BANKS BROKEN.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 91, 19 April 1927, Page 7

BANKS BROKEN.

PERILOUS SITUATION. Mississippi Inundates Fertile Shores. SUFFERINGS OF REFUGEES. < By Tress Association.—Copyright.) (Keceived 10 a.m.) NT.W J OIJK, April IS. J lie Hoods due to breaches ill the embankment of the Mississippi Itiver have now inundated the extensive iertile areas along its shores. I'pwurds of 22,000 inhabitants arc fleeing from the threatened zone, in which there is considerable suffprin" from the Hoods. Railway traftic is paralysed. Hundreds of militiamen and volunteers are patrolling the levees. Three hundred poisons were found huddled together on a high knoll in a peach orchard at Uluff. Arkansas, without lood and scantily attired, while the watei s o\crJlowed their farms and lK»nir>. Similar conditions are reported fro,,, Hughes, Aikansas. and from various sections of south-eastern Missouri. Southei n Illinois and Tennessee. Lai go numbers of refugees are streaming into Caiio, Illinois, where o\ei\ available phit-c, including hulls anil vacant buildings, arc being u-ed to shelter tllc> homeless i Ihe Mississippi. Noi th Ainei i, a s gt eat est liver. t halites in its h.vv.i ua. lies liom a sviut.i uiiuiiig iiineut. to a wide sluggish st, cam which is bet tuning liiui with the silt brought down bv it.s trib.ilanes. 1" ]'l event the volume of water lloin spreading out over the surrounding lolintry as its < lianiiel becomes silted up. embankments (known as levees) have be. n I»'U t a oiig its shoies. and these aic gra.l-i----.ulv t«> until the nvcr is actualU Mowing at a much greater height than the counti v it , 'ins. tin i nigh, and seen fioni nelow the liver slcauicis appear to i,e 11 av elhng along the top ot a lull. Should widespie.nl breathes ot. ur in the embankments, vast miles o: highly cultivated, fertile larms would be inundated, and some ot tin* laigest titles m the Southern States would be imperilled.