Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-02-21

| Mississippi is under water, and his stock on
an old levee near his house. Turner q Co..
storehouse is also under water.
The following are some OF the plantations
that were submerged by the break at Will
liamson's: E. NJ Apperson's, Woodruff &
| Elliss, Monroe Williamson's, Pillow Bros
The lower end of Tunica county is all under
water, including the plantations of J. F.
Townsend, d. NJ. Russell, DIR. Hull, Powell
place, Jake Thompson place and Jeffries
place.
Dnlard & Cofin's place, six miles below
| Helena, is under water. Several cabins were
washed away, also the stOrehouse. Negroes
are living in the ginhouse.
AT Delta Il. 3. Hooker's plantation, dwell
| ing and storehouse are under water.
At Friars Point barge with two hundred
and thirty-fve sacks of oil-cake was sunk
| Friday evening.
The above list embraces only those planta-
tions bordering or adjacent to the river. As
the waters extend back from fifteen to twenty
| miles frem either shore, there are hundreds
who have suffered, but it was impossible to
learn names.
THE RESULT CANNOT BE FOREToLD.
The result Of this Unprecedented high
water cannot now be foretold. What, with
the loss OF stock, the destruction of barns
and their contents and the damage to fences
and the soil, the planters between Mem phis
and Nicksburg will be in poor condition to
cultivate their lands, and large decrease in
acreage must necessarily follow. What is
true of the Mississippi valley is also true of
the entire St. Francis river country, as the
st. Francis river is higher than was ever
known, and the greatest damage to planta-
tions from Council Bend south was caused
hv the floods which poured out Of the ST.
Francis river.
THE OUTLOOK Is ANYTHING BUT HOPEFUL.
While the river here is about on a stand
there is a flood coming out of the Ohio
which is higher than was ever known. This,
together with the freshets now coming down
the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers, will
cause a still higher river at this point and
below. A well-known steamboatman, who
has followed the river for the past thirty
years, gave it as his opinion yesterday that
the floods throughout the valley, with the
present water in sight, will last for more
than forty days.
ANOTHER DANGER
also threatens the planters OF the valley,
and that is the scarcity of cotton-seed. There
is not a sufficient quantity left uninjured TO
plant one-half of the land that was culti-
vated last year, and the price of seed has
adv anced 20 rapidly that many farmers will
find themselves without the means even to
purchase IL loI Plautlhs purposes.
The Situation at Helena UneL anged.
Special to the Appeal
HELENA, February 20.-The situation is
unchanged at this point. The river has been
on stand for the past twenty-four hours
The water is rising in the city, and is now over
North Main street at the Presbyterian church.
All the mills and workshops in the lower
part OF the city have suspended operations, land
the laborers all thrown out of employment.
A few more days of such distress will leave
many in an actual state of want. The only
means of communication between Main street
aud West Helena is in skif1s, for which |
there is great demand. The sidewalks in
many portions of the city are being raised
above expected high-water mark. Passen-
gers in from Clarendon this morning
report that White river is rising steadily at
that point. Fears are entertained that
the town will be overfowed. Captain Ed
Carville, of the steamer Dick Jones, just in
from the Sunk Lends, reports immense
volume of water pouring into the st. Francis
river from the Tyronza and Little Red
rivers, and the river low and falling at Les
tsr's Landing, on the 18th instant, when the
boat left that point. The river is expected
to commence receding at this place tonight.
Business is at a stand-still, and no transac-
tious in mercantile circles except for actual
necessaries of life.
SEVEN PERSONS DROWNED.
News reached here to-day of an accident
on the plantation of the late Colonel Eiii-,
eleven miles below this city, by which six
children were drowned. 1t seems that Charles
Washington, colored, when he found that the
plantation would be overfowed, last Friday,
put his wife and six children in dugout to
take them to place OF safety. He had just
started when the dugout capsized, and all
the children were drowned. Washington
and his wife were saved by clinging to the
capsized boat. The bereaved father is a
hard-workipg man, and has the sympathy Of
the entire community. Information has
also just been received oil the drowning of
Moses Green, colored, on billiard & Collins
plantation. on the Mississippi side, by the
capsizing OF dugout.
At LiilIe Rock.
Special to the Appeals
LITTLE Rock, February 20.-From every
direction reports are coming in of the loss of
life and damage to property by the high wa
ter. The Arkansas is high, and another rise |
is reported above. The White river branches, |
Kings river, War Eagle and other northwest |
Arkansas streams are torrents. Red, Dale, |
Missouri, Ouachita and Saline rivers in the |
southeast are all out of their banks. The |
Ouachita has overfowed the best part of the |
Ouachita country. Southeast and southwest |
Arkansas are under water, and no regular |
trains now run TO Arkansas City. All the |
buildings at that point are under water, ex-
cept the elevator and oil-mill. Steamboats,
unload freight above the point where the
railroad embankment has washed out. Sew
eral lives have been lost and thousands of
cattle, hogs, etc, have perished.
OTHER POINTS.