Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-03-17
THE FLOODED VALLEY.
The Outlook az GreenvIlle. New Orr
leans and other Points.

NEW ORLEANS. March 16-Milliken's
Bend levee remained intact at last accounts,
but the people were working on 1t night and
day. The levee in rear of Delta gave way
Yesterday afternoon, and the water rushed
through with such force that several small
houses were carried away.
GREENvILLE, Miss, March 16.-The back
water in this county is now about station
arY, and, it is presumed, has fully found its
level in this vicinity, hence the extent Of
the overflow can now be indicated. A front
of varying width is maintained almost
entire on the western bank of Deer
creek. The eastern bank has gen
orally narrowed from above. The
higher places only of the VIII
liams bayou front are above
water. Below here to Lake Lee the front
places and places on Rattles Neck bayou,
except those Of the eastern bank of Black
bayou, are not inundated. In front OF Lake
Lee the places are all above water, and from
Lake Lee to the Isssquena line the planta-
tions on the river front are entirely free
from water, as are also the places on the
west side of Lake Washington. Those on
the east side of that lake are above water,
except the back portions of them.
This is an accurate statement of the con-
dition Of Washington county, the largest
cotton growing county in the State. In the
south about one half Of the cultivated land
is under water. and on most of the others
the inundations are progressing.
People think the reports sent from here
and other points are exaggerated. The
situation, however, is bad enough-almost
appalling, in fact-When literally stated.
NkTno L. - A.
more generally inundated, and the distress
and losses are greater than they have been
In Arkansas. There is very little river land
not overfowed, except In the circle of Lake
Chicot.
This is high ground and its natural protec-
tiou is exceptionally good. Several of the
plantations here have been recently pur-
chased by John G. Calhoun for bis land
company, IN which New York capital is
largely invested. This property and other
places in the circle OF land here sustained
little, II any, damage from the overflow. W.
A. Price and W. A. Pollock, commissioners
for this county, left this morning for
Washington, bearing a memorial to Con-
gress, asking aid to rebuild our levees.
NEW ORLEANS, March 16 The clerk of
the steamer j. M. White says there are
three breaks on the Hard Times levee,
twenty miles above st. Joseph, in Tensas
parish, on the right bank of the river, that
the water from these breaks floods the
country for many miles back of the Missis-
sippi river, and has created great disaster
to the farming interests of that section. He
further says some of the people of the
regions back of Greenville have left
their homes; but comparatively few
homes on the bank of the Mississippi
river have been deserted. A letter, dated
March IL, written from Mississippi county,
Arkansas, which county has repeatedly been
reported inundated, says: "We have not
suffered much from the water, and, II 1t will
go down within a month from this, It will
not interfere with my making a crop, but
our bend here is an exception to the gene
raj rule"
The river here remains about stationary
eight inches below the high water of 1874
while at Vicksburg it is thirty-eight inches
above. The hope is entertained here that
the heavy rise at Vicksburg since Saturday
will be dissipated by the crevasses below
that point and by the heavy current which
set ia from the Mississippi up the mouth OF
the Red river and through the Atchafalaya,
relieving in a measure all the points below
the mouth Of the Red river. Vigilance and
hard work have SO far successfully protected
the section below Baton Rouge from ere
vases.
WASHINGTON, March 16.-Register Bruce
has received information from friends in
Mississippi, that, although the govern
ment is furnishing assistance as much
as possible, 1t does not meet the needs.
The government definitely is to obtain small
boats to explore the interior of the country
where the populace is entirely cut off bv
the floods. Every day word is received of
additional deaths from exposure and starVa-
tion.