The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-03-15
TELEGRAPHIC, NEWS
THE FLOODS.
The Waters Golng Down, but
tEe Suffering COnsinues.


tlae Suffering Constitutes.
jackson, Miss, 1s-Reports from the
overaowed districts are most favorable
and show great restitution aud suffering.
The governor leaves tomorrow for the
scene of the, trouble, and to render all
the aid possible. Colonel Hemingway,
now at Memphis is making every effort
to relieve the sufferers in that section
Memphis, I3-F he river declined two
inches here to day, and now marks
thirty-fVe feet seven inches on the
gusRe. CaptainJ. 5. Laud, one Of the
army officers detailed by the secretary of
war to ascertain the amount of destitu-
ton prevailing In the river counties be-
tween Cairo and this city, arrived this
morning. He, reports great distress
among the inns bitsnts of New Madrid
and Penascott Counties, Missouri, Lake
and Dyer Counties, Tennessee, and Mis-
sissippi County, Arkansas. Pennscott
| County is wreck, and has been sub
merged for three weeks. Captain Laud
thinks government aid for the inhabit-
ants of these counties will be necessary
until May lst 2 mmissioners Morgan
and Hemingway, to-day each distrib
uted So, coo Rdditi nal Tstions furnished
by government for the relief OF the suf-
f,rers on The Arkansas and Mississippi.
Three breaks are reported on the line OF
the Chicago, st. Louis and New Orleans
Railroad, one nea7 Grand junction. one
near Michigan City, whtre Wolf River
crosses the road, and another furthe:
down. .sss 7
Officers and passengers of the steamer
City Of Baton Rouge, which arrived
here to- day, from New Orleans, say tn
condition Of things along thu whole
length of the river is pitiable in the ex-
treme. The river, they say, has an aver
age width of forty miles nearly all the
way from Cairo down, and with the ex-
ception Of some sixty miles above and
below Vicksburg, the levees are either
washed away or covered with water, and
of no practicable benefit. Thousands OF
people have been driven from their
homes And nearly sll their live stock has
been or will be starved or drowned.
New Orleans, 49, The Democrat
Times Bayou Sara, special recounts the
levee inspection from Baton Rouge to
Bayou Sara. Several weak places are
reported, but the work of strengthening
them goes on. Grossette and Fordoche
levee still stands, although the water is
twenty Ave inches higher than ever
knowp, and from sixyto eight inches
above the original leyee. Over five
hundred men are out piling earth against
it. Point Pleasant, Buckner and Wood
burn levees all gave way this morning.
Vicks5urg, 13.-Delta has been sban
doned to the food and the people are
leaving it as fast as they can and by
every possible means. The levee in the
rear of Delta is about to give way, in
which case the new cut off would form
dam through Grants canal, resulting in
perfect destruction TO that town, and
complete abandonment of Vicksburg as
river town. A committee from Delta
ere soliciting subscriptions from mer-
chants here for the protection of this
levee, and are meeting with liberal re-
spOnses. Complete ruin is reported on
Sunhower River. Deer Creek and Bogie
2. LSlie. ---
The steamer SanJaoaOer arrived to-day
from that stream with an immense q aan-
tity Of stock, people and plumber. some
plantations are FIVE feet under water,
others not less than two; only here and
there dry spot can be found. All is al
immense lwaste of water. Among the
poorer classes there is considerable suffer-
iuk IOpOI Gu duu bAOsS WIZ arc hUl0 are
leaving the country. At louisville the
river lacks about two feet of reaching the
high water mark OF 1867, while below, al
Shell Ridge and Wood burn, it lacks only
about twelve or thirteen inches. The
captain of the S1tTlJ9OlUer is Of the oDin-
ion that the water will reeede in time to
enable farmers to plant an average crop.
Water pouring out OF Yazoo River has
backed about thirty miles up the Missis-
sippi and now threatens that who essc-
ton country, and continues to Mill
ten's Bend, Goo :rich, Ben Lomond and
Alsatia. When the steamer passed there
this morning, Il inhabitants were work
ing with all their might to protect the
levee at AHliken's Bend, which it is
supposed cannot be held intact much
longer. Nearly all the plantations in
Lake Washington are submerged, and
nearly two-third's Of the stock in that
section of country, it is estimated, will
be lost.
Washington, 1.-The secretary of
war has received q telegram from the
com missioners for the state of Louisiana,
at New Orleans, as follows: Are sup
plying 1000 souls for fifteen days with
curtslled rations, from lie, 900 received,
which are now exhausted. Application
before US for fully as much more and
distress increasing. Require at once
15e, 900 ralions additional. The secre-
tsry ordered the purchase Of 100 900 ra-
tons st New Orleans to meet the de.