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Domestic News
August 22, 1893
San Antonio Daily Light
San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas
What is this article about?
The Mississippi River's floods and caving banks lead to landslides that obstruct streams, canals, and navigation, causing distress to planters and steamboat operators in New Orleans, comparable to Galveston's issues with its bar.
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The Mississippi is a most unsatisfactory stream. No sooner have the floods subsided and all danger from that source passed than the banks begin to cave and the land slides grow into destructive avalanches of trees and dirt and debris, closing up the mouths of entering streams, choking the canals, interfering with navigation and otherwise making the heart of the planter and steam boat-man very tired. New Orleans is almost in as much trouble with her unmanageable stream as Galveston is with her unremovable bar.
What sub-type of article is it?
Disaster
Shipping
Economic
What keywords are associated?
Mississippi River
Floods
Landslides
Navigation
New Orleans
Planters
Steamboat Men
Where did it happen?
New Orleans
Domestic News Details
Primary Location
New Orleans
Outcome
interfering with navigation and causing distress to planters and steamboat-men.
Event Details
Floods subside but banks cave, leading to land slides that become destructive avalanches of trees, dirt, and debris, closing mouths of entering streams, choking canals, and interfering with navigation.