The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-05-09
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lAVe ulStItOuleu IOIty taOM1dHu /.
rations d day, and that, in their
Judgment, 1ffy thousand rations
daily for sixty days will be re-
qnired to relieve the pressing I
want. Government clothing Ear 1
rived today, and ie stored in the |
United States warehouse, subject
TO the order Of the governor.
New Orleans, May 4.-There is
no abatement Of the crevasses or
overduw. The following extracts
from letters to the governor, show
the condition of those living in
the overflowed Districts.
Edgar FazemHunger, Belle river |
plantation. Assumption parish,
says: ..In this section of the parish |
there is a population OF about one
thousand white and black J flesti.
tute of the first necessaries OF lie.
living on RATS and honset0ps.
There is no transportation Of any
kind, and the nearest land is
twenty miles. All their horses
and cattle are drowned aud the
water Is still rising abont six
inches in twenty-fonr. hours
Mrs. 8. A. Briggs, writing from
the Hesperia plantation, Madison
parish, says: "Permit me to call
your attention to the sufferings OF
the freedmen on my plantation,
lone hundred innumber. We are
submerged; the merchants not ex-
tending credit, our provisions are
exhausted, and our stock il de-
/ stnyrd. Women aud children
come to me, and / am without
means TO help them OF. myself
i The Brashear News says:
lssBrashear City has an average OF
three feet Of water in the rear and
Ave feet in front of town. with but
three acres of dry ground in the
, place. Goods are stored IN the
railroad depot, and the space so
occupied is used for q public
market The Averca plantation
, on Bayou Bpff has six hundred
acres Of cane and corn under
water. On the Bayou Beef, from
i Brashear to Red river, fifteen
plantations ara under water
: Vat Chine. Ave plantations art
under, with a number Of small
!, islets of dry ground occupied b,
i .swampers. On Shooters tire,
:. plantations,twen families are il
! Distress. and are asking tor assist
e ance to transport them to the higl
j lands. They are now living 81
rafts. On Sunset Bay lake, fifteel
: families are flooded out. On Blacl
3, lake, sixteen families; on Loui
q sixteen. The following, regarding
: the town of Charenton,is received
$ Ali the front aud a portion of tn
:. business part Of town is unde
o iwater. The Franklin market
st house, jaiLship yards, cooporshoE
warehouses, and wharves are sui
= merged, and the water is extent
ing to the base Of O'Neil's hote
At CentervilIe and Patersonvill
Is tue front of the latter and th
re business portion of the former al
under water. On Bayou Tech,
= forty plantations, 5,O0O acres I
re cane and corn, are entirely d,
IN stroyed, and 50, 900 acres are sal
- merged from the Teche dow
Upon the thirty-iive plantation
% 81. 900 acres ofcane and corn u
To- destroyed
ct Memphis, May 4.-Advicesfro
!. Prentiss, Miss, state that 4
levee broke Saturday night, Of
~ aud q half miles below, viii
another crevasse is hourly expes
- ed at Prides. The water is pot
- ing through the crevasse at G.
y. fish Point, which is now 15O var
IL wide. The private Ievee at w;
srs mt Bend, Ark, is also bros
n inundating the Falls, Farqns
Yons, aud other rich plantation
80 the two last named having ov
he eleven hundred acres. Colt
,ry planters appeals come from \
S. poleon for more supplies. Z
-. sufferers relief committee q
'ed bnsily engaged in filling orders,