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Show FLOODS IN THE SOUTH. High Water Is Still Causing Much Uneasiness Un-easiness In Mississippi. With a tremendous crash tho lovco four miles houth of Urcnnvlllc, Miss., gnvo way at 11 o'clock Krldny, and great quantities or wntor aro now pouring thiough a 300-foot crevasse, rapidly flooding the most fertile land in tho grent Yazoo doltn. Major Scars, in ehnrgo of tho government engl neor's officii nt this point, says It Is tho win st break ever experienced on the Mississippi side, nnd he states that tho whole delta from Groonvillo to Vlcksburg will bo flooded. This Is tho first break reported on tho Mis-slppl Mis-slppl sldo during the present high water. A New Orleans dispatch says interest in-terest In the flood situation there centers cen-ters In tho brenk at Hymclla, forty miles nbovo tho city, and tho disastrous disas-trous crevasse 'cpoitcd south of ilreenvllle. Cotton men felt especially especial-ly concerned with respect to tho latter. Whllo this break doubtless will cause a fall In tho river In tho vicinity of Greenville and for n considerable ills-lanco ills-lanco smith, tho water which goes through must Inevitably return to tho Mississippi through the Ynzoo, thus prolonging the period of high wntor 3011II1 of thnt point. The crcvasso Is in tho lienrt of one of tho richest sugnr districts In Louisiana. Louisi-ana. If It should get beyond control many valuable plantations doubtless will bo covered wtlh wntor In n fow days. Tho Texas Pacific and South Pacific roads have not thus fnr been affected, but troublo Is likely to occur If tho crovasso Is not elosed. It Is expected ex-pected at the Illinois Contrnl ofllco that through tralllc over Iho Mississippi Missis-sippi vnlley road will bo suspended as a result of tho disaster. Tho belief that the high water leveo was cut In order to relievo other sections U ctriing nnd nny nttempt to repent tho nctlon Is likely to bo followed by bloodshed. |