Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1908 — BIG DYKE WASHED AWAY [ARTICLE]

BIG DYKE WASHED AWAY

Bfeck of Business Houses Abandoned in Pine Bluff, Ark. Pine Bluff, Ark., Dec. 4. —Unable to withstand the torrent hurled against it through the diverting of the current of the river, the result of dynamiting operations, the government dyke south of the former danger sone, was washed away for a distance of 200 yards. The steep bank, with the force of the swollen, river striking against it, is fast crumbling into the river. An entire block of business houses has been abandoned and smaller buildings are being roller away.