MISSISSIPPI FLOODS.
9 LARGE AREA SUBMERGED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Rec. April 15, 0.20 a.m.) New York, April 11. Reports from New Orleans state that tho Mississippi broke through tho levee near Alsatia. A thousand square miles of country have been flooded, and thousands of families are homeless. Steamboats have been dispatched to aid the refugees. OUTBREAK OF FEVER. New York, April 12. Reports everywhere indicate tho subsidence of tho Mississippi floods. There have been Eerious outbreaks of fever among the refugees' camps. Six thousand people aro homeless. There have been several fever fatalities and sorao smallpox cases already.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1414, 15 April 1912, Page 5
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98MISSISSIPPI FLOODS. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1414, 15 April 1912, Page 5
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