Show GROWING WORM DANGER BANGER IN OTHER SECTIONS OF THE SOUTH the people of helena ark aro are working day and night to Streng strengthen the n the levee and keep off the threat alu cat ned overflow Over now memphis tenn april 5 the tha flood situation has once more become acute from a point a few miles above austin miss as far down as the first break tit at perthshire Perth shire miss another crevasse crova sae in this line of levees would not be surprising the pressure on the levee is I 1 brought about by the waters naters 0 of f the st francis basin which are here congested between the levees in front of helena there is no leveo levee on the ar kansa down to sans souci to a point above helena a distance 0 of a e hundred miles and it is at austin that the levee system on each sido side of the river beins gins and goes to the passes below new orleans the water is now so high in the st francis basin that the current rushes from the west and cuts along the cast shore levee for miles and bev eral alarming telegrams have been received from near austin today boats have been requested to run on slow bells and laborers are constantly astren strengthening tho the embankments A crevasse at alstin austin would inundate a strip of fertile country in tunica and coahoma counties twenty miles wide and sixty miles long reports from helena ark show that the river there is till still slowly rising and it is almost miraculous that the levees of helena have not broken thousands of people have been work in ing lay day and night and their enc energies are seemingly exhaustless the missouri misouri pacific and cotton belt roads have rushed trainload after trainload of sacks of sand into the city and still stand ready to help the helena people the railroads hove have rendered great assistance greenville is on an island and rosedale miss is in water from five to ten acet deep |