The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-04-24
Louisiana Asks for Help.
New ORLEANS. April >:

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The state authorities receive letters daily
from persons in the overlooked sections
asking for provisions, etc. The following
extracts from them are fair samples. A
letter dated ScmmesporI, Avoyelles parish
addressed to the governor, says Please
send me some supplies, as | have Il family
of nine children to keep up and feed. The
water is three feet deep in my yard and all
over my place. 1t is utterly impossible for
me TO get anything ior my family TO cat
without calling on you for assistance
Please do not, for PHYS sake, fail to send
me some supplies by return steamer The
following are extracts from II letter to the
governor, dated Big Bend, Avoyelles par
ish The whole bayou on the Dcs Glaizc-
and Red river front is entirely overlooked
All of us are bankrupt. Wehave no money
and no credit. The commission merchants
have all-shut down on us and we have no
provisions. Many Of us are, in IA manner,
starving. The water is all over the country
and is still rising. The COWS that are not
housed are dying for want of food, and the
sheep and hogs are being drowned by the
hundreds. Take this matter into consider
alton and see if something cannot he done
for US
The governor to-day received letter
from Charleston, St. Marys PARISH which
says: Among the many sufferers by the
.,nrfl,t vvl hava livcl
on the east side of Bayou Teche or Bayou
Chcnez, and Boyau Pigron, on the shores
of Grand lake, and Lake Chiest, all of
which districts are now submerged
state of utter restitution. Gen. jeff
Thompson, chief state engineer, returned
to-day from the upper coast. He states
that the storm which convened on Thurs
day of last week and continued until Sun
day, caused crevasses on the west side of
the river to increase rapidly in width. The
crevasse near Port Hudson, at Longwood
and Virginia plantations is now three
quarters Of Il mile wide, though only about
three feet deep, the icvee being very
small one, from three to four feet in length.
The crevasse, heretofore reported as hay
ing occurred in Morganza bend, below New
Texas landing, is in what is known as Van
Pclt Morganza levcc, between the original
Morganza leyee and Grand levee.
The break is now about four thousand
feet wide in the new levee which was
/ Al. t,rI, la ,,e
water through this is checked by an old
leyce IN front aud II dense growth of cotton
wood between two leyees.
| In the old levec there are four breaks, ag-
gregating about eight hundred feet. The
Hickey creyasse below Baton Rouge is now
] fifteen hundred feet wide and seven deep,
water passing through at a velocity of eight
miles an hour. Gen. Thompson reports
| another creyasse at Lake Side plantation.
| Point Cupee parish. lie states that about
twenty sugar plantations have been cover
ed by water from lIickey's, and that hum
dieds of poor families living on the Bayous
have been drowned out.
The Bennett Care crevasse is now seven
hundred feet wide and four feet deep in the
centre, where the lcvee is entirely gone and
the water is cutting a channel The Nc
| Cullen creyasses below Baton Rouge will
probably be closed in few days. Though
these breaks are comparatively small, the
water from them has already covered many
large plantations and drowned out the poor
people living Lehind them.
No mail trains have arrived by either the
jackson or Mobile roads yesterday. They
are detained two days by bridges being
carried away. The northwestern mails now
due by the Jackson road are coming by
boat from Nicksburg. Gentlemen who
reached this city to-day from the flooded
parishes state that Tangerohoa, Tickfaw
and Amile rivers were swollen by rains
from Thursday TO Sunday, completely over