Morning journal and courier., 1890-04-23
FROM ALL QUARTERS. THE GREAT STRUGGLE OVER. Numerous Breaks Along the Lower Mississippi. s.. RIOToUs STRIKERS ARRESTED,
 a3s Several Men Injured in an
 Explosion.
 EXTENSIVE FIRE AT T0nAWANDA. Another Caucus on the Sil-
 yer Question.
EXTENSIVE FIRE AT ToNAWANDA.
THE mIss1ssIPPI FLOODS.

THE MISSI8SIPPI FLOODS.
 High Water at Pointe Coupee - Gov-
 ernor Nichols Asked for Aid-Numer-
 Ous Crevasses Along the Water
 Fronl-Boats and Barges Being Sent
 to Save the People - Breaks at Other
 Places.
 NEW ORLEANS, April 22-About three o'clock this afternoon Governor Nichols re- ceived dispatch from Martin Glynn, presi- dent of the police jury of the Pointe Coupee parish, dated Bayou Sara, saying: . We have been overwhelmed by storm and rain. Orevasses numerous along the front. Upper (old) Morgan Sea hes broken: Send a boat at once to ifs: ias: the people, or there may Dc great JOSS or Governor Nichols made arrangements with the owners of the steamer Arthur Lamb and bargss and started immediately for Pointe Coupee with several barges to render assistance. Other boats will be sent up tonight. The fight of the people against the tremendous floods has been in vain. Up to couple of days ago it was confidently ex- pected that the levees would hold, but the terrible wind and rain storm which has pre- vailed for two days came as an unexpected obstacle to the thousands who have been warks to save their homes and lives. No information is obtainable as yet as to the extent of the break. Those | familiar with the locality, think the erevasss hassoccurred about three-quarters of a mile above the new Morgan Sea, where crevasse occurred some years ago, and where the levee is from ton to thirteen feet high. "There ars," says Colonel James, "a.numbsr of ridges along there, extending back into the country from the river that will, in my opinion, keep the crevasse water away from l the new levee, and if the ends of the broken levee be at once protected, the damage from this orevasse will not be as great as that of 1884,"
 The water from this break may not reach the new work, but with the present stage of the water and. the inauspicious condition of the weather the chances are even against this hope. The Morgan Sea crevasse of 1884 was over three-quarters of a mile wide and the water from it involved the loss of millions of dollars in the new leves. Governor Nichols president of the International Transporta- tion company, had placed two steamers with barges at his disposal and they are now on route for Morgan Sea. He said he had also tslegraphed to Colonel Weaver and Captain J. A. Grant, of the Texas aud
 Pacific road, requesting them to place the steamer Wheeler in the same service. Gov- ernor Nichols has telegraphed Senator Gib-
 son to ask government aid. A break occur-
 rcd this morning in tho lsvee near Gardere,
 ten miles below Baton Rouge, left bank. Al
 last accounts the crevasse was twenty. five
 feet wide and seven feet deep. The cre.
 vase on the Pointe Coupee front will sub.
 merge a large section of that parish and baci
 water will probably affect West Baton Rouge
 and Iberville.
 NEW ORLEANS, La, April 22.-The Times , Democrats Bayou Sara special says: The
 great heroic struggle is over and genera surrender has been made all along the line The Pointe Coupee front has crevasses a . Preston, St. Maurice, and to-day one jus above Morganza, which will before many , hours take away this grand lsvee. We hay had two days, ,heavy rain and the situation i beyond description. The suffering in Point
 Coupee Is terrible. It is reported that peopl
 arc resortinR to trees for safety. Skif load
 of people are passing through our inundate,
 streets seeking safety on our mills. The. certainly make a sad and gloomy proces sion, women, children, babies and dogs e they tell the same tales of woe an 9 destruction. The situation in Bayou Sara ' frightful. Not house in town is above tn ,. food. The break at Morganza Is now 40
 feet wide and no doubt will soon eat it's wa t down to the Morganza. There are thrs V breaks between this place and Morganxa an
 tho river Is washing over the levees along th
 entire line.
 NEW ORLEANS, La., April 22-West Me
 vile rainfall past AS hours 6 inches. Tw " crevasses occurred in the Atchafayla levee
 today, one five miles above town 80 fee e wide, the other at Old Churchville. 40 fee 1 wide. The water is running over the levt . at dozen places in this vicinity.
 v- NEW ORLEANS, April 22.-A PicayuI 10 Natchez, Miss special says: The first bres
 in the levees in this vicinity occurred to. da
 protection levee in front of Vandalia h. os broken, submereipg a number of house W This morning the Lake Concordia levee ga,
 way. At p. m. the break Is 150 feet wid I, the water going through like mill rae '' This break will flood the lower portion Concordia parish and cannot fail to be disa
 trous.