Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1884, 1882-03-10
Lieut.. DanehOuser Relates the Terri
BILE Experience Of the Jeanette
Party in the Frozen Zone.
A Wild and Lawless Mob OF Strikers
Threatening Life and Property i
in Omaha. -
The Civil Authorities, Finding Them
selves Powerless, Invoke the Aid
of the Regular Army. ~

The Flood Ruined Planters.
LITTLE RooK, March "a gentleman who
arrived to-day from De Sofa county says tho
destitution in consequence of the flood is be-
yond description. The water has reached an
unprecedented height, and scarcely farm
house has escaped i,lundation. The inhab-
itants are fleeing to higher land, where they
await starvation and death. The situation is
appalling, and without government aid,
quickly bestowed, the developments of the
next few days must be horrible in the ex-
treme. MANY persons are feeding on the
oarcasses of dead cattle which float dewn the
stream.
AT NEW ORLEANS AND VICINITY.
New ORLEANS, March "a special from
Bayou Sara says the Point Capee levee, three
miles above here on the west bank of the
1iver, gave way last night. This is a new
citizens cut new levee in front of the new
work for the purpose of letting the water
against the new levee. The cut became some
800 feet wide: and the water rushed with
such force against the new levee that about
fifty feet of it was swept @ away. The break
creasing. This will food a portion of the
Folz river country, and increase the volume
of water from the Margansia sufficiently to
affect the best lands west of Ba ton Rouge.
The only spot in the levees in front Of New
Orleans about which any apprehension ex
lists, is just above the railroad depot at Car
rolltown. A guard is maintained
there constantly. At the head Of
Canal street the gauge shows that the river
is still between seven aad eight inches below
the high water mark of 1874. A rico fume
caused break in the Cornelia plantation
level, which was closed by hard work. Rice
fumes are said to constitute the principal
danger to the levee at Bonnet Care Point,
which is keeping planters busy repairing.
Damages from muskrat holes are giving
them much trouble, and now and then a
break occurs in levees, caused by defective
rice fumes At points between Baton Rouge
and the mouth of the river, breaks are re-
ported almost daily, but no serious dam ge
has resulted. .
THE "GRuB" QUESTION. .jI
WAsH1NlaroN, March 9.-Secretary Lincoln
has received telegraphic reports from Capt.
Lee in regard to the damage and suffering
caused by the floods in Mississippi. The
overflow is the most disastrous and wide
spread that ever occurred The lowest esti-
mate places the number of destitute people
ut Is, 600. Many residents of back counties
have taken refuge in the hills, and their i'm
mediate wants are provided for through
local aid. With 100000 rations already sent,
10000 now on the way from St. Louis, and
with local aid furnished by Mississippi, the
destitutlon will be provided for until the 30th
inst. Everything shows that the destitute
must be cared for at least thirty days from
date, which will require an additional twenty
days rations for los, 600 persons, making q
total of &c, 900 rations. Many planters say it
will be five or six weeks before work can be
done in the overdowed districts.