Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-04-14
DEATH AND MISERY
Pitiful Scenes Witnessed in
 ths Flooded Country.
LOSS OF LIFE ONLY GUESSED AT
Places that Were OnCs Called Homes
 VIII Be Mudheles.

Nc Deaths Reported Yet Among the
 WhIteS-They Have Coed Boats to Use in Case of Dangsr-AGsstinEs Being Held
 Suffering PsOpIs-Thrso Hundred Tents from the War Department
 NEW ORLEANS, April 1A-The death and desolRtion caused by the flood have SO dSmOratzed the entire population that the days are as quiet and business as idle as any Sabbath.
 While communication has been re- sumed with the northwestern part of the country, still the city is waterbound from every other direction.
 Later reports rather enlarge than di- niniBh previous estimates of the loss of life and destruction of property.
 A general idea of the effects of the flood can be stated in this way:
 A belt of country ranging from five to fifteen miles wide, running north and south, is one stretch of debris made up of ruins of houses, fences and carcasses of animals, and it is doubtful whether there Is left standing in that belt dozen houses.
 The pitiful scenes of the past few days have opened the houses of all, and pub lio and private charity prevents the cruel suffering of those who were rescued.
 When the water subsidies there will be left in this place ], 1000 to 1,200 negroes who have not one cent and no credit, and the places that were their homes nothing but mudholes.
 The landlords of the tenants are in nc condition to replace these destroyed farms, and this Is the future of the negro subSiSting now on public charity.
 The impoverished condition of the white people prevents them from main taininK the colored people lOng by char ity, and 1t Is too late in the season to give them work. The board of supervi- sors of the county are dsliberAtinR as to whether to put in operation the stock law In the Overaowed districts, without which 1t is impossible to make any crop whatever, as in the entire district there is not the vestige of 6 fence. and in many places it is so badly washed 1t will be impossible to locate whore the fence line was.
 At the present time any estimate of the loss of life is purely xuesswork, but the death list is a long one. As yet no death is reported among the whites, as these low lying lands are inhabited all most exclusively by the negroes, and such whites as lived there were always kePb we'll pEoCecGo0 Sy Aoopln8 Boou boats.
 The old mound builders built wiser than they, knew, as these old Indian rel ics aaved the lives of hundreds of nc. groes, besides countless numbers of stock.
 A mass meeting of citizens has been held here to devise ways and means to help the poor in this hour of their need The Mayor was authorized to ask of the Federal Government the loan of 1,00( tents to give them shelter.
 The students of the State Industrial Institute at this place gladly joined the citizens in making such contributions al they could. By common consent they agreed to go without their usual Sunday dinner that it might be given to the suf l ferers.
 By the combined efforts of the GeorGiu PaOifio and Mobile and Ohio railways lt is thought that Q temporary track will be completed on the latter road along its lines between this place and Wss Point in . few days.
 The Georgia Pacific is running trainl from here to Birmingham. The waterI are going down slowly, having faller only about nine feet in the last fou l days.