The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1882-03-23
rnE DALLAS WEEKLY HERALD, THURSDAY, MARCH go 1889


Cabtaln Ice, tinted States army, iel
Rfapted General fleokwlih, 81. Louis ill
The greatest destitutlOn aud destruction
property prevails In tho back oOuntle
fiffy.ihOusand rntiOns per week should !
sent the state agent nj Vlcksbnrg until III
Hood subsidies aud one hundred thousnn
per week 10 the state agent Ut Memphis. Il
/ Mississippi counties on river points, also
! tents for both places.
Mllikens Bend leyee, In Madison parish
/ Louisiana, gave way yesterday, tho crey
asses aggrcgating some two miles In length
Water from there will cover greater par
of Madison parish, join tho waters OF tn
creyasses on the Tensas and COncor
dia, flow into Bayon Macon, Black
Ouchta and Tensns rivers, thence through
Red and Atchafalaya rivers. The damage
from these breaks will be very great, adding
an entire parish to the area OF the over
flowed section, and possibly causing add
tional damage by the overlooked streams
above mentioned. The whole country
about Eagle Bend is submerged but houses
have not been carried OIL There
are now reported thirty-three
breaks between Hushpuckana
and Greenville, and terrible suffering is ex-
perienced from the disaster. \ dispatch
says Water from Miliken's Bend sub
merged the town of Duclport. Houses are
floating for miles into the country.
The stea .ner Cannon arrived at Nicksburg
Yesterday. Captain Campbell says he res
cued over two hundred head of cattle,
mules, etc., and number of families from
the ends of lcvees, and at one place he went
out, into the swamp, about mile ana a
half. for thirty people, who were literally
starving to death. Captain Roberts says
there is terrible condition of affairs,
and in many instances not only
lack of means, but absolute poverty.
Pilots of the Cannon report five teat OF wa
ter over Newtown, Mississippi. Below New
town the whole country, with the exception
of Natchez Mississippi, is submerged. On
the Louisiana side the Drouland planta-
ton at Point Coupee, Hogs Point, four
miles below Red River Gibson
place, sixteen miles from Natchez, and
Coleman plantation, about two miles above
Waterproof are the only sites where land
can be seen at all. All other portions of
either from backwater or
broken levees. Above there, Brunswick,
Albemarle, Ingomar, Burlee, Dunbarton;
Vista, Magma, Shiloh, Hays Landing and
Moore's Landing are entirely under the
water on the Mississippi side, while on the
Louisiana side the whole country, from
Lake Providence down, is overflowed.
Much suffering is reported in the over
the mouth of Bayou Bartholomew and
from twenty-five miles below Monroe to the
mouth IF RIack river. Government rations
for fifteen DAYS have been sent to this sec
ton. Water along the lower Ouachita is
six inches higher than in 1874 The recent
crevasse on the west side of the Mississippi
will probably carry the water there still
higher, though the Ouachita is reported
Odd
also falling. Considerable damage was
cansed bv the Point Coupee crevasse,
which is now quarter of a mile
vide so far the damage is
moi as treat as was expected. 1t is be-
Iieved that the break at Landry place, in
4 scension narish and those below the city
at Story's and Live Oak Grove will be
section of Louisiana. has been
romnorotively light. Two hundred and
sixtv thousand Government rations. have
heen distributed in this state, beside con-
trihut,ons nv private citizens. Governor
NcEnerv has received applications for ra-
lions for 10000, Madison parish
having added 1000 to the previous appli-
cations. IN response to telegram
from, Governar McEnery, earnestly urging
thn o o h5dies f,Sew Orleans TO
annoint n committee TO solicit immediate
rapIief for destitute neople. The cotton ex-
rhanee today held n meeting, and resolved
70 rIsce tbe lists in the hands of a commit
fee 70 p and the members are requested to CON
tribnta to the full extent of their
ability The commissioners appointed
nv tie government to distribute govern
ment rations will distribute the other
rat;nns n +. Wilson, clerk of the steam
or Natchez saws that matters have not
chonoed anv for the better since his last
tr;1. On the contrary are a good deal worse:
that stock is in n terrible condition; that on
snv Knoll anywhere in the overflowed dis.
tr;ct Won can see thirty or forty head of
catt q and Sometimes several dead ones are
lvinr beside their living companions. Gnats
are literally eating them alive. On one part
y, ',o ,,;io Of wood ahout half submerged