, 1874-04-24

4 Large Section of Country
Inundated.
Many Valuable Plantations Entirely
Drowned Out.
Urgent Appeals for Aid from the Starv.
inq Sufferers.

New ORLEANS, April 23.--The State auth orr
! ties have received letters daily from persons in
| the overtlowcd sections, asking for provisions
| etc.
| LETTERS FROM SUFFERERS.
The following extracts from them 8re fail
! specimens. A letter dated Simmsport, Ayoyelles
| Parish, addressed to tho Governor, says :
"Please send me some supplies, as have .
large family Of children to keep up and feed.
Tho water is feet deep in my yard and
all over my place. 1t is utterly impossible for
ME to get anything for my fanily without call
ing on you for assistance. Please, for ptY's SAKE
don't fail to send me some supplies by return
| steamer
The following is IN extract from letter dated
| tho Bayou des Giaezes and He'd
River front is entirely overHowed AL
] OF us are bankrupt. No more credit. Commits
| sion merchants all shut down On us. Have no
Tho water is an over the country, and still ris-
ing Cows not drowned are dying for want Of
| food. Sheep and hogs arc drowned by hum
dreds. Take this matter into consideration, and
see if something cannot be done for us"
The Governor to-day received letter from
Clarendon, st. Ma1y's Parish, which says, among
the many sufferers by the recent overflow arc
those who have lived on the east side Of Bayou
Toche, on Bayou Chevy, Bayou Pigon, on tho
shores OF Grand Lake and Lake Chicot, all OF
which districts are now submerged, leaving Some
800 families in
STATE OF UTTER DEsTrrUT1oS.
Gen. n. JeH- Thompson, Chief State Engineer,
returned to-day from the upper coast. He states
OF last week. and continued until Sunday, caused
tho crevasse on the west side OF the river to in
crease rapidly in width The creyast,e near Port
Hudson, ut Longwood and Virginia plantations.
Is now
TaREE-QuARTERs or A MILE WIDE,
though only about feet deep, the leyee being q
very small one, from to / feet in height. The
crevasse heretofore reported az having occurred
in Morgan Bend, below New Texas Landing, IN
what is known as the Van pelt Morganza Levee,
between the original AIor}yanzn Levee and Grand
Levee, is now about 1, ,00U feet wide in the new
leveo, which was shout Is feet high. The flow
Of water through this is checked by the old levee
in front, and vast growth Of cottonwood be-
tween the two lovees- In the old levee there
are four breaks, aGgregating about 800 feet.
The Hickey creyrsse below Baton Rouge is now
1.500 feet wide and eeYen feat deep. The water
is passing through at the
VELOCITY OF EIGHT MILES IN HOUR.
Gen. Thompson reports another c1eyasse at
the Lakeside Plantation, Polut Coupce Parish.
He states that about twenty sugar plantations
have been covered by water from Hickey'B, and
that hundreds Ut poor families living On the
bayou have been drowned out. The Bonnet
bly, ten feet deep III the centre, where the loves
is entirely gone and the water is cutting the
channel.
The hfcCannell crevasse 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 PLAN
tations and driven out the poor people living
behind them.
NO NAIL TRAIN
by either the Jackson or Mobile Roads veater-
GAy The bFfnOeA carried hv ta HncH de-
tanned them two days. The Northwestern mails
now duo by the Jackson Rond are coming by
boat from Vicksburg.
A gentleman who reached this city today from
tho Florida parishes Btatos that tho Tangepohoa,
Tickfaw, and Anite Rivers were swollen by rains
frcm Thursday to Sunday, completely over
flowing their banks, and spreading over tho
country on either side for miles. The people
were heeing to the high lands. 1t is estimated
that the water is three feet higher than ever
before known. The Amite River rose very rap
idly.
SEVERAL CHILDREN ARE REPORTED DROWNED
IN the streets OF Port Vincent, which was over
flowed The fiat country OF st. Helene, Ltv-
ingston, Tangepohoa, Washington, st. Tam
many, and East Feliciana parishes is flooded for
miles.
The Times eays gentleman from the upper
coast gives the most appalling descriptions OF
the people who happened to live in the desert
overlowed by tho Hickey Crevasse. He says that
not less than twenty splendid sugar plantations
have been submerged from that source already.
That, however. Was nothing compared to the
sufferiDGs Of the people, On Sunday last the
gentleman witnessed q large number OF persons
wading their way ont Of the torrents of water
which passed through that break. Among them
were
WOMEN N THE WATER Up TO THEIR AnNPrTs
holding children above their heads, and it Was
reported snme had been hoated away on the
rushing tide. with their little ones in their arms.
Bayou Grasse Tete adyices state TINT there
are now 5 to feet Of water on the east side OF
the Bayou, and it was expected the winter would
overflow the west side. Tie wnter is backing
up the Bayou pianquemne rs fur as Dardemers
plantatiou, and will probably reach the Town OF
Bayou Gau!n, On the Mississippi r, yer.
Mayor Wiltz has been applied to FOR immediate
relief to be sent to Grasse Tete country. :
Recent rains continue the floods in the QUA. |
chita and Red River Valleys.
MEMPHIS, April 23.-Parties who come over on |
The Memphis !, Little Rock Railroad state that
Fards, in somo places nearly foot deep, with
strong current sweeping over it, and, as the |
liver is still rising, it is hardly possible that
trains Will 60 over it tomorrow.
RELIEF.
New YORK, April 23.-The subscriptions for |
he relief Of those suffering by the overflow III
he South reach several thousand dollars, and |
arge additions are expected. Mayor Have
meyer has issued an appeal to the citizens for aid.
WORCESTER, Mass., April e. 23.-Worcester sends
o-day $500 to the Mayor OF New Orleans fol the
elief OF the sufferers from iuuDdation.
|
DIXON.
for IN Odd.Eello1vs,
Festival.
Hrtefd{ DierHfch In The f!Lterno T7yi1tnS |