Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-04-24
Sufferiugs OF the Planters and Poor La
borers-A Cry for Bread-Imme-
date SuecOr Demanded.
No Abatement OF the FlOOd-IIeartrend-
ing StOry-Heroic Mothers Saving
Their Little Ones.
Cattle Dying for Want Of FOOd-ThOu-
sands Rendered HOmeless-A Fear
full and AWfal Visitation,

| "PleaSe SEND me some supplies, as
have q large family mine children) &c
keep up aud feed. The water is three
feet deep in my yard, and all over my
! place. 1t is utterly impossible for me tC
! get anything for my family to eat with.
/ out calling on you for assistance. Please
! for PHYS sake, do not fail to send me
some supplies by return steamer"
The following are extracts from a let.
/ ter to the governor, dated Big Bend
! Avoyelles parish: "The whole of the
Des Glaises and Red river front is en-.
/ tilely overflOwed. All of us are bank.
rupt; no money, no credit. The conn.,
mission merchants have all shut down
/ on us, and we have no provisions, many
| in manner starving. The water is al
| over the country, and still rising. Cows
| not drowned are dying for want of food;
/ sheep and hogs have been drowned by
| hundreds. Take this matter into con
sideration, and see if something cannot
! be done for u.s.
The governor to-day received a letter
! from Charenton, st. Marys parish, which
says: "Among the many sufferers by
the recent overflow are those who have
| lived on the east side of Bayou Teche,
| on Bayou Chenese, Bayou Pigeon, on
| the shores of Grand Lake and Lake
| Chicot, all of which districts are now
submerged, leaving some three hundred
! families in 3 state Of destitutiOn."
General NJ. jeff Thompson, CHIEF
| state-engineeT, returned to-day from
the upper coast. He states that the
storm which commenced on Thursday
of last week and continued until Sun
day, caused the crevasses on the west
side of the river to increase rapidly in
width. The crevasse near Port Hudson,
at L0gwood and Virginia plantation, is
now three-quarters of a mile wide,
though only about three feet deep, the
levee being a very small one, from three
TO four feet in hight.
The crevasse heretofore reported as
having occurred in MOrganZa bend, be-
low New Texas landing, Is in what is
known in Vanpelt MOrganzs levee,
between the original Morganzs levee
and Grand levee. The break is now
about four hundred feet wide In the new
levee, which was about thirteen feet
high. The flow OF water through this is
checked by an old leyee in front and q
dense growth Of cottonwood between
the two levees. In the old levee there
are four breaks aggregating about eight
hundred feet. The Hickory erevasse
below Baton Rouge, Is now fifteen hun
dred feet wide and seven deep, the
water passing through at q velocity of
eight miles an hour.
General Thompson reports another
creVasse at Lakeside plantation, Pointe
Coupee parish. He states that about
twenty sugar plantations have been
covered by water from Hickeys, and
that hundreds Of poor families living on
haxva baaFa 1rfua,
The Bonnet Care crevasse is now
seven feetdeep in the center where the
levee is entirely gone, and the water is
cutting q channel.
The McCullen crevasses below Baton
Rouge will probably be closed IN a few
DAYS. Though these breaks are COM
paratively small, the water from them
has already covered many large planta-
tions and driven out they poor people
living behind them.
No mail trains by either Jackson or
Mobile roads yesterday. Bridges car
ried away by the flood detains them.
Two days northwestern mails now due
by the Jackson road, are coming by
boat from Vieksburg.
A eentleman who reached this city to-
day nom the Florida parishes states that
the TAngipahoa, Tickfaw, and Amite
rivers were swollen by rains from Thurs
day to Sunday, completely 0vertiowing
their banks and spreading over the
country on either side for miles, the peo-
pie fleeing to the highlands. 1t is esti-
mated that the water is three feet higher
than ever before known.
The Amite river rose very rapidly.
Several children are reported drowned
in the streets of Port Vincent, which was
overfiowed. The flatcountry Of st. Hele-
ma, Livingston, EsngipahOa, Washing
ton, st. 1ammany, and East Feliciana
parishes are flooded for miles.
The Times says: "a gentleman from
the upper coast gives most appalling
description Of the condition o. the peO-
ple who happen to live in the district
overfiowed by the Hickey crevasse. He
says that not less than twenty splendid
sugar plantations have been submerged
from that source already, which, how
ever, was nothing compared to the suf-
ferings of the people. On Sunday last
the gentleman witnessed large num-
Der Of persons wading their way out of
the torrents Of water which passed that
break. Among them were women in
the water up to their armpits, holding
their infants above their heads, and II
was reported that some had f1oated away
on the rushing tide with their little ones
in their arms"
Bayou Crosse Tete advices state that
there is now three to four feet Of water
on the east side of the bayou, and II is
expected that the water will overflow
the west side. The water is backing up
BAYOU Plaquemine ~ far as Dardemeis's
plantation, and will probably reach the
town OF Bayou Grula, on the Mississippi
river.
Mayor Wilt has been applied to for
immediate relief, to be sent to the Crosse
Tete country. The recent rains con-
tinue the floods in the Ouachita and Red
river valleys.
FOOD FOR THE STARVING.
WASHINGTON, April 23.-The Presi.
dent has signed the bill providing for
the issue temporarily Of army supplies
to the-people on the lower Mississippi in
danger Of starvation.
RELIEF FROM NEW YORK.
NEW YORK, April Subscriptions
for the relief Of those suffering by the
overflow in the south will reach several
thousand dollars, and large additions are
expeeted. Mayor Havemeyer has is
sued ali appeal 10 the citizens for aid.
ANOTHER CONTRIBUTIONS.
WORCESTER, MASS, April 25.-Five
hundred dollars were sent from Worces-
teT today TO the mayor OF New Orleans
foF the relief Of the sefierers from inun-
dation.
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