Omaha daily bee., 1890-04-26
no rHE NILS ron SAFETY
The Break at Baton Rouge Floods out
People and Live stock.

vICKsprRG, Miss, April 25-,rhc river is
now higher than at any time in the past
twenty eight years
BATON RoUGE, La, April 25.--Both ends of
the MARTINEZ crcvasse have been secured and
determined effort will be made TO close IT,,
The water is rapidly filling the country to
the rear. The people of Gross EtCc and West
Baton Rouge are as fast as possible
taking their stock and cattle over TO the hills
for safety. 1t is thought the highest places
in the latter place will escape the overflow.
The steamer Wheclock that has been doing
relief work around Morganza has arrived.
Her captain says: 1--WE went as high as the
mouth of the Red river in search of all
those that needed assistance. We brought
down few people and stock. The steamer
Henry Marks proceeded down to Atchafalya,
but the people there refuse TO leave their
homes So far there has been no loss of life
reported, and the damage III the ovcrt'owed
sections at and in the vicinity of MorEan1a Is
confined almost exclusively to the crops in
the fCld.n
The steamer Dacotah has brought many
people out of the flooded districts and much
stock. Around the new Texas landing many
people preferred to stay, saying the river was
now falling. The break IN the old MorEanza
levcc is at last 600 feet wide and that in the
Grand lcvee 1000 feet wide and
they are washing out rapidly The
relief boats arc preparing to return 10
New Orleans as all the people have been
taken out who desired to come
GREENvILLE, Miss, April 25,-The rain
ceased today and the river has fallen three
inches Portions of the streets which have
been inundated twenty-four days are now un-
covered and the situation is more encoulag-
ing.
NEw ORLEANS, La, April 25.-A Times
Democrat correspondent at Bayou Sara says
there are ten Crcvasses in the Pomtc Coupe
lcvcc front. The worst of these is the Fanny
Rick CrcvaSsc, where Il volume of water six
feet deep and 400 feet wide is pouring in and
inundating everything. There has. so far as
has been learned, been no loss of LIE but
great quantity of stock has been drowned.
The crcvassc at New MOrgan2a is 1900 feet
wide and about fifteen thousand cubic feet of
water per second is pouring threw it into the
low lands.
DALLAS, Tex, April 25.--The Trinity river
is out of its banks and tonight promises 10
reach the highest point recorded in many
years. The water is ankle deep in the streets
and is still rising Heavy rains are reported
throughout north and west Texas. Washouts
arc reported on many railroads and some
trains have been abandoned. The big iron
bridge near Vcron, on the Denver, Texas ~
Fort Worth road, was partially washed out.
The freight houses in the northern part of
this city are under water as are also all the
lowlands. No loss of life is reported, but the
damage to crops, railroads and other property
is enormous.
Kansas state that heavy fall of rain oc-
CURED in that state within the past three or
four days. The farmers express themselves
as greatly encouraged. Reports from north
western Kansas state that the fall OF rain was
the heaviest ever known there. The storm
heavy fall of snow. No damage is antici-
Dated