The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-05-23
NEWS OF THE FLOODS.
Relief Steamers Rescue Hundreds Q
People-Ottumwa People Cut Levee.

RELIEF Steamers Rescue Hundreds OF
People-Ottumwa People Cut Levee.
New ORLEANS, May "a crevasse oc-
CURED ut o'clock this evening at Fesier
place, three miles below College point,
seven miles below the Neila crevasse OF
last season. It is regarded as the most
serious break SO far in the levees OF the
lower Mississippi this season. The water
will overflow large part of st. John the
Baptiste parish, greatly damaging the
Misslppi Valley railroad.
OTTUMwA, Ia, May 22.-Fifty armed
citizens cut the levee at this point today to
save their property from destruction from
the continually increasing food. The
water company whose property was in
.jured by the cutting of the evee appealed to
the marshal, but he was powerless to over
come the determination of the men. The
superintendent of the water company en-
deavored to check their intentions, but
withdrew when revolver was leveled at
his head. The levee was soon cut in three
places, allowing the water to escape. Ad-
ditional houses and barns were swept
away, and, while no lives of persons were
lost. cattle and horses were swept away.
TExARKAYA, Ark, May 22.-All traffic
over the Iron Mountain road to the north
is indefinitely cut off. Several miles Of
railroad track has been washed away.
Holman is several feet under water,
and in fact the whole. Of the
Red river bottom is veritable sea
of water from hill to HILL a distance of
about twenty miles. Parties in from the
bottom report that the water is rising at
the rate of an inch per hour. All the
crops are hopelessly drowned.
ST. Louis, May 22-The situation in the
inundated districts IS unchanged, although
the river has fallen and will continue to
do so until tomorrow noon, when a slight
rise will commence. 4 large number Of
sufferers are being fed and sheltered by
the relief committee
KEoKUK, Ia, May 22-The general situ-
alton is growing worse. The rivers are
again rising fast. The Des Moines river
rose two feet today at Pennington, the
highest since the food of 1851. The Missis-
sppi rose three tenths of foot since
morning. 1t is expected that the threat
ened flood will exceed that of few weeks
ago. Alexander is still submerged, the
water in many streets being four
feet deep. But one short section of one
street is out of water, and the stock is
herded on that street. With further
rise and little wind another section of
the Egyptian levee will break. There has
been no loss Of life vet.
LITTLE Rock, May 22.-According to the
reports received here from Red Bluff the
steamer Anna Adams, which has been in
the flooded district for the last three days,
has rescued $50 persons from the waters.
A boat load of provisions will be shipped
from here tomorrow for distribution
among the sufferers. The river
is slowly falling. The Adams re-
ports that not single farm on
the river between here and Little Rock is
sufficiently dry ground on which to place
stock. Thousands upon thousands of
acres of cultivated fields have been en-
tirely submerged. The steamer Cleve-
land arrived from the upper river.
and confirms the reports. She
picked up several hundred and
put them off on high land. They were in
a wretched condition, having lost every
thing and no work in sight. Late this
afternoon a telegram was received from
Wabbaseca, twenty miles below. saying
the place was fully three feet under water
and asking that boats be sent to the relief
Of the people. Efforts are being made to
helm them