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Show RAINS WEAKEN LEVEES ALONG the ere river Work of Thousands vof Men Counts for Little in the Face of the Present Adverse Conditions. WATER A FOOT DEEP IN MORGANZA CITY Flood Slowly Backing Up Against the Lan'd Side of the Big Dyke; People Are Panic-Stricken. N.EW ORLEANS. May "It looks like tho elements arc against us." This statement, made late today by Major F. M. Kerr, chief of thc Louisiana slate board of engineers, sums up the desperate light that is being waged to save Louisiana's romaining levees from the ravages of the Mississippi river's flood waters. The situation continues threatening, but there wore nu reports today of breaks in the levees and tho engineers who are directing the thousands of laborers in the fight again expressed hope of victory. Rain Still Falling1. Hard rains fell last night and this morning morn-ing along the river as far north as Torras and showers continued throughout thc day. In the face of these conditions today's labor did not count much in the battle against the ever-rising flood stage. The situation in the Third district of New Orleans, notwithstanding tho heavy rains, was declared tonight to be more reassuring, though the danger of levee trouble along ftretc.ho.s just above Jackson Jack-son barracks and In the vicinity of the big plant of the American Sugar Refining company is sufficiently pronounced to demand de-mand tlie labor of hundreds of men for several days. Work at New Orleans. Further precautions were taken by the New Orleans levee board and city officials offi-cials to guarantee thc uuic.k closing of thc gaps in the New Orleans protection levees above the city. Water from tho Torras crevasse today reached Morganza and tonight it Is a fool deep In some streets of thc town. This water is slowly backing up against lhc land side of the big Morganza lovoe. Tho levee on the west of the Atcha-falaya Atcha-falaya river at Elba, live tulles north of Melville, sloughed off this afternoon and water was flowing- freely over Jt for some time. Tlie few persons who remained in that section were panic-stricken. Levee Goes Out. By International Nows Service. OPEUOUSAS. La.. May C The levee on thc wesl hank of tho Mississippi at Elba, fifty miles north of Melville, went out at noon today with a ronr. The break Is now about twenty feet wide and Is still spreading. There Is no chance of repairing the damage at the break. A heavy rain fell Sunday afternoon and this morning and the break was Inevitable. Inevita-ble. There was no loss of life, as timely warning hud been givpn. Those who did not come to Opelousns and nearby towns three days ago, when tho warning was Issued, came in last night and this morning. The heavy rains have further complicated compli-cated the serious .Mississippi flood situation situa-tion hi thc territory from thc mouth of "he Red river south, where fetiwrU 'and state engineers and Louisiana state officials offi-cials and an army of approximately S000 urn at work In a desperate attempt to save tho remaining levees. Heavy clouds overhang the lower Mississippi Mis-sissippi and rain Is reported falling at all points up the river from New Orleans Or-leans to Natchez. The river i-oso at all points south of the Red river yesterday, a. rise of two-tenths of a foot being recorded at New Orleans during the night. The gauge hero Is now 21.1 feet. Thc rise at Baton Rouge was two-tenths of a foot In the past twenty-four twenty-four hours. |