The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-03-11
DEEDS OF THE DAY.
Continued, from First Page
The Flood
AL BAYOU SARA.

New ORLEANS, March 10.-A Bayou Sara
special says: Pointe Coupee crevasse has
not affected stand of water yet although
there is fearful mass of water escaping
from the river at that point. The levee is
stillgivng away rapidly, rs it is all green
earth and crumbles as fast as the water
pushes against it. The gap is now about
1000 feet wide, and the water, as it goes
through, is about ten feet deep, but is
rapidly digging deeper, spreading far and
VIDE over the country, and will overflow
the lower parts OF this parish and all ofwest
Baton Rouge and portions of Assumption,
lberville, ST. Mary and Terribonne, the
richest sugar district in Louisiana. The
False river and Gross Tetc country will
soon be inundated, aud the loss of property
ana suffering, of the people will be terrible
Major IL. &. Brown, state engineer, says
1T is useless to attempt to stop
the crevasse. The people of Bayou
Sara are making noble fight
against the flood. All stores are closed and
every man is at work upon the levees which
protect the place, while q draining machine
is working against the fearful pressure"
WATER VALLEY, MIss.-MoUTH OF RED RIVER
The New Orleans, Chicago & st. Louis
railroad is again submerged and impossible
III the neighborhood of Water Valley, Mis-
sissippi. This overflow has assumed alarm
ing proportions, inundating all that section
OF the country. Trains are unable to pro-
coed further north than Cofleevile station.
this side of Water Valley. Captain Richard
Sinnott, Just arrived from Red River, re-
ports $50 families below Alexandria living
on RATS, and in deplorable condition. He
thinks the state should send them some
rations at once, or that some private pro-
vision should be made to relieve their great
misery. Levees along the city front are
inspected daily, well guarded, weak points
strengthened and every precaution taken to
prevent crevasse. The same precautions
are taken all along the line from Ba on
Rouge to the gulf.
AT THE CRESCENT CITY.
The gauge at the head of Canal street
shows the river one foot below the high
water mark of 1874. The fall is attributed
to Pointe Coupee crevasse and the change
in the wind
CLOSED
A dispatch from Lafourche to G. A. Whit
ney Il Co. announces the successful closing
by the Morgan railroad company of the
crevasse at the Legarde place. The crevasse
on the east side at Pittman's place does but
little damage, and no effort has been made
to close it.
AT rRIAR's POINT.
MEMPHIS, March l0.-Passengers from
below report break in the levce eleven
and a half miles above Friars Point, Missis.
sippi. The break occurred yesterday and
although Friar's Point will be overlooked
from the break down, it will not suffer by
river rushing.
IMPEDING TRAVEL.
CHATTANOOGA, TENN, March l0.-The
recent heavy rains in North Alabama have
caused the Tennessee to overflow its banks
and have weakened the railroad embank-
ments. Three washouts occurred Monday
night on the Memphis q Charleston rail
road near Tuscumbia, Alabama, and orders
have been received that no tickets are to be
sold to points west of that city for thirty-six
hours. The necessary repairs to road can
be made in eight or ten hours after the wa
ter subsidies.