The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-03-22
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SITUATION AT YAzoo.
Over Five Thousand Mules Drowned.
YAzoo CRY, Miss, March IL
The river lacks six inches of being
at the high water mark of 1867, and
rising. One hundred DIV ellings
are overhowed and deserted, and
many business houses washed out
completely. Refugees are daily ar
irving. aud the destitution Is appall-
ing. The loss of property cannot be
estimated. Over five thousand
mules are drowned in the Upper
Tallahatchie. Boats and hastily
constructed flats are bringing down
large quantities of stock, Constant
reports are coming of lives lostin en-
deayoring to escape The hills are
filed with young deer and bears
driven from the swamp by water,
and several have been seen in the
loutskirts of the town. The town of
Statatia is entirely submerged, not a
house being visible, and the peo-
| pie are all camped on a range Of
hills beyond.
New ORLEANS, March 17.-No
apprehensions of an overflow of the
city levees. They can stand a foot
more water and are likely to re
cei.e that much. They are patroll-
ed at night to prevent attempts to
cut them. The Saint Coupe ere
vase widened to 900 feet, and wa
ter is pouring through it twelve ief'
deep, flooding False river and tie
Crosse Tete country. Ii there are
no rains along Red river the condi-
ton will brighten. The worst is
considered passed. A break this
morning of hundsed feet wide In
the leyee five miles below the city
viii probably flood St. Bernard par
ish.
ST.. LOUIS. Mar. ia special to
the GI0be-Democrat from Upton
vile, Lake county Tenn, says that
in the country out through the Ten
nessee bottoms there were some $40
people in need of the government.aid,
though Mr.. Arnott received q letter
from Mr.. James, the United States
Relief Commissioner at Memphis,
stating that rations would be for
warded on application. No applica-
ton has as yet been made, but one
will probably be forwarded in day
or two. Mr.. Arnott being constituted
the agent for their distribution.
The condition of the people - the
bottoms has somewhat improved,
owing to the fact that the water has
receded, but the residents of Upton
vile feel very gloomy over the out
look. A large amount of stock has
been lost, but that trouble is dwarf
ed almost into insignificance beside
the fact that no cotton. which forms
the staple crop Of the country could
be plated unless the water receded
within very brief period Fences
are down in every direction, and
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the once prosperous farms are re-
duced to condition best described
by the generic title, ''no mans land,
landmarks and other marks of iden-
tification being almost if not entire
ly obliterated. The only things ap-
parently that have not gone are the
titles to the property, which it is to
be presumed are slowed away in
some safe portion of their owners
habiliments.
At Keel's Foot Landing, further
down, the abomination ofdesolation
prevails. The village is all under
water and entirely deserted, the peo-
pie who lived there having fled be-
fore the deluge to the high land,
where any existed. Communica-
between the houses in Noah Stuart's
landing is maintained only by
means of skiffs, the water being
from two to three feet deep round
the buildings, and it is dreary
spectacle to watch the boats moving
to and fro, the people who remain
cheering one another up the while
they wait, hoping against hope for
the waters to subside, when they
can once more resume their normal
vacation of tilling the soil. AS it is.
morning after morning the same
dreary spectacle has met their view,
that of q laden sky backing IN the
foam crested waves which chase
each other through their dwellings,
to the utter decentralization of every
thing IN view. The river resolves
itselfinto a veritable ocean below
Tiptonville, there being compare
lively TO dry land between there
and Memphis. An eighteen mile
bend, known by boatmen as Walk
er's, is obliterated, the settlements
in both States being one vast expanse
of water