The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1882-03-09

cludcd, aud II was reported b. the house
The previous question was ordered on the
passage Of the bill, but no further action
was taken.
The house OF $3.50 adjourned.
The Floods,
New York, March Specials to the
Herald from Memphis, Helena and other
points on the Mississippi, give particulars
of the disasters nov being caused By the
floods.
The Memphis dispatch says; From Mem.
phis to Madison, Arkansas, forty miles to
the west, there is nothing but one wide
eXpanse of water. Teams on the Memphis
e. Little Rock railroad between Memphis
and Madison, have been discontinued for
nearly two weeks. Communication be-
tween Memphis and Little Rock is kept up
by steamboat down the Mississippi to
the mouth ofthe st. Francis river which
cmpties INTO the Mississippi, ten miles
above Helena thence up the ST. Francis to
Madison, where daily trains connect with
others for this city. 1t is estimated in
Crittenden, Lee and Phillips counties,
Arkansas there are not less than $4,000
negroes who are in n destitute condition,
awaiting the bounty Of the government
to furnish them with the neCcssaries Of life
and keep them from dying of starvation.
y
for human beings for mules, cattle and hogs
are dying for want Of food.
New ORLEANS March "A Greenville-
Mississippi, special says: There was per.
feet wreck of Bolivar levee
yesterday morning. Riverton, Wade,
Clay and Badgett levees
broke through, and Concordia was repo. ted
broken the day before. These breaks will
overflow every plantation in Bolivar coun-
ty. The river fell here four inches last
night and is still falling rapidly Bolivar
breaks will probably save the leyees of
Washington and lssaquena, but the loss OF
the district in the leyees alone is not less
than $l5O,OOO. Clay and Badgett are
the largest leyees in the district except
Hushpuckama. Several lives are reported
lost. Rosedale, county seat OF Bolivar, is
six feet under water. The Ledger Office
and other houses are washed away. Clark s
front .levee on Lake Beulah is gone. This
overilows what was left of Bolivar county,
Williams bayou levee, in this county is
broken All northern Washington and
back lands throughout OssaquaEa and
Sharkey will 20 under. 4 number of peO-
pie were drowned. At Riverton the river is
falling rapidly. There was eight inches fall
to date.
LArER.-In additiont to the breaks abo, c
stated there was one at Hughes front, be-
Wade and Clark's Accounts of suffering
and loss of life continue to come, and eX-
coed anything that has ever attended pre-
? vious Mississippi river foundations.
[NoTE.-rhese creyasscs are all above
Greenville.l
thnt he crrvossp in T,onowgod leveG siy
miles above Lake Providence. has been
closed nlIactuoIIv and ali dDn0rl, is over.
Npw OpTr,ys March Tie Picavuna's
Greenyille, Mississippi, special says: The
levee on the Bolivar county front is a
now innndating the whole Of Bolivar and
ali Of Washi8rton counties eycept A
ri,b0n Of land on tLe west boul- of Deer
creeg rrom Fisb lake to tha Sh0rkny roI1nty
Iinc md from His point soutWpsfwnrd
,roctirnilv thn whole country Ia under
Iyyoter Tvprvhodv Is busv SAVING mules.
thc most vnInahln nnrti0n of fine live stock,
y,hiie cottIr and mos ora gancrolly aban.
? Tanad To- their fac ShGulJ the water re-
coda in tho now wcplr and seasons nr0ve
TrGuitions ,,Inntnrs MAJ yrt make GOOD
rrons WbiIe boning far iii these foTtIli-
tolIs circumstoncrs [ye refuse to Iool, nj the
'.',' 80 y of 10 ,,i.t,,'-
Nr,[pTrs March S-Privotc letters from
Riyerton Nississinpi $50 mile below Mem
his and sevnntv-fve rniIes above VicEs-
hmrg eov that fhe Ievee broke Nondo,-
,,ia6t on,d thot tho loss ofnronert,rie caor
fnI1 several nerser,s were drowned
and omong thb number is Benia.
min Uvre sbjnning clerk for FroHi,
e. ,PoiIIccL wh1 trinI IN GO IN tbe assist.
once Of Mr.! Rradsbow. and was drawn INFO
tbe channel Of the break and drowned
i I;yo stool, arc MI drownnd and tbern orn ma
IroviSionS fnr the naonle to snbsist on Tic
Pal, oncurred abaant loo wards above Dnn.
can's 4 messenGcr has 'been sent 10 Ter
r"ma for Tho stssmor pIowhov to toIto
ti 6aV women iU and children IA Wemi'bis Tho
are snffcring greatly, having lost eyerv-
thir,, tho,, r93ssSessed evcant tho clotEes On
thn;rS hacI,i n is imnoseibie 70 dtscribe
tbo f.prGIi havoc ami destrnction tho
wv, yet A. have n,ronobt Resides tbe breal NJ
tberiver there are two more Mt Wrigbt's one
nSIo bcIow and another Mt JuJee NIiler'S
~ NILS below Riyerton Mules horses
c"H,s roa,s and houses mass Nv continpaIIv
4 Ali t6 tbosa faiiin,, and cr1ssiny t;nh3r
al ,,S,, tLo,, have Tho G,intest idca Of tba
onnl}tion nr tbincs in nnncon There ca,,
he no lass than 551 women. chiIdren and
probably good many more, huddled
together on the levee 1t is pitiful to see
them-half-naked, frozen and hungry.
! Every house at Riyerton except Duncan s.
Franks and Reillocks has either floated Off
or so damaged by the washing away of blocks
! that they will be unfit for inhabitatiOu
when the waters subside. The levee in front
of Duncan's house is weak. and there is
danger ofit breaking. The store house OF
! MAY Miller. together with his stock of
goods floated. and was lost,
A letter from Solomon Cohen, at Concor-
dia. Mississippi. twenty miles below River.
tom saws. The leyee at Blackburn broke
! Tuesday morning. and the water is over
Concordia. The break Is through Blanch-
ards place. A scafIold is being erected to
| take care of The stock. The river rose three
/ inches in tweuty-four hours.
Nrw ORLEANS, March 3.-The Picayune's
/ Greenyille. Mississippi. speeial saws: The
water from Rolivar breaks Is ranidIv
encroaching on the town limits. Convicts
arc at work hut our security from
[ o.. - ;.l ,,.,rnntv IL hv No means assured