Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-04-06
THE FLOOD.
It Will Be Several Weeks Before
Water Goes Down.
Water Higher at New Iberia
Than Ever Before.

HELENA, ARK, April 4.-The ques-
tion is being generally discussed as
to how long it will be necessary to
continue the issuance of rations on
account of the overflow All agree
that it will be several weeks before
the water shall have gone down
enough to permit ploughing in the
bottoms, and it will be necessary to
supply the people two or three weeks
after planting begins. The governs
ment officers, who have examined the
situation, are unanimous in this view.
The cattle continue to die from
starvation and the sting of gnats.
New ORLEANS, April 4.-The sub
sistence stores purchased and de-
livered by Major Whitehead, of the
U. S. A. Oh the part of the govern
ment fills all orders from the War
Department to date, and amount in
the aggregate to $1,016,0OO worth of
rations placed at the disposal of the
State commissioners for distribution
among the sufferers by the overflow
in Louisiana. The total amount of
subscriptions to the general relief
fund for the overflow sufferers is
$19,500. This does not include special
subscriptions for the different par>
ishes as West Baton Rouge and
Pointe Coupe, or the contribution of
lumber supplies, etc.
The water from Arizo,
na crevasee is overfowing
the bottom lands to within five miles
of Baton Rouge, partly submerging
sugar plantations.
A dispatch from Alexandria states
that the river there has fallen six feet
Everybody is at work ploughing. No
government rations are wanted above
Normans S landing.
New ORLEANS, LA, April 4.-The
Times-Democrat's New Iberia special
says: The water here is higher
than ever before known. The water
from Grand Lake is pouring into
the Teche at many points. Charles
Durand, planter of st. MAJ ysville,
went five days ago to look after some
cattle, and was drowned. His body
was recovered Yesterday.
Eleven houses have foated off at
Grand River, and the water is
backing up on the west side of the Te-
che, in the rear of Pattersonville.
Bayou Cartableau is pouring food
into the Teche. Travel on the east
side is suspended, and a number of
establishments in New Iberia are
flooded. At Franklin, the water rose
six inches in "a hours.
All the plantations below Centre
vile, on the east side of the Teche,
are wholly Or partially submerged.
In st. Laudry the water is at
stand.
The Times-Democrat's Morgan
City special says: "The situation
at this point has become decidedly
critical. The water still contin-
ues to rise rapidly, having
gained five and half inches
during the twenty -four hours ending
yesterday, when the gauge stood
at 24a inches above the high water
mark of 1874
The steamboat Fuller left yester-
day for Tigerville with about seventy
passengers, mostly refugees, with
the intention of connecting with
special train from New Orleans.
Reports from Bouef are received
to the effect that the water has
reached the caves of many dwellings,,
and that some of them have foated
from their foundations.
The steamer Mary Kinney departed
for the upper Teche with full load
of refugees from tnis city The
boat will leave for New Orleans
next Wednesday. The steamship
Norfolk, of the Morgan line, is now
awaiting the orders for departure
for New Orleans. This steamship
has been kept at the wharf as a last
refuge, but orders have been changed
and the railroad ferryboat, Lucretia,
has been towed to the landing to be
used by the citizens in case of an
emergency. The Morgan line
made their last labor pay
ment, for the present, yes
terday. The stock of provisions
in store is becoming short, and a dis
patch was sent to Gov. McEnery yes
terda3, stating that in a few days
there would be at least 500 people
drawing rations.
New IBERIA, La, April 4.-There
has been six inches rise in the past
"a hours, showing a gradual decline
daily in the rise which is expected to
cease altogether by the last of the
week. New Iberia can stand Al feet
more before the town is endangered.
Every sugar plantation of impor-
tance below here, as well as those
in this vicinity, except DR.. Alfred
Duperior's, in Fawsse Point, are
covered with water.
The citizens contribute literally
to meet the wants of the refugees.
On and after the 1st of March il ia