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

The Flood.
MEMPHIS, March PA special from He |
lena says: The river has fallen an inch,
but the overflow in the city has risen an
inch. Careful watch is being put forth to
make assurance doubly sure: The relief
committe have their hands full and are do
ing good work. Rations for $50 persons
clude applicants who are supplied by, the
marshal as special commission. Many
from from the lower district and from the
present outlook labor will b scarce on plan
tations when the time for making crops
comes. News from Clarendon, fifty miles
west of here, gives gloomy picture OF the
situation. Little or no business is being
done there, and water is in some places in
the streets.
The board of health announced yesterday
that starving cattle had been killed and sold
in the market, and passed a resolution call
ing on the city authorities to prevent such
killing as injurious to the health of the
citizens.
New ORLEANS, March 13.-Tne weather is
partly cloudy and warmer; winds gusty and
variable from the southeas! to the south
west. Nothing new from the .eyees. The
river to-day shows the highest record of the
season. AT a. IN. it was nine inches, at
eight inches, and at p. m. six inches be-
low the high-water mark of 1874.
The Times. Democrat, Bayou Savoy, spe-
cal says: The news is still gloomy
The Pointe Coupee break Ns
widening every hour, and is expected to
break above at any moment. The whole
levee will probably go back. Water fell
over twelve inches to-day, TO doubt caused
by the breaking of Patyus dixie, a very
large embankment built to prevent
the waters from entering False
river. This will fill False river and surely
cause break in Tordache levee and inun-
date the Gross Tete country. Patus dixie is
about four from Waterloo. 1t will be i'm
possible to estimate the prvation of the
people, loss of stock, crops, etc.
The steamer Pat Bronner, with flats, has
been busy to-day moving cattle, ETC., from
Pointe Ceupee and Cat Island. Many died
en- route from exhaustion and want of for
age. The track Of the West Feliciana rail
road levee, which protects the eastern side
of town, will have to be raised, as the water
is still rising an inch per day, and not many
inches to spare.
NAsHvILLE, TENN, March l2-The river
has risen two inches within the past "a
hours, with a mark of forty-six feet on the
guage. 1t is believed the river will begin
to decline tomorrow, unless rain shodld
prevail tonight. The river is falling fast
at the head OF navigation and twelve inches
lower at Carthage, fifteen miles above Nash
vile.
NEW ORLEANS, March 1.-THE Times
Vicksburg special says: Delta, Louisiana,
has been abandoned to the flood, and peo-
pie are leaving as fast as they can. The
ievee in the rear of Delta is about to give
away.
NEw ORLEANS, March l4.-Hon., George
W. McCrain, of the Ouachita Telegraph,
sends the following to the Times-Democrat
from Monroe, Louisiana: The situation
here is extremely critical. A visit 20 the
levees above aud below the city this after
noon showed both in great danger though
large force is at work on them. There are
not five inches to spare on them. The
water is Oozing through the leyees
in many places. The river here is
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 1874 and still rising. The river is rising
at the rate of an inch in twelve hours. A
boat from Camden reports rise all the way
down 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 impossible; communication
only by water. Planting along the river is
suspended. Stock are huddled together,
and many are dying from starvation and
buffalo gnats, worse now than known for
twenty years. Rain threatened to-day.
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. Louis, March 14.-The government
steamer Anna, which left here yesterday
with a quantity Of provisions Oh board for
sufferers from The Mississippi floods, will
90 direct to Memphis, whore she will be
taken IN charge By an army officer. and
probably Major Brnyard an1 will then pro-
oeed TO Friars' Point, ifJg which place
number Of boats will DC sent Ou' over the sub
merged bottoms, aud sil people now hud-
died together on bis of D., ken lcyees aud
other dry spots, but still surrounde. by
water in that region, viii be transported TO
places where they can De- more comfortable
aud properly provided tor.
The Southern relief committee, of 81.
Louis, will issue to-day an appeal to per
sons generally f1r 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
nvera-e width Of forty miles nearly all The
4 wav IRON Cairo down, and with the eKcep-
4 ton Of some sixty miles, above and below
Nicksburg, the levecs are either washed
away or covered with water, and are Of no
practicable benefit.
General B-ckwith. Of the commissary de
par1meut. who has charge Of the distribu-
ton Of government ratiOns from this city
10 the flooded districts Of the lower Missis-
siuui. has received the following dispatch
from CAPT. J. s. Loud, dated Memphis. j
have Just arrived here. / found Pemiscgtt,
N No. IN a distressing condition, lying
4 almost entirely submerged. and 81 pe0-
pie are destitste. Supplies sent % Mem
f,his are being carefully distributed. and
vii last until ab0ut the 18th, but more
should be sent there. The people vii be In
lust as bad fix when the wafer goes down
The government, 20 prevent starrafion.
slJonld care for them at least until May lst.
About 81 people are destitute at Hatha-
wav. Tennessee, 10 af IiutpnVille, % at
H6ilis Point. Tennessee. 80 81 Bayfield,