The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-03-08
THE FLOODS.
Further Details of Loss OF Life and
Property fin the South.

Further Details OF Loss OF Life and
Property fn the South.
MENrHIs. March Private lette-s from
Riverton, Miss. $50 miles below Memphis,
and seyenty-fve miles above Vicksburg. say
the kevee broke on Monday night and the
losscf property is fearful. Some people were
drowned, among the number Ben Heyne,
shipping clerk for Frank y. Reinrch. DE
tired to go to the assistance of Mrs. Brad
shaw and was drawn into the channel of tue
break and drowned. The stock is all
drowned. and there are no provisions for
poor people to subsist on.
The break occurred about 100 yards above
Duncans We have sent to Terrine fOr the
steamer Plow Boy to come and take the
women end children TO Memphis They
are suffering greatly, having lost every
thing they possessed, and the clothing they
have on their bodies is the only property
they saved.
1t l. impossible to describe the fearful
havoc the waters have made. Besides the
break at Riverton, there are two more, one
at Wrights, one mile below, and another
at Jadge Miles place, two miles below
Riverton. Mules, horses, cows, goats and
houses pass by continually. Add to these
falling crushing timber. and then you have
the faintest idea of the condition OF things.
In Duncan's house there must be no less
than twenty-five women and children, and a
good many more huddled together ON the
ievee.
1t is pitiful to see them, halt naked, frozen
and hungry. Every house in Riyerton, ex
cent Dunoan's and Frank Reinach's, has
either foated Off or is so damaged Dy the
washing away of blocks that they will be
unfit for habiIation when the waters decline
The levee IN front of Duncan's house IS
weak and there is great danger OF Its break
ing. The store-hOuse of Max Miller, together
with his stock of goods, fioated oil and was
lost.
A letter from Sol. Cohen, at ConcoId.a
Miss, twenty miles below Riyerton, says the
levee at Blackburn's broke on Tuesday
morning and the water Is over ConcOrIla.
This break is through Blanchard's place.
They are building scafolds to take care of
stock The river rose three inches there IN
twenty-four hours.
NKw ORLEANS, March "A Greenviile
Miss special says there was perfect
wreck OF the Bolivar levee yesterday morn
ing. Riverton, Wade, Clay and Badget
leyees broke through, and Concordia was re-
ported broken the day before. The break
will overflow every plantation III Bolivar
County. The river fell here four inches last
night, and is sill falling rapidly. The Boil
var break will probably save the levees OF
Washington and Isaquena, but the loss to
N~~-~-
$50. 900. The Clay and Badget are the larg-
est leyees in the district, except the HUSH
puckana. Several lives reported lost.
Rosedale, County seat of Bolivar, is six
feet under water The Ledger office and
other houses are washed away. Clark :
Ieyee, on Lake Bulah, is gone. This over
flows what was left of Bolivar County
Williams levee, this County, is broken. A
number of people were drowned at Over
ton.
In addition 10 the breaks above stated,
was one at Hughes Point, between Wade
and Clark's. Accounts of suffering and
loss OF life continue to come in, aud exceed
anything that ever attended previous Mis-
rissippi River inundations. -rhe crevasses
are all about Greenville.
NEW ORLEANs, March News reaches
here of terrible destruction of property by
the breaking of levee at Carson's Landing.
After the heavy rain and windstorm OF
Tuesday gap of seventy-fve feet was hrst
made by the rushing water, and hundred
yards OF the levee was soon swept away. The
noise of the roaring flood awoke the sleep
ing citizens. who. ON looking out of their
homes. saw the river rapidly spreading over
the country. Without taking time to clothe
themselves the people lied for their lives.
Ben Haines, keeper of the landing, and two
negroes were overwhelmed in the rushing
waters. Their cries for help were heart
rending. Many people had narrow escapes
from drowning.
In the vicinity of Bolivar $50 yards OF
levee gave way, and between Catfish Point
aud Mound Landing, distance of six miles,
the levee broke in four places. In Arkansas
City the water covers the floor of every store
and dwelling from six inches to four feet.
Water covers the floor OF the hotel to depth
of twenty inches. The new Oil mills are
great sufferers. Many planters are feeding
their hands, fearing a movement to furnish
rations will demOraliZe the negroes. Many
negroes are anxiously awaiting the arrival
of the boat with Government rdtions. Boats
are moving persons and property free where
the people are too poor 10 pay for service.
The Picayune's Greenville, Miss, special
says: The levee system on Bolivar county
front is general wreck. The height of the
wave is now inundating the whole of Bolivar
and Washington counties except a ribbon of
! land on the west bank of Deer Greek from
E1ish Lake to the Sharkey county line and
plantations Immediately on the river"
AN APPEAL FOR AID.
MEMPHIS. Tenn, March "A mass
meeting of the citizens OF Mississippi
County, Arkansas. was held at Osceola,
Ark, on the 9th of February, for the pur-
pose of taking measures for the relief OF
sufferers from the overflow within said
| lnc lOttOWit-S St~tttnCht Has oCCA
sent the Associated Press for publication:
gtat from diigent inquiry and obseryathsn We
find that at least % per ceut of the lands of the
/ Comfy are Inundated, completely covered with
water. and by reason Of the overflow Of the htSSis
sippi River, along which stream the entire Coanty
laysaDd of the S,Oo3 inhs sbltRnts of said County,
at beasi 60 per cent. are in a destitute starving
| condition, a large msjOrity of whom are cOored
lAb0Ters. whose ouly subsistence Is through theiI
daily labor which at tkis time they are unable tO
pursue on account OF the water. They are farm
ab0rers, and everything is AT stand still and nc
prospects for change la the condition Of thiagS
/ for sometime To come The premises considered,
! we. therefore, recommend thatthe General Gov
ernment make an appropriation of sufficient
amount TO alleviate the Immediate suferings oi
the peopIeof the aforesaid distIictfor period 0i
not less that sixty days
The GoverRment Donation Too Small to
Keep the Needy OF the OwerfiSwed Dis
tricts--News From Points Along the
River.
MENsEns, March 5.-In an interview to-
night with Western Associated Press re-
porter, Commissioner l.. ii. Maglum. of
Arkansas. said that in the Counties of Mis-
sissippi, Crlttenden. Lee. FoSnsett Cross.
sCraighead, Francis, Phillips, Desha, Chicot
and Monroe. in Arkansas. he had informa-
zen of about 10000 destitute people. who
ylsuld have - be fed by the Government for
az least forty days These Counties do not
i5cilde those bordering on Bed River,
where great suffering is said to exist. Com