St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-04-26
IN PLACES OF SAFETY.
Fugitives From Flooded Dis
tricts Of Louisiana Landed
on High Ground.
Government Vessels Pick Up
Everything From Human
Beings to Hens.
Heavy Rains Cause a Rise Of
Several Inches at Marin
gouin.
After Four Days Of Rain Old
Sol Shines at Green
vile.

BAYOU SARA, April 25.-lnlS NOR
ming an early start was made from the
creyasses up the river. The day was a
beautiful one, and the trip, though
somewhat arduous at times, has been
much less so than was expected. and
the trip has been far from an unpleas-
than ten crevasses in the Pointe COu-
pee levee front, there are two that so
completely overshadow the others
in magnitude and Importance that the
other eight seem hardly worth men
tioning, though each. when seen by
itself, makes striking picture. Start
ing from Bayou Sara, the first crevasse
a mile below the town on the Taylor
place. 1t broke early Monday morn
ing. 1t is a very moderate sized levee,
and the break is some 200 feet wide.
The next is smaller break
on the Taylor place about
half mile UP the river. About
400 yards further up the river is another
break on the Pecan place. Then comes
long stretch of unbrOken levee, but
about six miles further up the river is
the Fanny Richie crevasse, which is of a
more formidable character than those
below it. Here
The Volume OF Water
is some six feet deep and over 400 feet
wide. The current is very swift and
sends roaring. ragged-loOking cataract
through the break and tearing through
grove of pecan and live oaks that
stand just behind the levee. The
back water spreads out in vast lake
that reaches INTO the swamp and meets
the Atchafalaya overflow. There are
many houses and cabins standing in the
path of the flood, but as yet few il any
have been washed away. How far the
water from this break has been inStru-
mental in flooding the country it is i'm
possible to determine, for 1t is assumed
the water from the upper break would
have been here by this time and the
flooding of these plantations would only
have been question of few days at
the furthest. AS 1t is, the whole river
from point below .Taylors to Old
Rive. If not now under, will be soon.
A great deal of stock has been taken
out, but there is much more that must
be removed or lost in a very short time.
About three miles up the river
from the Fanny Richie crevasse
comes small break on the
Stonewall place. This crevasse is about
$50 feet wide, and six or seven feet deep.
The break in Morgansea proper is about
five miles still further up the river, but
this is not the Morgansea break that
caused the panic when Mr.. Glynn tele-
graphed that MOrganSea had gone.
That break was in what is known as the
new Texas landing levee system, and is
a. very formidable one, but it is
about half mile further up
the river than what is now
the great crevasse Of the Pointe COupee
front. The crevasse in this new Nor
gansea is about 1,500 feet wide. about
26 feet deep, carrying inland over 150,-
900 cubic feet of water per second. This
upper break, which was the first of the
big ones, is about 700 feet wide and IA
deep. This break is right In the path of
the great Morgansea crevasSe that has
now become a feature of state history
and the Oatture between and the natural
bank of the river distinctly shows the
path of the
Destruc tive Flood
at that time. The timber on the bat
ture was destroyed or swept away and
in the years that have interviewed, the
growth of young trees in its channel has
been light and scattering. The vast
volume of water nears the break in
smooth shining torrent that swells in the
center as if gathering force for its mad
plunge. There is hardly ripple to
break its boiling, eddying surface, but
just as 1t sweeps into the jaws of the
has chafed the crumbling ends of the
levee, even after it has made its first
wild leap on it's errand of devastation.
Once beyond the broken barriers it
plunges into wild, lonesome-loOking
swamps that still show the tracks Of
the former disasters.