Show FLOOD COVERS I EIGHT COUNTIES Property Damage Est Estimated mated at as Waters Spread s Il Au rrtH Press GLENDORA Miss Jan 18 The 18 The flung far flood in the Tallahatchie Coldwater and Yazoo river valleys spread through el eight ht Mississippi counties counties coun- coun ties ies today and threatened to invade two wo others Property damage was rou roughly estimated estimated esti etti mated at as the inland sea extends ex- ex tends ends self itself from Lambert in Quitman county to in m Humphreys county a distance of ot miles wherein where- where in n levees are arc strained and broken Panola Quitman Tallahatchie Lc- Lc flore lore Humphreys and Yazoo counties form orm the major flood zone but backwaters backwaters back back- waters are arc spreading into northeastern northeast northeast- em ern Sunflower county and a small area of northwest Holmes county and threaten to invade Sharkey and Issaquena Issaquena Issa Issa- quena counties The western side of ot Tallahatchie count county the main flood area for nearly five weeks today was experiencing a fall In the water level but on the sl side e or of the river four major breaks in the abandoned levees had endangered the lives of oC hundreds of residents who had been unable to leave the Tippo basin because of oC a scarcity of or boats Another main levee broke last ast night on the west bank of the Tallahatchie Tallahatchie Talla- Talla hatchie river in Quitman count county |