Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-03-20
FLOOD NEWS.
The Worst Of tits Over in This
Section,
But Nearer the Gulf the News il
Discouraging.


Travellers arriving by river from the
south yesterday and to-day report that
the decline of the waters has been con-
siderable all the way down to Arkan-
saw City, 200 miles below here. The
general situation is more encourag
ing, as at various points heretofore
submerged the banks along both shores
are beginning to show again. By the
end of the present week it is believed
the waters will be off the larger por-
ton of the tillable lands and planting
operations may be actively resumed q
few days later. The same cheerful
news is received from the river valley
region above here all the way to Cairo,
A0 miles to the northward. The loss
Of cattle between Cairo and this city
is estimated at about 1900 head.
Advices from the Yazoo river and
Sunhower valleys are, however, very
bad. The town of Satartia, on the
south bank Of the Yazoo, eighty miles
above Vicksburg, was reported en-
tirely submerged last Friday, every
house being surrounded by water,
while the citizens are camped on the
hills in the rear of the place. The
river there on Friday was rising, its
level lacking but six ,inches Of the
great rise of 1867. On Saturday the
water level was reported higher than
upon that occasion.
Many business houses in Yazoo City,
ITO miles up the Yazoo river, have
been washed out, and 100 dwellings
are submerged. The place is filling up
with refugees from other flooded dis.
tricts, and great restitution prevails.
Boats. RATS and floats of all kinds are
constantly bringing down live stock,
and losses Of numerous human lives
are reported.
1t is estimated that 5000 mules have
been drowned along the upper Talla-
hatchie river, and heavy losses of
other property are reported. The hills
are crowded with young deer and
bears, driven from the swamps by the
water, and animals Of both kinds have
been encountered on the very out
skirts of Yszoo City.
A steamer arrived at Yazoo City
last Thursday from Silver City, above
the foot of Honey Island, with 221
horses and mules, alss seventy. FIVE
people. No dry land was found above
Yazoo City, but planters were hope
ful, though the waters continued to
rise at last accounts.
AS the steamer Carney passed down
Yazoo river, last week, the body of a
white man was seen floating, and the
Greenville, DeSmet, Carol, Dickson
and other packets reported similar
scenes.
The steamer Deer Greek arrived at
vicksburg, Friday last, from Big Deer
Creek. Her officers, the Vicksburg
Herald says, report more cheerful
state OF affairs in that section Of coun.
try. Very little distress prevails
there, and large bodies of lard are
still above water, prominent among
which are the following plantations
Cynthia. Vick's, Phelps's, Schrader's s,
and Tilman's. These are the finest
places on Deer Creek, and the major
ity of them can yet stand from two to
three feet Of a rise On the east side
of the Creek the country is much
lower, and is entirely overhowed.
Thursday Hogans canal, on the west
side Of the Greek, gave way, and when
the steamer Deer Creek left the water
was rising on that tide. The Deer
Greek brought down 200 bales of cot
ton and $50 sacks Of seed. In addition
to this, she brought down fifteen
families. The Deer Greek returned
to Deer Greek Saturday, cerryiug sup.
plies intended for the needy and
destitute. The steamer Anita, with
government rations, left Vicksburg
for the Sunhower last Friday.
The Vicksburg Herald of Saturday
says: Captain Harry Stein, of the
Morgan, which passed down lastnight,
stated that the levee at Milliken's
Bend was still intact, and by no means
broken, as reported by the officers of
the Kate Dickson yesterday morning,
and Major Richmond of the Louisiana
State Leyee Board, who arrived here
from Milliken's Bend yesterday morn
ing, substantiates the information.
The levee at Ursino, in Davis Bend,
twelve miles below here, gave way
last night. This levee protects the
Davis Bend Island, and its breaking
subjects the Montgomery plantation
and the entire Island to overflow"
The Sheriff of Madison parish, Louis
lana, lying opposite to Vicksburg, has
telegraphed to Governor McEnery for
5000 rations. The parish is reported
to be a wilderness OF water. The town
of Delta, opposite Vieksb1rg, is sub
merged, but no special damage is re-
ported there. A negro named Ander
son was drowned from dugout last
Friday.
The river at Vicksburg on Friday
last was higher than it had been for
ntteen years, the gauge reAdlng forty
eight feet two.tenths. The Herald of
Saturday says: "All the basement
stores in the Prentiss House, and the
lower floors of the dwelling houses
opposite, are under water. The eleva-
tor is approachable only from the
south door, from which a substantial
bridge has been constructed, leading
over the turbulent stream"
A letter from Rolling Fork, Sharkey
county, written on Thursday last and
signed by over twenty leading people,
says: 1.-THE river.is still rising at the
rate Of ten inches in twenty.four
hours. The stock, cattle and mules
have little upon which to subsist; in
fact the whole country, although the
greatest productive country on earth,
at the present needs aid, and at once.
The east side Of Deer Creek is almost
entirely submerged. The indications
now are that no dry land for the foot