MISSISSIPPI FLOODS
Five Hundred Refugees on Crumbling Levee FIFTY MILES THREATENED SUGAR LANDS FLOODING RAPIDLY [By Telegraph—Per Pres* Assn.—Copyright.] Received May 16, 8 p.m. (A&N.Z.) NEW YORK, May 16. News from New Orleans states that practically the entire 50-mile of the levee near Bayou des Glaizes is now threatened with breaks varying in width from 50 feet to half-a-mile. Some 500 people are marooned along a twelve-mile stretch. In view of the instability of the levee at this point their position is regarded as extremely perilous. The entire town of Mansura in the northern part of the sugar-bowl territory, is cut off, and relief trains are being rushed there. Breaks west of the town of Old River are allowing millions of cubic feet of water a second to inundate the sugar bowl lands. Dr. Cline, a meteorologist, has announced that the rise will diminish within a few days, in spite of the fact that the river rose four-tenths of a foot in the last 24 hours at Baton Rouge.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19842, 17 May 1927, Page 7
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169MISSISSIPPI FLOODS Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19842, 17 May 1927, Page 7
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