| Show REAK IN LEVEE f RElEASES FLOOD IN MISSISSIPPI ater later Will Sweep Over Wide fide 1 Area Dikes Area Dikes Weakening at Many Points f fE E Tenn Teun 0 After I.-Arter After a n aday day dar of or torrential rains and antI n a ron rong wind ono one levee lc ce gave ga way 3 bere beSre bere be- be re re the flood lood Waters of or the time Mississippi Ii I ilay ny and at a hn half r dozen other points fight in is b being waged to lo tool ol old tho thu nt waters within un f with O odds g favoring a the time wn water te 1 i la admitted the time 11 are arc weaken weaken- ig g Th Tho water already aheady at an nn dented h Ight Is IB founding against I to lie dikes likeS with in force a. a apo aro J the embankments can with with- I and nd the tha J pressure ur much longer cl is Umi- Umi Thc Tha break in tho levee near Wilson 1 Tk lle nc which wont went out ut tonight h was said r b bo due duo to the tho desertion of or about ISO lO gro laborers With a u roar ronI that could I hoard heard for n. n mile 01 or more about lOt et t o tho the earth eaith collapsed d It was vas h by a 11 narrow margin that e workers worker along lon the levee lc who kept I p the fight tight to the last minute reached ces of ot safety When tho the curr current ins as s hurled through the rapidly ly widen widen- tg- tg go gap gnp frail negro cabins were tossed tosse lOUt bout like playthings and those se e away but so far tar as can con bo be d tI all all h of ot the inhabitants in it ine e Immediate proximity of or J he break rell t reaped At a late Inte hour tonight the i ap al p wa was about teet wide and WId tIo rok m n ends of or tho le levee e were crumb crumb- R ng fast Cast Flood r e n fI fIs s a result of oC the breaks part If f Mississippi and Cross Crosa id 11 lJ Crl counties s Ark rl will flooded anti and with the water through the at Grav Gra Graves G ou about 40 per e cent nt or J yes res of ot th the St St. Francis Francl basin will vilI be oded de rhe The greater part of ot this area C Continued d on Page Pace 9 3 3 Column U Li BREAK IN lEVEE c. c RELEASES FLOOD IN MiSSISSIPPI Continued from Pa Page Pago o 1 1 is timber land Jand The water will get ri back to the Mississippi through the St. St Francis Francie river Wilson fl on a settlement I of about 50 I ri I workers and their families lumber Is f tho the most mot important town that wilt will he be 4 swept sept by tho the first rush of ot tho the water ter terOther Other considered In tho thu greatest great Brest est ost st danger tonight are re Mound lound City and Osceola Ark At both hoth points the thc topo top o of the levee Is a foot or more above e the water but the river is being beaten beat beat- I en into hl high h waves wn and Is sweeping 1 over o the soaked rain embankments I Unprecedented rainfall wa was reported I throughout tho the central Mississippi valloy vat vat- Joy loy and along along- streams stream tributary to the Mississippi river The Tho Arkansas river riveris 1 is at flood 1001 stage and Bayou a a. sluggish creek south of or Little Hock flock ic Ie a a. raging torrent The Tho main pi po lino IIno which conveys con natural gAS gns from the Caddo La field to Little Rock flock has hag burst and a majority of ot Little Rock flock hom is s nr are without light tight or fuel No o trains traina have I been run out of or Little Rock flock since G morning morning- and it wn was stated tonight it i may be several days before service is resumed c At Hot Not Springs and other towns the thet t damage was wag confined to tho the flooding I of or cellars and tho washing out of or orf j f countr country roads D f The gas supply o of Memphis was cut cutoff tort off today when the levee leveo at the tho gas gasI plant in the flooded section of or a northern north north- I 1 ern em suburb collapsed Other than this the tha situation in this city is unchanged With the exception of ot tho the St. St Louis San Francisco lines all aU railroad op operation operation op- op west vest of ot Memphis ceased today because of ot washouts Several hundred refugees ees were brought tonight to the Memphis refugee e camp camp where here about 1200 persona per per- eons con now aro being cared for H Henry tn Rain Agnin nnie Rubies i ni Washington April 9 Special flood lood bulletin issued tonight b by the weather we r bureau In the last Jast twenty four hours mo moderately mod mod- 1 hea heavy rains have fallen in th the lower Ohio and generally generall In the Mississippi Mississippi Mis Mis- valley from Ohio to northern Louisiana The effects of these rains will be to produce flood lood stages es in the lower White river nr and aid d relatively high stages In the lower Arkansas rive nyc Tho The last named river at Little Rock Hock Ark ArICo Wednesday morning was thirteen J feet below a flood stage stag The effect of the maximum stages in the lower tower Mississippi river cannot be bo definitely h hf f foreseen although it will probably amount to An nn increase of or about a foot above the stages hitherto forecast for forthe forthe forthe the river between en Natchez and anel New ew ewI I Orleans The flood situation in the Memphis district is becoming more serious Tho rh north portion of ot the city Is flooded and the Ra ga gas shut of off The riy river r stages stag at 7 j p. p m. m 1 n i nav t were Memphis Tenn cG 46 1 feet teet 11 feet above e the high water of or 1912 vick- vick Miss feet C 6 C feet tact below below- the high water of or 1912 No New Orleans f feet ct 5 59 feet below beo- the high water of or orn n 1912 1 Ruth Ruh nell Relief t tf f Columbus Q April 9 The P.-The The lower lowerhouse house of the Ohio legislature passed today the Snyder bill enabling counties i rind and cities to exceed th the pr present tax limitations in Sn order older to r restore store public property that was damaged or de destroyed destroyed de- de troed b by Hood flood The bill to permit the state treasurer to loan to building and loan associations In order to supply fun funds s for rebuilding or 01 repairing repairing- homes homos In Dayton Daton Columbus Columbus Colum Colum- bus bUR and other cities In the flood district dis dis- also aiso was passed Both measures I were hurried over o to the senate where I It Is expected that favorable fa action willbo will 1 bo be taken talton |
