Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-04-10


-Hhe e0OFernment 10 the rescue
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The almost ineessant rains during the past month
in the Mississippi Missouri and Ohio valleys have
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Of destruction 10 dwelleiJ along their shores Ten
days ago reports commenced 10 come in OF the
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i1P'o tise 0' N"e ~1'eiS ~u~ '"0 " -
OF the weaker leeyes on the lower hississpPi'
CintIanatt and other Ohio river towns were inun.
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uA'eo 10 grea'er OF less eA'en'' A"u A~.ON. :
plantations and villages were compulsory covered
with water II remained however for the severe
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sSorns oI tue past "eeA WHICH eO -
Louisville disaster TO arouse the whole country TO
the iminent erf, which threatens the entire lower
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General A. W. Greely chief signal officer gives as
hta oninion that the aood in the lower Mississippi
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early march II the chief signal ofcer expressed
his oninion that the people of the lower Mississ ippi
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VAuey snou,~ eF..0 ~ N-F -oOU OOa-
ditions, and that all stock and moveable property
.bonId he moved above the highest flood poiut ever
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Representatives week since his ofncial opinion
that the food conditions would be aggravated rath-
er Than Diminished within the NEXT two veeks and
that loss of lie mipht be expected unIess nromnt
measures Of warning on the part Of the local author
tiles were taken in exposed districts.
Sergeant Dunn, of the New York Signal Service.
In an ipteryiew last Friday, said that the lower
waters of the Mississippi river would be euOrmous
ly Increased during the next ten days by the fresh
floods from the Missouri river, eEtering at St.
Charles, and from the Ohio, entering at Cairo.
This alone with the river now at its highest mark
wouId insne an inundatiOn that Would maize Il i'm
possible for those living on the owands to escape
unless they started at once But when the great
additional mass OF water with which the storm has
heaped the fountain channels of the Mississippi
itself gets down to increase this food then will fo
low the greatest calamity that this country has
known. The fact that, although several hinge
creyasees have been broken In the levees below
Vicksburg the height OF the river at Vcksburg and
Cairo remains the same makes Sergean Dunn be-
eve that the channel Of the river below Is choked
with the deposts of the first food 40 "a to practica
ly form dam This will back up the water TO A
frightful extent when the great flood wave comes
down, and will almost certainly cause it to sweep
over the leyees and carry them away. When the
ievees at Helena, some of the strongest on the
river. have been swept away within two days under
no unexpected pressure what he asks will be the re-
suit of the coming of the storm wave upon those
that remain. Two weeks ago the Signal ONCE
warned the people in these districts that thew were
in danger Now he saws they should he yarnej
TO prepare for the worst Sergeant Dunn was sta
toned for six or seven years at New Orleans and he
made careful study ofthe river problem during ali
that time.
Serious breaks in the levees have occurred at
Easton Landing. about twelve miles north of
Greenyille Miss where the creyasse ia nearly one
thousand feet wide and has nut ali tie plantstions
in four counties under water At Huntington.
Miss there is q gap seven hundred feet wide and
growing larger every hour At Columbia Ark the
most seven hundred feet. AT skipwitb. Miss. the
creyass is eiQht hundred feet wide and the entire
neighborhood is under water. The destitutiou here
s extreme and the United States steamer Meteor is
steamers are doing all they can to furnish aid to
those in distress at Yazoo CITY and other ponts.
The entire section that will be oyerfowed by the
Skipwith reyass is devoted to the cultivation of
cotton. and Acids that produce ANNUALLY 80 OC bales
of cotton ill be affected, and at least twenty Ave
valuable plantations will he Inundated emhracjn0
about :3O. 600 acres of the finest cotton lands IN
Nississippi il not In the world The town Of skin
with ia now covered with water to the depth of ten
feet or more Nothing is to be seen of some of the
except the peaks of their roofs while Others
have turned over and are being tossed about BY the
surRing water The loss of stock resu't ting from
the inundaton will be large but II s believed there
will be but little loss of human life
Greenville Miss, Is reported to be In imminent
peril 1t is protected by the river levee In front
and behind the city runs q protection levee which
has hereto kent out the back water In the Laconia
Circle which is situated in Despa county Arkansas
and comprises about 10000 acres, the scene is q
heart rendering one. This strip of the country Ia
now inundated to depth of ave to twenty-five feet,
and the inhabitants numbering between 9OOO and
8 900 people, whites and negroes women and child
ren-are perched on house tops and in the trees
Live stock not talready drowned are maintaining a
existence with their wretched owners in
some instances on the roofs Of residences and else
where on Impoverished platforms of wreckage.
Starvation is telling ON the cattle, while the human
victims are In scarcely less d. plorabe condition as
to food. The break at offutt, Miss, is one of the
most serious 1t being about two hundred feet wide
and increasing rapidly, the special danger being the
valuable plantations behind It which It threatens.
News has been received that the bank is caving
rapidly in front Of Bedford levee Madison parish,
the caving being now within seventy five feet Of
the levee Work has been commenced. and the new
levee may be finished before the old one goes into
the river. The towns Of Mayersvile, Filters and
Hays are being surrounded by water and must 90
under in short time. ra4..
The debris which has caught in timber and under
brush In the Of Skipwth s filed with chickens