Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-03-11
STILL ON THE BOOM.
More Broken Levees-The Outlook
at Bayou Sara-The Cumberland
Higher-The Tennessee Rising.

NEW ORLEANS. March 1O.-The gauge at
the head of Canal street shows the river to
be one foot below the high water mark of
1874. The fall is attributed to the Point
Coupee crevasse and the change in the wind.
The New Orleans, Chicago and st. Louis
Railroad is again submerged and is fmpassa-
BILE in the neighborhood Of Water Valley;
Miss. This overflow has assumed alarming
proT ortions-inundating all that section of
country. Trains are unable to proceed
further north than Coffeeville station,
this side of Water Valley. Captain
Richard Sinnot, who has Just ar
rived from Red river, reports two hun
dred and fifty families below Alexandria
living on RATS and In a deplorsble condi-
tion. He thinks the State should send them
rations at once, or that some private provis-
ion should be made to relieve their great
misely. The levees along the New Orleans
city front are inspected daily,well guarded,
the weak points strengthened, and every
precaution taken to prevent a crevesse.
The same precautions are taken all along
the line from Baton Rouge to the Gulf.
CHATTANOOGA, March 10.-The recent
heavy rains in North Alabama have caused
the Tennessee to overflow its banks and
have weakened the railroad embank-
ments. Three washouts occurred Thursday
night on the Memphis and Charleston Rail
road, near Tuscumbia, Ala, and orders
have been received that no tickets are to
be sold to points west of that city for thirty
six hours. The necessary repairs to the
road can be made in eight or ten hours
after the water subsidies.
BAYOU SARA, LA, March 10.-The Point
COupee crevasse has not affected the stand
OF the water here yet, although there is q
FEARFUL mass OF water escaping from the
river at that point. The levee is still giving
way rapidly, as iC is all OF green earth and
crumbles as fast as the water pushes againss
1t. The gap is now about one thousand feet
is about ten feet deep, but is rap
idly digging a deeper, spreadin, far
and wide over the country, and it
will overfo w part of this parish, and all
West Baton Rouge and portions of Assump-
tion, Iberville, st. Mary, Iberia and Terre-
bonne. The richest sugar district In Lou
isiana, the Falls river and the grass tetee
country, will soon be inundated, and the
loss OF property and suffering of the people
will be terrible.
Major Fl. g. Brown, State Engineer, says
that 1t h useless to attempt to stop the Gre
vase. The people of Bayou Sara are
making noble fight against the flood. All
the stores are closed, and every man is at
work upon the levees which protect the
place, while the draining machine is work
ing against fearful pressure.
MEMPHIS, March 10.-Passengers from
below report break In the levee, eleven and
half miles above Frisr's Point, Miss. The
break occurred yesterday, and, although
Frisr's Point will be overfowed, the town
will not suffer by the river rushing through,
as at Austin.
NASHVILLE, TENN, March 10.-Tne river
is rising very slowly, and there is As $40 feet
Of water on the gauge with the prospect Of
an additional rise Of two feet. All the saw
mills on the east side of the river have
closed operations.