The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-04-28
the MISSISSIPPI FLOOD.
Gloomy Account Act q i from the Over.
.rr flowed Districts.
FIVE MILLION ACRES INVOLVED
twenty-five Thousand People
Rauuiring Assistance.

and Monroe, through the overfoWed dls-
trict of North Louisiana, and see tna'
efforts have been and are being made TO
relieve the suffering occasioned by tne
overflow. 1 have also seen tabular
statement which was presented by you 10 |
a meeting of citizens from the overno"eo
district held in the Senate Chamber some
time last week. From personal kno"1-
edge and direct information obtained nom
others within the last few days, ] am sat-
isfied that said estimate is by far too low.
Ae1 You have been requested by three diff
erent public meetings held in the over
HoJVed districts of Louisiana to represent
their wants and conditions, I now present
Won a statement OF the localities ana l. ~
II lsNNulsBERs NEEDING HELP -
.. y once eso that YOU may present them to
the Governorand Committee on OlstrlDuf
t;a,, annointed by His Honor the mayor
Tower Black Kiver, 800; Marder, ex-
Guiding that part OF Concordia parlsn E17 on
Black River, 500; Wilson's. on 1oUaa biacn
River, 400; Trinity, sxclqdlng asnsas sIIras
Bayou, Little River, l120O; aaI.lsygHnt nna g.art
including Bayou Louis. l'yUGa 'Ua;n0 S'sE a0n. ?
HaTtera landing' 400; Bunker Hill, be-
t1Teen Ouachita and Bayou Bent hlVer,
ennO. StgAlbans, including the bottom on
I 6ofh sides. / 500; !Hopewell and waco
r Including Black Swamp up to the qua,
, chita line, 600; Munroe, 1.5OO; totai'
II 600. .--,.,.g-...c...o.,, .,,,. n,,,ot,ear NAV
he :sa1d to be in actual want, ana may
: have been so for days, as tney nave 10y hom;
aknr
Teel,s Thev have lost all their hogs,
, and nearly ali their cattle are lost OF
: Starving. @ The people themselves nave
ne;ther money nor credit, no place 10 go
sni nothing to do. But this estlmate py
no means discloses the number OF tnose
rssidinp on the small baYous and GREEKS
: Tb;ch have been overhowed: py pack
n water and floods of rain. The people
r have generally been on land, Dut naSe
lost much OF their stock and improve
lments, and are jill. .-5-s7s
our OF PROVISIONS AND MONEY, 49,
q and the prospect OF making crops ls 90
q 5;acourspinp that none are Wiling ol
IS ahIe to advance them supplies. Those
,e too. must suffer, or receive assistance !. :
these be added, the number neeoihg nsiI S!lI
IL ia not short of 25,0O0 people IN tno u.o
trict referred to. The Times ya5 says .nS o4 fron
0f
The 9reat overflow is just beginning 10
nnderstood. That it was vast was reaui Il
to conceiyed, but that it should involve 20 Q
re nm nm OF acres and a population o14I0
an H00 was apparently beyond reasonaol
-, csIcnIation: but such is really the CAS-
Al In the cotton regions it is now ascertsn
IN Cd that nine of the largest and EtIcnes
= parishes producing cotton have Des4 S4ola II
nt. Undated. The parishes OF Oarrol. niT[s ny
ho house. Richland, Madison, FianKln, 1sI 's,
sas. Caldwell, Concordla anu OatanoSl tl1IS o.
Ut are all overhowed and emDEace i9 n1ttG ~
to 500 600 acres. The amount OF co!tc
ia land in these parishes in actual cultvs
ION ION ia ascertained to be 250, 600 acre
&C. Seaides 100 600 in corn. These Iestlmau
ler ;ncInde only the large places, leaving @
is hnnHreds Of small farmers, and all aes! ,
pr. -nstes for cattle, hogs and gardens, ~ ~
,onnIstion of these niue parishes Is 9
IN Sot whites and 1888 blacks, ,a accoE
1e inc to the census OF !Stu.. !S Z. I.
as the sugar producing parishes pil; a. :
. I'll certained facts discover an eauala - |.
aEo TSese' I1arishes are Pointe Coupee, IN
'od. Ration Rouge, West Baton Rouge, 1D1
veil 1;iie Ascension. Assumption, Laionfci
nor a. Janes. St. John the Bapnst,
TherIes. Terrebonne and Plaquemm
the TIC overflow in these parishes COW
api- nearly 100000 acres, titled and n 1ntlli!
me ;ncIndinp production OF ,BU,VUu my
not heads Of sugar, besides large proouc'
-, rice and the crops OF small iaIHeleJ
un unN- whom there are many nunuIeus,
ar have lost their stock ana prSnIsy NY Inv mr
in everything else they POSSESS eccord;ne @ to- 10
census of 1870, was 50,368 whites ties =
OF 20 o11 blacks, making total OF 1SS.O
ton, sSGS,o 1vhich must be deducted the pol
ails iation of East Baton Rouge, as OH
M noa1I norton of that parish has su1e
w. from the overflow. That deductlon DC
land made the parishes named contain Po
more iat;on Of 1O7, 900. In all the paris
"a IA named it is believed that more tnen
-l,at 0GG people are now in actual suner!5g
"nHs the necessaries supplies OF llie, anu !,
rlous in less than sixty days the numpsa " o1;s e
} has whose circumstances VIII LequEEoo IN oon Hc
oney tion will increase to more than a. oVyuV " ".
onSy o sons SWn Above we present all the facts
esent far % a. ascertained by the relief comml
? the l laI ta % ,eStardav $50. a.
South up NJ N YHeSSK YJoSn X: Glow, of ST. Landry
initial. ish- in a note referring to the aboVe, 81
- 81 have lust seen in the Times OF
morning an approximate estimate OF
ere ls damage which has resulted from the
lin It. flow in nine northwestern parishes q
H. in of Red River, and then passing 81
ImOutn Oh Hh1u GINCA ONO1 ~ GAS RNA..1
menus Point Coupee. The estimate include
p and Of the parishes between the MissisE
, this. and Atchafalaya rivers to the Gull; "
,h IN is @ all yery correct as far as it goes, bu
q ~ az I immense body of water which g
u tne down the Valley of the MISSISSIPPI
d edi- Gnsehita and Black rivers, passes q
vbody Red River some forty miles ITO, lton
mouth, and meeting with no oDs'fI
mill it meets the levee on 1,, Z
ATIvE des Glaizes, it sweeps WIZ WIN
,ePe- sistible force over its feepstes Dss
j. es,s Tier., Occupying 9 bEeadtn .9i o.
tryIirom twenty-five to thirty miles ee,
home through the eastern portion OF AxI
am go. and 81. Landry parishes, and cover
~ snt. the lands in that region, which Inc
s. - -, 49, within its limits the larger portion
at any most productive lands on those tWc
It'll this ishes. Beginning at Moreamont II y
IAN for around what is called the big benz
ble and BAYOU des Glaizes down to soItlsp
Ia w ~ d;stsnce Of more than forty miles !
'Seu' tmesnders of the Bayou, which Is U
expect settled. thence down theloW lands
and my western side of Atchafalaya River,
| hof Fivnr inIln