Show ve F kif I 1 lv IE basti I 1 TION OF pill we learn from a gentle nan of 0 r a ir r tl e who hia lust to tile the C city q rr froin n like e c county wil ass mss iss I 1 by y way ky ot by I 1 covington li L that eliat aike pike county coci nty washington washingto ii st tammany Tami nany and the he ns parishes in in thi this s state slate hive rece beark visited by one of the most destructive fre that ever beed occurred 1 in jn tile the sout southern bern country tl the ran n ced on an wednesday the dinst iid and continued with out ingv rii ion for six day 7 fur thearsa three days it see seemed aed ss as it if HIP flood floo d gate OT heaven i e a V en were opened ind and that a second deluge was ap pro preaching aching on thursday the dinst the Topa saw and mcgeee mcgees creek and all the principal si streams pit ng i in tri that thal section of the country rose eleven feet it in seven hours I 1 several planters with their wagons wag ons on their way to covington were caught ill in the storm arid and baia escaped with their lives leaving their teams on the highway and who the rain ceased the top of the wagons wagon sonly only could be seen the bridges on all the principal streams Etre arris aie are carried away and many mills destroyed the only mill left on nn a any ny stream ilithe in the section bf b country visited by ha the storm is thit that Brasfield of on pearl river river and that ho on y saved by the la of the proprietor in cutting cut tin g away the dams that supply the water power as he saw the rapid lapid rise of the adjacent ent creeks at covington fh th enver rose so high that passengers could step from the steamboat to the lop to p of tile alie principal rec receiving eNing storehouse in in the city the destruction of the crops wa wap immense immense scarcely a stalk of corn or C otton cotton was wais I 1 left eft a stand land ing and in in many places where the corn w was as gath ered ih in the farm ards it was swep swept tavi away ay one farmer IQ a large number of beef cattle penned up in the fields preparatory to sending them to new orleans andon and on the second day of the storm the water rose so high that they were all drown ed our informant states that the roads for sev en n days were i impassable and that anone on one por tion of the road between holmesville Holmes ville and covington lie he had to engage two pilots at the ae rate of t three ilee dollar ana d a half half a niile mile t to ateer steer him and his horse over the right riak t path the afie mail carrier a person named A lexander jorles jones who carried the mail between holmes ville and covington was killed by li lightning 0 on the i instant E edaily daily true delta I 1 |