Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-03-10
THE SITUATION ON THE RIVER.

who reached Helena yesterday from Mem
phis by steamer Choutean gives the follow
ing view of the situation along the river
bank: Thore are not more than two or
three spots of dry ground between Mem
phis and this point, and scores of the best
farms in Arkansas and Mississippi are in
complete state of wreck. Most of them
are abandoned, the owners and
laborers having fed to higher ground.
In many places cattle are stand
ing in the water overlooking
the platforms, and almost every gin house
is filed with colored people. At Harbul's
landing eighteen colored men and women
were in two boats moored to tree On the
Hooded bank waiting for steamboat to
take them away. There was not a foot of
dry land within forty miles. Skiff loads
of colored people and their household
goods were seen at various points seeking
for ground to rest on. At Ster-
ling the colored people, horses and cattle
were Unfortunately huddlsd in the up
per story of the only store there. Most
of the fences and houses along the river
bank are still intact, though many of them
have been flooded away. At Star Landing
the dwellings are full of cattle, and the
gin houses full of negroes. The prospects
are certainly favorable for big rise below
here, as the flow of water from st. Frances
river is undiminished. Capt. Thorwegen,
of the Choutean, thinks there
will be unprecedented high
water between Vicksburg and New Orleans
on account of the closing of Bonnet Carr
creyasse. The bridge and trestle over
Cassadas lake, on the Iron Mountain road,
one mile west of here, was discovered to be
afoat tonight, from back water coming
up from the break in the levee below here
This cuts Helena off from railroad COM
munication, as railroad men say it will be
impossible to get trains out till the water
subsidies.
MANY oP THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI TOWNS
FLOODED.
MEMPHIS, March "a special to the
Western Associated Press from Helena
says: The river is stationary since yester-
day with forty-six feet eleven inches on
the gauge. 1t was stationary at Madison
yesterday and is probably falling to-day.
A decline is confidently expected here by
Sunday. The work on the levees is still go
ing forward and confidence in their secu-
rity in this vicinity is fully restored. The
country below is entirely submerged. The
water in many places is pouring over
the levees back into the river. Reports
from Austin, Clarksdale and Friar's Point
are of the most discouraging character.
Not single house in any of the places
named escaped the deluge. To-day is clear
and calm, Virgins to the contrary not
withstanding.
NEGROES NEARLY OUT OF FOOD AND CATTLE
IN THE WATER.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, March 9.-The river
here has declined two inches. A Helena,
Ark, special says: The river is falling to-
night. Several hundred negroes Just south
of here are reported about out of provis-
iocs. A large number of cattle, horses and
mules are standing in the overflow from
knee to waist deep, hopelessly aband-
oned in the st. Francis swamps. Trains
over the Iron Mountain railroad are
abandoned east of Forest City, owing to
the track being submerged just below
Helena.
LESS DANGER IN BoLIvER COUNTY.
GREExvILLE, Miss, March 9Th elevees
at Boliver, Washington and Isiquena are
subject TO severe strain with only one
break at ElIsslie. II lower Isiquena the
water is rising an inch daily. If the fine
weather continues We shall escape serious
disaster. The only point of danger in
Washington county is at Glenora. The
main resources and efforts of the board
are concentrated upon the Bolivar county
front.
IRON MOUNTAIN TRAINS STOPPED.
HELENA, Ark, March 9.-The river COM
fol ofIa
have stopped running On the st. Louis q
Iron Mountain branch on Crowley's ridge,
coming only to Forest City, three miles
north.
TWENTY ERIE FREIGHT CARS DUMPED.
BRADFORD, Pa, March "a broken rail
on the Erie railroad near Belvidere, N. Y,
this morning threw freight train off the
track, wrecking twenty cars loaded with
flour, oil, etc., and obstructing travel for
eight hours. No one was hurt.
KILLED BY GAZING IN OF EARTH.
NEwCoMERsTOwN, o., March 9.-This
morning in stone quarry at Roseville,
Muskingum county, Edward Harris, a
young workman, was fatally crushed by
thefalling OF earth.
DEATH FROM CHLOROFORh.
PORTSMOUTH, Va, March 9.-Mrs. DR.. E.
N. Watts, wife of prominent physician,
died from the effects of chloroform admin
istered in extracting teeth, after the opera
ton.
BOILER EXPLOSION.
MONTREAL, March "a new boiler at
the Canada Press works at Latortue, ex-
ploded to-day killing two workmen, Muir
| ply and Mason, and seriously injuring a
| large number.
Run DOWN AND KILLED.
| New BRUNSWICK, n. j., March 9.-Ex-
Sheriff Peter a. Voorhees, and his brother
Abraham were killed while crossing the
Central railroad IN q wagon. Two others
were seriously injured.
SMOTHERED BENEATH PILE OF COKE.
| INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, March 9.-Wm. Mays,
employed by A. B. Meyer 81 Co., coal deal-
ers of this city, was buried under a large
pile of coke at the gas works this evening,
and died before he could be rescued.
POOLING WITH DYNAMITE.
PIrrsBURG, March "a terrible explo-
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