Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-26
ALONG THE MISSISSIPPI
Some Crevasses Repaired While Others
Are Rapidly Widening.
Work Done by the Steamer Dacotah in Res
cuing People and stock-Refugee with
a Dog and a Rooster.
LATEST ADVICES

BATON ROUGE. La, April 25.-Botn
ends of Martinez crevasse below this
place have been secured, and deter
mined effort will be made to close them.
The water is rapidly filing the country
to the rear, and made its appearance
In Shannon s canal this morning. Inc
north bound Mississippi Valley train ,due
here at noon yesterday, reached here at
3 o'clock last night. The chances are
the tracks of this road will be sub
merged. the break at Lobdell's
the old parish levee, as 1t Is
called, eighteen miles above here
on the West Baton Rouge side, is 500
feet wide The people of Grossetete and
West Baton Rouge are leaving as fast as
possible and bringing their stock and
cattle over to the hills for safety. only
the hills and high places will escape the
overflow. The Texas and Pacific steamer
Wheeler that has been doing relief work
around MorganZa has arrived. Her
commander, Captain Scoyill, says: "We
went as high as the mouth of Red river
in search Of all that needed assistance.
We brought down some people and stock.
The steamer Henry Marks proceeded
down Atchafalaya to see II any
assistance was needed there. So far as
l can see, there is no need for any
further relief boats; the people refuse to
leave their houses. So far there has
been no loss of life reported, and dam
age thus far in the Overtiowed section
and in the vicinity of Morganza has been
confined almost exclusively to crops in
the field. -
FAST DISAPPEARING
NEW ORLEANS, La, April 25.-The
water from the lake. which submerged
portion of the outskirts of the Seventh
and Eighth wards of this city, is rapidly
disappearing.
The relief steamer Dacotah has ar
rived at Baton Rouge, there being no
further work to do at present on the
Point Coupee front.
The reported break of the Point Pleas
ant levee on the Tensas front was incor-
rect. The Henderson Ashley levee in
ConcoToia parish was the one referred to.
Tensas parish levees remain intact.
NEWS BROUGHT BY THE DACOTAH.
NEW ORLEANS, La, April 25.-Baton
Rouge, La, special says: 1.-THE steamer
Dacotah, Capt. Mitchell comm anding,
has reached here from the overfiowed
districts and put off 500 people and a
| quantity of stock. The people put off
were mostly negroes, who found no
| difficulty in getting employment.
Several planters from the interior
were here for the purpose of getting
| labor for their plantations. The Dacotah
| Yesterday went up to Texas landing,
rescuing people and stock along the
| route. The boat transported about 1900
| people to this side and could have
| brought many more, but the peo-
| pie said the river was falling and they
| preferred to stay and take their chances.
| Capt. Mitchell said the break in Old
MorganZa at three O'Clock yesterday
evening was six hundred feet wide, while
! the break in Grand levee, just below,
was one thousand feet wide and was
washing rapidly, the soil being of Ia
sandy nature. AS these levees are three
| miles in length, only comparatiV ely
small portions of these great works
| have been destroyed. The boat rescued
| every living thing from pig to dog and
chicken. refugee was seen in the
streets to-day with dog tied to one end
of a rope and a rooster to the other.
This was his only property. He carried
them in his arm to give them rest.
The Dacotah remained here till p. m.
| loading sacks above town to carry to
| Morganza crevice. At this hour she left,
carrying down Is 900 So cks of earth.
The Pargoud is coming down tonight
to carry more sacks to the crevasse.
A BIG RISE IN RED RIVER.
NEW ORLEANS, La, April ga
Shreveport says the reports from the
upper Red river above Fulton indicate
big rise caused by the recent
heavy rains which have fallen along
the border of Northeastern Texas
| The rise is sufficient to cause serious ap-
prehensions. At that point the river fell
one point, but this is not encouraging.
The streams are all bank full and very
little more water will food all the low
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