Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-03-14
THE WASTE OF WATERS.
THE LEVEES STILL BREAKING.
A News Expedition Sent Out -
Gloomy Accounts from Mississippi
Another Appropriation Needed
Governor Lowry En- Route for the
FIOOded d Section.

NEW ORLEANS, March 13 A Bayou Sara
dispatch says that at o'clock last night the
Point Coupee break was widening, and It is
expected to break above at any moment.
The whole levee will probably go.
A Taaes-Denocrdt Bayou Sara special re-
counts the results Of the Ievee inspections
from Baton Rouge to Bayou Sara. Several
weak places are reported, but the work of
strengthening them goes on. The Crosse
Tete and Fordsi Che levees still stand, al
though the water is twenty-five inches
higher than ever before the town and from
six to eight inches above the original leves.
Over five hundred men are out piliug earth
on thirty miles OF levees. A dispatch from
Captain T. P. Lenher, of the steamer
Natchez, says that the Hard Times, Point
Pleasant, Buckner's and Woodburn levees
all gave way this morning
The river at Vicksburg Yesterday rose
eight inches, the food of waters from the
Yazoo valley having reached that point.
Arrangements are being made by the Com
missioners for the distribution of hundred
and sixty thousand government rations.
The floods along the Chicago, st. Louis and
New Orleans Railroad have subsidized. The
damage has been repaired, and trains will
run as usual from and after tomorrow.
The river is nine inches below the high
water Of 1874 Advices from above con-
firm the report Of the break of the False
river dyke on Saturday night. Some dam
age to plantations In West Baton Rouge
may result.
JACKSON, MISS, March 13 Reports from
the Overtl0wed districts, received today by
Governor Lowry, are most unfavorable and
show great distress aud suffering The
Governor leaves tomorrow for the scene of
the trouble and to render all the aid posi-
BILE. Col. Hemingway is now at Memphis,
and making every effort to relieve the suf-
ferers IN that section.
ST LOUIS, March 13.-The Globe Democrat
of this city sent out from Cairo about day
light a small light draft steamer, fully
name | and equipped for news expedition
through the entire flooded districts of the
lower Mississippi river. The occupants of
the steamer, besides the crew. include sew
eral experienced reporters. Two of them
are old telegraph operators. They will
explore the flooded region.
MEMPHIS, March 13 The breaks on the
Mississippi and Tennessee, Louisville and
Nashville and Memphis and Charleston
Railroads have not been repaired, and pas
sengers on all three routes have to be trans
ferred. All the lines expect to be running
through trains without interruption by
Wednesday at the latest.
WASHINGTON, March 13.-The Secretary
Of War has sent the following telegram to
Commissioners Gillis and Schanck at New
Orleans:
"Your telegram of the 18th received. The
present appropriation is nearly exhausted,
SO that the department cannot place five
hundred thousand rstions at your disposal
now. An additional appropriation is posi-
BILE. In the meantime telegraph me from
time to time the number of rations needed
and the number Of people being relieved,
as your necessities may require, and the de-
partment will endeaYor to comply"