The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1882-03-16

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o dowR the bayUu n this I, The case,
know not The e&iont Of our danger.
IN rgssfssEE.
b CfrCfsNATf, March IA special dispail
( to the Times. Star from Nashville says II
b Cumberland river rose five feet last mig
and continues rising with alarming rapi
lily and there Is every prospect Of q rcpeI
tltlon OF the January flood.
Al BAYOU sARA.
NEw ORLEANS, March 1O.-A Bayou Sal
special says POinte COupoe croyasso hI
not affected u stand Of water yet, althoug
there Is a fearful mass of water escapin
from the river NJ that point. The loyee !
still giving away rapidly, as 10 is all gree
earth and Crumbles as fast as the waite
pushes against il. The gap is now abou
900 feet wide. and the water, as II goe
through, is about ten feet deep, but /
rapidly digging deeper, spreading far ant
wide over the country, and will overflow
the lower parts OF this parish and all ofwes'
Baton Rouge and portions of Assumption,
lberyillc, ST.. Mary and Tcrribonne, the
richest sugar district in Louisiana. The
False river and Gross Tete country will
soon be inundated, and the loss Of property
and suffering of the people will be terrible.
Major ii. q. Brown, state engineer, says :
at is useless to attempt TO stop
the crevasse. The pSople' of Bayou
CuIu uTt lluhlIH " IODlt Hklll
against the flood. All stores are closed and
every man is at work upon the levees which
protect the place, while a draining machine
is working against the fearful pressure
WATER VALLEY MIsS.-MOUTG OF RED RIVER.
The New Orleans, Chicago & st. Louis
railroad is again submerged and impossible
in the neighborhood of Water Valley, Mis-
sissippi. This overflow has assumed alarm
ing proportions, inundating all that section
Of TIM nArtFNtpr fnpnt,,g npn trnpllA 10 y,pa
coed further north than Coiiecyille station,
this side of Water Valley. Captain Richard,
Sinnott, Just arrived from Red River, re-
ports $50 families below Alexandria living
on RATS, and in a deplorable condition. He
thinks the state should send them some
rations at once, or that some private pro-
vision should be made to relieve their great
misery. Levees along the city front are
inspected daily, well guarded, weak points
strengthened and every precaution taken to
prevent a crevasse. The same precautions
are taken all along the line from Balon
Rouge to the gulf.
AT TIE CRESCENT CITY.
The gauge at the head of Canal street
shows the river one foot below the high
water mark of 1874. The fall is attributed
TO Pointe Coupee crevasse and the change
in the wind.
CLOSED.
a dispatch from Lafourche to c. A. Whit
ney & Co. announces the successful closing
by the Morgan railroad company of the
crevasse at the Legarde place. The crevasse
on the east side at Pittman's place does but
little damage, and no effort has been made
to close it.
AT FRIAR's POINT.
MEMPHIS, March l0.-Passengers from
below report a break in the levee eleven
and a half miles above Friar's Point, Missis-
sippi. The break occurred yesterday, and
although Friar's Point will be overlooked
from the break down, it will not suffer by
river rushing.
IMPEDING TRAVEL.
CHATTANOOGA, TENN, March 10.-The
recent heavy rains in North Alabama have
caused the Tennessee to overflow its banks
and have weakened the railroad embank-
ments. Three washOuts occurred Monday
night on the Memphis e. Charleston rail
road near Tuscumbia, Alabama, and orders
have been received that no tickets are to be
sold to points west of that city for thirty-six
hours. The necessary repairs to road can
be made in eight or ten hours after the wa
ter subsidies.
NOT so BLACK AS PAINTED.
New ORLEANS, March lO.-A Nicksburg
Herald special says; The situation Of the
people Of the valley is bad enough without
being exaggerated. The very great sensa-
tions that have been printed and pictured
of the situation have, in our opinion, done
great harm. Crevassees have occurred, the
land on the greater porti IN of it is, for the
time being, lost, but there are very many
portions of the valley yet uninundatcd, and
we doubt not a fair crop will be
realized in almost all portions. The
people in many places are Inconvenience,
and are losing some of their live stock.
They are not in a direful plight, as there
are two months before cotton planting time
is past. The water is almost sure to
subside in time to raise a crop.
II sILvERY LINING
The Marksville, Louisiana, Reporter says:
"But what of these oyertiows that carry. so
much dread with them-do they not enrich
the land-and are not the heavier crops
made upon them? We incline to opinion
that in point of fact foundations are bene-
fetal"
ANOTHER VERSION.
MEMPHIS, March 1.-THE river here fell
one inch to-day and now marks thirty-tive
feet ten inches on the gauge and two
inches below the highest point reached this
season. Twenty thousand rations for Ten
nessee sufferers arrived this morning and
will be distributed Monday. Captain X.
NJ. Lee, the army officer appointed by
the secretary Of war to ascertain the con-
dition of the Mississippi, returned tonight
at 10 o'clock from Arkansas City on the
steamer Dean Adams. In an interview
With o western associated press reporter,
Captain Lee SAID that no idea
Of The true condition OF the
country overflowed can be imagined
without s., being seen. From a point
twenty miles below Memphis, where the
first break in the levee% occurred, the entire
country is one vast sea OF water. The
all through this sub
merged region are utterly destitute, and
in a starving condition, their stock having
been drowned. They are living IN
Der stories Of cabins. Hundreds
are subsisting on parched corn; They
have been partially relieved by the
distribution Of government %rations, but
could not be reached and their suffer
Is very great. The leyee along the river
is broken at several different places
between Memphis and Arkansas City. AT
some points the river Is MY, miles VIDE.
All published reports have fallen far. short
living an idea Of the damage that has
been done, or the restitution prevail
ing. His first estimate made TO the
secretary OF war was that SJGO,Op
be required TO feed the lj,OJO
needy In the state Of Mississippi but viii, be
avs, fall short, a. the destitute probably
Will be double the number estimated.
Lee has telesraphed Secretary
and awaits further instructions
here.
NEw ORLEANS AID VICINITY.
NEw ORLEANS, March 1.-THE river re-
mains stationary, at ten inches below the
ofls74. The only leyec newsto-day WIS
the report OF the successful closing OF a
In Hermitage leyee, In -. Charles
near Red Church, the break
having been caused by a nee
aume. Il j. now stated that many planta-
in west Baton Rouge parish are pro-
fated By back levees, which viii prevent
AM overflow from the Pointe COupee
crCvasse.
TALLfEG.
LINN Rock. AK. March 1.-The
Il reported falling in the OverlOwed
but stories Of suffering continue
10 come I'm. and the number Of destitute is
constantly increasing.