New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-05-26
FLOODING SOUTHERN LOWLANDS.
NEW BREAKS IN LOUISIANA LEyEEs-TEN THOU
SAND PEOPLE HOMELESS IN ARKANSAS.

NEW BREAKS IN LOUISIANA LEYEES-TEN THOU
SAND PEOPLE HOMELESS IN ARKANSAS.
New orleans, May e5.-"The Picayune's' shreve-
port La dispatch says "The steamer triehdiy ro-
turned this morning from Dooly Bayou large num-
her o poople were relieved and hundreds Of head OF
stock saved The Nicholson break, which occurred
Yesterday Is 600 feet wide at Nicholson Bayou ana
many dwellings have been swept away by the HOOD.
, crevassc occurred yesterday the Herldon place
above this city,
Mariana. Ark May o5.-Appalng reports come
from the lowlands on the st. Francis and "hite
Rivers It is estimated that at least 10000 people
have been rendered homeless. Thrytwo lives In all
have been lost in the Arkansas bottoms, and the re
port comes from the White and St. Francis Rivers that
eve-,I negroes and Indians have been drowned there
Pine Bluff Ark, May % (SpeciaD.-The Arkansas
pivcr fell IL inches today The destitition among
the flood sufferers is appalling. The relet steamer
C. b. Reese was disabled today In the lower nVer'
an immense tree falling across her. Floating podles
are found almost daily. The following appeal for
aid addressed the people Of the country WIS n"uc
today bv the Board of Trade
Tho greatest overflow of the Arkansas River is now
caiising Unprecedented distress Many people are ~
danger Of Starvation. means for relief are being
niIv exhausted In the name Of the suffering and
imperillcd thousands we ask for money lAp'iss rd
ocd suGs early corn FOR SEED ana n n pine Bs
or Citizens Bank.
Vicksburg, Miss, May 25-News from below OH oo'l'
shores is alarming Bayou Macon has overho"ed anu
caused heavy losses TO planters Boeuf and lensa'
rivers are rising fast over five feet IN twenty iour
hours and Tensas Parish Is being heavily Hooded.
Cairo ILL.,. May 25.-Letters received here announce
the fact that there are 100 families 10 and about the
town OF Wheatland thirty miles north, utterly desti
tutc the floods having totally ruined the crops
drowned their stock and washed them ont of their
dwellings, subscription was started here yesterday
afternoon and provisions Will be sent there to-day.
Anna H. Nay 25-The overflow from the Missis-
sppi River which has inundated the lowlands OF thiS
Unlon) county, has reached It's height and the water
l. now beginning to recede. The flood exceeds that OF
lsS3 Union County has a river frontage OF twenty
miles Within this territory, extending along he
river and three miles back, II is estimated Chat loooo
ocr,.s are now under water. OF this loooo acres
were planted In wheat and corn. which promised
r,asutfrent yieId but which Is total loss Great
damage has also been done to fences. buildings. etc.
Conservative estimates place the total loss In Union
County a. Si5oooo.
Dos MoInes Iowa. May 25.-Governor Boies 70
dav ISSUED a proc clamation calling for renef fef ue
food sufferers at sioux City. The proclamation sa'es
that the calamity greatly exceeds the early esuhaes
The number Of families homeless Is placed AZ looo'
and the numpcr OF destitute people Of all ages iuhy
400 The number OF dwellings swept away Is given
,s lC. and ZOO more were rendered unenantaDe'