Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-03-03
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THE WASTE OF WATERS.
THOUSANDS ON THE BRINK OF
STARVATION.
Great Destruction of Property All
Over the Country.

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people were drowned at Rverton Landing by
| the food and settlement of $50 people on
/ Bogue Phoiia, east of Ryerton, are COM
| pletely surrounded by water and will proba-
| bly, be engulicd. The river now extends
| PRACTICAL, from the Bluffs, or Bayou Macon
| hills in Arkansas, on the west, TO Yazoo hills
! on the east, a mean width of 2l0 miles.
! Private letters from RivertOn, Miss, $50
| miles below Memphis, say the levee broke
| Monday night and the loss Of property Is
| fearful Some people were drowned, stocks
are all drowned and there are no provisions
/ for the poor people to subsist on. There Is
a break at Wrights one mile below here, and
another at Judge Miles place, two miles be-
| low Riverton Mills. Cows, goats and horses
pass by continually. In the Duncan House
| there must be no less than % women and
! children. and a good many more huddled
| together on the levee. They are half naked,
frozen and hungry. Every house in River
ton. except the Duncans and Frank Reinachs,
has either hoated off or damaged by the
washing away of blocks, that they are unfit
for habitation when the waters decline.
Blackburn's broke on Tuesday morning
and the water is over COncardia. They are
building .caffolds to take care of the stock.
The river rose three nches in a hours.
New ORLEANS, March >.
\ dispatch from Lake Providence reports
that the crevasse in Longwood levee has been
closed etfectualy and all danger is over.
HELENA, Ark, March =.
\ Helena dispatch saws in that vicinity 40
persons have been drowned, and not less than
80, 900 head of stock drowned. and large
number OF those that escaped the flood are
dying.
In Quitman county, Miss. the richest por-
ton il affected by the overflow through the
backwater from Coldw ater river, and at least
two-thirds of six thousand acres of land To-
Gated around Belen is overlooked Bclen is
thirty.two miles southwest from Helena, and
is the centre of a magnificent cotton growing
section. Not less than Il, 600 head of stock
have been drowned. and the losses will be far
greater if the water remains as high for a
great length of time.
BY the break of the levee of Riverton,
Miss, the country will be flooded in Bolivia.
| Washington, Letiore, Warren and Issaquano
| counties, and may reach within a short dis
lance of Nicksburg. Fully 10000 people
| will be overlooked, and no one can at this
| time put an estimate upon the probable loss.
| Clarendon, fifty miles west of Helena, on the
| Arkansas, Midland 4 White river railroad is
under water from two to three feet, and the
| river is rising ten inches in twenty four hours
| The loss to stock there must be very heavy
| Houses at Dudian Bay are reported to be
| floating away.
LITTLE Rock, Ark, March =
| dispatch states that gentleman from
| the flooded districts in the White River Val
| ley, SAYS no person can estimate the real sit
uation of affairs. Hundreds of families are
| homeless, and without food and clothing. The
| sufferers are principally laboring men. ten.
| ants on plantations. and small farmers anC
| they have lost everything. Ii is believed
that many will perish from starvation before
| government aid can be furnished them. Col
| J. \. Woodson, general superintendent o.
the Little Rock, Mississippi & Texas rail
road, has arrived from Arkansas City. anC
reports great suffering in Chicoot and Destrs
| counties.
| At Arkansas City, the water is two fee
| above the main street. and running over the
| tops of counters in many stores. People who
have two-story edifices are obliged to max,
their exit from the second story. Two OF
three people have been drowned, and it il
| impossible to estimate the value of the stocl
lost in the water. The city is almost desert
ed. Our telegraph line, Col. Woodson states
is down, and our track damaged Day befor,
| yesterday ran one of our heavy locomotive e,
two and a half miles through water averaging
three feet in depth. 1t was a strange sight
| We kept man on the COW catcher pushing
| of the drift wood. The levees at Arkansa.
| City are reported giving away.
| MILFORD, Pa March >
| The flood in Delaware river and tributarie,
| continues. The river is rising slowly. Tn,
| fires In the engines at the spoke factory anC
saw mill have been extinguished bv the
waters. The public roads in many places
are badly washed and impossible. If tn,
| river continues rising until night it will over
| flow and do great damage.
PROVIDENCE. r. l., March ..
\ mill trench at Arkwight, on the NORTH
branch of the Pawtucket river, gave way thi,
morning The food swept away stone
building containing the boiler and cloth hall
with about thirty bales of goods. Loss $40.
| o00.
| GREENvILLE, Miss. March >.
| There was perfect wreck of the Bolivar
| levee yesterday forenoon. Riverton levee
made of clay. and Bodgate levee are broker
| through, and Concordis levee was reported
as broken the day before. These breaks
will overflow many plantations in Bolivar
county. The river fell here four inches last
evening. and is still falling rapidly. The
Bolivar breaks will probably save the levee
of Washington and Issaquens. but the loss
| to the district in levees alone will not be les,
than Sloo. 900. The clay and Blodgate levee.
are the largest levess in the district. except
| Hushpuckans. Several lives are reported
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lost.
Rosedale is six feet under water. The LIE dye,
office and other houses are washed away.
Clark's front of the levee on Lake Ballah il
gone. This overfiows what was left of Boil
ivar county.
Williams bayou levee in this county i.
broken. All the northern and back lands
throughout Issaquena and Sharkey will %
under. A number of people were drowned
hfNAr =. e
| here.
There was one break at Hughes Front, be.
tween Wade and Clark's The accounts o,
suffering and loss of life continue, and ex.
coed anything that ever attended previous in.
undafions. These crevasses are all above
| Greenville.
/ GLEN FALLS, n. Y, March 2.
The rain caused the Hudson river 1t this