The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1882-03-19
THE FLOOD WATERS RISING.
MORE BREAKS IN THE LEVEEs ALONG
THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI.
Four Hundred Miles OF River from 40 70 90
Miles In Width-People and their stock
Rescued from Mounds md the Ends OF
Levees-A Scene of DesoIation and Dist e.s

AcNcts-<A Scchc u DesoIhtIOn ana mistress
New ORLEANS, March 1s.-A resume of the
week shows large increase Of area covered
by the flood waters from Helena to the mouth
of the Mississippi River. In the Yazoo valley
| the water is reported to be rising rapidly.
Four steamers of the Parisot line are contin-
uousy traversing that section carrying sup
plies and bringing out people and stock In
the Yazoo delta from Vicksburg to Coldwater.
distance by river of over 400 miles and from
the hills on the east to tho Mississippi River.
forty to sixty miles in width. the greater part
OF the low lands is submerged. including Cold
water. Tallahatche. Yazoo. Sunfower and
| Deer Creek. Some loss OF life is reported. The
Government steamer Anita left vicksburg yes
terday for this section to distribute rations
and render assistance to the sufferers from
! the overflow. Her commander Capt. Lee. L.
! S. A.. telegraphed Gen. Beckwith at St Louis:
The greatest restitution and destruction Of
property prevails in the back counties. Sew
enty thousand rations per week should be sent
TO the State agent at vicksburg for the back
| counties until the food subsidies. and 100 900
rations per week to the State agent at Memphis
| for Mississippi counties or river points: also
| tents for both places"
Great stretches Of Miliken'e Bend levee in
Madison Parish. La. gave way yesterday. the
| crevasses aggregating some two miles in length.
| The water from these will cover the greater
part OF Madison Parish. join the waters Of the
crevasses in Tensas and Concordia. flow into
Bayou Macon and the Black Ouachita and
| Tensas Rivers. and thence through the Red
and Atchafalaya Rivers. The damage
from these breaks will be very great adding
the entire parish TO the area overlooked. and
possibly causing additional damage by over
| flowing the streams above mentioned. The
whole country about Eagle Bend is under
| water. The town of Delta is submerged but
the houses have not been carried off.
There are now reported thirty-three breaks
between Hushpuckana and Greenville. and ter
rlhle suffering Is experienced from the disaster.
A despatch says Mater from Milliken Bend
| has submerged the town Of Duck Port, and
houses are floating for miles into the country.
The steamer Cannon arrived at Vickburg yes
terday Capt. Campbell says he rescued over
2o0 head Yia 81 Gatiie mules He and number OF
place went out into the swamp about mile
and half for thirty people who were literally
terrible condition of affairs below, and
says that in many instances there is not
erty. The pilots, Of the Cannon report five
| feet of water over Newtown. Miss. Below New
NatcheH MISE ubmer n On effSe sp Lo@s
ana side Drowland Plantation. at Ppinte Cou-
pee; 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
| try on either side of the river were submerged.
either from the back water or broken evees.
P&R heFf a hBn7Sek Magma s2o6
Hayss Landins and Moorss Ldanding are en-
from Lake Providence down is overlooked.
| Much suffering is, rerorted in the overlooked
Bayou bartholomew. and from twenty-five
miles niles below Monroe to the mouth Of the Black
have been sent 10 this section.
The water, along the lower Ouachta River is
ass Tac we shan 1ds Il S H. The
| will probably carry the water there still higher.
though the 3 qua IL Is reported falling slowly
siderable damage was ca caused i by the Polnte
Coppee creyasse which Is now quarter OF
mile wide; but thus far the damage is not as
break at the Landry place, in Ascension Parish,
Oak Groye viii Why BE Closed thus Tar I the
damage 10 the sugar-producnG section of
Louisiana has been comparatively light. Two
rations have been distributed in this State, be-
sides contributions by private citizens. Gov.
for 7OOO0nerso the people OF Madison Parish
having added II, 900 to the first Applications.
earnestly urging the commercial bodies OF New
Orleans 10 APPOINT committee to solicit i'm
held ee9 and c1
solved to place lists in the hands OF a committee
and request the members e contribute to the
appointed by the Governor to distribute Gov
ernment ratlons will distribute other donations.
| Natchez. says that matters have not changed
any for the better since his last trip, but, on
is in a terrible condition. and that on any little
| knoll anywhere in the overfiowed district you
can see thirty or forty head of cattle, and some
| times several dead ones are lying beside their
living companions; On one part Of the, levee.
on his down trip, there was pile of wood about
sheep and a large number Of hogs. which had
taken refuge there from the water, He says
but in the course Of time they would starye.
The river here is stationary and marks eight
Sasso ee tr the MISE Of ls srhe flooded
district on both sides of the Mississippi in this
neighborhood comprehends not less than 5000
sIuars miles The water is from one to thirty
burg to-day, when eight miles, from this city.
entirely and ran over what was three months
| ago - forest, but on W hich to-day only the tops
of trees projecting here and there are to be
was sailing in the middle of Lake Michigan for
the boat will be hours at time with no land
The total population Of the eleven Mississippi
| counties now inundated was p laced by tho last
coorcd lahorcrs. who are made absolutely dcs-
ttutc by the flood The scene from the deck Of
| u steamer is d1solatinn beyond description.
| Whole villages are submerged. the water com
| ing to the roofs of many houses. The old In
dian mounds are extremely useful in afford
| and funeral occur on them occasionally. The
| only protection the occupants have from sun
and storm is such as they can construct from
| tarpaulins.
| The levees have become so weakened that
steamers IN passing have to sacken speed lest
the waves break them down entirely The loss
| Of stock is heavy and II may be that the loss of
| human life will never be known. One man in
| the Talahatchie who had his family on the
| roof of his cottage put them in n skiif and sent
| them in charge of another man to the nearest
| land, which was several miles away, while he
| tried to save some Of the property in his house.
| The man III the skill was 10 return for him, but
| nothing has been heard from either the skilf
| or the family, and the husband has gone mad
| over, the supposed drowning Of his wife and
| children.
! The la2oo River is still rising. and people
| who Imagine themselves secure now will have
| 70 move again before tomorrow night Yazoo
| CITY is crowded with refugees. who eat and
| sleep in the streets On the Sunilower River
every town has been abandoned.
| ARKANSAS CITY, Ark, March 18.-Thore are
| not less than 1000 people on the verge of
| starvation in Dcsha County this State The
White River district is inundated for n dis
the Miss sslppi side. the situation OF the people
| is depprabIc. The flood extends back n dis
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