Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-04-26
NEW ORLEANS.
Killed BY Llghtnlag-RsokIsssusss on the
RiysF-ThFss POLICE 0fioBFs Killed,
Latest from the eFsyasss at B8HHst GaFFe-
No Danger Of City being 0VsrfioWsd'

No Danger Of City being 0vsrfowsd.
NEW YORK, April . "A dispatch
from New Orleans late last night says:
The whole city is filled with rumors
of crevasses and probable mundatiOn.
A careful inquiry, and personal inves-
fipatiOu. reduces the number Of crew
asses. from which imminent danger is
snticipaied. TO fOur-POverty point,
the Wallace plantation, and Bonnet
Care above the city; and MOreaW's
plantation, below. Tonight three Of
these are reported under control, leav-
inc the break at Bonnet Carre to be
c0mbatted with. Here the danger is
great and imminent. The waters Of the
great river, are rushing through an
opening Of seven hundred feet
wide, with a rushing, roaring,
sound, audible for miles, plOWing its
channel, fifty feet deep, far into the
vacant land, while the l6vee rapidly
crumbles into its FALLING waters. Piles
four feet apart and driven twenty feet
ia the ground, packed between with
sand-bags, are swept away ike reeds.
No efforts can now close the CTeVasse,
and as soon as the Hood has cut Its
way into the Lake, the latter will
overflow the whole rear portion OF the
city of New Orleans. Twelve miles
nf the Jackson railroad has been
wssbed away. Two other crevasses,
one ut Point Mantle, West Baton
Rouge, and one on the McDOnOugh
estate, below the city, are reported.
NEW ORLEANS, April 25.-During
& heavy thunder storm, yesterday, q
house in St. Cloud street was struck
bv lightning and instantly killed Mrs.
Geese and seriously injuTing Mrs.
Helmke.
The tug boats AspinWall and Ad-
miral, while racing on the river, yes
ferday, ran into the harbOr police
boat. knocking it into pieces, and in
stautly killing officer Douglass. Three
other officers saved themselves by
swimming ashore.
The latest news from the Bonnet
Care crevasse, reports q break Of sew
en- hundred feet wide. Nothing Ofh-
cial has been received fToln that point.
This morning the water was running
over the track Of the Jackson railroad
between the thirteenth and fourteenth
mile posts, at kenners. Volunteers
have turned out to stop the water
coming from the rear.
Chief Engineer Thompson has just
received official information that the
Wallace crevasse, st. james parish,
has been efiectually stopped.
MOreaU and Nillerie crev8sse5 have
both been closed, and the men and
material have gone to McDOnOugh
crevasse, which is expected TO be
closed BIZ night.
Nothing has been received from
Poverty Point, to-day. General
Thompson asserts that there is no
danger Of the city being OYerhOWed.
New ORLEANS, April 25.-Chief
Engineer ThempsOn's official report
saws that by some unfortunate mis-
conception Of orders in regard to es-
rgbIshing q line Of cOuriers from
KenneryllIe to Bonnet Carrie crevasse,
nothing official has been heard up TO
this hour, 9 pm, frOm that point.
This Is sure evidence that no great
change for the worse has occurred.
Early tomorrow morning, a party
consisting of Governor Yarmouth,
Mayor Flanders, President McOOmb,
officials. viii visit the creVRsSe.
Colonel Walton, engineer OF the
Mexican Gulf Canal, and Captain
Hatch, Assistant State Engineer, went
uu this evening on the steamer Lee,
20 have the people at Kennerville
turn out 10 build themselves pro
lection bv q levee in the rear and
around the town. The front leyees
have been repaired and strengthened
Oud the new levee on the Irudeau
place is rapidly approaching compile
lion.
News has been received this after
moan from the superintendent
at Moresu crevasse, just below
barracks. lie says: 81 am happy to
tell YOU we are getting along very
well, that by tomorrow we will have
the whole work accomplished. Nc
direct news from Poverty Point crew
sssp has been received, which is fav-
o,-able, for on yesterday Captain Smith
raD,rted that he had plenty Of mate
riaIs. sud expected soon to complete
fbe work. From the McDOnOugh
cravassa in plaquimenes parish, right
hank. we have heard as late as 8 p.
u1. Mr.. Decker, IN charge Of the tel
egraph, has Just CONS from the crew
asse on DR.. Parmlees place ana i0un0
that it can be conveniently closed
with the materials. These materials
were sent this morning. hrOm a long
official letter from Engineer Van Pelt
dated 1890 yesterday, he says: ma.
son and MOrganza levees'are safe. ]
came down by land from New Te1sas
10 Hermitage, Point COupee. The lev
ees sr= safe for this season. The crew
asse at Point Marion is now between
2t3 aud 80 feet wide. There is about
four feet of water on the batture, in
front. Mr.. Glyn commenced work on
the 18th and the crevas5e broke on the
10th.
Il has taken great force and energy
IN reep the levee from breaking al
other places. We have just passed
Fyergrge levee. 1t viii stand. The
planters have kept &. up by hard
work. The rUmOrs Of a Crevease al
Blue Stone and Point COupee, as vel
as at Bayou sara, are unfOunded. Tht
levee from Red river to these points
is intact and the river falling. No in
terruptiOn to the telegraph line along
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water from Bonnet Carre Crevasse Is
nearer the city than thirteen miles
The river in front Of the city is sixteen
inches below the high water mark Ol
1862 and is falling.
MoNROE, La, April 25-AnOthei
severe hail storm yesterday afternoon
did great damage to the cotton and
carn crops in this immediate vicinity
Several plantations viii have TO bs
repIan ted almost entire.
Tba CIV Council tonight, by a vOtl
five To rwo. passed over Mayor Plan
.Iar,s veto Of the ordinance giving
drainage funds TO the Mexican Gul
Canal Company.
A FBFger eaaghL
NEW YORK, April 25.-6ustav'
Adolph Baden, a fugitive forger IRON
Pru ssia, has been held by COmInls
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