The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-03-15
The Flood,

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Vorlhg the bill, the house adjourned
The Flood.
NEW ORLEANS, March 1.-The Times
Nioksburg special says; Delta, Louisiana,
has been abandoned to the flood, and peo-
ple are leaving as fast rs they can. The
leVee III the rear of Delta is about to give
away. eN
New ORLEANS, March li.-Hon. George
w. McCrain, OF the Ouachita Telegraph,
sends Sel the following to the Times Democrat
from Monroe, Louisiana; The situation
here is extremely critical. A visit TO the
leVees above and below the city this after.
noon showed both in great danger, though
q large force Is at work on them. There are
not hve inches TO spare on them, The
water is oo2ing through the leyees
in many places. The river here il
six feet higher than the natural bank, and
more than ten feet higher than the rear of
the city, where the overflow is higher than
IN lS14 and still rising. The river is rising
at the rate of an inch in twelve hours. A
beat from Camden reports rise all the way
gown the river, only three and half inches
below the mark of 1874. Nearly all of
Trenton is under water, and in some places
three feet deep. Business is suspended.
Roads are impassable; communication
only by, water. Planting along the river is
suspended. Stock are huddled together,
and many are dying from starvation and
buiialo gnats, worse now than known for
twenty years. Rain threatened TODAY.
Should it come. Monroe, the highest point
on the east bank of the Ouachita, will be
inevitably submerged, The condition of
the country is truly alarming.
ST.. L%las, March li.--The government
steamer Anna, which left here yesterday
with quantity Of provisions on board for
sufferers from the Mississippi Hoods. will
g, direct to Memphis where she will be
taken in charge by an army officer, and
probably Major Benyard, and will then pro-
ceed 10 Friars' Point, from which place Il
number OF boats will be sent out over the sub
merged bottoms, and all people now hud.
died together on bits of broken levees and
other dry spots, but still surrounded by
water in that region, will be transported to
places where they can be more comfortable
and properly provided tor.
The Southern relief committee, of St.
Louis, Will issue to-day an appeal to per
sons generally for money, food, clothing and
medicine.
The officers and passengers of the City OF
Baton Rouge, which arrived here yesterday
from New Orleans, say that the river has an
average width of forty miles nearly all the
way from Cairo down, and with the excep-
tion ol some sixty miles, above and below
Nicksburg, the Ieyecs are either washed
! away or covered with water, and are OF no
practicable benefit
General Beckwith of the commissary de
partment, who has charge of the distribu.
ton OF government ratlons from this city
l TO the Hooded districts of the lower Mssis-
slppi, has received the following dispatch
\ 4 II 4
have just'arrlved here. ! found Pemiscott
Mo-, in "a distressing condition, living
almost entirely submerged, and | 200 peo.
pie are destitAte. Supplies sent TO Mem.
phis are being carefully distributed, and
will last until about the 25ih but more
should be sent there. The people will be il
just as bad fix when the water goes down
The government, to prevent starvation
should care for them at least until May jst
About 80 people are destitute at Hstha
way, Tennessee, $50 at Tiptonville, 30 al
Hollis Point, Tennessee, $50 at bayfield,
ioinii 1900 in the vicinity OF 0sceola
Arkansas, are destitute or badly
in want. Some stores have been received
at Osceola, but they are insufficient. ,
General Beckwitll has also received the FOL
lowing from Captain Lee, dated Memphis
Arrived here on Saturday night. Nv dis
patch of the 9th inst. falls short of repre-
senting the acutal destitution and marni
thde OF this overflow.
IL an additional appropriation is mad,
5000 Of rations should I've sent her,
as soon as possible for the sui
ferers in the state of Mississippi
This should be in..addition to any ratitm
that may be sent from the first appro
priation. The destitution is general ant
increasing, and there 5000 destitut,
persons in Bolivar county alone
My estimate will carry the sufferer,
through to the 10th Of April and possibly
the floods may subside by that time so thai
sufferers can begin to work Capt. Lee ha,
been directed by General Beekwith to take
charge of the little steamer Anna which
lett here yesterday and proceed at once
on the mission designated for her-picking
up parties OF destitute people In the flood.
ed districts and taking themto dry land and
shelter where they can be cared tor
| FicIsBrRG, Miss, March l.--News from
the overilowed districts continues TO pour
in. The distress is terrible. The steamer,
+. G. Carroll has arrived from
the, Tallahatchie and lazoo rivers
of Coldwater, AZ miles above Vicksburg.
Sunday morning at daylight, and reports
the water there five feet higher than ever
before. known, and is still rising ut the
rate OF seven inches In twenty.iour hours,
People along the Tallahatchie and Yazoo
rivers were living on the tops of residences
end In gin lofts. In many places the water
was up TO the caves of the buildings. The
horses and mules will be pretty generally
saved, but the greater portion
Of oil stock will be drowned.
liargcs, skiiIs, and other means of relief arr
being freely sent 10 sufferers nj different
points A very large lot of stock and many
families arrived to-day from different points.
Residents OF Delta, Louisiana, are leaving
their houses as fast as they can be removed
to this city by ferry boats and barges,
which have been exceedingly busy al Jay,
The levee IN the rear OF Delta is In
very uncertain condition, and
fears are felt that Il will
give vay. soon; people are working on II
night and day, Notwithstanding the town
Is under water already. Very many OF
the houses will be swept from their founda.
tions and totally ruined The leveo
at Milliken's Bend Is also IN,
Ia precsrious condition, but O, ,ry
effort Is being. made 10 strengthen Il. no
new breaks have been reported to-day.
The steamer Natchez has been nj the
compress all day loading cotton. The
yard will he almost entirely under
the water by morning, II the river
continues TO rise at the present rate. She
will leave during the night with between
200 and 5000 bales. The gauge reads
forty.seven feet above the low.water mark.
with rise OF six inches during the past