Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-04-03
REPORTS OF WORSE DISASTER.
Affairs in the Overlooked Mississippi Dis
tricts not Mending so Steadily as Re-
pOrted-Water Higher Than in 1874.

Affairs In tho OvernoWeO mleSisslppl Lbs.
tricts not Mending so Steadily as Re-
ported-Water Higher Than in 1874.
New IBERIA, La, April 1.-The Teche il
still rising rapidly, eleven inches in twenty.
four hours. Father Coughlin, parish prizes,
at Larenoville, on the east side, eight miles
from here, reports 1900 persons now home.
less on account of the food and applications
| for She ter in his church and stables are nu.
merous. He is asking local contributions.
Their distress is represented as appalling. The
Red river water through bayou COur Tableau
as well as that of the Mississippi through the
Alchafalaya and Grand lake will certainly
bring us to the level of the lake. We
are now past the high water mark of 1874 and
will probably exceed it two feet or more.
FRANKLIN, La, April 1.-The water is rising
one inch per hour. Thirty-six hours will
submerge Franklin and the back country. The
prospect is alarming. At meeting of citizens
Of st. Mary's parish to-day it was resolved
that the embankment of the Louisiana &
Texas Railroad company is the most serious
obstruction to the free flow of water from the
inundated districts west of the Mississippi
river, and unless removed the corporation will
be held for the damage resulting.
OTHER REPORTS.
VIcKsBURG, April1.-News from the over
flowed district shows the planters are taking
every advantage of the declining water, plow-
ing and planting as fast as the exposed land
will permit, and becoming more cheerful
every day.
NEW ORLEANS, April 1.-Arizona crevasse
is now reported to be 500 feet wide and ten to
twelve feet deep. The water finds its way in
IN 1oH MoroDac ond ia doin~ Lose dom orn
than was expected.
Active relief work continues. Government
rations are being shipped to all points requir-
ing them and the local relief committee to
continue to supply forage for stock; 45, 735
applicants have been furnished with fifteen
days. rations, commencing March %.
New ORLEANS, April Teams on the
Morgan road to day could go no further than
Tigervllle, fourteen miles east of Morgan city,
on account of the high water. The greater
part of the country for twenty miles east of
the Teche and between the Teche and Atcha-
falaya is Overfiowed, and many valuable sugar
plantations are greatly damaged.
At Teconia Circle people have suffered so
heavily by the loss of cattle and stock that
they are almost entirely helpless. 1t will be
impossible for them to raise crop with their
present animals, and the people have no
money to purchase them.
MEMPHIS, April 1.-The river continues to
decline steadily, and has fallen twenty-seven
inches from the highest point. Between here
and Helena, Ark, land on both sides of the
river is coming gradually to view. Above
here the decline has been greater and pros
poets are proportionately brighter for
HELENA, Ark, April 1.-The river fell
slightly in the past twenty-four hours, but
the overflow In this city remains about the
same, and still covers about two-thirds of the
city. Reports from Old Townridge are that
there is no abatement in the general incon-
venience and plague of the buffalo gnats. 1t
will be at least four weeks in some places be-
fore blowing can be commenced.
Cattle continue dying from the double
cause of hunger and gnats. The smell Of the
decaying carcasses is sickening, and gentle
man on the McGee plantation says he saw
hundreds of cows that ought to be killed to
be put out of their misery.
Added to the stencil of the drowned, starved
and gnat-eaten animals, is that arising from
the buzzards, which may be seen, particularly
near Old Town point, by thousands, some
times not getting out of the way of boats, so
tame have they become. In the vicinity of
Alligator aud Cow bayou, Lee county, Ark,
a great number of cattle are dying, and the
condition of the people is yet serious.
POLITICAL PROSPECTS.
Water along the White river is falling more
rapidly than anywhere else in the overfowed
district. The ground is peeping out in few
places, and in few weeks the ploughshare
will be glistening in the sunshine on hun
dred different farms