The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-03-03

e.o,e heiena tnence up the 81. Francis to-
Madison, where daily trains connect with
Crittenden, Lee and Phillips counties,
Arkansas, there are not less than IS 600
| negroes who are in destitute condition,
awaiting the bounty of the government
TO furnish them with the necesSaries of life
and keep them from dying of starvation.
rood nor stock Is as necessary as provisions
Tor human beings for mules, cattle and hogs
are dying for want of food.
NEW ORLEANS, March "A Greenville-
Mississippi, special says: There was per.
feet wreck of Bolivar levee
Yesterday morning. Riverton, Wade,
Clay and Badgett levees |
broke through, and Concordia was repo. ted |
broken the day before. These breaks will |
overflow every plantation in Bolivar coun- |
ty.. The river fell here four inches last |
night and is still falling rapidly. Bolivar !
breaks will probably save the levees of
Washington and lssaquena, but the loss of
the district in the levees alone is not less
than Sl5000O. Clay and Badgett are
the largest levees in the district except
Hushpuckama. Several lives are reported
lost. Rosedale, county seat OF Bolivar, is
six feet under water The Ledger office
and other houses are washed away Clark's
front .leyee on Lake Beulah is gone. This
overiiows what was left of Bolivar county,
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broken. All northern Washington and
back lands throughout 0ssaquana and
, Sharkey will so under A number of pee
Pile were drowned. At Riverton the river is
falling rapidly. Trere was eight inches ia
to date.
, LATER.-In addition TO the breaks above
stated there was one at Hughes front, be-
Wade and Clark's. Accounts Of suffering
z and loss Of life continue to come, and cx-
!. ceed anything that has ever attended pre-.
:, vious Mississippi river foundations.
NoTE.-These creyasses are all above
: Greenyille.l
/ A dispatch from Lake Providence reports
@ that the crevasse in Longwood levee, six
i miles above Lake Providence, has been
;, closed etiectually, and all danger is over.
n New ORLEANS, March 2.--The Picayune' s
,f Greenyile, Mississippi, special says: The
/. levee on the Bolivar county front is a
o general wreck. The height of the waves is
/ now inundating the whole of Bolivar and
l. all of Washington counties, except a
h ribbon of land on the west bank of Deer
creek from Fish lake to the Sharkey county
l. line and from this point soutwestward
Is practically the whole country is under
Of water, Everybody is busy saving mules
% the most valuable portion of the live stock
10 while cattle and hogs are generally aban
ie doneG to their fate. Should the water re-
% cede in the next week, and seasons prove
D. propitious, planters may yet make good
rs crops While hoping for all these iortui
It tous circumstances, we refuse to look al the
e reverse Of the picture.
l. MEMPHIS. March 2.-Private letters from
n Riverton, Mississippi, 150 miles below Mem
le phis, and seventy-tive miles above Vicks
burg, say that the levee broke Monda,
Sc night, and that the loss of property is fear
ful. Several persons were drowned
in and among the number is lenia
r. min Hyne, shipping clerk for Franl
,e IL Reilloch, who tried to 30 to the assist
,f- ance of Mrs. Bradshaw, and was drawn int
We the channel Of the break and drowned
Live stock are all drowned and there are n
nc provisions for the people to subsist on. Tn
break occurred about 100 yards above Dun
cans. A messenger has been sent TO Tol
rene for the steamer Plowboy to tax
he the women aud childrento Memphis. The
are suffering greatly, having lost ever,
,g- thing they possessed except the clothes o
tn their backs. 1t is impossible to describ
no the fearful havoc and destruction tb
waters have wrought. Besides the break 6
ed the river, there are two more at Wright s,or
ito mile below and, another at Judge Miller
81. two miles below Riverton. Mules, horses
nd cows, goats and houses pass by continual,
To- Add to these falling and crossing timbt
an and you then have the taintest idea OF th
nss condition of things in Duncan, There ca
be no less than 2J, women, children All
In probably q good many more, huddle
cy together on the levee. II is pitifnl to S,
en- them-half-naked frozen and hungr
oc- Every house at Riverton except Duncan
Franks and Reillock's has either noated {
Id. or so damaged by the washing away ofblocl
tic. that they will be unfit for inhabitatiC
ate when the waters subside. The levee In fro
Lie of Duncan's house is weak. and there
nd danger of II breaking The store house
ng Max Miller, together with his stock
nth goods iloated, and was lost.
not A letter from Solomon Cohen, at ConcC
,ut dia, Mississippi, twenty miles below Riv,
ger ton, says: The levee ut Blackburn brol
en-. Tuesday morning, and the water Is oy
the ConeorAia The break is through Blanc
tal. ards place A scailod is being erected
na. take care of the stock. The river rose thr
ia inches in twenty.lour hours.
lad
as Attempt to Assassinate Queen Victoria
zen WINDSOR, ENGLAND, March 2.-As I
,vu nr' queen was entering carriage this cvcnii
a man fired pistol at her. The man, W
,er, was misunderstanding object, was INN
,or' Ieu diately seized by several policemen and
her ken to the police station. No one "
md hurt. The man gave his name as Roder
ad' Maclean. The queen drove Off to the cas-