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Show 1m BREAKS IN mi SYSTEM II MEMPHIS Wall of Water Twenty Feet High Sweeping- Across the Lowlands of Arkansas; Inestimable Loss. "0 LIVES LOT SO -j J FAR AS REPORTED ' Thousands of Men Working . ; at the Weak Spots; Cairo j May Emerge From Flood ; on Missouri Side. . JTHMPHIg, Tcsm.. April 6. Tho Ittflc at Modoc. Ark., on tho Whlto ' ; river, thirty miles south of Helena, 4 1 U reported to havo broken. j t. LOUIS. April i?. Two HerlotiH 1 r bro-ks Iti the main system of tho .1 ;V St. Francis IfVf.p. system occurred k opposite Memphis on the Arhan-' Arhan-' gits dde of tho Misslsnlppl river if ili twin nnd tonight a rapine; flood oj ih a en-si twenty ft.ot high. In !wenp- ,3 fcj aoroas tin St. KnmclH lowlands and not be chocked until th first high 4 list Crowlcy'H rldpc, forty miles away, )t Ui bcri reached. ? , The first break occurred between I lot - J j hiuth and St. Claire. Ark. The levoe $ 'ttre Is lower than It Is at other points. 't Jfai working on tlio lovee had to flee . fw tliclr lives when tho flood, lashed t. fclo fury by a high south wind, began 'f lo flow over tho lover, and soon tho cm- ktr.'raent was cut. through. The flood ijr fuchul Marlon. Axk.. shortly before mld- $ jijht, and thousands of acres havo been f. fendated and homes swept away. No 4 hills have boon reported up until a late y fcr tonight. j Alr.oit slinullaneouply with the flint Ita'x, tltc St Francis Icvcc was broken X io it "Wy.uiolce. ten mllej; below Mem-i Mem-i Seven hundred meii hove been $ ifcwitratcd at this point. Two mam-4 mam-4 bth streams will Join before morning, . 2 i Mid, and by noon Sunday tho river ,. ftfc'ltc Memphis will be a lako clear to Crowley's ridge, forty miles away, -j 7h vdlcr Is e.pected to flow back into $ ilit Mississippi near Helena, Ark. All if Crlttundon, part of Loo. Phillips. Cross U'l St Francis comtle8 will b Inuu- l hted. !; tote dispatches say It Is almost cer- - sjt (tin tha 8t. Francis levee will break at ilic polntf. M KhI Serious Disaster. ,. j 7hli Ib the most norlous disaster that Ji k yti befallen the flood-ridden section. JEMcm of dollars aro Invested In prop- jf; ,n tno valley and the loss. In prop-tj prop-tj Mr ir.d livestock will be Inestimably. . 'freildcnt O, N. Klllough of tho St. j ftindB leven hoard expects tho crovasse $ b b a mile wldo hy Sunday morning, d It the aamo opot wherh the leveo 'Jcke In loon and what tho flood did then It fairly good idea of what tho one will do. The flrst barrier to ountarod by tho flood was the railroad tracks, built high from rounding country. It was a mat-bilt mat-bilt a few moments until the I embankmants wero topped by mlner flood. This was ropoated Iron Mountain and Rock Island Memphis, thorciforo, Is practl-nt practl-nt off from tho west. hla proper has profltod by the S of fan EL Francla levee. The ak ooolirred at about 5 o'clock In snlny, and by 0 o'clook the river Un from a stage of -15.3 to H.10 Slamphlo and the fall was in-J in-J bj the- crevasses In the lovee fldcr. tlons in North Memphis havo been Browing worse as the river roso 70iid the wildest predictions, rera Conscripted, fen, both nogroes and white have nsoriptod and taken to the Ar-Ido Ar-Ido to aid In tlio uphill Qght 1 tio Father of Waters. North to has been practically cut off ho rost of tho city, tho last car 1 Poplar avenue being compelled to Jnnlng this morning, to n steady fall of rain and a T'hl from the Mississippi side of the force of lovei: workers was J nt Cairo tonight, and every foot Froat leveo syslom Ib being given Inspection. Nearly 100.000 sand-ftre sand-ftre scattered around tho lev ecu to '"OHt coiiveulont places in raHo they 've were all' reported subrtan-1!ht. subrtan-1!ht. The river reached Ufty-four 1 o'clock with a rising tendency, one foot and clght-tcnth hlKh- all previous records "nan, Ky roports tonight that the in the government leveo thero 1 ' east logo fna Wlde. Tho water n"K through at a vi-rv rapid rate. ith on bc-.st Intonnatlon obtaln-alAJiit obtaln-alAJiit tlfioci, foot. One of tho br-i J-.'1 men down there sayK It will or alx dnyH Jjeforo the Rcelfoot "'an bayln will be tilled. si announcement of the break Francis levee comes word that uin i 13 ar0 011 Wft" down the i'W'and that there Is no hope, now "5. 'no levees in the lower Miiwls-nkh Miiwls-nkh for days havo been strained raklnr nolnt. Detoured, Sr 01 'Ix-tiTithn at Quincy. III., dur-I dur-I ,V,nlKnt mi Indloatliin of this. VWt'TfMi'Wero fe11 todav at Quincy and ' i t.; 'nK tides hn Hooded baements TtS:tUr,r,f buildings along the Jihl,7'1 rnatiy shutdowns. 'U ., ":r belnK detourcd In order to iiBrn.n'ncy. and many roada have SBhdty. "'"Ponded their nervlce Into t BVIoJyp. at Hollybush. K, broke at HHS'l ih. PIb ftftnrnoon and cfforlJ to K flKWonL ,evf 111 Hnrlbut. lnd wore i&Smbii Vi ,l01y. B0ttrt ,,(,ll,P l Its juncture with tho r c ooiulnuca rising between Han- ',i.''!IIJ w !" r,"d Grafton, 111 The MIs-Jm. MIs-Jm. conl,no lining for thlrty-nlx hours between Boonvllle. -Mo. rni ilcr--I man Mo., but from Krincim Cltv to nonn- villi it will fall tomorrow. . The liver at St I.ouls remained stn-tionary stn-tionary today, reginterlinr 30.7 feet on the gauge at r, p. m. It is cpectod to rise to ..1 feet and remain at that point several sev-eral days. U'ith the Ohio rlvor rlflng at KvRns-villp KvRns-villp Ind., ami at all points hciow, and wltlO rain threatened during the next twenty-four hours, the outlook 13 not promising to thousands living In the low-andfi. low-andfi. The crest, of the rise Is expected here Tuesday or Wednesday. Along" the Wabash. Conditions along the Wabash and White rivers are moro threatenlns- io-n io-n ghl than at any time since the beginning begin-ning of the flood. Hundreds of horns are surrounded by high water and it Is feared there will be a loss of life. At New Madrid, Mo., the river began to fall last night, but rain today forecasts another rise.. A local option election was held there today and boats or every do-ccrlptlon do-ccrlptlon were ueed to carry voters to the pollu. An astonishing feature of tho flood Is the opinion of river engineers that the Mississippi rlvor haB at Innt sought a new level through the Cacho river bottoms bot-toms and Ib now enacting a change in the geography of DHnolo. In the event of tho flood remaining: long enough, the engineers en-gineers say the Mississippi will establish estab-lish a now channel connecting with tho Ohio and throwing Calrb on the Missouri side. Fight Seema Hopeless. MEMPHIS, Tenn., April fl. Frantic effortN are being made to hold tho Golden Lake and Pociin Point loveea In Mississippi Mis-sissippi county, Arkansas, but late tonight to-night the flood was making Inroads and tho fight seemed hopeleSH. Kaln is falling fall-ing at Memphis and generally throughout the territory regarded as the present danger zone. A stiff wind also Is handicapping handi-capping tho flood lighters, lashing the water into waves. Late reports from the south of Memphis Mem-phis tonight show that In tho lowor Ya- aoo district below Greenville, Miss., the situation is fast becoming grave. Plenty of labor Is available, however, and those In charge of the levees say they will nave tho embankments. North of Memphis Mem-phis in this district, a shortage of labor has hamperod tho flood fighterB. Today the Memphis police camo to their aid and idle men were roundod up and put to work. The White River front between the oity of Helena and the mouth of tho stream In threatened. At Gilts Bond, near Natchez, Miss., a large slice of tho bank caved In today, almost to the baso of the levee. A large number of men are building a crib behind be-hind the levee. Near Greenville, Mise.. -100 convluts are &t work. Governor Brewer went to Greenville tonight, personally to Inspect tho levees. . O. N. Klllough, president of the M Frauds levee board, asked the A?sorI-atcd A?sorI-atcd Press tonight to deny reports published pub-lished In certain papers that the greater part of the St. Francis basin, which extends from the Missouri line to below Memphis, is under water. While the tnitorv overflowed Is large in area. It makes up only a small part of the entire basin. Mr. Klllough Is not optimistic as to the general situation. Work of Relief, WASHINGTON. April 6. Tho war department de-partment has ordered Ave officers to tho flooded districts to Investigate the ncods of the people and to report to Washington. Washing-ton. These offlcers are Major .lames b. Normoyle at Columbujj. Ky.; -PlI Harry A. liegeman at New Madrid, Mo., Captain James A. I-ogan. Jr. at lleJJ-man. lleJJ-man. Kv.. Captain Bnlccr nt Tlptonvllle. Tenn., and nn officer from Jackson Barracks. Bar-racks. I.a.. ordered to Helena. Ark. Cantaln liegeman reported today ho woCul n.rf supplies tor about 1000 per-roivi per-roivi a day. He was directed to dra te days' supplies from the St. LouIb army depot. The war department plans t" buv most of the food supples fiom merchants In the floudod dl.-.tricl- By rmtronlzing them at a time when their ordinary business Is paralyzed, the government gov-ernment feels It will confer a real benefit bene-fit unim the distressed communities. Comml.sEary CvnornI Shnrpe today nlared J30.000 at the dlspoxol of th" offlcers offl-cers in the. flood district?. Tin IN Cross officials are In cIoh..-touch cIoh..-touch with the war department In renin! to e Mvt work. It Is possible lzation soon may UiUo ujhju Itself tho entire conduct of the relief work. I'lrec-tor I'lrec-tor Blcknoll will o to the Mltislsalppi V"The' Wells-nngo lCxprefH c":npan to-,iav to-,iav notified the Interstate cuinmorc o'mnnXslom in ofr''l1t,,o;,'BhS that U would transport, free or clmtj,e dow'tlons of tentn. snppll. money, food w clc thing for the flood sufferer. This anplks alVo to Kovernnioijt auppHw. liitrrtiPtlon oi no num lffi"l d valley Is the moat serious In the hlsto y of the postal oervlee. r'os -mast'r General Hlteliem nld 1--"core of towt.s In tho lower .vallj-ys nre I sorted completely so nr m n'l ; munleatlon is concerned, and the. sftua tlon Is growing worse. Loss in Dakota. Stage6. Ti n Missouri here l entirely rreu nf Ice. Thousands of acres of bottom. nfn.l"huv been "ownT"1 Wh c lOhS will be (iffBet In nart. by fhe" benefits lo eroivi of tho flooding or the benches. No loss nf life la known to have occurred la this kliilty. Several Indians, how-evr, how-evr, havi bi'flu drowned en the Fort Peek resenatlou in Montana. Flood in Montana. CHEAT FAIJ.S. Mont., April fi. Tie-ports Tie-ports from Chinook nay portlonn of that town are under water. The Milk river began to rlpo last night, and u was necessary today to use a boat to take passengers from the holds lo tho railroad rail-road stations. The North Fork nnd West Fork hnve overflowed their banks, but residents on tho outskirts of town were warned In ample time. Hundreds of acres of land aro under water. The breaking of two Bmall dams has augmented the flood waters. |