Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-04-02
REPORTS OF WORSE Dlsas1ER.
Affairs i'm tho Overlooked Mississippi Dis
tricts not Mending so Steadily rs Re-
ported-Water Higher Than I'm 1874.

Affairs i'm tho Overlooked Mississippi Dis
tricts not Mending so Steadily ss Re-
| ported-Water Higher Than I'm 1874.
New iberia, La, April 1.-The Teehe il
| still rising rapidly, eleven inches in twenty
four hours. Father Couehlin. parish priest
at Earenoviile, on the east side, eight miles
from here, reports 1900 persons now home
less on account of the food and applications
for shelter in his church and stabies are na-
! merous. He Is asking local contributions.
Their distress is represented as appalling. The
Red river water through bayou Cour Tableau,
as well as that of the Mississippi through the
Alchafalaya and Grand lake will certainly
bring us to the level of tho lake. We
are now past the high water mark Of 1874 and
will probably exceed 1t two feet or more.
FRANKLIN, Ls., April 1.-The water is rising
subnerge franklin and the back cOuntry. The
prospect is alarming. At q meeting OF citizens
OF st. Mary's parleh to day it WAS resolved
that the embsnkneut of the Louisiana d
Texas Railroad company Is the most serious
obstruction to the free Aow of water from the
inundated districts west OF the Mississippi
river, and unless removed the corporation will
De held for the damage resnltiDg.
OTHER REPORTS.
vEoRsBURa, April News from the over
Aowed district shows the planters are taking
every advantage of the declining water, ptow
ing and planting as fast as the exposed land
will permit, and becoming more cheerful
every day.
NEW 0RLEANs. April 1.--Artzona crsvasse
is now reported to be 800 feet wide and ten to
twelve feet deep. The water finds Its way i'm
to Lake Maepas, and is doing less damage
than was expected.
Active relief work continues. Government
rat,ons are being shipped TO all points reQuir-
ing them and the local relief committee to
continue to supply forage fos stock; 1915
applicants have been furnished with fifteen
days ratious, commencing March %.
NRw ORLEANS, April Teams on the
Morgan road to day could go no further than
Tigerv,lle, fourteen miles east of Morgan city,
on account of the high water The greater
part of the country fort twenty miles cast of
falaya is overlooked. and many valuable sugar
plantations are greatly damaged.
AT TecOuia Circle people have suffered so
heavily oy the loss of cattle and stock that
they are almost entirely helpless. Il will be
impossible for them to raise . crop with their
present animals, and the peopls have no
money to purchase theme
NJ xHPHtS hpTlI -tne rlVer COQtfbHcS b0
d. cline steadily, and has fallen twenty -seven
inches from the highest polnt~ Between here
and Helena, Ark, land on both sides Of Che
river is coming gradually to view. Above
here the decline has bon greater and pros
poets are PROFESSIONALLY brighter for
farmers.
HELENA, Ark, April 1.-The river fell
slightly in the past twenty. four hours, but
the overflow In this city remains ahout the
same, and still covers about two thirds Of the
city Reports from Old Townridge are that
there is no abatement in the general incen-
veniepce and plague of the buffLo gaats. It
will be at least four weeks in some places be.
fore blowing can be commenced.
Cattle continue dying from the double
cause of hunger and gnaCs. The smell Of tho
decaving csrcasses Is sickening, aud gentle
man on the MCGEE plantation says he g wv
hundreds OF COWS that ought to be killed to
be put out of their misery.
Added to the stencil of the drowned, starved
and gnat-eaten animals, is that arising from
the buxstrds, which may be seen, particularly
near Old Town point, by thousands, come
times not getting ont of the way OF bnats, 80
iGRte have they becomes. M the vicinity OF
Alligator AID Cow bayou, Lee county, Ark !,
great mum Der of cattle are dying, aad the
conditlsn of the people is yet serious.
ronrToAL PResPDors
Water along the White river 10 failing moro
rapidly than anywhere else in tho ovo,ao wed
district. The ground is peeping out is few
places, and in o few weeks the ploughsharc
will be gIistening in the sunshine on ham
dred different farms M