Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-03-13
MAD RUSH OF WATERS.
LEVEEs GIVING WAY IN EVERY
DIRECTION.

! Hundreds of People Destitute and suf-
fering-The Messengers of Death
Making Sad HavOe-Countless Lives
Lost by Drowning-What the Relief
Boats Found in the Flooded Districts.
HELENA, ARK, March il2.-There was
another decline in the river of an inch
last night, making total of three inches
since the decline set in. The gauge now
shows forty-six feet eight inches. There
is no fall noticeable during the DAYTIME.
but every morning revealsa decline. The
weather is clear and spfing like. Suf-
ferers by the flood within the borders of
Arkansas will be provided for by State
aid, which cannot come too quickly.
There are between five hundred and seven
hundred negro refugees wholly unprO-
vided for and powerlesss to help them
selves. The leyeeS around Helena were
never more secure.
MEMPHIS, March 12.-The water has
fallen nine inches since the decline set in,
and will fall more rapidly as soon as the
river gets within its banks, Two negroes
named Tom Brown and Aaron Smith were
drowned last week near Austin, Miss, by
the eapsizing Of their dugout Nothing
additional has been learned here about the
break which occurred Saturday morning at
Lac0nia Circles, one hundred and fifty
miles south of Memphis. When the
steamer Kate Adams passed there
force of men was at
work trying to close the crevasse, which
is about twenty-five feet wide. 1t was
then thought that they would succeed,
The break into the TOtter levee, thirty
five miles below Friar's Point, flooded all
the country as far down as Australia.
This break is just above the Second Mis-
sissippi LeYee district, which remains in
tact, and planters within the district do
not fear an overflow. Two men, whose
names are unknown, were drowned on
Friday, fifteen miles north of Marion, Ark
The swift current upset their dugout.
INDIANAPOLIS, March 12.-The commit
tee in charge of supplies for the sufferers
on the Ohio, sodth of Evansville, returned
Saturday and report great suffering and
sickness at nearly all the river towns. At
New Franklin. Indiana, village of one
hundred and twenty inhabitants, thirty
are destitute and fifteen sick. There were
two deaths from pneumonia at UniOntOwn,
KY, town of fifteen hundred inhabit-
ants. Nearly everybody has suffered there.
There are fifty destitute persons. In
Shawneetown fifteen hundred people are
destitute, one hundred and twenty-five are
sick, and twenty-fOur have died of pneu-
mOnia and other diseases. Dysen-
terry is almost epidemic. About
one hundred and twenty-five houses
were swept away or damaged.
At least seven hundred persons are ex-
posed to disease at CaseyYille, Illinois.
No relief had been furnished there, and
there were tOrty-tiYe cases of sickness,
mostly of typhoid fever. One death had
occurred. One hundred houses had been
under water, and half Of them were
ruined.
Rose Claci, ILL.,, had been entirely COW
cred by water. The committee found a
family of ten persons, of whom the father
and mother were sick, living in the engine
room of an old saw mill. New Liberty,
ILL.,, had been entirely submerged, :, and
sickness to an alarming extent prevailed.
This information is obtained from reputa-
bic physicians and the agents Of the
Board of Trade. The relief committee of
this city has sent supplies to the destitute.
VICKSBURG, March PA special dis
patch from Australia, Miss, says: "a
break occurred in the levee at Mason's,
just below here, Saturday night. The
water is running through a space fully
live hundred yards wide and five feet
deep. This will overflow a large pOr-
tion of country back of COncordia. The
break at Baugh's or Green Grove.
which occurred on the 7th, oYerflOwed |
the country back of Australia before the
break at Mass.on's @ @oeeprred: The report of
untrue, The repairs on t1ea4Re&s Ibsfees, Is |
bridge on the Natchez and jackson Rail-
road have been completed and trains are
again running. Trains east from Monroe
on the Texas and Pacific Railroad have
been discontinued. Trains west from
Delta will run to Tallulaha, and the rest
of the distance, fifty-two miles, will be
made in skiffs and on hand cars. The time
for the trip is two days.