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Show A DIKE PRKIUITIOX. The Lower Mississippi Valley to lie VUltKl by mi A m fill flood. NKwYorn, Mrrh IS. KerKcnnt Dnnn i:f the kikiihI wrvire kijh mm of the kivhIiwI i-nlnniitii-x the country has ever known in imminent: that it is the duly of the press to warn the people of the lower Mississippi valley to prviaref'r .the worst. lie says it w ill Ixi the greatest ealamiiy tlu.t has ever befallen that nh'Iuiii, In tpilvof the rrevni-aia carrying off niilliouH of khIUiiih ,,f water every mvontl, the height of the r:?er nt Vieksburtf anil Cairo remained almost stationary at the top of the Hood limit. This show, that tho channel of the river lielow it is choked with alluvium anil debris from the (irst tiooil. This is m-tiiiK as a dai whu li will eventually work havoc w ith all the levees. When the wave erest from this new storm comi down the river things are Istund tt Ite carried awav, and tho entire surruuudiiiK country w-erea. w-erea. 't his probably will arrive at Cairo in two or three days, but it may be thnti weeks liefore it reaches New Orleans, New Orleans will l visited visi-ted without a doubt by the most disastrous Hoods ever known. 1 would not ive live cents for my life in that city when the wave crest strikes it. 1 have loeH stal loneil at Cairo, New Orleans and Cincinnati duriuu times of. (treat Hoods audi know w hat they are. KlllNAl. BKHVlt'E llllLLKI'lN. Washington, March IN. -Tho signal wrvice bureau issues a sHHial river bulletin warning the people of tt e lower Mississippi to preimre for the (jieatcst Hood ever known. |