The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-03-27
DISTRESSED BY WATER.
THE DEVASTATED C SOUTHERN LANDS,
TAs Water. Rse,dIss slightly. But There Is NJ
Abatement la the suffering Of the People
The cities YllllSE Up with RsfEss.I.
Louisiana Plantations FlOOdSd.

Sr. Loris, March 95.-About 5000 il
money and a large amount Of provision
and clothing have been raised here for tn,
benefit OF the overflow sufferers on til,
Mississippi river.
Captain Lee, in charge Of the Govern
ment Relief Expedition up the SunhOweI
and Yazoo rivers, estimates that the loss o
hogs is total up the Yazoo country, the los
Of cattle fully 70 per cent, and the fencing
with many OF the smaller houses, destroy
ed. He recommends the distribution oI
rations to be continued at least two weeks
at JohRsonville and three weeks in the
Lower YazQo country, by which time, he
thinks, work may be begun in the fields
md then the people can probably take
care OF themselves Seventy thousand RI.
tions week, it is believed, will be needed
until the water subsidies SO that the people
can get to work.
NEW ORLEANS, March 2j,-The Bobaise
crevasse, at Bayou LAtourache, has been
closed. There is now but one break in the
levees OF Bayou Latourache, that on Put.
nam Place, near the Morgan Railroad
crossing It is doing but little damage.
AtGrand Cult the Mississippi has declined
six inches from the highest point.
Major Whitehead, by order OF the Sec.
retary OF War, purchased during the week
5000 pounds Of bacon, 1000 barrels Of
flour aud $500 barrels OF cornmeal. These
supplies have been turned over to the
Louisiana Commissioners, who are dis.
tributing them TO the sufferers.
The river here remains eight inches be.
low the high water OF 1874.
NATCuEz, Miss, March 2j.-Ths river
rose here two inches in the last twenty.four
hours, and is still rising. 1t is now twenty.
two inches above the high water Of 1874.
Nidalia, La, is submerged to the depth Of
two to three feet, the baCk-water being
higher than the river. The ierrv.boat
COncordia, was busily engaged all day in
transporting people and stock from Vidalia
and the overtowed districts back Of there
to this city. Natchez is crowded with ref.
ugees, and droves Of stock are constantly
passing through town.
Parties from the neighborhoOd OF Lake
Concordla and Tensas river report great
destitutiOn. The water rose so fast that
many people had to place pickets across
the rafters of their houses and take refuge
there, having no means OF getting away,
and many OF these houses are totteriny
from the force OF the current. The Tensas
river is rising five inches in twentv.four
hours, and ii it continues at this rate the
lives OF these people Are in great danger,
unless speedily relieved. There is a per.
feet panic among the negroes, many Of
whom are so terrified as to be unable to
make the least effort toward saving them
selves or families until reused by the
whites.
MEMPHIS, March 25.-The river here de-
clined one inch to-day, and now marks "a
feet $ inches on the gauge. 1t is falling
steadily all the way from Cairo to below
Nicksburg, and decline Of four feet will
put the water within the banks.
HELENA, Ark, March 25-The waters
are falling slowly, but hunger and distress
still reign. The planters and country peo.
pie will be as destitute as in the earliest
settlement Of the State.
The steamer Dick Jones, Just returned
from the sunken lands, reports horrors
more and more terrible. The people were
still eating drowned carcasses, and some
few had little boiled corn.
New ORLEANS, March 2G.-Foriache
levee, bayou Crosse Pete, is broken in
many places and the whole Of the Crosse
tell sugar district will be submerged. The
peopI hope to save the horses and mu,es,
but the cattle, sheep and hogs will all be
lost. These are the most disastrous GREY.
asses so far in the sugar producing section,
and will entail the loss Of many hundred
thousand dollars.
The water at Baton Rouge has risen .
inches in the past twenty-four hours.
There was a heavy rain and thunder
storm there this afternoon. High winds
and threatening rain here.
Tht river is now six inches below the
high water OF 1874. The rise was probably
caused by untavorable winds. The crevasse
at Arizona Plantation, Ascension parish, is
supposed TO be cut.
ST. LOUIS, March 26-The Government
steamer General Barnard has returned
from her trip to distribute ratious for the
hood sufferers in the South has returned,
and will be again loaded tomorrow with
corn meal and bacon and depart on another
trip Tuesday or Wednesday,
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