Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-03-06
The river at this point is about

The river at this point is about
begin rising again tonight. Heavy
rains have fallen to-day throughout this re-
gion. In an interview tonight Commis-
sioner L. Fl. Mangam, of Arkansas,
said that in the counties of Missis-
sippl, Crittenden, Lee, Poinsett,
Desha, Chicot and Monroe, in Arkansas, he
had information of about twenty thousand
destitute people who would have to be fed
by the government for at least forty days.
These counties do not include those border
ing on the Red river, where great suffering
is said to exist.
Commissioner W. L. Hemingway, of Mis-
sissippi, said the inhabitants of Tunica,
Coahoms, DeSoto, Quitman, Bolivar, Wash
ington, Issaquena, Yazoo, Tallahatchie
and SuphOwer counties, in his State, to the
number of 1900, were in like suffering
condition. These counties in Mississippi
are all above Vicksburg, and there are
other counties below that city, which have
suffered by the overflow.
Helena, Ark, special says "The river
has risen over four inches In the last twenty
four hours, which brings it up to within
five inches of the late rise It is thought
that by Monday the water will be above the
highest point reached this season, and the
river is expected to continue rising until
about the 18th. The citizens are thoroughly
exhausted and make hard fight to save the
front levees. The back water In the city is
rising at about the same rate as the main
river, but will rise faster when the levee
below gives way, which will be about Mon
day."'
VIcKsBURG, March Is According to
the best information received the dimen-
sions of the crevasses above are given as
follows; Ess'On's hundred to a hundred
and twenty-five yards wide. At Catfish
Point fifty feet on he 27th ult., and widen
ing rapidly. At Clay and Bagot's one hun
dred yards. At Hughs' sixty yards. At
Miles two breaks, width is not known. At
RivertOn and CoDcordia the breaks ere very
wide, but the exact widths are not known.
NEW ORLEANS, March 5.-A representa-
tive of the Times Democrat, having made an
examination OF the levees for a distance of
one hundred and fifty miles above New Or
leans, reports that the levees are generally
in good condition and able to stand more
water, but reports several hundred weak
places where roadways have been made and
rice fumes built. In case of high
winds or rains these places are dam
gerous unless promptly strengthened.
The Times Democrat caused an inspector
from the State Engineer DEPARTMENT to be
sent cut to-day from New o leans to Don
aldsonville and Baton Rouge, at the paper's
expense, to examine the entire line of the
levees for $50 miles above New Orleans and
warn the authorities an planters. A crev
asse on t-e west bank of the Missis sippi
river below Baron Rouge would inundate
the rich sugar parishes of the Teche.
Two crevasses are reported IN the Bayou
LsFourche levees, one neaHLaFourche cross
ing, and the other near Thibodeaux. The
latter is very serious. The break is be-
lIeved to be on the west bank. 1t is now
six feet deep, and the water is said to be
three feet deep on the public road in the
vicinity. Unless these breaks can be speedily
closed, great damage will result.