Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-06-18 | Page 3 | Workers Win Flood Battle in Missouri

T V LAND LAK TELEGRAM 1 I m. m WIN I flOOD I IN MI 9 KENNETT Mo DIo June 18 AP AP- AP Unrelenting In the battle against the rampaging St. St Francis river which has driven a thousand fam 1 lies Hies from their homes In southeast l Missouri a citizens citizens' army pushed posited its Us str strength against a GOO foot levee seven mU mlles miles s above the Hewes newest crevasse and early toda today apparently apparently appal enty had w won n a skirmish from the I river The total area submerged by three crevasses in two days tt was a approximately hundred a a. thousand acres Damage to crops and farms faun was estimated between a million and a half and two million dollars The present goal is to save a a acro aero expanse protected bythe by bythe bythe the smaller levee which has been bolstered several times since it was sw swept pt out by the 1927 floods This section lies between the Cotton Belt railroad oad tracks and Crowleys Crowley's ridge west twist of Campbell and just north of the Arkansas line It is seven miles upstream from the crevasse ere cre vasse asse t which developed Sunday morning Horning inundating acres RED CR CROSS SS TO CONFER O. O S S. S Harrison D county chairman n of the Red Cross called caned caneda a committee meeting l for today after which rehabilitation steps wille will willbe be e taken for the homeless Miss Hiss Georgia France R Red d Cross worker who aho was ryas just finishing relief for forthe the thc destruction wrought by bythe the 1927 19 7 floods said tho the rehabilitation work worl had tad suffered a setback and now must trust be taken up where It t w was s started last June Yarned Warned by their experiences with previous floods residents of this section fled before the levees gave gae way and no no casualties have been reported Every available worker in itt the life district w was s r recruited Cruite to fight the third hard crest which h penetrated penetrated- the bulwarks and although wearied by bytho bytho tho Ito hour eleven-hour day battle men of all ill walks of life from section hand the he banker joined in the new fight to o save their homes pontes and lands Estimates place the number of of workers at many of them enraged en engaged engaged en- en en- en raged In relief work WATER HATER 12 FEET DEEP The first crevasse came early Saturday morning the second developed de de- eloped soon after that spreading destruction over virtually the same area tea as the first and the third Sunday morning inundated acres ores to a depth of twelve feet inome in some ome places Floods Flood let loo loose looe e on the St. St Francis Francis Franis Fran Fran- cis is were thought to be weakening the ate Varney river ri levees and content constant constant con con- stant tent watch was twos kept over aver them by national guardsmen and volunteers NEWPORT Ark June 18 AP P Heavy rains along the Little Red Hed Black and other tributaries of the White river added to Arkansas flood worries today Engineers said they could not not- determine before night however whether a a serious n new w rise threatened While acres in Jackson county were under water as a re result re- re sult of a break in the Stephens levee levee twelve e miles south of here a Inch fall faU in the t river iver t relieved re le e d danger nger of a levee br break breal ealson brealon eals on the St. St Francis at Nimmons Ark AlI nine mUes below where a sec second nd b break eak occurred near Kennett Mr DIr yesterday