Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-03-29
STORMS AND FLOODS.

More Rations Wanted in Arkapsas-A
Hurricane In Louisisna-An Old Negres
Blown Away NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Othe
Dsa' hs-Destruotion of Property Ex
trene, Particularly In the South.
NATcHEz, March 2S-On Sunday and Mon
| day about three inches of ram fell. Th
river is forty-seyen feet eight inches. an,
stationary. Nearly all the residents of Vida
liza have removed to Natchez. Steamboats, ar
now sailing over the wagon road. All tn
bottom lands on the Mississippi side, as far a
Fort Adams, are under water. Great destitu
ton prevails.
MONTGOMERY, Ala, March ga storm il
Southeast Alabama blew down the house O.
one MIR. Richardson, Barbour county, killing
him: R. Priddeet, near Cuthbert, Ga, Mrs
Pond and Mr.. Martin, near Browns Station
were killed, number of people were badl,
/ hurt, and many houses were demolished.
COLUMBUS, Ga, March 2S-A cyclone
passed near Loachapoka, Alabama, doing
great damage and killing two men.
DESTRUCTIVE TO DARKIEs.
New ORLEANS, March 2S.--The Times
Democrat Monroe Ua.) special says: A violent
hurricane swept over this place yesterday
evening. At Mcclure place six cabins and q
portion Of a gin house was blown down. Or
Cooper plantation all the houses including the
dwellings were destroyed. j. W. Scarborough
lost his gin house and two cabins. On Ludel
ing place two cabins were blown to atoms.
On Oliver plantation all the houses were
house and two cabins. Loss here $25 COO An
old colored woman of Ludeling place was
blown away and has not yet been found. Sew.
eral negroes are reported killed.
RATIoNs REQUIRED.
ST.. Louis, March 2S-Capt Benham, of the
United States army, .elegraphs Gen. Beckwith
from Helena, Ark, that the $4,000 'rationa
left there by the government steamer Coal
Bluff on Sunday will supply the people until
April 8, but he says 100000 more should be
sent at once, to be followed week later by
$4,000, week later by $4,000, then week
later by 25,0OO.-. This he and the state agent
think will carry the state through.
NEW ORLEANS, March % "A CORES pond
emit of the Times Democrat, writing from
Musson, Louisiana, says the prOtracted con-
test is over and the beautiful Fordache Manu-.
gouin aud Crosse Tele country is desolate1 by
vast sheet OF water potlring-oyer it from
four crevasses. Two hundred square miles of
land occupied by 1900 people, is covered
with water. Only three plantations,
escaped. The nearest high land is Baton
Rouge, sixteen miles distant, and there is no
way to convey stock to that point except by
little steamers via Plaquemlne. The woods
are full of stock wading and swimming in
search of food, and already they are beginning
to die. No suffering yet among the people,
but fish and wild game are getting scarce and
soon there must be a call for help.
NEW ORLEANS, March 2S.-If the water re
cedes in the sugar district within twenty DAYS
enough can be saved for seed and for, fair
grinding. Applications for rations continue
from all tae overlooked sections. and IS, 600
rations were shipped to-day for Boueff river
and 10000 for West Feliciana, Coucordia and
Madison parishes; also, fodder for stock.
A second crevasse is reported at Live Oak
Grove. Lumber has been sent to close it.
The river here seight inches below the high
water mark of 1874. Wind northwest.
Tallahatchie rivers are falling three inches Ger
day. On the Yazoo and from Greenwood down
for forty miles most of the plantations are out
of water. The United States and state officers
are bney arranging for further distribution of
supplies throughout the overlooked districts
Two negroes were drowned at Forest Home
to day.
MEMPHIS, March 2S.-The river declined
two inches here to-day and now marks thirty
four feet, three inches on the gauge. decline
OF twenty. one inches from the extreme high
water of the present season.
HELENA, Ark, March 2S.-The river fell an
an inch and one-haf since yesterday.
Fifty thousand rations have arrived and {, 900
persons were supplied from this station to-
day. Lieut.. Satterlee just arrived
from Lee and St. Francis counties,
Ark, reports 4,7O0 sufferers in the two coun-
ties. The steamer John M. Bronsford will
take rations tomorrow to Sunk Lands, where
great distress prevails. A prominent citizen
Of Poinsett county came all the way, 800
miles, in a dugout, to report the
situation to Judge Mangum. Re-
ports from below state that the buffalo
gnats are still killing cattle and making life
almost intolerable. fairly distancing the high
water in terrors. Judge Mangum has gone
up the river in the government steamer c. B.
Rees, to distribute rations to the needy along
the coast Of Crittenden and Mississippi coun-
ties.