Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-04-25
LOUISIANA FLOODS.
Plantations Flooded and Sugar and Cot
ton Crops Affected,

TON crops AHcCteG.
New ORLEANS, April 2ith.-Ugly breaks
have occurred in the last twenty-four hours
at Lobdell, in West Baton Rouge Parish.
eighteen miles above Baton Rouge, at Bed
ford's Ferry, and Eva and Vidalia, in Con-
cordla Parish, the total for the day being
seven. The Lake Concordia break is 200
feet wide. The break at Martinez, in East
Eaton Rouge Parish, cannot be closed.
The levees slong the Point Coupee Parish
at have been so weakened by rains that
neral collapse is expected. The over
water from the Atchafaiaya river in
rear has flooded close to the Mississippi
e of the levees rendering it almost i'm
f'Jsslble 10 get the dirt necessary to repair
and strengthen them, and labor cannot be
got.
WOULD NOT PROTECT THEMSELVES
New ORLEANS, April 24th-United States
Engineer Douglas telegraphs that the Point
Pleasant levee IN Tensas parish gave way
this morning and the water from il will
no doubt overflow the greater part of the
parish
Captain John a Grant. Superintendent
OF the Texas and Pacific Railroad, in speak.
ing ef the Morganseau crevasse, said
This is one Of the worst caamities and
it could have been avoided if the people
had only made an effort They are to
u
hubbub about sending relief up there and
all that sort of thing, while before The dis
aster occurred they seemed utterly una
ware OF the impending danger. If need
be they should have raised $500, 900 to hold
that levee and It could have been done
too, and been well invested, as there is
$20,000,000 worth of property that will
now be irTetnevably damaged, and which.
by little display of energy, would GER
tainly have been avoided
RUIN AND DEsoLATIoN.
New ORLEANS, April 9th Ruin and
desolation meets the eye on every side in
Point Coupee parish. The destruction is
complete Not plantation is left above
the waters, and not leyee unbroken. while
hundreds of families are homeless Thou
sands of stock have been drowned, and
from meager reports received from the in
terror it is quite probable that human life
has been sacrificed to the flood.
Standing on the deck OF the relief
steamer Dacotsh last evening the full ex-
tent of the disaster could be seen. Group
ing together on little knobs between broken
levees, through which the water rushed
with ungcvernable fury, were scores OF
people both white and black. some with
babies II their arms while others had a
dog secured by a cord. Many Of them bad
nothing else ia The world except the clothes
they wore on their backs. Whenever the
Dacoiah discovered q scene ike this stage
was swEng out and the stricken ones taken
aboard.
Equally IS sad a scene vas the poor
dumb cattle standing in tie water actually
starving.
AN IMMENSE cREvAssE.
NEW ORLEANS. April 24lh.-The break
in the Old Morganza levee is now 400 feet
wide and 10 feet deep. A cargo of stone
has been sent from this city and an effor;
viii be made to mattress the ends and thus
prevent farther destruction. The overflow
of water from the lake which caused much
inconvenience 10 the people in the rear OF
the Seventh and Eighth Wards in this city
since Sunday last is gradually receding
1t is reported al the Texas and Pacific
office that the water is gradually overflow
ing their tracks between Baton Rouee
junction and Melville. The Louisville,
New Orleans aud Texas Railroad, better
known as the Mississippi Valley, has been