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ANOTHER. LEVEE BREAKS. NFAY YORK, .May 24
A New Orleans message stales that tlio levee at Moii'eu on tlie Atlieini'alaya River, despite the efforts to savo it which liave been made lor several days, broke .suddenly Hooding Point Coupee parish arid dooming two million more acres of fertile Louisiana farm lands. No lives were lost. It is believed fifty thousand inhabitants of the parish will evacuate before it is eompletely inundated. Ibis newest break means the inundation of six more parishes and the complete transformation of the rich sugar bowl lands into a gigantic lake, and necessitates the total of 105,000 more persons leaving their homes The break is already a thousand feet wide and is expected to extend to two thousand. The waters are at present rushing through- at thirty miles an hour.
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Hokitika Guardian, 25 May 1927, Page 3
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142AMERICAN CABLE NEWS Hokitika Guardian, 25 May 1927, Page 3
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