Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1881 — Dan ger to New Orleans. [ARTICLE]

Dan ger to New Orleans.

sWnfc'StTdelldb or?tliir~inteiitiau t# demrtthe Queen.-City OUbeSOUth and teefca new owUet to the KyX>n the Father of Waters w rapidly cutting another channel, and 13 that the entire waters of the Red river and a large-, portion hi those of the 1 Mississippi ana now flowing through the Atcbaiflaya. Unless.tUay can, be arrested it is notion .nrotmuleihat ibaar be left In rmture strandSd on a shallow Stream. Observations at UmAjouth of the Bed river go to-show that where a bar existed a year ago there IS Ofow k' depth cff sixteen feets i running .clear .through to the Atehatalayp,. seven .©* eight miles distant. This IS %■ most tfc. markab'e change in so short atime.and if the torc©M-ia-operalion, continue the menace to the; commercial supremacy of NewjOrleans will become a subject for'torious consideration. History records several natural ohaugea'and revolutions of this character in . the Old" Wo»ld, but they have'required centuries for their accomplishment. The great American river, however, is up with the age. and it is not impossible that it may do in a week 6r it month what the sluggish waters of the other hemispheres have taken hundreds of years to worfc out. 1 •