Show TELEGRAPHIC NEWS I > if I THE FLOOD The D 4maga sand the > Setter lag Increasing Memphis 12 Lieutenant Vedder detailed for duty in Arkansas to certain cer-tain the extent of the suffering caused by the overflow arrived this morning from Little R ck UP eitimafs that the JI V ernment will have to provide for twenty thouait d dfFtituie people in Arkn as f If sixty da ti frui the twentieth instant as tbR sulk ing i on the increM and will coiiuime 1 ng r f er the waters subside sub-side New 0 fan 12The river tday tho6 the highest rcurd of the season at 6 H m 9 i mcnpp at noon 8 inches at op m ti inches below the high i water mark of 1874 TimesDemoc Bayou Ark special spe-cial at 7 ionigh The news is gloomy The tVrt Couple break is widening every hoar It is expected to break abov any moment The whole levee will probaby KO Back water fell over twHiv inches to day no oubt caused by the bre + k in p terf dyke A very Nrge embankment ws built to prevtu t the water from entering Fale river This will fill Fahe river and ertainly cause the breakirg 0 Joraachce leak and in undKt Grjistetty county Pours dyk is about a mils from the court hou = e md abnut four from Waterloo It will be irnpieblf to eet mute the pnvhtion of the people loss of stock crops etc The steamer Pat Bonner with flats h zs been busy today removing cattle etc from Point Coupee to Cut island Many died en rcute fr m exhaustion and want of forage The trck of the Felicia Railroad Rail-road on the levee which protects the eastern side of town will have to be raised s the water h still rising an inch per day and not many inches to spare Some malicious person made a man cut in the levee last night about a mile below Carrollton The cut was closed without damage |