Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-03-21
MERclLEss WATERS.
Continued Reports Of Terrible SUI
fering From tho Floods.
Men, Women and Children Staving-The
Deadly misunderstanding Down
Houses-large Numbers Drown
ed-efTots for Relief.
DIFFICULTIES TO BE ENCOUNTERED.

Sr. LOUIS, March ao.-The Globe Dtmocraft
who is aboard their steamer,
telegraphs that she will Immediately pro-
ceed UP the Yazoo river and distribute her
supplies, about one hundred tons, and
render what assistance possible TO the
destitute people in that region.
Captain Lee has information that there
Is great distress and suffering throughout
the Yazoo Delta. 1t was originally design
ed to remove the people from their Hooded
home. to secure and comfortable quarters,
but il is learned that there are so many OF
them that il would require whole fleet OF
steamers and boats 10 carry out that plan,
and il has, therefore, been abandoned.
The people will be left i'll their houses, eN-
cept in extreme cases and arrangements
will be made to furnish them with sup,
plies from depots which will be established
at eligible points. 81.
CAPTAIN Lee held consultation with
prominent citizens OF Greenville: and at
last accounts was making all haste to the
YaEoo country.
Seven persons were Killed Wnen tue
levee broke at Prentiss.
Sr. LOUIS, Mo-, March 30.-The clerk OF
the steamer City OF Providence, just up
from Vicksburg gives some information
about the floods in the lower river not be-
fore published. He says that the Parasol
Steamb boat Company, that run steamboats,
I'D the Yazoo river and its tributaries, Is
doing more 10 assist and rescue the people
than the government and everybody else
combined. 1t has sent into
The Submerged Region
of Yazoo, the Sunfower and the Talla.
hatchie, the lightdraft steamers pcsmet
Headlight and Sunilower, equipped for q
special work Each boat is manned with
full complement Of skiilS, axes and other
necessary utensils. They steam out into
the flood as far rs practicable; then anchor
and send a detachment of men in each
direction to look for sufferers. The crews
are started out in the morning with IN.
structons TO prosecute their searches untii
nearly dark. and then TO return. The sun
flower, one Of the boats above mentioned
returned the day We left Nicksburg. On
board she had
Three Hundred and Fifty Sufferers,
and her deck was crowded with cattle that
had been picked up. The people on board
were nearly all sick and the majority OF
them in a destitute condition. Another
one of the boats, the Headlight, is expect
ed back at any time. She will also be
crowded with passengers and cattle. The
worst point on the whole river is Millikens
Bend. There is an overflow and counter
overflow in that district. The waters from
the Mississippi are getting over the levec'
and the floods and backwater from the
Yazoo are coming in from behind. As
consequence, when these two bodies meet
Awhirlpool n Formed
which DESTROYS verything in its course,
The locality of the whirlpool is changing
continually, and every day it completes
new destruction. A large yawl filled with
negroes was caught in it the other day, up
set and all its occupants drowned. The
whirlpool struck church few days ago
in which a number Of people with their
stock had taken refuge. The church was
torn to pieces in few minutes, plank ny
plank, and carried away. Ihe stock wa
drowned and the people
FIoated Around I'm the Water
for some time, but were finally rescued
after a great deal Of trouble and danger
The vortex struck the residence, barn ano
stable of an old and paralytic farmer, by
the name Of Jammison, and totally ann
Inflated them. The old gentleman wa
drowned.
Relief steamer.
Sr. LOUIS, March 20.-The Government
relief steamer, Anita, in charge OF Captain
Lee, who is accompanied by st. Clair Ar
neld acting for the Quartermasters he
partment, arrived at Greenyille, Miss.
yesterday.
On the House Tops.
NEw ORLEANS, March 20. - Buckhorn
Break is at least half mile wide and
about 10 feet deep. The water is spreading