The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-03-18
The Floods In the south and West.


The Floods In the South and West.
TREMENDOUS DAMAGE IN THE MISSISSIPPI
Inc accounts from the river above are not 80
favorable to fall Of the waters as we could
desire. The Bayou Sara Ledger of last Saturday,
Says
''Slnce our last, the water has constantly been
ON the increase. and we can now, without the
least exaggeraion, add to our water table at least
one foot, and reports from abeve inform us that
we have not yet seen the "end of the beginnings"
and 1t we may place any reliance upon the testi-
mony In our possession. we shall not commence
middle Of next August. We hear daily Of some
new breach In the levee, on the opposite side Of
the river, which invariably works mere or less des-
tructlOn to planters, and from present appearances
hereabouts, there can exist but one opinion IN re-
latlon to still greater destruction the coast''
The ST. Francisvile Chronicle, of the same date,
and almost ct the same point, has the following.
I'VE witnessed on Monday last the condition Of
the coast below. In the upper portion OF the parish
OF West Baten Rouge, a scene of desolatiOn and
distress 10 presented such we have never before
Witnessed The water from the crevasse just be-
low Waterloo has almost entirely inundated the
plantations as far down as DR.. Ira Smiths. Some
planters had portion OF their last crop In their
sugar houses, which has been materially injured,
large portion OF their clstern sugar entirely des
Toyed. Should the river rise SIX or eight inches
more, the plantations below will all be liable to in
undaton. The water is at present In many places
at the top OF the old levee, and the fresh earth
which has been thrown up on 1t will not prove
OF further rise. We learn that there has been
crevasse IN the upper part OF the parish Of PoInte
Coupe. Immediately opposite the plantation OF
will give way. Should 1t do so, there will be no
calculating the amount of damages which the
country IN the interior will sustain.-N. O. Pea
y~ne, MarchS.
The , same n. paper; Of the 9th inst, says:-The
night, reports that the levee had cayed In miles
above DOnaldsonvile, opposite Philadelphia Point.
Inc crevasse IS SAID to be from forty to fifty yards
In extent, and when the boat passed the water was
running through the opening with great velocity.
The steamboat Gen. Worth, subsequently arrived,
reports break in the levee about four miles be-
low Baton Rouge. From all appearances the IN
undatOn will do an immense deal of injury to the
neighboring plantations.
From the Cinoin natl Commercial, March 1871
BREAK IN THE MIAMI CANAL.
On yesterday morning, at O'Clock, break oc-
cured in the Miami Canal, between the corpora.
ton line Of the city and Poplar street, In Mill
creek, at a, point Were the bottom OF the
canal must be some twenty-five feet higher
the west side. The break Is some thirty feet
wide, and was sufficient to drain the entire
level. It appears that In letting IN the water,
to hold the the ground or SaaRs beiar al
made, but not OF material sufficiently solid to
hold the water, at full head, although this is the
second occurrence Of the kind On the occur.
renee Of the break, the water flowed into the level
between the canal and Western Row-overAow-
ing Western Row and escaping into Mlllcreek,
through a natural ravine. The property, damaged
by this break was principally in the level above
ferred to, and in amount Is estimated at 100000
Gross Dstrok's tallow ehandlery sstmstsd loss ct
$4,000, principally In tallow and OIL Some ten or
twelve thSI .s pound: q OIL &C. were gotten Of the
manufacturer lost 0oo Most Of his businass
and Mr.. Vsriok d.; loss large, ut amount not
known. Samuel Kohn, Solomon Kohn, Charles Kohn,
Overflow besides damage to meat and saushtsr house.
Mr. Works loss 10 estimated BY his neghbors, ct
$1,000 MIR. Asksy, tanner-loss large but estimate
There were other losses, but at the time we VI
sited the epot we could not ascertain the names or
amounts. The place overlooked, after the water
by the middle Of The afternoon by the culver pass
ing under Western Row, directly opposite the
break. We are informed that 1t Is the fall deteml-
nation of the parties injured, to hold the State la
bic for the damage they have sustained, and
we presume each one will recover in full. OF
course dam will be erected just beyond the
other points, and depart as usual, the goods being
drayed to and from town. This break can be easily
repaired IN a week or ten days, provided the right
cOurs be pursued-and SO repaired that no further
danger need be feared Let it be so managed, by
all means.
BURG AND MAuMEE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. ALL
DOWN.
The high water in the Maumee has carried away
the bridge acress the river, and with 1t both tele
graph lines The Ice Is damned up about half a
mile below the BRIDGE to the height of twenty feet,
and another dam two miles below this, nearly as
high. There has been considerable damage done
to the warehouses and shipping, and at two o'clock
yesterday, the water was on the first floor of the
warehouses IN Perrysburg; it had not broke away
on the Maumee side so as to lnjure the warehouses;
but 1t was supposed that the Ice would soon give
way, and if so the boats and warehouses would be
greatly injured. The mai came across IN boat,
and all of the stage passengers but 1t Is very dam
gerous crossing, there such quantities of float
Ing Ice running. The ice the river is breaking up,
this point The Grand Creek bridge, between To-
ledo and Maumee, went ffyesterday morning while
q person was crosslngit, but he was not injured.
The Delaware bridge, between Toledo and Maui
night. II it should, 1t will be impossible to get to
Maumee by either OF these roads for some days.
-Detrott (h1ich) Free Press, March 8.