The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-03-21
"ELEGRAPHIC NEWS
THE FLOODS.
Reports Of DestIGutiOn and
Suffering.


Bend has submerged Duckport. Houses
are floating for miles into The country
The steamer Cannon arrived at VIcks-
burg yesterday. Captain Cam ybell say
he rescued over 200 he j of cattle, mules,
etc.. and a number of families of the
ends of levees. and al one place went out
into the swamps about q mile and halt
for thirty people, who were literally
starving to death. The captain reports 9
terrible condition of affairs below, and
says 10 many instances there Is not only
lack of means, but absolute poverty
Pilots Of the Cannon report five feet Of
water over n ewtown, M ssissippi. Be-
low NewtoWn the whole country, with
1.-The exception of Nstchez, is submerged
On tie Louisiana side, Droulanc Plsnta-
tion, at Point Coupee, Hogs POi1t four
miles below Red River, Gibson Place,
sixteen miles from Nstchez and Cole
man Plantation, about two miles above
! Wsterproof, are the only sites where
land ca be seen at oil. Governor Nc
Emery has received applications for ra-
tions tor 10000 p ople, Madison parish
having ADDED IL zoo to the previous ap-
plications. The clerk of the steamer
Natchez, says: Matters are good deal
worse than on the last trip. Stock is in q
terrible condition. On any little knoll in
the overlooked district you can see thirty
or forty cattle. and sometimes several
dead ones lying beside their living COM
panions. GnatE are literally eating them
alive. On one part of the levee on the
down trip, there wss pile of wood
about half submerged, and on the top OF
it twenty sheep and g large number .!
hogs had taken refuge from the water
but would sterve.
Memphis, lS.-The AUGLdnche'S He
lena, Ark. special says: The latest ad-
vices from upper st. Francis River are
that the people in that section are aim st
reduced TO cannibslism. They have
eaten csrcasses for some days, and now
have all the appearance of people about
becoming insane from starvation. Col.
+. b. johnson, president of the Arksn-
sas Midland Railr a 4, returned to-day
from Hot Springs. He came down by a
skiff to Helena from the mouth of St.
Francis River. He says that the scenes
along the way are most distressing, and
the scenes of dead animals are revolving,
and when the waters decline it must be
still more fearful. The earth is left COW
cred with a thick, shiny substance of
duced from decayihg substances must
inevitably be Sc ious in It's consedue-
noes.
Helena. Ark, 1S.-Reports from the
flooded districts grow worse. People are
eating carcasses OF drowned animals.
From present appearances, persons are
going insane from starvation.
Memphis, Tennessee, l9.-The river
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steadily at all points. at Helena, Ark
ansas, il fell two inches, and the outlook
there is much brighter. As soon as the
water ceases running through the crew
asse below that city the overflow can
! easily be drained off from the city. The
country south of here is swarm
| ing buffalo gnsts, and much stock that
was saved from drowning by the over
dow are being k led by these insect.
st. Louis, I9.-Dispatches from the
Globe Democrats river expedition, re-
ceived tonight, dated Arkansas City
describes the scene from Helena down as
very similar 10 that above. There Is
scarcely anything 10 be seen and what
lew spots of land yet left are covered with
dead or starving cattle and hogs on fsmi.
! lies who have not been abe to secure
better positions: These latter are gener-
ally in a destitute condition, many of
them almost without food, aud all of
them will have TO be fed by government.
A mum Der Of refugees at Frisr's Point
sid the whole country back of that
place is submerged, and many Of the in
ha bitsnts are still living In the upper
story or on the roofs of their houses, not
being able to get away. Most of them
are suffering for want of food. Five
cnlored children and six men had been
O owned at different places around
Friar's Point. In the neighborhood of
Dublin, 500 families are in a state of des
utution, and many Of them axe suffering
for food. No government aid has yet
reached them, but representation from
them is now en- route for Memphis TO see
the state commission and procure ra-
tons. Several persons have been
drowned in the vicinity of Dublin,
while either attempting 10 obtain sup
plies or save stock. The levee above
Friar's Point, which is still above water,
is dotted with families who nave been
driven from their homes by floods. All
of them are without shelter, aud many of
them without food. Between 1000 and
5000 people are 10 need Of assistance IN |
Cahoama County and will have 10 be
fed till the waters subside. Some gov
eminent rations have slready been
distributed, but the supply did not
last long. More food is expected.
Many of the houses at Terrene have
tumtled down and others are going. AT
Napoleon, just below the mouth OF Ark
River, but one house IS left. Bolivar and
Chicot are as bad off as Napoleon, and
the loss Of life and suffering for miles
around must have been terrible. At
Arkansas City thewater has fallen nearly
two feet, but the streets are still full and
people can only get around IN sklHs.
Lieu. Satterlee was found at this plaza.
He has Just completed tour of observa-
ton through tbs Counties of pesha
and Chicot, the whole trip having been
made by skiffs. H states that he found
3 900 persons in each coua'y actually
destitute, and 10 neeu OF supplies, sud so
telegraphs lha secretary Of war, to night.
All people here have lost their stock,
with but few exceptions. Those tina;
have been saved by he greatest exsrtions
are gaunt and famine stricken, and ne
thinks they will be Of very little accoun F.
Re thinks supplies will have to b kepi
up by government until the 18th of april,
and possibly later, owing to toe fact that
60 crops can be in, and in the meantime
people must be fed. at Cypress CreeG,
Gait and Landing, and Amos Bayou,
there is great suffering. The Arkansas
River has OveTfowsd Us banks TOT dis
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