The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1892-05-14
LAFOURCmR NNrra

Mr.. and Mrs. Adolphe Munich. of Tbibo.
daux, lately celebrated their silver we'd
ding.
serious break occurred on last Monday
night, about a mile above Lafourcbe
Crossing in front of Mr.. Frank Bergeron.
When discovered, the water was running
through the levee as large as a -four bar
rel. With the timely aid of the neighbors
and help from the Acadia Plantation. n
wooden frame work was lmmediaIv bnilt
around this hole, both inside and outside
OF the levee, and just as the workmen
began throwing in sacks of dirt into This
woodwork, eighteen feet of the leyee
broke loose and was carried away by the
weight OF the water against the wood
plllng' Luckily a large force of men were
on hand, and soon the wooden enclosure
was filed in with bags of sand and the
break closed. Although some water is
still seeping through between the bags of
earth the break is now secured, and a
large crevasse averted-a crevasse which
would have caused IN irreparable loss to
crops and property on the West bank Of
the bayou Latourche and the East bank
OF the Bayou T~errebonne, in the Parish of
Terrebonne.-'Sentinel.'
pEATHs-Julien Forest, aged 81 years.
4 months and 20 days; Marie Gertrude
Daigle, widow ofP. U. Engeram, aged SO
years; Mrs. Amelia Keller, nee Morvant.
Mt. Felix j.. sCelestin was married to
Miss Bertha Braud on the 18th. inst.
Miss Lea Boudreaux, aged about Is
years, was buried yesterday evening in
st. Joseph's cemetery. The yonng lady
who came to her death so young was a
resident of the Foret plantation, and from
over-exertion in dancing at the Hall with
the exoursionists took cold and died.
Thus it is that there is no pleasure with.
out an equal amount of pain.-'Comet.
The Comet" is in favor ofMr. w. @.
Raglan for the next Mayor of Thibodaux.
Mr.. Raglan would, no doubt, make a
splendid officer.
THIBoDAUx, La, May 10.-On the arri4
val of the steamer Louisiana this morning
it was aseertained that a crevasse had
broken in the levee on the west side of
the bayou, near the store of Magloire
Bourgeois, about five miles below Napo-
leonville, in the parish of ASSUMPTION.
The break was % feet wide, and the sur
rounding planters were preparing to go to
work in an effort to close it.
TFIBoDAUx, La, May 1O.-Yesterday
morning the water in bayou Lafourche
gagged 21.3 feet, at IL o'clock a. m. at had
dropped to 21,1, at which it remained un-
I'll 2 o'clock, when it began to rise, and
again reached 21.3 at 4 o'clock, and rose
slowly until about midnight, having
21.4 feet, the same point at which
The Leblanc oevasse broke on April %
last, and within A of the highest point
aver reached, on March 16, 1891, the date
If the White crevasse. After midnight
5he water began to fall, until at 6 o'clock
t marked q feet, and at noon POLL feet.
THIBoDAUx, May 1.-THE steamer
Alice Leblanc is hard aground ON a bat
jure just above the Leblanc crevasse,s and
although her cargo has been discharged,
The remains immovable. The fall in the
Lafourche, caused by the Bourgeois Gre
'asse, wiltrender her escape from her con-
lition very doubtful.
The Bourgeois crevasse, at first report
ID at Little Texas, which occurred night
'etore last, has gradually increased until
t is near 100 feet wide. The fall in the
Aafourche at this point is 70 inches, the
now marking 20.4 feet,
The waters flowing through the crevasse
ull into the head of the Marais, a deep
iwamp extending parallel to the Lafour-
The, some three miles down, and the people
the rear of.the Marais are constructing
evees so as to force the water down the
iwamp.
At Labadieville an effort is being made
% arrest the flow and force it over the
ridge into the rear. If success
al, the interior settlement of the Brusle
4abadie will be submerged and the water
scape into lake PalouTde. Otherwise the
will follow down the bayou, over
to some extent all the plantations
or six miles before it makes it's escape
nto lake Palourde.
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