Show IIISSISSIPVI FIoon II III Llen lrr mlrrl < Smbmercrd Ilnlllallon Threatened ISIS April 21 Secretary Secreta-ry Proctor transmitted to the House the report of the Quarterm3 terGen coal In regard to the condition of flairs In the overflowed districts ol lit t James and Ascension parishes louisiana General Robinson sajs that in Uie 8t James parbn in the elghborhood of the great J lta ere ISM everythIng is I flooded for mile and the situation Icdeplorable hundreds re planters have lost i crepe and thousands of laborers will noon be thrown out of employment At Grand Point I t where there were from sixty to eighty families the eope CHaped in otiS and the hole precinct Is under water lie recommends Instant action for the relIef of the Euflercrs by the United State There are liable to b In t James and Ascension parishes 3000 icrsons destitute within a month > Er ORLEANS April IA gale has driven the Gulf water into Lake ontcbartraln to such an extent thai the water has covered the shell tads leading to Spanish Fort and Wet End and also submerged the parcely KttleU sections of the north eastern suburta of this city doing come damage to gardens etc About noon today the levee cave way above the sugar home on Hon S l Wilkinsons Myrtle Grove plan tionIn twenty minuter the break was fifty feet wide and the water pouring through in Irresltible tor rents The levee at that point some thIrty mill boles the city on the right Lank wtao pretty high and much damare In result from th crevasse llcports from up river today are gain gloomy I h been raining today and the RIVER I mst > ant a-nt nearly a point but to edo apprehension I Indulged In So breaks are reported except one at Bayou Ila rrr Pine Bluff kansas reports that the water will almset surely overflow the cotton cot-ton territory iujnortheatt Arkansan Bviou SARA La April 21 The levee gave way at the foot of Fountain ttieetat an carlyhour this morning A general alarm was undetl and all the people turned out and after hard work closed the b > k I was soon found however that the riIng river was running ocr the front levee and nothing could b done to check It Tre mentions confusion ensued Every oat and raft was brought into re ublUon with the greatest hate interns could be seen everywhere and the cries ant shouts of men ce o women and children working to anTe their effects could b heard In every direction Not a house in tow h escaped Inundation and rom day break unUI evening it h been raining hard The luce willie b CDSltele a dttrucon mel the eye at every point Two other crevasses developed during the day and altogether the prospects for Rayon Sara are not encouraging for relief from the flood HtrlklnrCarptntrn CHICAGO April 21No progress WM made toward a settlement of to carpenters strike tosy In I fat a settlement Pms further away than ever I was understood that as noon a the new boxes association should become strong enough to employ em-ploy 1000 men work by that nUn her would b mumcU Today however the strike leaden say that under 10 circumstances will any of the men b allowed to return to work until bosses representing teveneighths of the employ Ing capacity ca-pacity of the city have given Inand recegnld the union It I not likely that this will b done coon The citizens commIttee appointed to bring about a ttlement c the trouble have given up the Idea of a conference with the striken owing to this radical change In their position posi-tion tionSamuel Samuel Gompers president of the = American Federation of Labor is in the city and In talking abut the eighthour movement said The labor organlzaUons of the country o devoted solely to th1lteJ SHARON Pa April 22 All the carpenters have struck for nine hours a day In > ted of ten |