New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-05-03


We have scarcely been able to up the damage and
disasters of the late flood when we find ourselves sur
rounded by another and still more destructive humiliation
AT the time commence this artce-Sunday evening
t1o}& ocockthe water to % feet and both rivers
rising ut the rate of to inches an hour with heavy
rain falling. which commenced Friday evening about 61a
o'clock and has continued almost without intemission
until this hour.
In the food, the great rise in the Monon-
gahela whilst the Allegheny scarcely swollen beyond
the bounds of ordinary spring freshet, Now, both
rivers gushing their banks and information from
the head waters OF both leads look for still further
entertainments of the flood
At Brownsville, Sunday morning the Monongahea was
rising Mt the appalling rate of two feet hour and from
the head waters of the Allegheny we learn that the val
ey charged with heavy bodies of snow to aggrayate
the unprecedented fall Of rain.
What may be the effect of the heavy rain Of Saturday
and Sunday the streams already enormously swo
len and still rising it is impossible to predict with cer
taniy With the infoxnaton we have of the state of
the streams below U.S. the Beaver. the Muskngum, the
Kanawh and scioto, afrunnng their banks and
the Ohio at this point already up to within eleven feet of
rate. must conclude it Is scarcely possible for the
waters begin to ubsda before the influence of the rain
falling will be felt add disaster upon disaster.
Tho Allegheny river is covered with floating fragments
of RATS valuable timber and lumber of all descriptions
which haze been swept from their moorings, and
inng in wild confusion with drift-wood and fence
rails Numbers Of human beings have been seen on RATS
and portions of RATS as they swept past the city cingns
to their property at the peril Of their lives And we re-
say that lives have actually been sacrificed in view
of CIR inhabitants by this adventurous spirit One raft
Of lumber which deficiency fsweeps evidence
that had been carried off unexpectedly from its land
ing aud having three men on it. was pieciptated upon
street bridge the raft shattered TO fragments and the
men lot We were not eye witness to this disaster yet
Information is from several sources. and so positive
that icrcdlbe as the statement appears we must ad'
it. 1t is difficult realize that three men in broad day
light in view of the numbers which despite the petng
lined the banks, surrounded too by the multiplied
means Of avng themselves which the several boards pre-
sentcd could thus have been drowned But the mpetu
osty II the which at this moment beggars des-
erpto1 with the chilling temperature of the water fresh
den pm yis of the vital powersthe only hypothesis on
wlfe! we admit that drownnghas occurred in these
circull ltences.
We lirect and unimpeqchable information of an
escape from precisely similar peril, which witnessed
by nun lers on Sunday morning opposite this city so,
fl mcut of raft of logs was seen descending with
the u.ddered torrent and on it was vigorously
struggling to control its course He guided its headong
y past the Mechanic street bridge the aque-
the Hand street bridge but not 40 lucky in
teer by the piers of the st Clair street bridge For
unqtey the piers this bridge have been strengthened
within few years the addition their upper edges of
walls Or ice breakers which instead of standing
to the current present inclined plane
with a. easy angle Our solitary navigator finding him
self doomed to inevitable contact with the pier; dropped
his se.rirg oar and souared himself for running jump
and lust his doomed craft to the swell of the OBJ
struc torrent he sprang forward and leaped bravey
clear Of the crashing and surgng timber made sure his
footing cheered by the rapuous and joyful shouts
excited crowd of witnesses he canbered steadily up
the pier all TOURS and with friendly hand from the
top he the bridge 1t was as he pthly re-
marked whilst he wiped the sweat from his brow. poo
ty tight fit
The Post of the 2lst says
The water high as it wanted nearly three feet Of
being a5 high as it during the great flood of 1892
ys.ed yesterday afternoon, that part of the city
which lies the banks of the Allegheny and found the
suffering among the inhabitants very great In of
the dwellings the river the water had risen to the
second story and in many others t. had covered tnem
and alleys leading from the Allegheny river to
Penn street.
on the corner of is filed with water also
in the block from Redoubt alley to the term
mating Of Third street These are filled principal
y underground currents as are also those ON the
South side Of Federal street.
In tn upper part of the city, the Allegheny had ex
tended boundaries back from what it was on Monday
evening The foundries and mills partially covered OF
Monday. entirely under water But that whcf
will affect cur citizens mostly is the complete stoppage
the Water works The water has invaded those deep pit
" in which the engines located and filled then
up to the first where the water approaches nea
the furnace doors The damage which will be done to TIN
machinery of other mills will be tremendons me wate
was pouring each end of the Mechanic stree
bridge and entertained that would be carried
SeNof , .,.. .,,o ,ua,,.. an tho M0nono,bs,, ,bov
this city, have been carried away.
On the Allegheny side of the river yesterday morning
the being then at its height covered the splonddl
laid ont gardens of General Robinson and invaded tn
first floor of his dwelling, it did many OF those fin
dwellings on Penn street.
to the Factory, under water. The loss to tn
machinety will be heavy. All this part of the city
traverse by flats RATS boats and every article that ca
be found to bear voyager
Acoin,Nrs AND INCIDENTS fLooD.-We gath
from tie Wheeling Advertiser the following relating
the late humiliation in that city
With IA ocean of water around us there is great diff
Guilty in getting any for cooking purposes.
family in East Wheeling, living in II small brick ten
men heard crying for aid for hours the man stan
ing on the with his head barely out of water al
his wife bed floating on the waters within Th'
went t. bed at night suspecting danger and thu
were aware of it the furniture in the blocked
the door and they rescued by some boatnen pas
ing, who broke in the door to get the family out.
Ernesi lays. of Rtchietown while engaged yesterda
in swimming his horse to datboat that he might reno
his family and furniture. the horse became frightene
and plunging into deep hole, caused the death OF
Hays by drowning, Another man. named Colman, ca
penter also drowned.
A horse, finding himself in predoament, mount
n. the steps of a mansion and swan into the hall
the island being involved in the sea of waite
around her gradually mounted large hay stack as t
waters rose and unconscious of danger Kept on eati
until she ary mounted the top of the stack The wat'
md washed away her precarious footing and
doubl drowned.
Ira / pARis.-A correspondent of the Boston All
the ladies of Paris follows: Ladies in Pa
have te greatest horror of being fat death has few
horrors tian corpulency. There is doubt the corr
lency of he Duchess de Prasln the remote cause
her MURDER and really believe that if the Salique
did no. prevent lady from ascending the throne the fl
Empires would ordain the destruction of all children
appeared inclined to corpuency. During the past vi
there been buried at Perre lie Chaise the Marquse
So st. go died in consequence of having ruined her dig
ton by the excessive of vinegar the Princess de
from the same cause, having exhausted herself by ref
ing t. -ase sufficient nourishment and Nine II,
wife u t rgel de change Killed DIV siheear' ihe io'
of vine al il the first cousin of death. The first and
persons INK daily three large tumblers of vinegar
they ie,i-horrible punishment-fat. Between vine
and t the fashionable world here is in sorry wa
BuI. LApING-A case which occurred in the co
of Common Pleas on Thursday. regarding liability o
bill of aaiug. calls for the attention of the mercan
public The question whether bill of lading gi
by the paster of ship for goods which she had ne
receivs board, could be held to bind his employ
The Co,et decided to the contrary The very nature
bill of acting, it affirmed. showed that it ought no
be sigr til the goods board and the only rem
for til. lsignees. therefore an action against
capita. fraud A bill of lading under such Giro
stance. aould consequently be as vaueless as for
bill of hange. and as the security of persons who
ceiye documents is thus made contingent upon
honest, j, the master. irrespective of the owners it
point Il d should not be overlooked London paper
~, s4,,uS,ud s1a yes were landed in Cuba