Woe In The South

WIDF.-SlMiEAD RUIK. Bavou Saba, La., April 35.- The ralief steamer Davotab reaohed the liayou Sara landing Wednesday eveniTiir. Sha had m;ide a trip to Pointe Poupee and has oome back to Uayou !Sara. Her arrival was a godsend to the people whose lives are in jeopardy, for shu has not only already saved a ittrgrí amuunt of property but a number of lives. The real condition of tliinys in the overflowod districts is just coming to light. No pen is equal to the task of pieturing the devastation of the country or thé dfsolation of tho people. The entire front of l'ointe Coupee is und;r wat'.-r. Most of the levecs have pone. The water back of the levees is so deop now that hundreds of lives are in jeopardy. The small stretches of levee siill standing are orowded with men, women and children, side by side with horses, mules and cowb. In an old raised gin house 500 negroes were found huddled together. The condition of the unfortnnate blacks was pitiable. The Texas & Pacific boat E. B. 'Wheelock succeed in gaving 200 people irom the back country around Morganza. Ruin and desolation meet the eye on every side in Pointe Coupee parish. The destruction is complete. Not a plantation is left above water, not a levee unbroken, while hundreds of families are homeless. Thousands of oattle have been drowned, and frora reports received from the interior it is quite probable human Ufe has been sacrificed to the flood. Standing on the deck of the relief teamer Dacotah as she passed down the full extent of the disaster could be Been. Grouped together on littleknolls between broken levees, through whioh the water rushed with ungovernable iury, were scores of people, both white and black, somo with babies in their arms. Many of them had nothing left in the world except the clothes they wore on their backs. Whenever the Dacotah discovered a scène like th!3 the stage was swung out and the strickenones taken aboard. Equally as sad a scène was that of the poor dumb cattle standing in the water and actually starvlng. Many of them had not tasted food in iays. Bato.n Rouge, La., April 26.- The Bteamer Dacotah, Captain Mitchell, arriTed Friday from the overflowed district and put off 500 or (500 people and a large quantity ol stock. The people were mostly negroes. The Dacotah on Thursday went up as far as New Texas Landing, rescuing people and stock along the route. The boat transported about 1,500 people to this side, and could have brought many more, but the people said that the river was falling and they preferred to stay and take th chances. Captain Mitchell sald that the break in the Old Morganza was 600 feet wide, while the break in Grand leree, just below, was 1,000 feet wide and washing rapidly, the soil being of a eandy nature. As these levees are three miles in length only a small poction of them have yet been destroyed. Vicksburg, Miss.. April 28.- The saw-mih and gin houses of Christ Lawrence, situated three and one-half miles froin Rolling Fork, SharkeyCounty, burned Saturday night Kifty or more negroes having taken refuse in the buildings from the floods, seven were drowned in attempting to escape. Daixas, Tex., April 2H.- The most destructivo flood ever known in the history of Northern Texas is now passing through the Trinity river. The great rain on Friday raised every tributary far out of the banks and the river rose rapidly, and at 10 o'clock Sunday morning passed the highest watermark in fifty yeara. In front of this city it is two miles wide, extending to the foot of Flanders heights west, and to Oak clin" south of the city. On the north all residences from 100 yards below Cochran street are Bubmerged, some to the second floor and others to the attio. Back water extends far up the north side of the city, while on the south houses are submerged &s far as Ward street South and in front of the city there ia one vast ocean of water from thirty to forty feet deep. Washouts are rèported on all the railroads, und no trains are leaving the city. Pacis. Tex., April 28.- Reporta from Red rivnr are to the effect that it is Mgher than it has been for forty years. There was thirty-four feet of water at Arthur City Monday morning. All the lowlands are inundat'd, 3everal hou3es are reponed to have been swept away, and toe occupants of others have had to move out in boats. The loss can not be estimated now, but it will be very great Sv. Makti.vsvili.e, La., Api-il 29.- The water in this parish is rising at the rate oí eiglit inehes everv twenty-four hours. and tbose who reside in the lowland sections near the woods were compelled to leave their homes and move to the bayou banks. The crops in the overflowed sections are lost. Cattle are being driven through here to the west bank of the bayou for pasture. Twenty-five hundred people will suffer in this parish. The Bayou Cbene people are asking for relief boats to save their live stock. Every ineh of ground in that section is under water. Grosse Tete, La., April 29.- The little town of Grosse Tete presents a pitiful sig-ht f rom a distanee. It looks like a tug in the Atlantic Ocean. The protection Iivee in front and opposite the Texas & Pacific depot gave way Monday morning, lHting tho angry waters dircctly in upon the already inundated aiul helplcss town. The people have tlieir stock on the platforms and Indiau mounds and are in need ol immediate assistanoe. The situation ia distressiag. The Turomo Univérsity, recently destroyed b.v liru, is tu be restored at ■ oost of $9ü0,0(iÖ.