Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-04-26
NECESSARY SUPPLIES OF LIFE,


will require alienation will increase to
more than fifty thousand persons. We
have presented above all the facts as far
as ascertained by the relief committee
up to yesterday. Mr.. John K. KIow, of
st. Landry parish, in a note referring to
the above, says: at have lust seen in
the Tines this morning an approximate
estimate of the extent Of The damage
which has resulted from the overflow In
nine northeastern parishes in this State,
which includes only the parishes north
Of Red river, and then passing of the
mouth of said river over to the parish of
POinte Coupee. The estimate includes
all the parishes between the MissIssippi
and Atchafalys rivers to the gulf, which
is all very correct as far as it goes; but
the immense body of water which, CON-
ing down the valley Of the Mississippi.
Ouachita and Black rivers, passes across
Red river some forty miles from its
mouth, and meeting with no obstacle
until it reaches the levee on Bayou De-
Glaze, it sweeps with irresistible force
over its feeble barriers, occupying a
breadth of country from
TWENTY-FIVE TO THIRTY MILES WIDE
through the eastern portions of Avoy-
elles and st. Landry parishes, and COW
ering ali the lands in that region, which
includes within its limits the larger por-
ton of the most productive lands in
those two parishes, beginning at MOreau.
vile, and washing around what is called
the big bend of Bayou DeGrace down
to Simsport, a distance of more than
forty miles by the meanders of the
bayou, which is thickly settled; thence
down the lOWlands on the western side
of Atchafayelle river behind the planta-
tions on that river, and inundating lhem
from behind. Within the land thus
submerged there are not less than ten
thousand souls, including white and
black, mostly of the laboriDg class; but
no doubt some of the proprietors are in
a suffering condition, on account Of the
almost total failure of the crops of both
corn and cotton by the wet weather last
year.
FIFTY THOUSAND PEOPLE STARVING.
A dispatch from Vidalia, ConcOrdia
parish, says: ga public meeting assem-
bled here to-day. Fifty thousand people
in this section are represented as suffer-
ing for food. A committee was ap-
pointed to procure supplies" The may
or of Trenton telegraphs: ave are all
overfiowed. Send US five thousand ra-
tions by Ouachita Belle, if possible. The
colored population, in particular, are in
distress.n Large quantities of provi-
sions were shipped to the sufferers to-day.
The relief committee have got fairly to
work. The demands on them are great
er than at first expected, and increasing
daily, as the water from the crevasses
continues spreading. Another great rise,
coming out OF Red and Ouachita rivers.
TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS FROM
BOSTON.
Mayor Cobb, of Boston, to-day tele-
grapbed Mayor Wilt to draw az sight
fer ten thousand dollars, making twenty
Thousand dollars contributed by Bosto-
nians for the overflowed.
Mayor Wilt yesterday reported thirty
thousand dollars ia bank TO the credit Of
the relief fund.
SIGNAL OFFICE REPORT ABOUT THE
RIVERS.
WASHINGTON, April 25.-The signal
Office reports s rise ia the Mississippi
river during the last twenty-four hours
of three inches at Cairo, and of one inch
at Memphis, Helena and Vicksburg,
with the upper river falling, and a fall
Of two inches at New Orleans. The
MIissoari.riyer is reported falling sabove
Leayenworth, and rising thence to is
mouth Yhr ONO Is failinRe BE way
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