Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1890-04-10
STILL UNDER WATER.
No Abatement Of the Lower Mis-
sissippi Floods
More Towns Reported Under water and
Plantations Submerged Which
Have in Former Years Is
capped Inundation.
TnE sorTHEHy FLooD-

| overlooked by a sudden rise in SteeIs
bayou. which has been rising eight
| cen inches hourly. The people are
moving ont Of their Residences
| and taking refuge in gin houses.
| The water is over three feet
/ deep in the higher levels of the town
and rising fast Colonel d. Mayer, who
/ received the dispatch, says the town
| has never been overfowed in the mem
/ DRY Of man. He says a great deal Of
| stock will be endangered by the sudden
| rise. Mayersville is place Of 800 in
\ habitants, but nearly all the whites
| have left town. No new crevasses are
reported, though the levees were severe
/ ly tested by Wednesday nights storm.
HELENA, Ark, April Information
| has been received here to the effect that
White river is still rising and that the
town of Clarendon, Ark, is again over
/ flowed. The people there are compelled
| TO employ water craft TO get about town.
| New ORLEANS. April 4.-Huntington
has been completely abandoned by its
| 500 inhabitants, about half Of whom,
with some of their stock. are crowded
! together on the levee, suffering from
/ exposure, sickness and restitution The
others are living more comfortably in
| box-cars. Many houses have foated
i away. Some 1900 residents Of the
neigh borhood are also crowded upon the
levees or have fed to the highlands
| New ORLEANS, April 3. "A special
from Arkansas City says: Another wind
and rain storm ragged here Thursday
night. About / o'clock several
strong blasts Of wind in rapid
succession severely tested the
strength Of every house in town,
and brought the occupants out OF
their beds For several minutes it
| looked as though the town would be
blown away The terrors of a storm in
town covered by water TO depth OF
from eight to twelve feet. can hardly be
imagined. The Catholic church, an
elegant little structure, was blown
from its foundations and consider
ably damaged The building was
flooded to the depth Of eight feet, and
/ all Of the furniture and fixtures badly
| damaged. A negro church was also
blown from It's foundation. but did not
sustain very serious damage. Three or
four residences were treated likewise.
MEMPHis, Team, April s. The com
mittees Of the citizens relief fund sent
down the river to Laconia and Henrico
to investigate the condition Of the food
sufferers returned Thursday. They re-
por. mat in Laconia alone fully SEQ peo-
pie, mostly negroes, are without food or
houses. Few houses are left in
the city and in one gin house
there are $50 persons huddled to-
gether Ike SO many cattle. The water
is from six to twelve feet deep on
the plantations Forty houses were
washed down by last Thursdays storm.
At Modoc, Ark, 420 people were found
to be suffering for food. At islands
Nos 46 and A., below Helena, 100
people were found in the same condi-
ton, and at Henrico 125 more. In the
limited investigation made By the COM
mittee fully one thousand people were
found to be homeless and hungry, and
these were all found at points on the
river They were unable TO cross the
country back OF the river, where, prob
ably. more distress exists than on the
u
large number of these people, and the
work is being pushed with all vigor.
The corn all having been washed away
the condition of the stock is pitiable.
The lowing OF cattle and braying of
mules is heard on all sides.
New ORLEANS, April THE Plea
yune's Vicksburg Miss. special says
Nineteen negroes, the survivors of
large party of refugees which attempted
10 escape from the overflow down Bayou
Falaya on a raft, arrived here on the
steamer Hin City. They report that
twelve women and children were
drowned when the current dashed their
crazy vessel against tree and that they
escaped with extreme difficulty. This
is the most tragic event of the flood"
DALLAS, Tex, April The Trinity
river is overlooking its bottoms and
much damage is resulting therefrom by
the drowning of stock. A dam broke
at the unfinished water works above the
city Friday night, and now the new
$50, 600 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 will be
enormous. The planting of the crops
will have to wait till the waters have
run off and the ground has partially
dried up, and this years crops may be
only 1.-THE what they would otherwise
have been The levees, laboriously
heaped up by the contributions of indi-
viduals, counties, States and the Ma
tional Government, have received dam
age which it viii take many hundreds
of thousands of dollars to make good.