WALL OF WATER
FERTILE LAND SWEPT GREAT LEVEES CRUMBLE AMERICAN FLOOD UNABATED By Cable.—Press Association. —Copyright Received 10 a.m. NEW ORLEANS, Monday. The coastguard rescued over 3,000 refugees in desperate plight huddled together for the week-end on the levee near Atchafalaya. It Is now believed that no others are in imminent ejanger. Naval aviators who flew over “Sugar Bowl” lands declared that the flood tide is 50 miles below the Big Bend crevasses. The parishes far below these are being rapidly evacuated and preparations are being made to care for the additional 20,000 refugees from the south and central parishes of Louisiana. The levees at the Bayou of Des Glaises is slowly crumbling and a great wall of water is pouring over the fertile lands.
The Red Cross and other relief workers have planned to open new centres throughout the district for the fresh homeless. Mr. H. C. Hoover, Secretary of Commerce, has arrived at New Orleans to confer regarding rehabilitation plans.—A. and N.Z.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 46, 17 May 1927, Page 1
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