Show GROWING WORSE DANGER IN OTHER SECTIONS OF THE SOUTH rho ib people of helm ark are r working day and night to strengthen the loves and keep off the threatened overflow memphis tinn te nn april S the good flood situation lias has once more become acute from a point a few miles above austin miss bliss as tar far down us as the first break it at perthshire Perth shire miss another crevasse in this line of levees would not be surprising the pressure on the levee is brought about by the waters of the st francis basin which are here congested between the levees in front of helena there is no levee on the ar kansa down to saus sans souci to a point above helena a distance of a hundred miles and it is at austin that the levee system on each side of the river begins and goes to the passes below new orleans the water is now so high in the st francis basin that the current rushes from the west and cuts along the east shore levee tor for miles and several alarming telegrams have been received from near austin today boats I 1 have been requested to run on a slow ow bells and laborers are constantly strengthening the embankments A crevasse at austin would inundate a strip of fertile country in tunica and coahoma counties twenty miles wide and sixty miles long reports from helena ark show that the river there la Is still slowly rising and it is almost miraculous that the levees of helena have not broken thousands of people have been working rig day and night and their energies are seemingly exhaustless the missouri pacific and cotton belt roads have rushed trainload after trainload of sacks of sand into the city and still stand ready to help the helena people the railroads have rendered great assistance greenville is on an island and rosedale miss is in water from fram five to ten feet deep |