Morning journal and courier., 1890-04-25
FROM ALL QUARTERS. DESTRUCTION ls COMPLETE, Ruin and Desolation in tho < Flooded Districts. g.
 EARTHQUAKE AT SAN FRANCISCO. I Men Killed and Injured by a
 Falling Wall. AN EXPLOSION IN BRISTOL. Troops Called Out to Quell
 Rioters in Galicia.
EARTHQuAKE AT SAN FRANCISCO.
4N EXPLOSION IN BRISTOL.
THE MISSISSIPPI FLOODS.

THE MISSISSIPPI FLOODS.
 Thirteen Crcvasses in POlnte COupee
 ParIsh-Hundreds of Families Home
 less-Thousands Of Stock DroWned-
 Vast Sheet of Water-Many People
 Isolated on Small Islands-The Re-
 lief steamer Dacotah Doing Excellent
 Work.
 NEW ORLEANS, La, April 24-A special to the Daily States from Bayou Sara, La, says: The relief steamer Dacotah reached the Bayou Sara landing yesterday evening. She has made 8 trip to Pointe Coupee and has come back to Bayou Sara. The real condition of things in tho overaowed district Is just coming to light. No pen is equal to the task of picturing the devastation of the country or the desolation of the people. The entire front of Pointe Ooupes is under water. Most of the levees have gone. The water back of the levees is go deep now that hundreds of lives are in jeopardy. The small stretches of levees still standing are crowded with with horses, mules and COWS. In an old raised gin house five hundred negroes were found huddled together. The condition of the unfortunate blacks was pitiable. They were afraid of their lives and were piteously begging to be taken to some place of safety. The ere yasse at Allendale will overflow thirty of the finest plantations on the river. It will reach the Teche country several days in ad- water joins with the Morgansea it will flood the entire Atachfalaya, La Fourche and Teehe countries. The damage is inoalculable. The distress in the overAowed district cannot be told. The Texas and Pacific boat E. B. Wheelock succeeded yesterday in saving two hundred people from the back country about M0rgansea.
 Later-Ruin and desolation meets the eye on every side in Pointe Coupee parish. | tion is above water, not 8 levee unbroken, | while hundreds of families are homeless. Thousands of stock have been drowned and | from msagre reports received from the inte- rior it is quite probable that human life has been sacrificed to the flood. Standing on the deck of the relief steamer Dacotah as she passed down within fifty yards of the flooded district last evening, the full extent of the disaster could be seen. Grouped to- gether in little knots between broken levees, | through which the water rushed with ungovernable force were scores of people, both white and black. some with children in arms, while others had dogs, secured by a cord. Many of them had nothing else in the world except the clothes they wore. When- ever the Dacotah discovered scene like this, the stage was swung out and the stricken ones taken aboard. Equally as sad was the poor dumb cattle standing in the watar, actually starving. Hany of them had not tasted food in days. Their gaunt forms con- trasted strangely with their surroundings. The DAcotah was unable to handle cattle yesterday, but to day her boiler deck is . frst-class stock pen.
 A family named Luke residing several miles above Bayou Sara were rescued thii morning. There were fifteen people in thu family. Monday morning they were pros- porous owners of large plantation, vel
 equipped store and over one hundred head o
 stock. To-day nothing remains above watel
 but the caves of their residsnoes. A ere
 vase sixty feet wide broke directly in from
 of the house at noon on Monday and thu
 family had @ lively time to reach the leve
 before six feet of water covered the place . The crevasse is now four hundred feet wide There are hundreds of such tales to be told
 The Daootah after disshsrging her lumber
 and other material at Grand bay to day pro ceeded directly to Old river and rssued tw
 hundred head of cattle that had been In tn swamp for four days. Coming down stool
 and people were picked up and whom tn Dacotah reached Bayou Sara she had on
 thousand head of cattle and nearly 500 pee
 pie on board. They were landed and tn
 boat left on a return voyage. The Dacota
 is doing excellent work and not only Is sh
 blessed on every side, but the corporatio
 which sent her as well.
 Major Martin Glynn, the president of th
 police jury, cannot estimate the damage
 but says that thirteen parishes will be ovel
 flowed. The orevassss now number thirteer