The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-04-26
THE RIVERS.
Great Suffering Throughout
the State.

IHdIh vi l-Il. anu was doout sldlloHdis
The back water in
AISiers and Gretna
is gradually receding, and those villages are
now free from overflow.
The Jackson Railroad.
The following dispatch will convey to oul
readers better idea of the condition than
any thing could write
CARRIERS HILL. April %, 1574.-To S. E.
Carey, Ticket Agent: With two days fair
weather we can run through and keep run
ming. f. d. FROST, Gen'l Manager
BeIlechasse CIevasse Closed.
We are gratifed to learn from James
Zuntz, Esq, that the crevasse at the Belle
chasse plantation, has been successfully
closed after constant and laborious work for
many days. Belechasse is the property of
Mr. Zuntz, and is one Of the finest sugar es-
tates in the State. The damage will proba-
bly, not be more than 80 hhds of sugar, but
the corn will all have to be replanted.
! The Ouachfta.
In conversation with a gentleman who
has Just returned from a trip mp the
Ouachita, we learn that the flood is alto
gether unprecedented in that section. The
entire valley, from Camden down, is under
water, which varies in depth from one foot
to ten feet. Camden, Monroe, Trenton
| Harrsonburg and all other towns are sub
merged. At Monroe the water is four feet
higher than ever known before, and the re-
| sldents have been compelled to seek safety
in the second story of their houses.
Our informant draws heart -rending
picture Of the desolation and ruin which
have been wrought by the food. Thou
sands of people are bereft of home and
property, while thousands of animals -
horses, cows, oxen, pigs, etc.-have been
usually landed, large steamer-the Qua
chita Belle, we believe-went completely
over the levee and out into an adjoining
submerged field, but returned to tho river
proper unframed. AS far as the eye can
see ON either side, except where hills here
and there rise above the flood, there is one
vast eXpanse of water
1t is terrible to think Of the amount of
suffering and loss which will be inflicted by
this disastrous overflow, and we trust that
those of our citizens who have been charged
with the distribution of supplies will act
promptly and upon some systematic plan.
Black River.
From one end to the other this stream is
out of its banks, and the water was at last
accounts still rising.
Red River.
At last accounts this stream was rising
from its source to the mouth; the rise at
Shreveport on the oath was s inches The
Upper Red River has overfown it's banks
and from Fulton down to the point formerly
known as the head Of the raft nearly every
plantation is under water.
At Louisville, on the oath, the river was
falling. and at Cincinnati and Pittsburg
about stationary.
Al Cairo.
From late advices the river had risen ten
inches in forty-eigbt hours and was forty
seven feet above extreme low water mark
The Mississippi,
at st. Louis, on the 25th, was stationary, at
Memphis the same, and at Vicksburg still
rising.
Pearl River.
The recent freshet in this stream has caus- |
ed immense destruction to property. The
town of Gainesville IS completely inundated,
and work at the mills along the river bank
has been suspended, owing to high water
ahd the loss of all the RATS of logs moored |
before them The breaking loose of the i'm
mense RATS in front Of Capt. Pontevent's
mills and their subsequent collision with the
bridge of the n. Q. NJ. & T. Railroad was the
cause of the destruction of this important
work.
B9uf River.
The people along this stream, as well as
those on Bayou Macon and Tensas rivers, are
in a state of great restitution, and immedi-
ate measures should be taken for their relief.
The McCullom Crevasse.
We hope in our next issue to report the
closing of all the breaks at this place, as
work on them is being vigorously pushed.
The Hickey Crevas.e
is over quarter of mile wide and
nearly II feet deep, and it is thought to be
impossible to close it.
MOrganza Crevasse.
We have no late news from this break. but
from parties who ought to know, we learn
that it will be impossible at present to close
the break
The Lower Coast.
There is nothing later to report from this
section. There has been all told nine breaks
n the parishes of St. Bernard and Plaque
mines, three of which have been closed and
The balance in fair way Of being closed.
Bayou Macon.
From Capt. Grunter, Of the steamer Fleta
which arrived last evening from Floyd, we
earn that all the low lands along the bayou
ire under water, and that great distress
prevails along not only Bayou Macon, but
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