Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-29
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DrsPArcH.,


NEW ORLEANS, April 2s.-The river has
fallen and the chief damage now is from
backwater, which invades the plantations
from the rear. Most of the plantations
have rear levees, but some of them were
broken to-day at Burrows, Sinclair's and
other places, letting in the water on the ele-
vated lands. Three steamboats, loaded with
passengers and cattle have reached
Plaquemine from the Crosse Tete section Of
Iberville and West Baton Rouge. Another
steamer, the Alarm, with several barges, has
been sent into the same country to bring
more down. After fighting the food for
nearly week large number of them have
given it up and Joined the refugees at
Plaquemine.
1t now seems inevitable that the fine sugar
plantations on the river at Iberville parish,
which it was thought at first would escape
the overflow, will be more or less affected by
backwater. Their probable loss has not
hitherto been included in the estimate of
damage from the flood.
THE Low LANDS SUBMERGED.
The low lands of St. Landry parish are
being rapidly submerged by the water from
the Atchafalaya and Bayou des Glaizes.
The stock in that section is now being re-
moved to higher lands. but the people will
remain in their houses some weeks longer to
protect their property. and will leave only
when driven out by the water. The Marti-
nez crevasse in East Baton Rouge has been
closed. It is the largest break ever closed
on the Mississippi, taking 150, 900 sandbags,
1900 laborers and S25, 900 to do it.
Planters in North Louisiana think that
the water will be down sufficiently to plant
Dv May 20. In Concordia they expect to
plant cotton as late as June 15 and hope to
do fairly we'll with it.
A Dallas special says: The sun rose
beautifully and clear this morning, but the
outlook was the reverse in about 400 homes
in Dallas and the suburbs, from which the
inhabitants had been driven by the over
flow in the Trinity river. The river at this
rise was few inches higher than that of
1866 which was the highest recorded within
the memory of the oldest settlers.
REPAIRING THE wAsHoUTs.
Large forces of men are hard at work re-
pairing the washouts on the Texas and Pa
cifc, Gulf Colorado and Santa Fe, Missouri,
Kansas and Texas, Texas Trunk and Oak
Cliff elevated railways. The water last
floor of the Dallas elevator and damaged a
large amount of wheat as we'll as the ma
chinery and betting. The st. Louis Press
Brick Company are heavy losers, as we'll as
Allensworth & Russey. Two thousand
bales of cotton were soaked at the compress,
and the Dallas Brewing Company will suffer
considerably from Inconvenience caused by
water. The Eureka Steam Laundry has
suspended operations, as the water is several
feet deep in their buildings.
Yesterday as the mail was being trans
ferred from one train to the other on the
Texas and Pacific a pouch of registered
mail slipped off the hand-car and sunk in
the swift current before it could be recov-
cred. The city water works are useless and
water for making steam and sprinkling the
streets is getting very scarce. The streets
couldn't be sprinkled on that account to-
las will amount to several hundred thousand
dollars.
A PITIABLE STATE OF AFFAIRS.
The little town of Crosse Tete presents a
pitiful sight from distance. It looks like
a tug would in the Atlantic ocean. The pro-
lection levee in front and opposite the
Texas Pacific depot gave way this morning,
letting the angry waters directly in upon
the already inundated and helpless town
which had been under, for several days from
back water coming from the Broquets'
crevasse, two miles below. The people have
their stock on platforms and Indian mounds
and both people and stock are badly in need
of assistance at once. Neither provisions
or feed stuff to sustain themselves with and
no money to buy any with. Upon the
whole the situation is distressing. Weather
cool with light rains.