Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-04-26
EAST OF TIE ROCKIES.
Suffering in the Overlooked Section
ilons The Mississippi.
KILLED IN THE PRIZE RING.
Eight Hours Day Will Be De.
manded by All the Chicago
Labor Unions May 1st.
ESPECIAL DISPATCHES TO THE REcoRD-us1os.l
ROARING, RAGING RIVERS.
Hundreds of People Are Saved Fro
Watery Graves.

Hundreds of People Are Saved From
| Watery Graves.
| BATON ROUGE (La.) April 25th.-Bott
| ends of the MARTINEZ creyasse have beer
secured and a determined effort will bs
made to close il.
Water is rapidly filing the country tc
the rear of the break st Lobdells, eighteen
miles above here.
On the West Baton Rouge SIDE the break
is 500 feet wide. The people of Gross Etee
and West Baton Rouge as fast as possible
are bringing their stock and cattle over to
the hills for safety. Only the highest place
in West Baton Rouge will escape an over.
flow.
HIGHEST on RECORD.
VIcKsBuRe Miss April 25th.-The river
is higher than at any time in the past
twenty-four years.
TEXAS FLOODS.
ST. LOUIS, April 25ih.-A special from
Gainesville, Texas, says: 1t has been rain
ing almost constantly since Monday night.
At o'clock last night clou6burst struck
the city, lasting four hours and deluging
the town and county to depth of several
feet.
The water ran in great rivers through
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a small creek left its banks and swept away
numerous small dwellings.
Hundreds of people turned out and
helped rescue the families on the lowlands
along the creek. The whole country is
deluged and the crops are certainly ruined
The Santa Fe train is water-bound six
miles south of Gainesville. The passen-
gers have to be rescued in boats.
DEsoLATIoN AND SUFFERING
New ORLEANS, April 25th.-Four steam
ers and dozen barges are at work on the
river front of West Baton Rouge and
Pointe Coupee. The fDacotah, on her first
relief trip, picked up 500 people and 600
cattle, all in danger of drowning, and the
Wheelock 100 people. Five hundred
negroes, frightened half to death, were res
cued from one small cotton gin, where they
had been huddled together for thirty.six
hours.
The crevasse above Bayou Sara is over
400 feet wide. The entire front of Pointe
Coupee is under water. Most of the levees
are gone, and the water back of the leyees
is so deep that hundreds of lives are in
jeopardy. Thousands of stock have been
drowned, and cattle that are not drowned
are in danger of starvation. as they stand
knee deep in water, without a particle of
food.
The crevasse at Allendale will overflow
thirty of the finest plantations on the river.
1t will reach the Teche country several
days in advance of the Morganza water,
and when this water joins with the Nor
ganZa it will food the entire Atchalafaya,
La Fourche and Teche countries. The
damage will be incalculable.
THEY ARE ALL OFT.
BATON RoUGE (La), April 25th.-The
steamer Dscotah has brought many people
out of the flooded district and much stock.
Around the new Texas landing many peo-
pie preferred to stay, saying the river is
now falling. The break in the old Morgapza
is at least 600 feet wide, and that in the
Grand levee 1000 feet wide, and washing
out rapidly. The relief boats are prepar-
ing to return to New Orleans, as all the
people have been taken out who desire to
come.
SITUATION MORE HOPEFUL.
GREENvILLE (Miss.), April 25th-The
rain ceased to- day and the river has fallen
three inches. Portions of the streets which
have been inundated for twenty days are
now uncovered, and the situation is more
hopeful.
RED RIVER RISING RAPIDLY.
SHREVEPORT Ga.), April 25th.-The up
per Red river is rising rapidly on account
of the heavy rains in Texas. All the
streams are bank.full, and very little more
water will food ell the places not protected
with levees.
ENORMOUS DAMAGES.
FoRT WORTH (Tex.), April 25th-Heavy
rains are reported throughout Northwest
Texas. Washouts are reported on many
railroads and some of the trains have been
| abandoned. The big iron bridge near
Veron, on the Denver, Texas and Fort
Worth road, is partially washed out. The
| freight houses in the northern part OF
| this city are under water, as are also all the
| low lands. No loss of life is reported, but
| the damage to crops, railroads and other
property is enormous.
NUMEROUS BREAKS.
New ORLEANS, April 25th.-The Times
| Democrats correspondent at Bayou Sara
saws: There are ten crevasses in the Pcinte
| Coupee levee front. The worst CT these is
! the Fanny Rich crevasse, where vol.
| four hundred feet wide. is pouring
| through, inundating everything. There
has, so far as can be learned, been no loss
of human life, but a great quantity oil
stock is drowned. The crevasse at New
| Morganza is 800 feet wide, and abou
| $50 600 feet of water per second is pouring
| through it into the lowlands.
HEAVY RAIN AND HIGH WATER.
| DALLAS (Te1as), April 25th.-Trinity
river IS out OF It's banks and to-nigh
promises to reach the highest point re.
corded in many years. The rainfall ha'
continued since yesterday, and is the
! heaviest known here for years. The watel
is ankle-deep in the streets, and is rising.