Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-03-06
THE FLOOD RECORD.
Waters Subsid:ng at Some Points and Rig
ing at Others-Sad Condition of Affairs
Along the Red River-Rel,ef Movements.

Waters Subsid.ng at Some Points and Ris-
ing at Others-Sad Condition of Affairs
Along the Red River-Rel,ef Movements.
LITTLE Rock, Ark, March A special
from Arkansas City, via Trip station, at
noon, says the water has fallen in all fifteen
inches cansed by breaking of levees in the
Mississippi opposite and above at Riverton,
Watch Claim, Baggett and Williams and
other points. All of Bolivar county, Miss, is
under water and most of Washington county,
including Greenville. There is mnch suffer-
ing and want on both sides now. Families are
huddled together in such houses as they think
the safest. The government aid expected will
reach US in good time and many be made hap
py by the approach of bread and meat for the
hungry ones who would otherwise starve. In
this city the water has receded from many
houses, which are being washed out to-day
ready to receive the inhabitants from the gar
rets. No more loss of life has occurred. The
people feel more cheerful as there are some
signs of relief and returning business. The
railroad men have begun to repair their track
preparatory to returning running of trains.
A great number of skiffs and other boats ply
to and from Trip station for miles away to
carry freight and passengers.
RED RIVER SUFFERERS.
New ORLEANS, March 3.-Capt. Sinnot,
engaged in the Red river trade as pilot, returned
from trip to-day and says he found great dis
tress everywhere, and there is no telling what
damage may yet result. The people are under
going terrible hardships. Many of them are
emigrants who settled in the productive l9w
lands along the river and improved the coun-
try considerably and were building it I'D.
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and were just beginning to get their places in
running order when the water came and swept
crops and everything else away. Those who
could do so ran back to the hills, but most of
| them are ruined entirely and are on the verge
of starvation. He helped them all he could
and thinks it the duty of the government and
| all citizens to assist the sufferers.
AID.
| MEMPHIS, March 4.-Commissiouer Man
gum, of Arkansas, with supplies, started this
afternoon by the steamer Josie Harry to the
needy at Tacoma Circle and up the White
river. The cotton exchange, at meeting
| this afternoon, appointed committees to So
| licit money and provisions for the relief of
TeHnesseeans suffering from floods.
| BRIDGE CARRIED OFF.
| LAWRENCE, Mass, March 4-Ice going out
of the river carried away the support of a
span of the bridge here, letting the unfinished
portion of the bridge into the river. The loss
will fall on the Canton Bridge company, of
| Canton, Ohio. Two employees were thrown
| into the river, and a number of others were
placed in very dangerous positions, but all
were rescued in various stages of exhaustion.
STILL RISING.
HELENA, Ark, March 4.-The river has
risen four inches in the past twenty-four
hours, which brings it up to within five
inches of the late rise. 1t is thought that by
Monday it will be above the highest point
this season and the river is expected to con
tinue rising until about the 18th. Citizens
are thoroughly aroused and will make hard
fight to save the front levees. The backwater
in the city is rising at the same rate as the
main river, but will rise faster when the levee
below gives away, which will occur about
Monday