Show ARKANSAS TOWN SlOWlY SLIDING INTO THE RIVER High Water May Result In Destruction Destruc-tion of Town Unless Course of River Is Changed fine Bluff AlkWhlle appealing us n lust recourse to President Reese veIL for permission to cut through government leovees and change the course of Arkansas rIver leaving Pino llluff high and dry but safe every available man In this city has been put to work strengthening al ready crumbling banks until the crest of a sixteenfoot rise passes this point In an effort to prevent an overflow over-flow which would mean destruction of property valued at hundreds of thousands of dollars and possibly loss of life Whether their effortn will be successful Is probloinetitlcal A largo section of land thirty feet north of the walls of the county courthouse court-house and Jefferson hotel each valued val-ued at 100000 Is slowly disappearing Into the river and warehouses along the bank which luivo already been partly wrecked may fall at any moment mo-ment Should the water breakthrough break-through the bank It seems certain hoveral streets lined with business houses and a mile long would be destroyed de-stroyed |