The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1874-05-01


key for these people to have talked
even to willing cars. 4
The actual suffering in Trenton is
doubtless confinedsto the black people
in the rear, and probably not great
many Of these have been driven from
home. The principal damage to the
whites has been a loss of their gardens,
and orchards, the inconvc-
nience of padding to and from their
residences and of living for two or
three weeks. over water when every
was intended for land
But this, while it may be n hardship
very annoying, is, we are happy to
know of our neighbours and friends,
and eventually healed.
Below croslcy's,
And opposite Monroe, there was an
island about a mile long, by an average
width of 200 yards. Cottonport had
out of water about $50 yards, and back
of that the overflow extended to the
pine-lands, about two miles. Mr.. La
zare's place had only Il narrow strip
out between the river and overflow
On his front fence opposite here, the
turtles roasted on the top rail. Capt.
Crosley's clubhouse was under water
half way to the floor.
The "Island.''
But very neagrc reports have reached
It's from the fertile lands in the Island ;
but we learn that Hamilton Landing,
at the mouth Of the Bartholomew, has
been entirely submerged, and some Of
the houses washed down. Mr.. Hugh
Tongue, of u large plantation, had all
but about fftyacres of land overlooked
Buck Baker all but thirty; the Loci,
Judge Scarborough small spot on,
and over one hundred negroes congre.
gated on that. In
The Colony"
| Whole plantations have been submerg.
ed. Mr.. NIcQuillar reports three feet
wafer under his dwelling, and tells us
that dry spots are the exception. Not
many cattle, or horses, however, We're
lost, az they We're carried to the high
land. Considerable corn was up and
some cotton, rs was tho case on the
Island, nearly all Of which is now over
| flowed and lost. Nearly every place
| was submerged.
DeSiard Places.
Mr.. Filhiol landed a slSiff at the doc
of the dwelling on his place, going ant
returning in boat from the crossing o
of the places on the DeSiard were pro
tected by levees on the bayou front. II
some of the fields, tho alligator gar
collected in schools, and flounderet
through the food like dolphins. w,
saw one of these gars in town, whicl
was shot in the road ditch, whose licat
was over 4 foot in length. Hardly an,
Of tho places on the DeSiard were on
tirely under, but all We're more or less
1t is impossible for us to fix tho bound
aries Of either water or dry land.
! ouacbita City.
This place went under, except It small
strip of ground on the river 'front.'
Hamilton Landing, opposite, coul,
show no place for the Garry Owen t
land.
| Course of the Flood.
| We have watched the rise and fall @
the river and overflow closely, keeping
out three marks, and have, day by day
consulted others who kept marks. w
have yet to sec two men whose state
ments exactly correspondent. Marks
nailed to posts, SET firmly in the ground
at Il square or two distant from Gael
other, could not, according to the OBJ
servers, be made to agree. We dom
think the highest water-marl will owe
be settled to the satisfaction of all.
| While the river rose slowly, tho bacl
water came in rapidly; when tho rive
fell half an inch, the overflow would
fall two inches here, and be rising tire,
miles below, on Bristle Ridge, durin.
the same time, four incEos.