Telegram-herald., 1890-04-09
RUIN ALL AROUND.
Distressing Reports frorn the Low
er Mississippi Floods
LRlFY-L0lp OF REFUGEES ClPsIZED.
T~sIve Of the Inf0rtse4tes Dro-nes-
HasarSas - Houses earned Awss ~
Ike velocity Of tie W4ter-hs
Asf steamers Al Hsrk


NEw 0ELEANs, Aprl The Plea
yuns's Vicksburg Miss special says.
Nineteen negroes, the survivors Of
large party Of refugees which attempted
70 escape from the overflow down Bayou
Ealaya on = raft arrived here on tic
steamer Hill city. They report that
twelve women and children were
crowRsd when the current lashed their
crazy vessel against tree and that they
escaped With extreme difficulty This
is the most tragic event OF the food. "
AHkANsAs CRY. Ark, April Fri
esy, a. soon IS news Of the break al
Catfish Point reached here, the Govern
ment steamers Speed and Graham took
several bsrges 10 that point and brought
away about 80 people and their effects,
also a lot Of stock. etc The planters
who own the plantations around Catris sh
Point are almost ruined. IL Is eslf-
mated that over 100 houses have been
washed away, and there is very little
hay, corn or planting seed left The
planters will be SO badly crippled that
they viii meet with considerable difi-
Guilty 10 making a crop, even If the
water rcccOoS IN time.
GsEENvILLE, Miss, April Parties
who have arrived here from Greenwood,
the greater part Of their journey being
made in skin, describe the situation
in the sunfower lowlands "a a terrible
sight 70 look upon. AT al astonishing
speed the water is spreading over the
vast improved and cultivated lands
and forests of the planters, many Of
whom would have been at an end
of another week or so through with
their planting. Houses of all descrip-
tions and fences in long sections are
easily carried away by the terrible cur
rents, aud every conceivable household
object is seen floating down the BOgue
Falaya swamps. Stock and worldly
objects that can be transported are now
being hurried to the front by those who
have not taken precautionary steps.
In the neighborhood OF Skip
with tents are badly needed by
the colored people.
VIcKsBURG, Miss, April THE sit
uation is growing daily more serious in
the Steele bayou country. Earl Miller,
a prominent planter and brother of At
torney-General Miller, arrived from
there by steamer Evergreen with his
family and stock. The Miller plantation,
though very high, has gone under. The
Evergreen reports the water among the
bayous still rising. Cattle and hogs are
offered for sale by the people at song.
Much more stock must be brought out
ora allowed TO drown. The steamer
Osceola has arrived from the bends.
Her officers report that the overflow Is
beginning to empty into the Mississippi
through the Eagle lake, and predict
great increase in pressure all along the
Louisiana front from that point south
ward for the next two weeks.
DALLAS, Tex, April THE Trinity
river is overfowing its bottoms and
much damage is resulting therefrom by
the drowning Of stock. dam broke
at the unfinished water works above the
city Friday night, and now the new
$50, 900 pumping engine is 100 feet under
water. The unfinished reservoir will
also sustain damages to the extent Of
many thousands of dollars.
ST. LOUIS, April THE dispatches
show that the breaking of the Missis-
sippi levees is steadily going on, and new
districts are being inundated. 1t is i'm
possible as yet to estimate the damage
done in dollars and cents, but it viii be
enormous. The planting Of the crops
will have to wait till the waters have
run of and the ground has partially
dried up, and this years crops may be
only tithe what they would otherwise
have been. The levees, laboriously
hesped up by the contributions OF indi-
viduals counties, States and the Ma
tional Government, have received dam
age which it will take many hundreds
OF thousands of dollars to make good