Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-04-27
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NEW ORLEANS, April 26.-At Ken
nerville and Immediately above, the
water is pouring in from the rear,
while it is falling in front, drowning
| the machines on the plantations in
that vicinity, making them unservice-
able, being chOked up with the weight
Of water.
Nothing has been received from
Bonnet Carre or other Crevasses this
morning.
1t is officially stated that the Bonnet
Care crevasse was eleven hundred
feet wide at 2 pm. this evening, and
an immense volume of water is
pouring through the break.
At the twelve mile post on the
Jackson railroad, the water Is running
six inches over the track.
It Is reported that Walkers swamp
is completely submerged, and that the
sWamps back Of this city are cOmmen-
cling to fill up from the water backing
in frOm the lake. Nothing has been
received at this hour from the other
crevasSes.
NEW ORLEANS, April 26.-The fol-
lowing is from the official report of
Chief Engineer Of the State (ThOmp-
SOM: 8 p.m.-UpOn my return from
the Bonnet Carre crevasse this even
ing, l found very limited news from
other crevasses, and nothing definite
or worth publishing.
By telegrams / learn that the river
| has fallen three inches at ViCksburg,
| two and half inches at Baton Rouge,
! and is now eight feet eleven inches
! below the high-Wster mark of 1867 at
| Vicksburg, and thirteen inches below
| high water this year at Baton Rouge.
/ found Bonnet Care Crevasse5 eleven
hundred feet wide to-day, but the
/ current and waves had decreased in
! proportion as the back lands become
| filled with water and the surface Of
the river lowered.
The high-Water mark at LOgue's is
almost twenty feet above the level Of
Lake POnchartrain. The levee be-
| yOnd is twelve feet high. The natu-
/ raj surface of the ground at P0rChe5,
and where the crevasse commenced,
/ is but ten feet above the level of
! the lake. To-day the river has fallen,
and the plantations are covered water
| to the base Of the levee; therefore ]
/ repeat that the current through the
! Crevasse has decreased, and probably
no more water passes to-day than
| yesterday.
am indebted to Colonel Walton
for a calculation of the volume Of
water passing that point, which he
made this morning previous to our
| arrival, which shows one hundred
and eighty thousand cubic feet per
| second, or Oue-siXth of the whole vol
ume Of the Mississippi at that point.
The work OF saving the ends of the
/ leyee is progressing slowly, on ac-
| count Of the want OF experienced la
Dor and the changing conditions Of the
/ field of operations. One of the steam
| pile drivers got hard aground and
! Is away from it's work. The hand pile
driver is the only one working, and is
doing good service at the lower end
I Of the break.
/ The temporary works on the upper
| end have washed away and are now
| exposed to the current, and are Caving
/ in gradually. Financial arrange
ments must be made TO prosecute the
/ work with systematic, concentrated
/ labor, OF what we are doing will be
| simply thrown away. In my Opin-
| Ion It is utterly useless to attempt to
| close the cFevasse, for the prepar6-
| tiOns could not be made before the
/ river falls.
He closes by hoping that means
[ may be provided to save the ends of
the leYee, that less may have to be
rebuilt.