The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-05-23
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| The condition ofathe inundated country, as
reported in dispatches of the 30th, was as
! follows: Jaeksonport, Clarendon and Indian
Bay, on the White River, are inundated.
The whole country from Skipworth's Land
! ing to the mouth of the Yazeo is under water,
and there is great destitution among the in
habitants. -. The officials of the jackson
Railroad announce everything in order from
New Orleans to Memphis and Cairo for the
transportation of mails and passengers. 49,.
The Alabama River was falling slowly. The
damage done is great between Selma and Mo-
bile, and large cotton area is under water.
Scarcity of cotton seed will prevent the re-
planting of the crop.
The General Conference of the NJ. E.
Church South convened at Louisville, KY, on
the 1st.
W. Fl. Harrison, Treasurer of the Globe
Theater, Chicago, lately burned, who was ar
rested on charge of arson, was henorably
discharged, there being not the slightest evi-
dence against him.
Additional creYasses were reported on the
4th near Prentiss and Glencoe, Miss, with
other points threatened. Private Bend, Ark,
was broken, and several rich plantations
oyerhowed. New Orleans dispatches of this
date give the following:
Edgar Fazend, manager of the Bell River plan
tation, Assumption parish, says: ' In this sec
ton of the parish there is population OF about
O90 white and black destitute of the first reces-
saries Of life, living on RATS and house-tops.
There is no transportation of any kind, and the
nearest land is twenty miles off All their cattle
and horses are drowned, and the wafer is still ris
ing about six inches in every twenty -four hours =
Mrs. S. A. Briggs, writing from Hesperia
plantation, Madison parish, says: fs Permit me to
call your attention to the suerings of the freed
men on my plantation, 10 in number. We are
submerged; merchants are not extending credit;
our provisions are exhausted and our stock de-
stroyed; Women and children come to me, and
am without the means to help them or myself. -
-. fbe Brashear Nesus says: Brashear City
has average of three feet of water-near five
feet in front of the town, and but three acres
of dry ground in the place. Goods are stored
in the railroad depot. The space not
SO occupied is used for a public market
Avoca plantation, on Bayou BGuf, has s. o
Bayou BGuf, from Brashear to the railr ad, fff-
teen plantations under water; at Chene, five
plantations under water, with number of
ers; Shoefer's. three plantations and twenty
families in distress, asking assistance to trans
port them They are now living on RATS. On
Sweet Bay Lake, fifteen families are flooded
out; on Black Lake, sixteen families; on Laurs,
sixteen. All the front and portion ef the busi-
ness part of Clarendon Is under water. Center
Vile ana fattersOnVilie are partially unucF
water. On Bayou Teche, on forty plantations.
1 Is, COS acres of cane and corn are entirely
destroyed, and $4,000 acres submerged. From
| the Teche down, upon fifteen plantations, 5,0oO
| acres of cane and corn are destroyed
A diagram of the flooded country in the
States Of Arkansas, Mississippi and Louisi'
ana shows an extent of fourteen Thousand
four hundred square miles, or bit of land
four hundred and eighty miles long and thirty
wide. An overflow so extensive and destruc
tive is without precedent in the history o
the Mississippi Valley. The damages to grow
ing crops and property in general are vari
ously estimated at from fifteen to twenty mil
lion dollars.