MISSISSIPPI FLOODS.
HUNDRED THOUSAND HOMELESS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. New Orleans, Slay 3. The flood conditions in the Lower Mississippi are appalling. Over one hundred thousand persons are reported to be homeless. The water is rushing through a breach in the levees in the Terras district at tho rate of twelve miles an hour. Steamboats picked up hundreds of marooned persons. Preparations are being made at Baton Rouge, the capital of Lo'usiania, to care for them. Several towns woro inundated, and people were rescued by boats.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19120506.2.43
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1432, 6 May 1912, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
85MISSISSIPPI FLOODS. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1432, 6 May 1912, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Dominion. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in