The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-03-13
Gently seem Every man SAYS tho situation
IS indescribable. can only repeat ma
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MEMPHIS, TENS, March 1.-THE Ara.
tgnehtS Helena (Ark,) special syE The
river has iallen an inch but the overflow
IN the city has risen m inch. A cafeinl
watch Is being kept upon the leyee, and
every effort is being put forth 10 make
assurance doubly suae. Aes
The Relief Committee have their hands
tull, and are doing good work. RationS tor
wy persons were issued to-day. These do
not include applicants who are supplied by
ne Marshal, as special Commissioner.
Many colored people are coming m from,
the lower districts, and from the ontioot
now labor will be scarce upon plantations
when the time for making crops comes,
intelligence from Clarendon, iiity miles
west, gives agloomy picture Of thai nlaee'
Lisste or no business Is being done tilere'
and the water In some places Il AZ fesi
deep in the streets. - ~
The Board OF Health announced toio,
that starving cattle had been Killed mi
solu IN market, and passed resolutions call-
ing on the city authorities to prevent 4, a.
agreat danger to the health Of the city.
THE SITUATION SUNDAY.
MENPms, TExx, March l2.-The river
=. mere declined about one inchto.dRy, The
government steamer Emma Etheridre.
with surveying party on board, m,
rlYed ~ noon. She departs to.norroR
Tor an inspection Of the breaks In the
Ieyees. She also takes supplies 10 the needy.
The big Hatchie river 1t over lis banks. ard
mas caused some damage 10 the railroad
bridge on the Louisville & Nashville line
vile. 4'''' ''0"nsf
The passengers had to be transferred and
no train will 30 out on the road to.niuht
Lieutenant Vedder, detailed for duty on
the Arkansas TO ascertain the extent az tliet
suffering caused by the overflow, arrived
from Little Rock this morning, He esti.
mates that the Government will have 10
provide Tor 70, 600 destitute peonle IN Ar.
Eas Tor sixty days from the 2Otli instant as
the suffering is on the increase, and viii
continue long after tho waters subside.
NEW ORLEANS, La, March l2.-Weather
partly cloudy and warmer. Wind pnstv
and variable from the southeast 10 IN
southwest. Nothing new from the IeveeS
The river to-day shows the bivhesi
record Of the season. At A. n. h Was
nine inches; at noon, eight inches and a.
- 49, StA AASuSS uHlOW IIle llnl
water mark OF "a.
NEW ORLEANS, La, March PA Timn
bayou Sara special says: At 7 o'cioct
tonight very gloomy news was re.
Geived. The break is widening every hour
1t is expected to break above at any mo.
ment. nv
The whole leyee, probably 90 feet Of
6ack.water, fell over Is inches TO-DAY mo-
doubt caused by the breaking Of Potin;s
dyke, very large embank-
ment built to prevent the waters
from entering the False river. This viii
fill the False river and certainly cause IN n
break in the Fordachee leyee and inun-
date the country.
AT Patin's dyke, about one mile from
the Court House and about four miles
from Waterloo, |. will be impossible 10 e.
innate the priyations Of the people, los OF
stock, crops, etc. -
The steamer Pat Bonner, with fats
has been busy to-day moving cattle
etc, from Point Coupee to Cat Island
Many died en- route from exhaustion and
want OF forage. The track Of the West
tellciana Railroad on the levee, which
protects the eastern side OF the town, will
have TO be raised.