Show 0 R I 1 VR BANA r I 1 I 1 it has reached within 10 feet of pine bluff court house pino pine bluff doc dec 2 at noon today iho file caving of the banks along the hooded arkansas river had rea reached chott within ten feet of the court house an all rex the annex has been stripped or of overy everything thing movable the original cost coat of the building nv was ts the bank has caved to within ten teet feet of the boiler room of the jor ferson hotel the hotel Is valued it at all movable property has been conveyed from the rear of this thi 5 structure thousands of dollars worth of other property la Is in serious danger no answer has been received to the telegram sent president roosevelt yesterday asking him to authorize the secretary of war to allow the course of the river to be changed by clit cutting ting a now new channel and hope of diverting the course of the river hin been abandoned for the present the river Is stationary at fort smith but tour four teet feet more Is expected hero here the high water has swept away the government gauge but the pry pre s 3 ent stage is something over 23 feet |