Telegram-herald., 1890-04-25
MORE LEvEEs BREAK.


New Cresasses Reported, While the olc
Ones Are Constantly Growing wider
Belief That the Losses the rlood-
stricken sections VIII EKeesd ss1.-
OOO. 600.
BAYOU SARA. La. April 24.-SeVen
crevasses were reported " Wednesday be-
tween this place and Waterloo. This
makes nine on the Pointe Coupee front
The devastation in that and the south
western parish viii be terrible. Tho
Stella Wilde. arriving from above.
brought large lot OF people from the
other side. She had 70 run up Bayou
Sara and land them al Lower ST
Francisyille.
BAroN RoUGE. La, April % Tues
day night The levee at LObdell's land
ing, nine miles above here, gave way,
and the break is now 500 feet wide and
ten feet deep. The water from the
crevasse is visible from this city. flow
ing south through the plantations on
the opposite side OF the river. Owing 70
the storm OF wind and rain Wednesday
night the break al Martinez widened 10
800 feet, and il is believed TO be beyond
con troll The stock from that neigh
borhood is being brought here for safety
and the negroes are fleeing to the hills.
The water from this crevasse Will over
flow about fifteen plantations. James
Lilly. Jr., young man of this parish.
while attempting TO cross the river at
Port Hudson in a skif was sucked
under in the whirlpool and drowned.
NEW ORLEANS, April -Superin-
tendent &ellman, Of the Shell Beach
railroad, says there are eleven breaks.
from fifteen 10 $50 feet wide and from
four to eight feet deep. along that road,
and that all can be closed by prom pt sc-
tion. The crevasse on Congressman
Wilkinsons Myrtle Grove plantation.
thirty-fve miles below this city on the
right bank. is now 700 feet wide and
eight feet deep. No effort will be made
TO close il until the river declines
The indications now are that tho
losses from the high water OF 1890 Will
exceed those OF 1882, when the damage
was estimated at s2T, 900, 600. The dam
age 20 the cotton depends upon the
duration of the food. IL the water
does not 90 down in time TO plant IL
will entail a loss OF ss, OO0. 900 or SIo,-
900, 900. The sugar-cane IS Immediate
" damaged whenever overfowed, and
the loss in ..ich cases will be nearly 90
Ter cent. The outlook Tor the coming
week is very bad indeed.
Captain Kingman, United States en-
gineer in charge OF the Government
works in this district, who is at the
Msganza break, has tclegraphed 10 the
Secretary of War that there Is great
suffering there ant danger 10 life.
1t is now believed thst the Teche
country. including the parishes OF 81
Mary. St Martin and Iberia. will suffer
seversly from the water procipitated on
them from the pointe Coupeo snd West
Baton Rouge orevssses.
The cotton farmers are now watching
the river anxiously. Tor unless they can
plant their cotton by the middle Of May
they Will have short crop or none at
all. and that time is rapidly approach
ing. TIE high water "a later than ever.
and, as the river always rises IN June,
great fears are entertained that the
June rise viii catch the Mississippi in
its present swollen state and before
there is time 10 repair the breaks In the
levees.
HoUsrON, Tex. April 2f-Tor three
days continuous rams have fallen al
over Texas Rivers and bayous are np
and out % their banks Bridges have
been swept away and trsvel is delayed.
All stock in low lands and canebrsbes
has been drowned. but 50 far no loss q
/ life is reported The waters are stu
rising and indications are for more rain
a rATHEES AWFUL ACT.