Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-04-24
BURSTING BANKS.
Deplorable Condition Of Louisiana
Parishes.
BAYOU SARA RUINED BY WATER.
Tornado In Alabama-HundredsH Hurt In q
Failing Amphitheater-Four Men
Drowned and q Schooner
Lost,

WASHINGTON, April 22.-In accordance
with the request of Representative Cole
man, of Louisiana, Secretary Proctor
has transmitted to the House a report
OF Quartermaster-General Robinson, in
regard to the condition of affairs in the
overfowed district of ST. James and
Ascension Parishes, louisiana Gen
eral Robinson says that in pursuance to
orders he went to Whitehall and Con-
vent in St James Parish. Convent is at
the lower edge of the great Nita
crevasse; Whitehall above it, is further
back in the valley. At Convent except
near the levees, every thing is
flooded for about ten miles down
and far back; same at intervals
above the crevasse above White
hall and for five miles back. He says
the situation isdeplorable and hundreds
of planters have lost their crops, while
thousands of laborers will soon be
| thrown out Of employment AT Grande
Point, where there were probably sixty
to eighty families, the people escaped
in skiffs and the whole PRECINCTS under
water. Opposite the levee break at
Nita, numerous poor whites and colored
people lost all but their lives. General
Robinson recommends instant action
tending to the relief of the sufferers by
the United States. He has visited St
James, St. Johns and the Ascension
Parishes and says there is total of
5000 persons destitute.
BAYOU SARA IN RUINS.
BAYOU SARA, La, April 22.-The
levee broke at 1890 this morning and
the town is in ruins. Not house has
escaped damage or destruction by the
deluge. Many of the people have had
nearly all their household effects ru-
ined. Boats and RATS are the only
means of communication. The people
were exhausted by their efforts to save
the levee and are now in despair. Heavy
rain all day has added to the gloom.
Most of Point Coupe is also flooded from
a break in the Taylor levee. The dam
age will probably be a serious one. Only
one house in town is out of the water
The water is from 2 to ~ feet deep
No lives have been lost Another break
has occurred at Red Store, four miles
above here.
TORNADO IN ALABAMA.
OZARK, Ala, April 22.-In the upper
destructive tornado swept through
section a few hundred yards wide and
seven miles long. Then it rose and
with roar louder than thunder rushed
on, striking the earth again two miles
away. When it struck the second time
the path was wider, but the force not so
great. Fences and houses were blown
down for a distance of two miles, and
then the force of the storm seemed to
have been spent The loss of life is
small owing to the country being thinly
settled, and the fact that the terrible
roar of the storm was heard by num-
Der of people in time for them to get out
of the track. No towns were struck.
SCENE AT A BULL FIGHT.
MEXIco, April 22.-At the conclusion
of ull fight at Guadalajars Sunday,
section of the amphitheater collapsed,
prccipitating thousands of spectators to
the ground. The scene which followed
was terrible. Those who had not been
hurt by the fall trampled over the hun
dreds of the bruised and injured, inten
III M GhClI uc
were called in and with the aid of the
spectators occupying the part of the
plaza which was intact succeeded in
rescu;ng the wounded from under the
bricks stone and timber. While no
deaths are reported, many persons have
received wounds which may prove fatal.
FOUR PERSONS DROWNED.
BALTIMORE, Md, April 22s-The
schooner w. Ii. Brinsfield, Captain John
Ii. Elisson, of Rapplhannock, Va, sank
off Point-no-Foin and three of the
crew and passenger were drowned.
The schooner was bound from Great
Wycomio river to this city with cargo |
of railroad ties. The four men lost. are |
Mate David Prlm, Scamen John Har-
KUN, John Belts and Robert Elisson,