Show hllSStSltlt ruon Litrn Irr Districts Mlbmerc Ilrolllallon Thrntlrnrd VASIIISOTOX April 21 Secretary Proctor transmitted to the House ry Irtor tmnmlll 10u r the report of UieQuartermasterGen eral in regard to the condition of Hairs In the overflowed districts ol 031 James and Ascension aribhes LouIsIana General Robinson says that In tie SL James parish In the elghborhood of tie great Mta ere rave everyUiing Is l flooded for mile and Uie situation Isdeplorablc undreds of plantersliavu I lost f crop and thousands of laborers will soon b thrown out of employment At Grand Point where there were rom sixty to eighty families tie < ope escaped In kklfl and the whole precinct Is under water He recommends instant action for the relief of the suflerers by the United Sbtee There are liable to b In St James and Ascension parishes 2000 destitute within a month wreons mntl l > ron dcluto wlhlu 2JEv ORLEANS April IA gale hiss driven the Gulf water into Lake ontchartraln to such an extent that lie water has covered the shell roads leading to Spanish Fort and Vst Kud and abe submerged the < parccly seUled sections of the northeastern north-eastern suburU ol this city doing to gardens etc some damage gneu ell About noon today the levee rave way above the tupar house on lionS lion-S 1 Wilkinsons ilyrUcGroveplan tionIn twenty minute the break was fifty feet wide and the water miring through In Irreslltble tor pourn rents The levee at that point some thirty miles below the city on the right bank was pretty high and i damage will result I from the crevasse Reports from up river today are gain gloomy I b been raining today and tie JUVKU IS ant a-nt nearly all point but D serious apprehension I Indulged In Xo hireaki are reported except one at Bayou Sam but excl Blurt Arkansas reports that he water wIll alrnset surly overflow the cotton cot-ton terrItory Innorthc3tt Arkansas BAYoU SAK L AprIl 21 1 The levee Rave way at the foot of Fountain ttreetat an early hour this morning A general alarm was sounded and all the people turned out and after hard work closed lie break I was soon found however tat the tirIng river was running over the mont levee and nothing could b done to check It Trot nendouE confusion ensued Every oat > and raft was brought into r uisIUon wits tie greatest haste Jntpr could be seen everywhere and the erica anJ shouts of men women and children working to nave their eifecU could b heard In every direction Not a house In town has escaped InundaUon and rom daybreak until evening It b teen raining bard The low will be considerable l as destruction meetd the eye at every point Two other reraises developed during the day and altogether the proopecta for Rayon tara are not encouraging for rllf from the flood Htrlkliie Curprotrn CHICAGO April 21No progress was made toward a setUement of a carpenters strike tOJY In fact a setUement teems further away than ever J was understood that as coon as the new bosses assoclaUo should become strong enough to employ em-ploy 1000 men work by that number num-ber would b returned Today however the strike leaden say that under no circumstances 1 any of the men b allowed to return 10 work Until bosses reprcsenUn Mven lKhths of the capacity ca-pacity of the city have given In am reccgniztd the union J Is not likely that this will b done soon The citizens committee appolnlet t bring about a sttUemeut c lie trouble have given up the Idea of a conference with the striken owing to this radical change In their lll ton UonSamuel Samuel Gompcrs president of the tp American Federation of Labor I In the city and In talk lug about the eighthour movement said Th e labor organizations of the country are devoted solely to this Ide SHARON Pa April 22Ahl lie carpenters have struck for nlnehou n day Instead ten |