Salt Lake Herald | 1890-03-15 | Page 1 | The Water Front at New Orleans

The Water Front at New Orleans NEW ORLEANS March 14Tho condition of affairs on the river front this evening Is much more satisfactory than at the same time yesterday yes-terday The city authorities aided by the railways have strengthened the weak places in I the levees and are constructing temporary levees with bags lllled with earth from St Louis street to Hospital street and other points but St Louis street to Canal where so much water came In yesterday nothing yet has been done The levees In this section were injured more by wind and weather than by the flood To day the wind was blowing from the north with a velocity of thirty miles an hour Governor Nichols to day issued a proclamation reauesting all steamers to keep as near midstream as possible pos-sible and run as slow as circumstances will permit during the present freshet on the lower Mississippi as the waves from passing vessels have done a good deal of damage to the temporary tempor-ary work on the levees