Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-03-09
WATERY WOE,
The River Stationary at Memphis But
More Rain Faliing-Aid for the Suffer-
ers-MOre Damage Feared.
AUSTIN, MISS, DESTROYED.

ers-More Damage Feared.
AUSTIN, MISS, DESTROYED.
MEMPHIS, March 6.-The river remains
stationary here, with SO feet on the gauge.
Passengers who arrived this forenoon from
below report the levee at Helena, Ark. was
still intact yesterday. Three hundred men
were at work guarding all weak points. The
river there was rising steadily. At Austin,
Miss, between Memphis and Helena, the river
has cut through the town, destroying the
principal buildings, among the number
the Masonic Temple. The Centennial
block, a large brick block, is about demolished,
the water being Is feet all around it. Several
store houses and dwellings have been washed
away and carried q distance of half mile, and
the loss of stock continues. The situation is
hourly growing more desperate.
MORE RATIoNs.
WASHINGTON, March 8.-The secretary of
war continues to receive dispatches represent
ing the distress Increasing in the overlooked
districts of the Mississippi valley and
stating the rations sent will soon be
exhausted. Twenty thousand more ra-
tions were ordered sent to Memphis
LOUISVILLE.
LOUISVILLE, March S.-The river is rising
slowly, with j feet in the canal. The water
will be over the lower lock to The canal by
morning. It will be impossible. The Andy
Fulton lock barge is wreck and all the cargo
that can be reached is being loaded.
Life savers, while trying to save two men
going over the falls this evening, upset the
boat and would have been drowned had it not
been for another life boat coming to their as
sistance and rescuing them. Ed. Terrell, men,
Der of the life saving station, was hurt in the
breast, but not seriously. All the men landed
safely at Portland, where they took the cars
and campu up.
LOUISVILLE BOARD OF TRADE.
LOUISVILLE, KY, March Sat a public
meeting of the board of trade adopted the fol-
lowing:
Rescued, This this board respectfully urge
upon congress the propriety of making suf-
ficient appropriation to enable the war de
partment to continue its work of relieving
the pressing wants of sufferers by the over
flowing of the Mississippi river.
ST. LOUIS RELIEF.
ST. LOUIS. March Sat q meeting of the
Merchants Exchange at o'clock to-day, Gov.
Crittenden made an earnest appeal for the suf-
ferers of the overlooked districts in southeast
Missouri About 50, 900 in money and pro-
visions were donated at once and tue relief
committee appointed few days ago, were in
structed to solicit additional subscriptions.
Gen. Beckwith, of the subsistence department
United States, is here and has sent $4,000 ra-
tions to Mound City, Ills, and 5000 rations
each to Peniscot and Mississippi counties,
Missouri, and more are to follow.
NEW ORLEANS.
NEW ORLEANS, March 8.-No further dis
aster to levees reported. People are strength
ening them all along the line. A heavy south
wind to-day produced a swell on the river
water, at times breaking over the leyee at the
head of Canal street, and at several points be-
tween the city and Carrolton. The gauge
shows the river seyen-tenths of foot below
the high water mark of 1874.
MEMPHIS.
MEMPHIS, March 8.-The river here, &C
cording to signal service officers reports, has
declined one inch and now marks 81 feet and
II inches on guage. A steady rain has fallen
all day and continues tonight, which Will NO
doubt check the decline and perhaps again
cause raise. What provisions the general
government has sent here have been dstribu-
ted by commissioners Mongum and Heming-
way.
AT HELENA
HELENA, Ark, March 8.-The river has
risen half an inch in the past "a hours. and
now marks Al feet in. on the gauge, which
is six inches above the late rise, and ten inches
above the highest water since 1862.