The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1882-03-04
bow first, and the navigators returned
home from the rear, '''' '''t

DOW HtSt, ana lne navlSatOrS returned
home from the rear.
DIR. Ably and some friends went gum
ming in the overflow. In a field on
Bayou DeSiard the Doctor dropped his
gun overheard, in five feet water. Next
day he revisited tho spot and was lucky
enough to recover his gun. o.. ,.,,,,,,,s,,,
On Sunday, the 2Gth, in the afternoon,
the Rev. Mr.. Evans held ser vices In the
Methodist Church for the colored peo-
pie. They filled the house. Perhaps
not one in fifty of the congregation, had
ever been in this church before. Their
own PLACE Of worship was three feet in
the water. &C.,. .r,
Mr.. Mealey, the artist, took four diff,
ferent views Of the overflow in rear
ono from the top Of the Monroe House :;
and Mr.. S. w. Bennett made q very
fine crayon sketch of DeSiard street
beyond the railroad. .'.,.'..'....i.
Mr.. Mealy has taken also three splen-
did photographic views Of Trenton,
from the foot Of Claiborne street. .,,,,,,,l
When the food was at the very high
est and people wore: all in fear Of still
greater disasters, it was q strange look
ing sightto see the State Tax Collectors,
deputy ambulatiugl the streets issn-
ing blanks foE the assessment of prop
erty. Three; ;fifths Of the, territory Of
the city, At the time, was under water.
Young's bayou is the city boundary.
on the east. When Yolng'ss bayoH,
spread to Five Points there was a,qNss,
tion raised whether or not the city
limits were not tcurtailed to that extent.
This is question for our lea rned neigh,
! boris judicial mind. j a.. .,l >, m ..IrnIu
AT TRENTON. = LAI'IIs- ~
Crossing the river to Trenton, cr more
properly not crossing the river at all,
the task Of the reporter is greatly SIM
plified. Just imagine a town, fifty feet
above loW-Water mark, all under water,
from eight inches to eight feet deep,
and you have the g,'o,tuHwork Of the
picture. From Crosley's residence up
to the rear of the business houses at
the upper portion of town, a distance
OF a-haff mile, or more, and back from
the river for nearly a mile, Noah's dove
would searchiin vain for more than one
or two little patches OF dry ground.
The main street, which had been raised
since all other overflows 1S inches on
the river bank, went untler there at lenst
seven inches: TO cross Claiborne street,
one had to get a skiff, except at point
near the bank where the water was
about ankle deep to get out; the Ciai-
borne road, nothing but boat, OF q
At Col. Standifer's and Mr., Heads
residences, the water was two feet deep
in the yard, with a very swift back
current that carried some of the en-
closures down. Down Cotton street
the street running from the river in
front of the Methodist Church, a large
steamboat could have been run with
out steam, provided the pilot could have
held her in the current.
But for all this immensely of water
the Trenton people took to their boats
Will, indomitable energy Of purpose
and sent their goods to the back coun.
try a-half mile in flats, where the cot
ton wagons were unlOadeu and the
cotton brought in on the return trip. a
more cheerful lot of drowned rats -
it would be impossible to find. To US
they looked, for all the world, like they
; were the only people who had any dry
land. o.. "'
, To see n lady sewing on the front
; gallery, intent on her needle, with q
lot of children playing around her and
two feet water under the floor and the
flood roaring in her ears so loud that
she could not even blow the old mar
? up, was a common and very pleasing
. spectacle. 1t must have taken II higi
key for these people to have talket
5 even to willing ears.
The actual suffering in Trenton i.
| doubtless confined to the black peopl,
in the rear, and probably not IL grea
e many OF these have been driven from
r home. The principle damage to tn
g whites Has been a loss OF their gardens
shrubbcry and orchards, the incon
J.. venience of padding to and from thei
t residences and of living for two or thre'
3 weeks over water when every con
y venience was intended for land. Blu
r this, while it may be a hardship yer.
G annoying, is, we are happy to know o
Il our neighbors and friends, only sucl
r suffering as may bo borne and cventu
n ally healed.
below tROSIEi'S,
,, and opposite Monroe, there was al
island about II mile long, by an averag
> width of 200 yards. Cottonport ha
out OF water about 100 yards, and bac
r. of that the overflow extended to tn
=, pinc-lands, about two miles. Mr.. La
r zarc's place had only narrow strip ou
between the river and overflow. o
# his front fence, opposite here, the tul
10 ties roasted on the top rail. Capital
~ Croslcy's gin-house was under watt