Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-04-02
REPORTS OF WORSE DrsAsIKB.
Afiirsin tho Overlooked Mississippi Dig
trfcss not Mending SO Steadily as Re-
Ported-Water Higher Than In 1874.

AHiirs'fn tho Overlooked Mfssissippi Dig
trfcts not Mending Steadily as Re-
ported-Water Higher THAI In 1874.
NEW IBERIA, La. April 1.-The TeeAe Is
still rising rapidly, eleven inches in tweaty-
four hours. Father Coughlin. parish priest
at Larenoville. on the east side, eight miles
from heres reports 1900 persons now home
less on account of the Aoo4 and applications
! for ter in his church and stables are nu-
merous. He Is asking local contributions.
| Their distress is represented as appalling. The
ked river water through bayou C0ur Tableau,
as well as that Of the Mississippa through the
| Alchafalaya and Grand lake will certainly
| bring US to the level of the lake. We
| are now past the high water mark Of 1874 and
will probably exceed it two feet or more.
FRANKLIN. La, April 1.-The water Is rising
one inch per hour. Thirty-six hours will
subnerge Franklin and the back country. The
prospect is alarming. At meeting of citigeRs
OF st. Mary's parleh to day it was resolved
that the embankmeHt of the Louisiana &
TexaS Railroad company is the most serious
obstruction TO the free fow OF water from the
inundated districts west of tho Mississippi
river, and unless removed the corporation will
be held for the damage resulting.
OTHER REpoRTs.
VrcEsBURs, April News from the over
flowed district shows the planters are taking
every advantage of the declining wster. plow-
ing and planting as fast as the exposed land
will permit, and becoming more cheerful
every day.
New ORLEANS, April t.-Arizoua crevasse
Is now reported to be 500 feet wide md ten to
twelve etdeep. The water finds its way in,
to Lake Marepas, aud is doing less damage
than was expected.
Active relief work continues. Government
ratlons are being shipped to all points requir-
ing them and the local relief committee to
continue to supply forage for stock; IS. 7S5
applicants have been furnished with fifteen
days. ratons, commencing Msrche3
NEW ORLEANS, April Teams on the
Morgan road to day could go no further than
Tigerv1lle, fourteen miles east of Morgan city,
on account Of the high water The greater
the Teche and between the Feche and Atchs-
falaya is overlooked. and many valuable sugar
plantations are greatly damaged.
At Tec0uia Circle people have suffered so
heavily ny the loss of cattle and stock that |
they are almost entirely helpless It will be |
impossible for them to raise crop with their |
present animals, aud the people have NO
money to purchase thema
MEMPHIS, April - The river continues 60 |
d-ciiue STEADILY, and has fallen twenty seven
inches from the highest point Between here
and Helena, Ark, land on both sides OF the |
river is coming gradually to view. Above |
here the decline has ben greater and pres
poets are propertionately brighter for |
farmers.
HELENA, Ark, April 1.-The river fell
slightly in the past twenty four hours, bat |
the overflow IN this city remains about the |
same, and still cnvers about two-thirds of the |
city. Reports from Old Townridga are that
there Is no statement in the general ineon-
ven,ence and a .gue of the buff 10 gnats. il
will be at least four weeks in some places be-
fore blowing can be commenced,
Cattle continue dying from the double
cause of hunger and gnass. The smell Of the
man on the McGee plantation sage be saw
hundreds Of COWS that ought to be killed 10
be put out of their misery.
Added to the stencil of the drowned, starved
and gnat-eaten asimals, Is shat arising from
the bux5srds, which may b. seen, particularly
near Old Town poiut, by thousands, snme-
times not getting out Of the way of bt,st-, 20
Alligator aud Cow bayou, LIE county, Ark +,
. great mum Der Of cattle are dying, and the
condition OF the people Is yet serious.
roHrroAL PRospsora.
Water along the White river is falling moro
rapidly than anywhere else in the oye,Hoxas
district. The ground is peeping out in few
places, and in few weeks the ploughshsre
will be glistening in the sunshine ON hun
dred different farms.
Trial of thu Train Robbers.
INDBrnNDBNos, Mo, April L. The Bngler
trial progressed to-day and good deal of tes-
timony was given. John Laird, whose con-
fession was telegraphed last night, was sub
j-cted to a most rigid cross examination, but
all the art and skill of counsel for The dtf-use
failed t. trip hun or make any break In his