The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-03-21
SUNDAY DISPATCHES.
The Floods.

NEw ORLEANS, March ia dispatch
vas received to-day at the state engineer 6
etice, from Assistant State Engineer
Brown, reporting that he had justreturned
oBaton Rouge from Landry crevasse in
Ascension parish. He says sixty feet oi
the levee is gone, but he thinks they will
close IL, large force Of labor
ers from the adjoining plantations being
present, Story's crevasse, below the
city, Is now regarded as beyond control, and
no effort will likely be made to close it.
SSoundinSs to-day show the crevasse ten feet
deep and 200 feet wide. Water from this
creyasse will flow into Ship Island canal
and Lake. Borgne, doing but little damage
except TO stores. Plantations where there
We're 800 acres of stubble and $50 acres of
cane planted will doubtless be almost
entirely destroyed. The ends of leyee
each side of the break at Live Oak Grove
ereyasse have been secured and the belief
shat the break will be closed. News is
received almost daily at the state engineers $
Sfice OF the closing of small breaks In
i,eyees between New Orleans and Baton
Rouge
In conversation to-day with ii. b. Thorn
son, secretary of the board OF state engi-
heers, the following information was
Mthered concerning crevasses in this
Nate; From the Tensas line to the
%lhe mouth Of the river, also in Bayous
Lalourche and Atchafalaya crevasses open.
", beginning near the upper line of Car.
M %u parish and extending into Arkansas.
me estim ated length is eight miles. In
Snaulson parish the breaks are at Omega
nuekner, Morgansea, Millikens' Bend, Del.
"a Blggs, Inland Bend, the last named be-.
s sss open since 1867; IN Ten
seio, parish parish Woodbury.; Bu9SneTT'
Times, Fortified, Haraisscrabbic' Has and Kemp; %
vohcordia Parish, at Claremont and Glas.
eock, latter open since is7i:.Pointe Coupee
gMlsh, Morgansea and Pointe Coupee, the
plmer open since 1874; Ascension parish,
aandrlck; 81. John parish, Bonne 6arree,
yea since 1874; 81. Bernard parish, Story's,
sn,aqpemine parish, Live Oak Grove. All
he above are on the right hand
Ss,a Ssnk Of the Mississippi river except Ian
w, Bonne Carre and Storys, these three
Slng on the left bank. There are four
Sse'asscs on Atchafalaya; Sultons, on the
Moank, In Pointe Coupee parish; yellow
ryoa and the upper Winn tract, In
i,'uyealle's i,'sy parish; the lower Winn
.'' IN St. Landry parish, the three
~ named being on the right
i.sI also Pittman's crcvass on Bayou
.sourche. Quite number Of back levees
Enported broken about Lake Concordia,
'nse river and elsewhere.
snlassrnis, March ls.-The river has de.
4 Siaea a.s, Two inches to-day, and now marks
mwet2 inches on the gauge. The govern.
S''n, steamer II. II. Recs arrived, and will
proyisioned to supply the needy
NV Cw' Major Beckam. Of 81. Louis, wifi
t,hvveto t,hve tomorrow and have charge Of the dis.
ns"on, nuuuon, but Lieut.. vedder len to-day 10
vv,ssss,lrate the suffering at points below
NV m~xAsours 10. Captain Loud departs to.mor.
Nav vn !. me same mission. Reports from
Sli,rs Slivs al show that the river Is gradually
Ins nom Memphis TO vicksburg.
Nv, helens, Arkansas, special says The
N,i Ns i.., an declined two and Lalf inches in
EssnuN twenty.fcur hours. The overflow.
Az tell less than an Inch. BEYOND
lSs,.sn ,.nsre :, are no notable changes. The 81.
IL, -Democrat'stu Stafford touched
~ r,. ~, p. m. to-day, remaining but 4
ma ssuses' s' - cries for assistance rerr
Ssrs IRON rom every quarter. Every effort 4
s PVT iorth By private cilissni 10 render