DYKE DYNAMITED
TO SAVE NEW ORLEANS
RESULT NOT YET APPARENT
(United Press Association.—-Copyright.) (Received 30th April, noon.) NEW ORLEANS, 29th April. Stato engineers dynamited a thousand feet of Mississippi levee near Violet, Louisana, on Friday, inundating the St. Bernard and Plaquemines parishes south of New Orleans. Most of the 5000 residents are in New Orleans, which it is hopod will escape tho flood waters as, tho result. A few of the people, however, preferred to chance'remaining in their homes. Two hundred persons, marooned on a dyke which broke near Brunswick, Mississippi, ar.o reported to' bo badly in need of assistance. A message received at Little Bock, Arkansas, from tho Mayor of Gillison, Lake Villake, reported that the plight of nearly a thousand marooned in the flooded lowlands of Chicut County, Arkansas, was desperate. "They are climbing," he writes, "small rafts, floating trees, in water twenty to thirty fee,t deep, or packed like sardines in barnlofts and other places not reached by the raging waters. The number does not include 500 negroes known to bs huddled on one plantation.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 100, 30 April 1927, Page 9
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178DYKE DYNAMITED Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 100, 30 April 1927, Page 9
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