AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 16 May 1927, Page 2

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.]

THE FLOOD DAMAGE. XFAV YORK, May 13. News from New Orleans states the flood waters clipped a great section of Bayou Des Glaises Levee at Bordelonville, in the heart of a. big bend. Engineers and relief workers declare a crevasse is already 150 feet wide. The levee is gradually cracking eastward. dooming so-called sugar howl lands of Louisiana where 150,000 people lived and property worth over ten million dollars lies in the path of the flood. The pent up waters are also' streaming through a series of crevasses between Cottonport and Bordelonville areas, ranging in width irom twenty to seven hundred feet at Moreauville. Small towns midway between Cottonport and Bordelonvillq are under watch. No loss Of life is expected, all immediately affected in the area were cleared of women and children. Farmers themselves manned the levees until the uselessness of the task became apparent. Engineers pro- _ dieted the flood flow southward is at the rate of fifteen to twenty miles a day. Meantime reports from Tensas basin reveal a serious refugee problem throughout Louisiana bottomlands! A wireless message from Jonesvijle states the water there has risen thirteen inches in the last twenty-fotir hours. Refugees were found on rafts and thirty men in small boats are reported near Acmelarge. A number of women and children were on flat boats which they said were without food. These were rescued. A member of the Governor’s staff immediately notified the Red Cross of the urgent need of food and tents in the flooded parishes.

FLIGHT ACROSS PACIFIC. RAN FRANCISCO, May 13. The aviator Giles, an Australian, is here, en route to Vancouver to prepare for a flight to Australia.

U.S.A. ATLANTIC FLIERS. NEW YORK, May 13

The flight of the U.S.A. airmen Chamberlain and Bertrand for Paris lias been postponed till Sunday of Monday owing to had weather. It is thought that Lindfcerg’s flight will also be postponed.