The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1874-05-02

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800 ssuasy ahd febesed af Hls els.s
o height BOT lnt|e below f,ai n sn /
Az The horfhFrslotn pof.len oil
ITO Nty sst submerged. esd LGa
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were forced n 'eaf6 Mtlr homes
Tho Nstor ,ilod tie cellars NJ Tue
ker. proprietor ~ tbo Washington
Vineyard, lot DID BOT damage bic
wines.
The fat county west Of TIE river
Tor miles was a sea OF wator-llonses
we're Submerged ~ the cves. cad lhe
occupants sought safety on The roof
wLeie tley remained 10 the cold wind
and rain iill they were picked up by
boa = from Tic city. IN some eases.
the houses loll IN q lev Initiates alter
they we're tai en- on Tie boats.
Many o~utshouscs we're washed aeay,I \
and large quantities " corn, fhddtr,
provisions, utensils, &c eii c destroy.
cd, and many poof iani les, princi-
pally neg,ocs, were lclt deslitute.
In ose instance, Which came under
our Qpseryalicqs ~ nssrt remained OF 7
& once comfortably fixed LONE was a I
peach orchard. The settlement at {
West Point, one mile west Of the city, n
vas well,nigh destroyed. Several Of :.
he houses were washed down and :.
out-houses, and fences were "
iwept away. Great numbers Of "
cattle, sheep, hogs, and poul U
ry were drowned, and their carcass
$ floating or the turhid waters pre-
ented a melancholy spectacle. W
The damage to the plantations is a
immense. Miles of fence have been hi
wept away, and fields of wheat, oats, in
nd corn, and fields pepared for G
were covered with water al
everal feet deep. Some idea can ic,
0 formed of the damage done in lie so
of fncing alone, when we stat he
lat from Columbus to Union Bluff, ia
! the west side of the river, scarcely m;
whole panel can be found. AS
it'll that portion, so with every part
the River Bottom. Boats have
zen in requsition, affording the only .
cans of travel. A numbtr of citi,
ems last Monday came to the city a,
the Macon road in skiffs a dis "a
nee of ten miles. IN
Enterprise we are glad to say es- tn
ped a repetition of the over flow of Ii
zee years ago last month, when the %
wn was under water. There was III
rumor down here that the water WI
ere was up to the counters in the up
ores, and the Pascagoala denoted iul
at old Chiekasahay was booming. u
t we rejoice that she acted more 90
Iithin bounds than heretofore. gr'
The Courier says: pa
We do not exaggsrate when we Law
that the quantity of rain which pri
| in this section between the lsr ma
d Goth of the current month is ,ho
tirely without precedent. Most -.
the heavy rise of the first Oh
MS was given time TO discharge it +,
+ before the second food swept ing
wn upon US. The exceedingly low to
ge Of the water therefore, gave us 81,
pc that, no matter how heavy the o,p
of rain, it would at least %confine Oh
elf within the banks of the river it;
] it's tributary streams. But the wis
,erierce which followed plainly of
wed that this was a delusiou. .Lli
e slow but incessant rains of last w
Elk gradually brought up the river ere
this point, until, on sunday, it came felt
eeripg . I
OUT OF ITS BANKS hea
tn the velocity of a mountain cat Ior,
ct. Old canoes were repaired, and .'
ny new ones improvised to meet ci |
demand. For several days the hot
ire business portion of town seem- upo
in imminent danger of being food. snp,
and the merchants who suffered
severely from the freshet of III. '
in their zeal TO remove seek
ir goods 10 upper floors and i'm wat