MISSISSIPPI FLOODS

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 28 April 1927, Page 9

MISSISSIPPI FLOODS

LEVEE TO BE CUT.

HEAVY COST TO NEW ORLEANS. DISEASE AFFECTING REFUGEES. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Received 12.10 pan. to-day. NEW YORK, April 27. A Memphis message states that the officials, having endorsed the scheme, preparations are being made to cut the levee on Friday to relieve the Mississippi flood. The conditions are that New Orleans must defray the cost, amounting to T>etween two and four million dollars, in addition to which the city must care for three thousand persons, necessarily evacuated and to return them to their homes after the water recedes.

Desperate conditions are now reported in many Arkansas towns, where out•breaks of measles, ivhooping-cougli, and other diseases are occurring and increasing in numbers of victims. Fifteen boats which were ordered to proceed up the Arkansas river rescued hundreds of marooned families. Mr. Hoover has now arrived at New Orleans to take charge of the relief ivork.

TO SAVE NEW ORLEANS.

70,000 ACRES TO BE FLOODED,

ReeeWed 12.10 p.m. to-day. NEW YORK, .April 27,

A message from NeAv Orleans states that, carrying all movable belongings, hundreds of trappers' and farmers today left their homes at St. Bernard. Plaquemines and parishes south of here, which have ordered to be inundated on Friday, as a precaution to prevent the flooding of NeAv Orleans, and fire headed for the city. Many of the four thousand owners of the doomed seventy thousand acres, maintained an armed watch at the point at which the levee is to he broken, demanding guarantees against loss before quitting their posts. The Avater, if admitted, AA r ould eoA r er truck farms for several months droAvn muskrats in numbers and wipe out the trappers’ livelihood for years. —Sydney Sun Cable.