear handbook, Ark, had broken
md that water had poured over
/, 900 acres of land. |
All persons had been evacuated
,ut of the area and practically no
Iamage was done, Anderson said. |
The guardsmen were removing |
.ome livestock left stranded in
he waters path.
Everyone believes the Missis-
;ippi levees throughout this Sec
ION will hold" he said.