New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-04-12
CreYQssSs.

| '0 iedIA from captain y. II. tagOt, O
the steamer Josephine, that orevasse oe
CURED in st. John parish, about forty-fv
miles above the city, on the left bank, a
MIR. Cassagne's place. The break in III
levee is about twenty feet wide and fou
feet deep. As soOn as the crevasse was dis
covered Mr.. j. w. Goodbury notified Cap
tain Fsgot, and requested him to assist VI I'll
the Josephine. This was at once compiled
with, and the steamer dispatched to Bel
Polnt for some lumber belonging to ths
LeVee Company. Fifty men were also fur
nished, and with this assistance the steamer
appeared at the scene of danger in an hour
when the work Of repairing began with
great energy. Captain Fagot expresses the
opinion that the men will get the upper
hand of the water, and make all secure
| From the same gentleman we learn there
Is threatening creyasse at Bonnet Care,
about ten miles below Cassagne's, at the
old place near where the levee gave way in
| 1871. A dispatch was sent to the pres ident
OF the jackson railroad for immediate as.
| slstance. The break at Bonnet Care is
much more serious than the one ten miles
above, being, at last accounts, forty feet
wide and OF greater depth than the upper
| one.
From MIR. Carey, general agent of the
| jackson railroad, we have received the ad-
| ditional information that the crevasse oc-
Cured at about daylight yesterday morn.
ing, and is at a point a mile below the
break OF 1871, and at the same place where
occurred the crevasse of 1859.
The steamers GarryOwen and B. l..
hodge were Immediately sent up with ad-
dItlonal material and labor, and at late
hour last evening information was received
that the break was under control. This is
more than probable, since there is an exten-
sive batture in front of the break thickly
grown with willows, which will be taken
advantage of by the laborers in closing the
break. However, we are safe in asserting
that there will be 10 interruption to travel.
under any circumstances, every precaution
having been taken by the company to that
end.
All hopes Of closing the crevasse on the
Lafourche have been abandoned. All that
can be done now is to fed the hundreds of
starving mouths of those made houseless
and destitute by the food. The Leyee
Company promises to do something in this
regard, while those who feel for their kind
are invited to read the card Of the committee
in another column.
Tie following information has been re-
celved concerning the condition of affairs
on the lower coast:
The planters have come forward most
promptly with means and material to close
the disastrous break at Greenwood.
Captain Sawyer and others are strainipe
every nerve to protect the coast, working
day and night with all the help at their
command. Great credit is due to Messrs.
Sawyer, Dymond, kernachan, Miller and
Mitchell, and if the Leyee Company comes
to their relief with few thousand dollars.
all will yet be well for all parties.
Greenwood creyasse has now a width of
wv feet and depth of two and half feet
at an acre back. The engineers report that
it can be closed in a very few days with $50
men.
The Belle Chasse is not yet closed, but is |
almost certain to be By Monday morning.
This break is abou. 100 feet wide and five
feet deep.
The Bohemia break, forty feet wide, was |
closed yesterday, and SO with the St. Rosa |
lie. There were a number of breaks above |
Point-a-la- Hache, in all about 400 feet open |
ing. but the people in that neighborhood do |
not seem to have any energy, and are now |
beyond hope of redeeming themselves from |
overflow, unless the river takes sudden |
tall, as it is very likely 10 do.
The engineers reports from below indi. |
cate that the worst is over, and the people |
Ire aroused to realizing sense Of their IN
0rtunate condition.
1t is a fact that most breaks have occurred |
n levees that have just been finished bv |
he Levee Company, and this shows that in
10 case ought the water to be allowed to
ome against new ieyee-at least until it
3 well settled and sodded over with grass;
n, II the water must como against the new
evee. it ought to be reverted with plank
nd carefully watched.
1t Is to be hoped that the Levee Company
LAY stand this years heavy pressure and,
rofiting by their experience of this tremen.
ous flood, take hold of the levee build.
1g In time for the mex. food, and thus re-
eem the prosperity Of this State by re-
uiiding all the levees next season.