Since this list is 'a little slow' I'm gonna post the following article: Arkansas Gazette March 31, 1927: LACONIA LEVEE GIVES WAY AND FLOOD RESULTS ENTIRE CIRCLE INUNDATED BY MUDDY WATERS OF MISSISSIPPI HUNDREDS HOMELESS A temporary sea now extends from a few miles south of Elaine, Phillips county, 40 miles south to the mouth of the Arkansas river, then northwest 20 miles to Yancopin, on the Arkansas River in Desha county, a large part of which territory was inundated yesterday following the break about 2 a.m. in the Laconia Circle levee on the Mississippi river. The Laconia levee, weakened by constant sloughing and a 51 foot flood stage gave way after 200 men worked for more than 12 hours to prevent the impending break. At midnight Tuesday night the levee still was holding and the Missouri Pacific office at Helena which had men stationed throughout the endangered area closed up. A few minutes later a large portion of the levee sloughed into the river and the government boats, three of them, began blowing distress signals which echoed throughout the almost deserted Circle region and warned the few stragglers that the levee was going. Some cattle were caught in the flood and drowned, but live stock loss is slight. Those in the imperiled region began firing firearms, and two hours later when the last of the levee's shoulder, which had withstood the river for 12 hours, gave way, the region was deserted. The river left a gaping hole in the levee more than 300 feet long and jagged at each end. The cooped up flood waters of the Mississippi rushed through the break with much volume and in a few hours the entire Circle was inundated. The Circle, a historic portion of Desha county, is made up of about 15,000 fertile acres. The levee, built more than 100 years ago by slaves, brought to that section from Louisiana, extends from a few miles south of Knowlton around a bend in the river to Henrico. At Henrico the main levee stops, but smaller levees extend north to Snow Lake. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com