MISSISSIPPI FLOODS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 28 April 1927, Page 5

MISSISSIPPI FLOODS.

DESPERATE CONDITIONS. OUTBREAKS OF DISEASE. Press .Association-Electric Telegraph-Copy right. (Received Thursday, 9.35 a.m.) , NEW YORK, Wednesday. A Memphis message states that, Government officials having endorsed the scheme previously cabled, preparations are being made to cut the embankment on h rid ay to relieve tin* Mississippi flood conditions, as the result of which New Orleans must defray a 'cost amounting to between £400,000 and £300,000, in addition to which the city must care for 3000 persons necessarily evacuated, and return them to their homes after the water recedes. Desperate conditions are now reported in many Arkansas towns, where outbreaks of measles, whooping cough and other diseases are occurring in increasing numbers. Fifteen boats ,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 work. HOMES EVACUATED. (Received Thursday, 9.35 a.m.) NEW YORK, Wednesday. A message from New Orleans states that, carrying all movable belongings, hundreds of trappers and farmers today lqft their homes in St. Bernard, Plaquemines, and the parishes south, of here, ordered to be inundated on Friday, as a precaution to prevent the flooding of New Orleans, and headed for the city. Many of the 4000 inhabitants of the doomed 70,000 acres, maintained an armed watch at the point at which the embankment is to be broken, demanding guarantees against loss 'before quitting their posts. The waters, if admitted, would cover truck farms for several months, drawn muskrats in numbers, and wipe out the trappers’ livelihood for vears. —“Sun.’’