| Show TIE ANGRY WATERS Gnat Floods In Few Orlcani and Arkansas Alarming Ktporls Forthcoming MANY Or THE STREETS COM PLETCLY SUBMERGED Railroad Service Cat OJLTf Under ITatcr Bridges Etc Worked Away CjT > STlpbto Ibo XCVI1 TiT Town rliKxlrd Uallroad Comma olrallan Cut on Cimt Dulr McutJIis March 13 Meagre details de-tails of flue llooda in Arkansas have been received at Battsville The White River rose thirtytwo feet in twentyfour hours and all the lower part of the town Is flooded The destruction of property at Black Rock will bu heavy The water stands sir feet In the driest hotels and business place Orders to remove re-move all the bars from Ute Iron Mountain yards at Newport have been given No trains have reached here since ber le Tuesday A pedal train from Little Rock says rite news from the interior towns L that all the streams are are high and a large number of bridge are washed away No trains have reacted here front Fort Smith since Monday and traffic en all the reads Is i ladly delayed The Arkansas Arkan-sas River Is rising rapidly Pine llluin aud there danger that the government dykes will be destroyed Ilio situation between that point ana the Mississippi River is laid to b alarming The river Is in an alarming condition con-dition The highest flood level ever known is already reached at many points south of her and will likely bo attained from Cairo to tho Gulf within tho next five or six days The rainfall the last three days turns up a total of from two to tiinti Inches tl elite over the country lying I west of the Mississippi I to Indian Territory I and south of the Ozark ranges anti from two to five Inches between tho Ohio and Cumberland valleys Au Appeal reporter has just returned re-turned from Arkansas City and says tIe real condition of that placeless place-less been suppressed Water from ulpnS the Sappingtou brook ha flooded the town and surrounding country Hundreds sheep ansi hogs have been drowned and the people are In constant fear of a break lit the Interim front of th cily where the water yesterday was four Iiichex upon up-on the sand tanks on top of the levee KAILKOAD SERVICE CUT OKK IArLAD C CAIRO III March I3U is I not thought the Ohio river will rise any hlghcrherv Thocityls nearly cut otr from rolr1 trrc by the high water TiE DILEU1IA AT NEW CHILEANS NEW OKLRANS March 13AL 1 p iu the river was three inches ibovclhe high water mark ofIS74 nuil Is still rising At Peydras street the water commenced running over the levee and all the low places in the vicinity were soon flooded On the lower side of Canal street near Ilarbor station the water covers the levee to the Louisville at Nashville lepct At Bieuvllle street part of the levee launder water ThustreeU about UieSuRar Exchange amused e and the Exchange Is I rcnchtd by temporary plank walks The water is fliwing down the gutters iu I lwlnl Jte Ilienvlllc Center aol other streets blow the canal Itl not expected however that much damage will result ufsh j JIlii suit I as the J levee is strong aud will not give way Thu miner continues rising steadily At 333 1 p I It is nix inches above high water mark if former years A largo putt cf the thy below Canal Street ii entirely lubmerged The wetter at the Custom Cus-tom Houe is I over the tldewalkt and coming up rapidly On the Decatur Street side thin water fills tlC street ind is beginning to encroach on the iidewalk The water is I flowing nut of Canal Street aud indications are that tho entire busincvt portion of the city will in covereU with water before morning THE RIVER steals at fill was sixteen feet and at 250 had readied seventeen Ct but I remained at that point but a short while when it readied t IG feet where it seemed to make a stand This was six inches above the record of other years and the water went over the levees all along the city front nt every depression or low place aud eoou flooded the streets and sldimalktt of a largo ton of the city up town At the head of Jackson Washington and Sara Peru streets the water ran over the levee and submerged the streets and sIdewalk sIde-walk Thu same thing occurred at other points down to Ioydnw Street where the water spread out over the oiace occupied by the Morgan road then Ivgau to flow down Poydras Street and out into the trace streets on thu other side and filling the gutters back to flue drainage canals In the rear of the city From Custom House Street t Conti tbe water coma over the levees freely and completely submerged merged tie streets and in many places the sidewalks and lower floors of busintss hou < es from the I north side of Canal to Hospital Street a distance of fourteen blockr ant from utho river to Rampart Street a distance of eight blocks The damage done 5 far I not greatTilE THE OnT DAMAGE was that sustained by the merchants merch-ants who l had sugar stored in the bonded warehouse In Levee Street The Southern and Crescent oil mills were being washed under by water and floors were tam away and embankments built underneath neath A ° bceak occurred nt Hatch a smaU place near Harvey Canal but I only reached the width of cur feet when It discovered and promptly closed I Is still a Sromptly angerous weak spot a the levee I Term The levee at Sharps place five miles above Cretna where there was a serious crevasse some years ago Is again creating anxiety as it shows signs of weakening From tho Canal street Ferry tote to-te Morgan depot the principal iiorllon of Algiers I a distance of threequarters of a mile the situation situa-tion at ono time was very threatening threaten-ing About noon tho water commenced com-menced washing over the levis along its whole length and in a short spate of time the entire front rce and street for ten blocks back were flooded Yardmaster Maguiro of the Morgan road and the city force immediately went to work and In four hours threw up an entire new levee That topjI the flow temporarily tem-porarily but the waler u already knee deep In Front te Just below Algiers is the Orleans levee which commands a largo section lion of country The new levee was constructed only a few days rgo but tho river has been iimbing 0 and today a warning signal was again given The water w s six Inches deep over the levees rest Men and material were promptly furnished and a allant clOth 1 A AtInpmAO The council tonight appropriate 150000 for work on the levees durln the danger period At Natchez the levee on Davl Island Like Con corJia gave way flooding tin Novelty Evergreen Bofara Mor can and Potawama Plantations The city Is lower than the river The water la all through h the street and I Muz pumped out at tho trick part of the IJmp Lake Poncba train The full of water may exceed the capacity of the pump and HOCK the whole back rll of hue town I but they are making nil possible ef forts to check the overflow 150 a mIt lias been raining teadily but slowly elms S p m The rainfall added to the wati Otelng over the levers In front ol the city and running lack lix l overflowed a large ton of flue city in the vicinity of Clalborno Street The river guage shows no material change gag water b flow Ing over the levee npldly the head 01 Ittcra Street and the tide walk and trtcU iu the vicinity are covered Water is also running over the levee pretty freely Third Forth Sixth Eighth Teletfino tixrapactpr end Slate tretl Gang of men are working nlong the levee at many points and the low ol water into tlC city may L checked if tIer I furtherrkc The railroad rail-road are doing good work in a > ting t-ing the authorities nil along the line The outlook tonight however how-ever Is by no lens reansunlug AT GltSIeltLE SItS GHEE VJLJK Miss March 13 A report up to SiUl oclock from all blots In this levee djrtrict I above and below indicates that all Is I serene on this side of the river Kvery preparation is being made for any < Kfiblu breaks or weak places that may occur in the levees Rain has fallen here for fiftyfour hours with butsllght intermboionaud lie total fall has exceeded five inches It II still raining and the Indications Indica-tions 1n that it will rain all of tonight to-night The river rose one and a half inches In thepast twentyfour hours and is still rising TIlE CONDITION OF ARKANSAS LITTLE Roar Ark March 13 The situation at Newport Ark at the confluence of the Whltu anti Black rivers is one of extreme danger dan-ger The water Is within a few Inches of the top of the levee which surrounds the town and is rising at a rate of three inches an hour The Inhabitants are greatly excited Shoul the levers break the destruction destruc-tion will be terrible At Batcsvllle all that portion of the town through which the Iron Mountain runs is a foot underwater and trains a abandoned Reports from BUck River Valley show that the low lands are now under water at places so dttp that the tree tojn alone are visible Jacksonport in I underwater from two to four feet The telegraph and telephone wins are down In all dl revtions and no estimate of tie damage dam-age can lie made A Gazette spixlal from Black Rock Lawrence County gives a distressing account of the tlund In that section Block Oliver along which are many mill Is ten Inches higher than ever known ant all the sow mills are under water A vast amount of timber has been wahej away and wontnun with families r In great wont and considerable dIstress is felt among the wtllcio Every house In Powhattan the county seat of Lawrence County i under water except tho podtoflitx Several bridges are washed away and bon cl1l and hogs drowned The tYool Uroireni WASHINGTON Mind IX David llarfster president of thu Wool Growers Association and JuJgo Lawrence a nicniUr ot the imo issociatiun have prepared for Iub lication a statement explanatory of the wool schedule in the taritf bill now under consideration Iy the Uonso committee on ways and means Among other things it says Schedule K provides tliat tuudard samples bu detOsited in t de lie custom hciii 3 < contains irovi Ioua to prevent round lot rrauds sortingfnmds anil admixture frauds and defined washed and Hun wrols As to socalled er pttwocLthe proposed provisions much letter than ever incorporated inany tarilTIaw and thescarewoola hat just now are Injuring the wool se I 1 h1 toe mn I than < any other The farmers of the United States ant tho iwopie generally I gen-erally w hose prosperity lidcpenUeut on the success of our agrlcuUnral industliex are to le congratulated on thu fact that Major McKInley and those cooperating with him on the committee on ways and mean have proposed a measure of such immense value The projcsed duty I < an increase cf 1 per cent per pound on nO and combining wools over tho uresent law The Senate bill which J asnsti January 221SS9 proposed ccnU on carjet prll wool whilherwnslied orunivasIiiJ but the rates of thu proposed bill of 3j cents on unwashed with higher i rates on washed and scoured make It much better for woolgrowers than the SenatD bill Wo urge the friends of protection to American Industry 1 over the country to appeal to their repre > cn tativesiu Conlnsil gl e their sup port to this intasure aud not to surrender sur-render any one feature c its protective tective provisions Grain loeSeen OD Strike LIVERPOOL March 13 Two thousand grain potters have struck for higher wages Fir In Slew Orltao Nov OKLKANS March 13Tho American Fatty Production Company Com-pany works at Ioet and North Peter Street were burned this aCer with the ether noon together wih Ltler buildings Lhp rqunrc The IWMS aggregate 70OOU fully insured Soulea brewery was only slightly scorched The 5lcw > rt Cxlule Sold Nsw YorK March 13A portion pr ton of the property of the eUte of Cornelia M Stewart was told today by the executors Stewarts uptown up-town dry goods store on UroaJnay try Js B Street was bought by Albert 1 Hilton con of Judge Hilton for J700WU 700 700T The Brlllh Common LONDON March 13In the Commons Com-mons tonight Hamilton first Lord moD of the Admiralty said the estimates for the building warships during the coming year wero ti4S6000 comng This sum was exclusive of the estimates for armament which mates or armment whih amounted to 1700000 Smith liberal member for Flint shire asked whether tho government govern-ment had seen the printed reports cruelties inflicted upon political prisoners in Siberia anr whither would cause the British ambassador at St Petersburg t direct the attention at-tention of the Russian government to the matter t Smith government leader replied that the government had no means of ascertaining the truth of these reports nor bad It power to approach ap-proach the Russian government on the subject General Hanley moved to InC crease the grant fur volunteer our C vies He was opposed by Gofcben but the radian was nevertheless bt carried amid opposition dicers Tho opJlon appropriations asked for the army A r rtnr JInrtlrrfd DAVENPORT Ia March IX The little town of Brown Clinton County was the sceno of I tragedy tills morning Heury If u tie a wealthy farmer was raurdcrvd In his residence His wife was serl curly I wounded The murderer is unknown Tho murder must have been committed com-mitted a day or two ago When found None was cold He had evidently l evi-dently been struck down as he satin sat-in a dtalr down stairs Upstairs I abedroomMr None was found in a comatuse condition There had evidently been a severe struggle In lice room Thu doctors do not expect ex-pect her to live A reward of 1 thousand dollars Is I otTcred for the thount ailaN olcr apprehension of the murderers they Since UrIirnr ST PAC March 13At 1110 mark today the north Dakota Nerd Wheat Commission appointed to devIce ways oust means to relieve the destitute farmers resigned The communication of resignation after reciting the necessity for action und tho mtnner of their appointment Hating that tile State should be am Is able to relieve IU needy citizen ntU mentioning the lottery relief schema recommended by them concluded con-cluded that In view I of the mm flier rejection of their lottery proposal the members of said com mtshell d clinu to further act under the concurrent resolution appointing appoint-ing them A feature of the communication com-munication Is Ihe statement that the State Is I able to relieve the ntedy citizen which sectuu lightly in coniistent flth their recomraeiid ntion to accept aid of the lottery company |
