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Show RIVER BANK I BREAKS OPEN 1 Mississippi's Channel Is I l Too Small for the ! Swelling Flood H Torras, La., May 2. Women mm scroamlng and men shouting as they M hurried into their homes and seized H their children and valuables in their H mad efforts to reach places of safety, sflH and tho stampeding of animals turn- H ed loose by their owners to seok safe ' -fiM places, were somo of the chaotic con- KH dltlons that prevailed In Torras laat IBl night when tho alarm was sounded 'WB that the levee at the Junction of tho W&l Old MISBlsslppi rlverB had given way. -KFB Although It had beon knownthat sev- Ivfljfl eral weak spots had developed little -Hill attention had been paid to1 this by TCjI the citizens of Torras and they wero ilJH ' caught unprepared. Within a few 1JK minutes after the break had become i ;Bjl known the townspeople were in panic. W Before the streets were entirely sub- jmj merged a majority of the inliabltints I Mt had reached places of safoty. Threo !, hundred women and children were ' Ai! placed aboard a freight train which "Jfe had just arrived in Torras. Theso SJ wero taken to a point below here. MK No loss of life has been reported, SlK but It is feared somo fatalltlos may y,y occur in the interior, as the water is StLJ rushing through the country so rap- Jjl5 Idly that sufficient warning- may not P have reached thoso living in districts IJlL, remote from wiro communication. Mil- Dillons Di-llons of dollars loss will be caused by fc ; the devastation of some of the most &- valuable farms in tho state, it 1b fear- ML ed, by this new crevasse. Eleven mno. patlshes, with a total population of a 12 million will eentually be inundatod M by the break. Food supplies have fg been massed near Torras by the gov- aS ornment in anticipation of a break , ; here an those in charge of the work Ym are proring to give relief to 40,000 ,P people in this vlcinltv. 3" " '.Ihl |