Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-03-04
THE FLOODS.
Wholesale Devastation and Suf-
fering
By Breaking of Levees on the
Mississippi.

NEW ORLENNS, March "A Green
vile, Miss, special says There
was perfect break of the Bolivar
Levee yesterday morning. The
Reverton, Wade, Clay and Badgat
Levees also broke through and it is
reported that the Concordia broke
the day before. These breaks will
cause an overflow of every plan ta-
ton in Bolivar County.
The river, here, fell four inches
last night, aud is still falling rapidly
The breaks in the Bolivar County
levees will probably save those of
Washington and Issaguera Counties,
but the loss to the district, in levees
alone, is not less than S15O,OOO. The
Clay and Badgat levees are the larg-
est in the district, except the Hush
packana. Several lives are reported
lost.
Rosedale, county seat of Bolivar
County, is six feet under water.
The Ledger Office and other houses
are washed away. The Clark and
f ont levees on Lake Bulan are gone
This will cause an overflow of what
was left of Bolivar County.
The Williams bayou levee, in this
county, is broke and all the north
ern portion OF Washington County
ard the backlands throughout
Isaaguana and Sharkey Counties
will go under A number of people
were drowned at Riverston. There
has been a fall of eight inches in the
river to date.
Later reports say that in addition
to the breaks above stated, there was
one at Hughes front, between Wade
and Clarke's The accounts of sucr-
fering and loss o. life continue 10
come ID, and they exceed anything
that has ever attended the previous
inundacions of the Mississippi River.
The crevasses above named are all
above Greeneville.
MEMPHIS, March 2.-Private let
ters from Rive Jon, Miss, $50 miles
below Nemp s, and IT'S miles
above Vicksburg, say that the levee
broke Monday night and that tie
loss of property is fearful. Several
persons were drowned, and among
the number Benz. Hyne, shipping
clerk for Frank & Reinach, who tried
ro go to the assistance of Mrs.
Bradshaw, ard was drawn into the
channel of the break and drowned
I The live stock is all drowned and
there are no provis ions for the
people to subsist on.
A break occurred about one hum
dred yards above Duncan's. A mes
sage has been sent to Terrine for the
steamer Plowboy to take the women
, aud children to Memphis. They are
suffering greatly, having lost every
thing they possessed except the
, clothes on their backs. It is
impossible to describe the fear
full havoc and destruction the
f waters have wrought. Besides
| the break at Riverton, there are two
} more, one at 'Hright's, one mile be-
low, and another at Judge Miles
, place, ten miles below Riverton
Mules, horses, cows, goats anC
houses pass by continually. Add tt
these, falling and crashing timber
and you then have the faintest ide;
of the condition of things. In Dun
cans there must be no less thai
, twenty five women and chill tren, and
a good many more are huddled to-
gether on the levee. 1t is, pittul tt
see them, half>naked, frozen ant
, hungry.
/ Every house at Riverton excep
5 those of Duncan, Franks and Rein
8 acks, has either foated off or is 81
damaged by the washing away O
blocks that they will be unfit fo,
habitation when the water declines
IS The levee in front of Duncan's hous,
It Is weak, and there is danger of i
), breaking. The store house of Ma.
y Miller, together with his stock O
e goods, foated off and was lost.
A letter from Col. Cohen, at Con
cordia, Miss, 20 miles below River,
ton, says:
The levee at Blackburn's brok,
; Tuesday morning, and the water i
e over Concordia. The break is through
5 Blanchard's place. A scafold il
being erected to take care of tn
stock. The river rose three inche:
q in twenty-four hours.
New ORLEANS, March "A dis
t pc och from Lake Providence report
that the crevasse in Longwood levee
six miles above LAX Providence, ha,
been closed effectually, and al
r danger is over.