STILL SWEEPING ON

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 20 May 1927, Page 5

STILL SWEEPING ON

FLOOD WATERS OF MISSISSIPPI

ANOTHER VILLAGE DOOMED

FLIGHT OF PEASANTS

(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Australian & N.Z. Cable Association)

NEW YORK, 18th May. News from New Orleans states that with tho frenzied flood waters racing towards the village of St. .Martin's, 1500 Acadian peasants, whose homes are doomed are scattering like ants to the highlands. Observers state that waves are sweeping everything aside, and it is only a matter of hours before the hamlet will be submerged. Mr Hoover, who continues to battle his way through the torrent aboard a cutter,' recounted a thrilling rescue of a five-vear-old boy by guardsmen who leaped from the cutter when the child was hurled into the maelstrom from a falling''bridge.; '' ■ j '«■' ' ' ' ' ': The roads to the highlands are choked with frantic humanity, many of whom separated from their families, fall by the wayside, weary, with grief and fatigue... ~.,',, '. , ..".'.