The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-03-16
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS
THE FLOOD.
continuation Of the TaIO of
Suffering and Destruction.

Memphis, 14.-The river continues
railing: 1t now marks thirty five feet
SIX inches on the gu4ge, and Is declining
at all points down the river.
Helena, Ark, 14.-The river continues
falling Al the rate of two and one-half
lncnes In twenty fou- hours. The over
how IN the city is passing off in like ra-
tio. Ihe worst is over, although there is
little or no diminution in the suffering,
except the aid furnished by the govern
meat, which is but q modicum compared
TO what the country requires to save its
starving hosts.
Washington, 14.-The secretary of
war photographed General Beckwith, St.
Louis, about sending army officers to
various points in Louisiana to make de-
tailed reports of the restitution. He has
also instructed the commisssry general to
have TO- 600 ratinns forwarded 10 the
commissioners for Illinois for the relief
of Sawneetown.
New Orleans, IA boat from Cam
den reports the rise all the way down the
river only three and one-half inches be-
low 1874. Nearly ali Trenton is under
water, and in some places three feet
deep, Business is suspended, the roads
are impossible and communication only
by water. Planting along the river is
suspended, stock are huddled together
and many are dying from starvation and
from buffalo gRats, worse now than
known for two years. Rain is threat
ened to-day. Should it come, Monroe,
the highest point on the east bank Of the
Ouachlta, will be inevitably submerged.
The condition of the country is alarm
ing.
Vicksburg, 14.-News from the over
flowed districts continues to pour in.
The distress is terrible. A steamer from
Tallshatchie and Yazoo rivers, having
left the mouth Of Coldwater. 437 miles
above Vicksburg, Sunday morning, at
daylight, reports the water there five
feet higher than ever known, and still
rising at the rate of seven inches in "a
hours. People along Tallshatchie and
YazSo rivers are living on the tops of
their residences and IN gin lofts. In
many places the water was up to the
caves of the buildings. Horses and mules
will be pretty generally saved, but the
greater portion of All stock will be
drowned. Barges, skiffs and other means
of relief are being freely sent to the suf
ferers at different points. A very large
amount of stock and many families ar.
rived to-day from different localities.
The inhabitants of Delta, Louisiana, are
abandoning their homes as fast as they
can be removed to this city by ferry
boats and bsrges, which have been ex-
ceedingly busy all day.
st. Louis, 14.-JOhn Cain, live stoc
dealer of this city, just returned from
down the river, says he was informed
when the levee at Riverton broke, that
q barge upon which some sixty persons
had taken refuge was swept through the
crevasse by the raging current, and up to
the time he passed that point there had
been no tidings OF it. The belief was
that if the barge escaped destruction the
people npon 1t we're starving, but the
greater fear was that the barge had been
dashed against the trees in the swamp,
broken to pieces, and those Upon it
dro wned. Gains story is not much
credited.
Secretary Lincoln telegraphs General
Beckwith suggesting that two or more
officers at Memphis be sent to Louisiana
at once. and directing that they visit all
places along the river from Pilch RS
Point to the mouth Of Red River, up that
stream and the Black, along the line of
the Trinity and Troy, and make thor
ough examination of affairs and report
tus.-., another officer from Delta, nsar
Vicksburg, to Monroe and places inland
on like mission, to obtain slI the informs-
ton possible. The secretary says il more
officers are required for the work he will
detail them on receiving advices to that
effect.