A Boring Alligator

The high wind that prevailed did considerable damage to the levees along the Algiers shore, says the New Orleans Times-Democrat of late date. The wind after sunset blew especially hard a&ainst that side of the river. The waves were blown over the revetment, and in some places did much damage to the earthworks, The guard.s were very active. They reported promptly all washings and where the occasion demanded ii the damage was promptly repaired. One of the curiosities of the flood in this section deyeloped at the Morgan railroad wharf carly one morning. There has been trouble there for somt days with see;. age and a f oree of men has been employed olosing the crevicM and cracks through which the water percolated. There was an unusual quantity at onc place Thursday night and the ioreman &f the sang, in going over the spot thp ether morning to ascertain the reason, announced the hole had been caused by an alligator, which had burrowed through from rnder the wharf. His trail could be plainiy aenii in the mud and the workmen, in speakicg of it to Sergt. Cologne, cemmanding the Algiers station, said that thy judged he must have been at least four feei long. They think the water covered all the resting places that he migtt have hart under the wharf and he decided to bore a hole tiirough the bank and thus mix his time between dry land and water. The strong wind made the water run through the cracks in the whaif in large quantities and the nearest track was submerged. A gang of men was put to work stopping it with sacks of dirt and they succeeded in shutting out the water.