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Show EASTERN. . Tlic .TIJsttjKwlppl Ovorilow. New Orlcann, 25. Capt. Blanks, usL returned from a trip through tho aver flowed portion of Northern Louisiana, writes 10 a member of the relief commit tito that tho tabular estimates es-timates of tlic damage in the inuu-hited inuu-hited districts heretofore presented to the committee aro much too small. Ho submits figures which show that 11,000 people aro in actual want in Lho parishes of North Louisiana. Adding to this the large number living liv-ing outside of the settlements on tho bay and creeks, thero aro no less ihan 25,000. Iu this district tho extent of Lho damage is just beginning to bo undensU-iGd. It involves 5,000,000 acrrs and 370,000 people. Somo of Loe richest and largest cotton producing produc-ing parishes are inundated, embracing embrac-ing two and a half million acres of ?otton lands, besides much corn land. The tugar producing parishes ihow an equal amount of ruin and iulleriug, two and a half millions of billed and unfilled sugar land being jverllown. The rice and grain crops nd many catdo are also destroyed.. It is believed that in less than sixty lays the number of persons requiring aid will amount to 50,000 in Avcgels, and St. Landry parishes not included in tho above estimates. A district from twenty-live to thirty miles wide is overflown, and 10,000 souls rendered render-ed homeless. |