The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1874-04-10
ABOUT THE OVERFLOW.

ABOUT THE OVERFLOW.
Our readers generally will be inter-
ested in perusing the following items
concerning the high-watcr:
from the Delhi Chrouiclc.l
THE MAILS.
The route agents of the N. l.. & Il.
r.. IT,, especially Mr.. Henry Haehl,
deserve great credit for the manner in
which they have discharged their duty
so far during the overflow, for they
have been laboring under the greatest
difficulties. The trains have been
stopped, except from Delta to Tallulah,
only about a fourth of the route, and
the mails are carried through on hand
| cars and skiffs. Mr.. Haehl has been
travelling by these conveyances back
and forth, as far as he could go in a
day, with the mails, good portion of
| the time in the rain. 1t is, of course,
| impossible to distribute the mails on
| these land-car and skitfs, which gives
them great deal more work. The
| mails from each end of the route have
been meeting here, and Mr.. Haehl dis
tributes them at the Delhi depot into
the sacks of the different Offices along
the road after their arrival late in the
| in the rain and water, and for all these
labors we think he not only proves
himself a good agent but deserves the
thanks of our people.
! When we consider the difficulties
under which they labor we think the
| officers and employees of the road also
deserve much credit for the promptness
with which they have delivered us the
mail, and the pains they take in pro-
tecting them from damage. One day
this week, while it was raining so in
cessantIy and hard we saw one of the
Iaborers, who helps propel a hand-car
from this place, take off his coat and
spread it over the mail sacks to protect
them from rain.
Taking all this into consideration we
feel perfectly resigned when we fail to
get mail. When the water goes
down we will no doubt be deprived of
our mails for several days, while they
are reconstructing the road where it
has been torn up by the flood.
(Erom the vicksburg Herald 6th.1
/ HIGH WATER.
Although the river here continues
stationary and the prospects are not
very good for an early decline, still
there is consolation in the fact that a
above, and that the tributaries are all
falling. From an interview With the
officers of down stream boats yesterday,
we learn that the river has fallen fifteen
inches at Greenville, and that the Elton
levee, hear Lake Providence, which a
few days ago was thought to he in 4
precarious condition, is now considered
safe. The Arkansas now has less than
eight feet water in the channel, and
White river has gotten down to q re-
, spectacle stage, SO that no further dam
ger may be apprehcnded from that
source. Yazoo and Tallahatchie rivers
and their atfluents arc falling, and the
small streams and bayous, swelled by
the recent rains, are all running out
rapidly.
From persons who came up the river
yesterday by steamers, says the Mem
phis Avalanche, information is elected
that the country on the west side Of the
Mississippi, below the mouth of Arkan-
sas river, is still submerged, though
the waters are subsiding. A large por-
ton of Chicot coudty has been covered
by water, which, as has been previous
Iy announced, has been higher than
has been known for nearly a genera
ton. The Pine Bluff and Chicot rail
way is washed away in several places
between CnlcOt ana NatSOnS station,
twenty miles out from tho Mississippi,
but while the trains ceased running
several weeks ago, the mails have been
regularly carried over the route by
means of skifls, ever since. Two To-
comOtives are on each side of the sub
merged part of the road, with tho roll
ing stock about equally divided, and
the trains have run regularly between
Pine Bluff and Watson's, II distance of
fifty miles. As soon as the waters
subside, the road will be speedily re-
paired and put in working order.
Tho Ouachitl railroad, which form
erly ran thirty miles from Chicot to
Bayou Bartholomew, crossing where
the Highlands commence, the water is
over the road bed almost its entire
length. No trains can be run until the
water decliucs and the road is repaired.
a large portion of the high water that
has poured over the Chicot country,
flowed out of the White and Arkansas
during the recent frcshetS in those
streams.
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