Morning journal and courier., 1890-04-22
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 FROM ALL QUARTERS. BAYOU SARA IN RUINS. The Whole Town DeIuged
 By the Mississippi. BIG ROBBERY IN LOUISVILLE. Caucus of Republicans on
 The Silver Question. \ SKELETON FOUND IN A BOX. Passage of a Bill for a
 Grand Naval Review.
\ SKELETON FOUND IN A BOX.

DESTRUCTIVE WIND AND WAITER. Every House In she Town of Bayou Sara Flooded With Water-A General Alarm SOunded-Oha0s and Destrue. tien on Every Hand-Heavy Gales on tho Gulf Of Mexlco.
 NEW ORLEANS, La., April 21.-The Times Democrats Bayou Sara special says: "After most heroic struggle to save our city from the flood, we had to surrender to the great Father of Waters at 12:sO am. At that hour the guards reported that the levee had given way at the foot of Fountain street. A general alarm was sounded and the people responded promptly. This break was closed, but on examination it was found that the rising river was running over the front lsves. All that human effort could had been done and at last the cry went up all along the line, Give us men; we are gone,' and then the confusion of the people can be better imagined than described. Every impromptu boat and raft was brought into acquisition. Lanterns could be seen everywhere, and the cries of men, women and children attempting to save their effects was saddening. Not house in town has escaped. The beautiful Fischer building, the home of Mayor Irvine, sup- posed to be on the highest ground, is deluged. Our town is in ruins; nothing but chaos and destruction meets the eye at every view. To-day it is raining hard, which makes the picture moro gloomy. The water is also running over a large extent of the Points Coupee from the Taylor levee, which has given way, and the Fanny Yoor cre- vase will probably prove very serious one. The large levees from the last accounts arc intact, but things look critical.
 ,, Tho Pieaynne's Bayou Sara special says: There is only one house in town out of wa ter. The water is to 71< feet deep. The telephone exchange has feet of water in it. No lives lost. There is a crevasse about four miles above here at Red Store, Pointe Cous pee parish, reported to be 300 feet wide. The levee there was g or 10 feet high.
 NEW ORLEANS. La, April 21.-The gale has driven gulf water into Lake Ponohar- covered tho shell roads leading to Spanish Fort and also submerged a sparsely settled section of the northeastern suburbs of this city. doing some damage to gardens, etc. About noon to-day the levee gave way just above the sugar house on the Hon. T. 8. Wilkinson's Myrtle grove plantation. In twenty minutes the break was 500 feet wide, and the water pouring through in torrent. The lsyee st that point was pretty high and much damage will result from the orevasss. Nita crsvasse is now more than 2,000 feet wide and eight to fourteen feet deep. Tho government engineers yesterday laid . wil- low mattress across tbe lower end of the broken leevee to prevent further eaving.
 THE SILVER aURsTION.
 Caucus Of Rspublean Men bsrs Of she
 House-Nine Of the Fifteen Members
 of tho Committee Recommend That she House Pass she Modified Win-
 dom Bill.
 WAsHrNcToN, D. O., April 21.-The re- publican members of the house held e cau- GUS tonight to receive the report of its con- mittee on the silver question. Chairman Conger of the coinage committee presented the report. He recited concessions which tho house caucus committee had offered to the senate, told how the negotiations had failed mainly on the redemption and national bank propositions and summed up by re- porting that the house committee had with drawn all concessions and that nine of the fifteen membefs had decided to recommend tEat the house pass the modified Windom bill as 1t came from the coinage committee. Mir. Walker of Massachusetts, another men- Der of the committee, upheld the committee's action. He maintained that its bill would secure all necessary.
 He maintained that its bill would secure necessary relief in the way of sxpension of tho currency and reiterated Secretary Win- doms object as to the redemption feature of the senate bill, pointing out the dangers un- dsrlying 2 positive requirement that the trea- sury notes should be redeemed in lawful money. Tho six members of he avrnt& kN accede to the majority report were Re personalities Perkins of Ksnsas, Bartineo of Nevada, Wickham of Ohio, Carter of Montana, Taylor of Illinois and Henderson of Iowa. They represented the western sentiment and had proposition of their own which was submitted by Representative Perkins as Q compromise measure. It pre- serves the feature of the senate bill which provided for the purchase of four and half million ounces of silver or 50 much thereof as may be offered monthly at price not ex- cseding $1 for 371.14 grains, but contains . proviso requiring the purchase in any event of not less than two million ounces in any ono month and continues the operation of the existing law respecting the issue of gold and silver certificates on deposits of coin. Like the senate bill, it proposes to au- thorize the coinage of as many silver dollars as may be necessary to redeem the treasury notes issued in purchase of bullion, but 1t goes furter in that 1t makes these notes directly full legal tender save ex- isting contracts, snd therefore does not make | 1t necessary to redeem them iu lawful money as proposed by the senate bill. Then, too, whereas the senate bill says the notes ''may be reissued when received for customs, taxes and public dues. the minority bill absolutely requires their reissue. From the house bill is culled tho "free coinage" paragraph, permitting person to deposit silver bullion and to have 1t coined wherever the market price exceeds S71.14. Like the house bill this compromise measure omits any refer snoe to gold. A lively discussion. par- ticipatsd in by members, followed and continued till 11:30 o'clock, when the entire subject was recommitted to the caucus committee. It became evident from several votes on minor propositions taken during the debate that the republican mem- bers are opposed to the Windom bill in the l SNrOv,orfioy ofk k-o fo The faa