The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-03-23
RUSHING WATERS |!
FURTHER DETAILS OF THE;
GREAT OVERFLOW.
But Little Improvement i'm the
Situation Yet.
But the Rivers are Falling, md In
Some Localities Planting
has Commenced.
ANOTHER BREAK.

LITTLE Rock, March 21.-Dis-
patches received here this morning
announce that the levee at Terrene,
Mississippi, caved in into the Missis-
slppi river last night, and several
stores were washed away. No par
ticulars have been received.
ATvICKSBURG.
VICKSBURG, March 2l.-A heavy
wind and rain storm PREVAILED here
last night at midnight. Strong
sWells on the river, which it is feared
will cause new breaks in the levees.
The steamer Hattie Corney, from
Deer creek, brings three hundred
and fifty head of stock from l.. A.
CampbelPs plantation. She reports
water seventeen inches deep on the
plantations around CampbeIlville.
All boats bring a large number of
refugees, mostly colored. Laborers
at MayOrsplle are being
supplied by planters. They
will be ready to go to work as soon
as the water falls on such parts as
still continue above water. Planting
was commenced there yesterday.
The wharf and elevator platforms
were afloat this morning. The Tai
lahatchie and Yazoo rivers are de-
Ginning very rapidly. The section
ON these rivers which suffered the
most is between Baloonia and Yazoo
City, where the loss of cattle is be-
yond computation. There are a
large number of acres of land free
from water on Rosebank, Egypt,
Shell Bluff, Glenoak, lakewood and
numbers of other plantations in va
zoo delta. AT Greenwood the water
is falling, though the place is still
under water and the court house
filled with people.
Governor Lowrey arrived to .day |
from Jackson and sent large |
amount ofsupplIes to Jefferson, Ad-
ans, lssaquima and Washington |
counties.
The river has fallen three inches |
in the past twenty-four hours.
The United States commissioner |
steamer Emma Ethridge arrived |
here At 8 p. M, and brings news of |
the break of Alsatia levee, in |
Thompson's Bend. This is regarded |
as the worst break which has occur
red south of Helena OH the Louisi- |
ana side.
j. Is. johnson, assistant engineer
of the Mississippi river commission,
states that from Alsatia to Good.
rich, distance of one mile, there are |
three breaks, all serious. The |
breaks occurred at Alsatia, Attic |
and Mrs. Savage's. The entire levee |
to the Bell place is gone. 1t is i'm
possible to tell the depth of the
break at Alsatia. The breaks have |
caused fall in the river at this |
place. This occurred at four O'Clock |
this morning, and was caused by a |
heavy storm which prevailed at that |
time. The fall of water over the |
levee is about seven feet.
AT BATON ROUGE.
BATON ROUGE, March 21.-Gen-
eral York, the agent appointed to |
distribute forage, telegraphs the |
governor from Troy, Louisiana, re-
porting distribution of forage Oh
Black river. He says the country is |
in fearful distress. There are $50 |
head of stock on Black, Tensas and |
LlGIle TlNeTS L1dJ musL De leu 10 /
save them. Corn and oats were |
shipped by steamer st. John, and |
will be distributed tomorrow on |
Tensas river. General York ad-
vises the shipment of forage for |
stock on all the streams above NEIL
toned, also bayous Macon and Bar
tholimew. He also reports the river
rising rapidly, and says he has char
tered steamers to remove stock.
THE OUACHITA.
Officers of the steamboat Hannah,
from the Ouachita river, report !
some abatement of the water at |
Trenton, but that it is rising in the
Tensas river and bayou Macon,
these being the first to receive the
crevasse waters from Carol and
Madison parishes. The crevasses
reported to-day in the Alsatia levee
will add greatly to the flood. The
waters are already deluging the
country between bayou Macon and |
the Mississippi river, and from
the mouth of Red river to the Ar
kansas line.