The Red Cloud chief., 1890-05-02
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NV OwisAS. April IS Ruin and
Oscillation meet the eye on every aide 10
poin,e Courre Parish, Tho distribution
10 complete. No, a plantation Is lcr
above water. not q les~e u~nh-ukcn.
while hundrrAs o! families arr home.
less4 Thousands VI stock have been
drowned and from mcsg~r reports ~
ceivcd from the interior II is quite prob
able human life has been sacrificed 10
the hucd.
The steamer Dacotah reached the rcal
pcin, Of distrcss yesterday after
stormy passage up the river and after
many delays in furnishing assistance io
the weak and the breaking lcye.s west
% Ration Rouge. Her arrival ~as .
Godscnd "a the peopl. whose lives srre
Ia jeopardy. for she has alrcady saved
- incAlculAblc amount of proi~rty and
. eodlv number ~ lives.
All that remains u arr strips OF
land herr and ,herc showing above the
nood. The water back Of the levc-s IL
81 deep that hundreds of lives arr In
jeopardy.
Tho ANAL stretches % le,eo still
standing are crowded with men, women
and children side by side with horses,
mules and cows.
Al Colonel Claiiorue's place, several
miles alcvc Rayou Sara. the water is
waist deep. A. the base of the l~vec in
an old raised Clubhouse 300 negroes were
found huddlcd together, while hundreds
Of head Of stock ~crc standing In water
up To their BREASTS. The condition OF
the unfortunate blacks ~As pissbl~,
Tuesday night while the DacotAh ~As
tied up at AilcndAle. where several
thousand sr~t ~ luml~s and 5000 sack.
wer pa, on, the lrsce In front, Of John
4. lobdeli's place broke and in ten
minutes WAS sixty feet wide and ten
feet deep. The planters were unable 10
do any thing owing ,o the terrible -,or,
and rain prevailing at the time, an,
locked heiplcssly upon tn" water - 10
poured through the breaks and inun.
lated their magnificent plantations.
This break will ruin the crops VI atty 81
the finest plantations on tho river.
Standing on the deck VI the relief
steamer nacotah a. she passed dawn
within Gf'y yards ~ the roc-icd district
tn" full extent ~ IA" disaster could bc
q GrouprA together on it'll" knobs
lrtw,s.1 broken ~lcvcc>, through which
the water rushed with ungovcrnablc
fury, were scores ~ people. both white
and black. o'n with babes in their
arms. we'll" others had dogs secured by
= cord. Many ~ them had nothing else
In the world except the clothes they
ORE on their backs. Whenever the
DscosaA discovered = seer" like ,hs, the
stage was swung out and the stricken
,ncs taken aboard.
Eq,uAliy as sad . -ccne wa> the ,s~,s
i1mb cattle standing In the water Ar,a
ally starving. Many ~ them had n",
,S~,sd isrd In days. Their gaun, form,
contssstsd strangely with their sur
roondings.
Cntt"d states Engineer Douglass tote
graphs that Point Pleasant, l",rc, Ten
sas Parish. gave WAY yesterday morning
Point Pleasant In tw"nty-thrrc miles Ia
losN ,nk sbarg aud III" lcyc" there 1. sWs
- tho most important on the Ten>a'
frunt Tho water from IL will no dss1 h,
overflow the" greater part Of the PARISH
Captain John A. Grant sur~rint~sd
mt ~ the Texas 4 Pacific rs,irAd
Speaking ~ the Morsanses r~vs~~
says This 10 one ~ the ~ors, caism.
itis~ that, could have ~,sfallcM the W~s
drnt~o ~ this state. and yet n could nav,
b.~'n avoided ~ th" rcopl. hYd SOL,
made an effort They arr Ia blAms so,
H. Now they arc creating . big huSeut
ahyst sending relief up th~rr sMa al
thu, sort 81 thing, while ,~forc the 1is
ss'sr osuvrrd they seemed utterly nn
s~src o! the impending danger. " ss~d
-, tkcy should have raised e'sn ~ %
hnad that ie,s~. and II could ksss
brr0 done. too. and hs.en veil 10 sss,
~, ss therc 10 90. Oo0. 90 worth II Vssp
crty chat will now ~. ,rretrisyslas dam
AID. which . little display ~ s~csSy
~~.M certainly have sv.rtrd. have
ts~a ~ Moresa~a leve- bu, osc~ Ia
my itfc. and that wss sosns tive ego
bus frsn r~lishle information vttuA
r~~1vss!. che break ~rurrssd ss~sc ~
fres fSUm The nov leve~. Coloa.i r q
SNrta. Who wss N tho levs~ - the
TIM. states that by tho merit ms,s0sn
b twcsrh ~sa zoo fect eide. lie I'm
msAtss,ly boarded tbn wbs~los snA
s~t ss sCrs psc1ins up bis men 49, Ns
pAate~sscssn people"