Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-25
Capt. Grant Talks.

NEW ORLEANS, La, April 4.-United States
Engineer Douglass telegraphs that Point Pleas
ant levee, 9ensas parish, gave way this morn
ing. Point Pleasant is twenty three miles be-
low ViCksburg. and the Ievee there is one of the
most important on the Tensas front. The water
from it will no doubt overflow the greater part
OF the parish.
Capt. John A. Grant, superintendent of the
Texas and Pacific railroad. speaking of Nor
ganza crevasse says: This is one of the worst
calamities that could have befallen the residents
Of this state; and yet 1t could have
for it. Now they are creating a big hubbub
about sending relief up there and all that sort of
thing, while before the disaster occurred they
seemed utterly unaware OF the impending dan
ger. If need be they should have raised $500, coo
to hold that levee, and it could have been done,
too and been we'll invested as there is 500 OOO 600
worth of property that will be now irretrievabiy
damaged, which a little display of energy would
have averted.''
RRsCUING PEOPLE AND CATTLE.
BAYOU SARA, April 24.-Ruin and desolation
meet the eye on every side in Pointe Coupee
Parish. The restitution is complete. Not
a plantation is left above water, not leVee
unbroken, while hundreds of families are home
less. Thousands of stock have been drowned
and from the meagre reports received from the
interior 1t is quite probable that human life has
been sacrificed to the flood. The Dacotah is
busy boat to-day. After discharging her lumber
and other material at Grand Bayou she pro-
ceeded directly to old river and rescued
200 head of cattle that had
been in the swamp for four days
Coming down stock and people were picked up,
everywhere, and when the Dacotah reached
Bayou Sara she had 1000 head of cattle and
nearely 100 people on board. They were landed
and the boat Immediately left on her return
voyage. The Dacotah Is doing noble work. and
not only is she blessed ever side, but the cor
poration which sent her as we'll.
NEW ORLEANS RAILWAY SITUATION.
NEW ORLEANS, La, April 24.-The break in
old Morganza occurred ESQ feet above new work
or Morganza proper and Capt. Kingman says the
break is 400 feet wide and fifteen feet deep.
cargo OF steel has been sent from this city
and an effort will be made to mattrass the
ends ofthe broken levee and thus prevent the
destruction of the entire dyke.
Favorable winds caused the gulf water to re-
cede and the Louisville and Nashville railroad
T5e overflow a5 water mG 20m tRe f%e
which has much inconvienced the people in
the rear of the Seventh and Eighth wards of this
city since Sunday last is gradually receeding.
The latest report obtained at the Illinois Control
railroad Office is that the water is rapidly
receeding off the tracks and that
most encouraging. The Louisville, New
Orleans and Texas railroad, better known as the
Mississippi valley has been the greatest sufferer
by overlooking. They displayed wonderful
pluck and energy in their efforts to keep above
water, but fate seemed to be against them, and
they finally surrendered to the inevitable.
SITUATION AT MARnGoUIN.
NEW ORLEANS, La, April PA Maringouin
special says: The crevasse water has struck our
levees, and reinforced by the six-inch rainfall in
three days, is now rising rapidly against them.
All our men and implements were
brought back from Morganza in time and all
the force of the district are ready for work this
morning. It is due to the Grossette contingent
that the levee under its charge under Pointe
Coupee front did not give way, but it was left in
good condition when the break occurred above
and compelled its return for home defense The
unexpected Crevasse at West Baton Rouge adds
with.
kilograms from Fordoch indicate that the le4~
wees sorely pressed there. The water is
now only three feet from Maringouin dyke and
is still rising rapidly here and all along the
Grossette line None of our population of over
four thousand have left the county