A HUGE LAKE

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 113, 16 May 1927, Page 9

A HUGE LAKE

STATE OF LOUISIANA MISSISSIPPI FLOODS CREST NEAR NEW ORLEANS (United Pres. Aatociation.-Copyright ) NEW ORLEANS, lotfl May. The swollen waters of the Mississippi surged into the Louisiana conn, tryside through! the honeycombed levee along the Big Bend at a rate estimated by engineers to be well over seven million cubic feet per second. Some parishes are already under water, and others are rapidly becoming part of a huge lake, which soon will stretch from ofMexko. 6 ,10rthenl b ° rdor 40 thc of the Ba y°“ Deg Glaises suearw 6 e , vac “ ati . on of the threatened sugar-loaf lands is continuing The hun <lred thousind inhabitants have already left their farms, but straggling groups are still mo ving along the highways'towards the refugee camps. The Governor of Louisiana reports that the situation of many marooned families is serious ~ The river at New Orleans has shown foot S K Bing four-tenths of a bv the w* P? 8t hours, attributed by the Weather Bureau to the effect of w i“ d *t nd tides - Xt « 20 6 feet with the crest. The prediction is that it will rise to 21 feet. Apparently nothing can divert the flood between the leveq Breaks and the gulf, but the crest should have passed into the gulf within niTrt d^ yS ’, after which > unless unel . pected developments occur in the valley>_ **' e * or J , k o£ rehabilitation: will begl”’. but before this happens: another million acres, of lanfl, between 40,000 and 50,000 farms, g a re doomed. .The entire territory must be evacuated, bringing the total dumber of persons forced from their homes in Louisiana alone to 300,000.