Morning journal and courier., 1882-03-23
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. BURIED UNDER WATER. GIimpses Of Life Amid the
 Floods. TERRIBLE TALES OF SUFFERING, Hundreds of People Driven
 From Shelter. THE LOCKOUT AT LAWRENCE. A General Exodus of the
 Strikers.
THE FLOODED DISTRICTS.

A Trip Through the Deluged Country
 Terrible Scenes Described by nm
 Eye Witness-Unparallele Suffering
 Among the Homeless People.
 LITTLE ROCK, Ark, March 22.-Nine days ago Lieutenant Samuel Churchill was commits stoned by Governor Churchill to investigate with Lieutenant Satterlee, agent of the War department, the condition of affairs and the distribution of supplies in the flooded dis tricts of this State. He returned last night, and has made minute report of his observa- tions. The larger portion of Dispa county and two-thirds of Chicot county are under water, and thousands are in appalling desti- tuition. Some of the scenes witnessed were heartrending. In some places absolutely everything had been swept away by the flood, leaving once prosperous citizens without 8 mouthful to eat. The government supplies saved hundreds from death by starvation and thousands from terrible suffering. A
 story had been circulated that undeserving
 parties had received much of the aid He
 found this untrue except in one instance.
 The area of country supplied by the commit tee at Arkansas City is ten miles long by seven broad, and contains over thousand destitutes. The rations issued were three pounds of salt meat and peck of meal per week. At Terrene, at about the mouth of the Arkansas and White rivers,
 two hundred and fifty people are yet unsupplied and suffering terribly. At Bedford, Despa county, which is the dis tributing point for the flooded section, eleven miles long and three wide, twelve hundred people look for food. The entire number of
 destitute in Despa county is estimated at three thousand five hundred, in Chicot
 county at four thousand At Gaines Landing and the surrounding country the suffering IS most intense. Supplies have been issued at
 all available points, but more are urgently
 needed. Hundreds are living in the second
 CT little kuoll can be found above the
 waste of waters cattle can be found
 huddled together, some dead, some dying and the rest gradually starving. In one store high up on stilts and surrounded by water were found large fam ily among whom was an old woman at the point of death, fifteen mules, several cows l and number of other animals. From St. ! Francis, Mississippi, Crittenden and other counties of this State similar tales of misery reach here. Some time ago General Mangum, commissioner for the State, estimated the number of destitute at seven ! teen thousand It is now said the number is | twenty thousand. It will be three or four weeks before the water leaves the plantations. I Lieutenant Churchill says the loss of stock has been so great that the farmers will scarcely
 be able to till an eighth part of the land usu-
 ally cultivated. The largest break in the
 levee is just below Gaines, in Chicot county. | It is eight miles long.
 l YAzoo C1TY, Miss, March 22.-The river
 has fallen two inches at least. Five thousand destitute persons arrived here during last 1 week. Five hundred or more are at the camp l ground and are fed principally by citizens 1 The demoralzation of the labor market if
 complete. All say they do not intend to gc l back to the bottoms.