Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-03-13
FLOOD SUFFERERS.

Twenty Thousand In Arkansas Recurring
Aid for Sixty Days-Further Destruction
In acknowledgements Dispatch Boat
MEMPHIS, March lathe river here de-
elined about one inch to-day. The govern
ment steamer Elmer Etheridge, with survey
ing party on board, arrived at noon and de-
parts tomorrow for the INSPECTION of the
breaks in the levees. She will also take SUD.
plies to the needy.
The Big Hatchie river is over it's banks and
has caused some damage to the railroad bridge
on the Louisville Il Nashville line, forty miles
east OF Memphis, near Brownsville. Passen-
gers mad TO be transferred and no train will 90
out on the road tonight.
Lieut.. Vedder, detailed for duty in Arkansas
to ascertain the extent of suffering caused by
the overflow, arrived this morning from Little
ROCK. he estimates the government will
have to provide for 10000 destitute people in
Arkansas for sixty days from the Goth instant,
as the suffering Is increasing and will continue
long after the waters subside.
AT NEW ORLEANS.
NEW ORLEANS, March 12-Weather cloudy,
warmer wind, gusty and variable from the
southeast to the southwest. Nothing new
from the levees The river shows the highest
record OF the season, at 6 o. M, 6 inches be-
low the high water mark of 1874.
BAYOU SARA.
BAYOU SARA, March 12.-News gloomy.
The Point Caupee break Is widening every hour
and it is expected to break above at any mo-
ment. The leyee will probably go. The back.
water fell twelve inches to-day, no doubt
caused by the breaking of Polin's dyke. A
very larg- ernhankment is built to prevent the
waters firm eut-ring. This will fill False
river and certainly Cause a break in Ford
Atchee levee and inundare the Gross Tere
country. Polin's dyke Is about one mile from
the court house and about four from Water
loo. 1t will be impossible to estimate
the prlvat1ons OF the people, loss of stock,
crops, etc. The steamer Pat Bonner, with
fat boats is to-day moving cattle, etc, from
Point Coupee to Cat Island Many died en-
route from exhaustatlon and want of forage.
The track OF the West Felicina railroad on
the levee which protects the eastern side of
town, will have to be raised as the water is
still rising an inch per day, and not many
inches TO spare. Some malicious person made
small cut In the last night about mile re-
low Carrollton, but it was closed without
damage.
NEWSPAPER INVESTIGATION.
ST. LOUIS, March 12.-The Globe Democrat,
OF this city, will send out from Cairo, Ills,
at daylight tomorrow small light draft
steamer fully manned and equipped on a news
expedition through the flooded districts of the
lower Mississippi river. The expedition will
be manned, besides the crew of the vessel,
OF experienced reporters, two of whom are
telegraph operators, under charge of William
Spink, and instead of simply following the
channel OF the river will, when opportunity
occurs or circumstances require, steam out
over the submerged bottom lands,
visit all the elevated points on which
people who have been driven from home by
the raging waters are located and obtain ali
information possible of the condition of the
people and damage done to property. The
| telegraph will be freely used as we'll as the
mails. Everything has been arranged for
full and complete description of the inunda-
| ton.