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j FIVE HUNDRED MAROONED I ! RUSHING TO THE RESCUE. I I t 1 BOATS AND TRAINS UTILISED. | (United Press Assn,—Copyright.) (Received 10.8 a.m.) | NEW YORK, May 17. j New Orleans reports that another j barrier against the floods collapsed, ) marooning 500 inhabitants of Merville. ;The victims rushed to the tops of the levees and awaited rescue. A relief train loaded with food and 20 boats is" being run through the water towards the town. It will proj eecd as far as possible on the tracks, j after which the boats will be unloaded to rescue the sufferers, J The railroad embankment at Merville jis also crowded with automobiles and ! household goods of the refugees. Boats are being sent in many directions across j the flooded Sugar Bowl lands to rescue j townspeople. Mr Coolidge announces that there is j no intention of calling an extra session j of Congress to deal writh the flood situj ation, believing that the Tvork of res--1 cue and reconstruction is proceeding j with sufficient impetus to care for all | necessities. —A. and N.Z. I
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Northern Advocate, 18 May 1927, Page 5
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