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Show DESPERATE BUTTLE TO SflVETHE LEES Great Army of Men Throwing Up Earthworks Along Lower Low-er Mississippi River. VICKSBURG, Mlsa., April 10. A great army of men throwing up earthworks to fight off tho sweeping torrent of the Mississippi flood rested on their arms tonight nlong the river stretching from Helena, Ark., southward. The near-crisis of tho last twenty-four hours has been bridged with temporary victory at least. The outcomo of the strife against the tldo now hangs In tho balanco, and apparently with the advantage ad-vantage on tho side of the human forces. Late this afternoon It was rumored the river hud cut through at Giles Bend, above Natchez,, and that part of Concordia Con-cordia parish, .Louisiana, and the town of Vlladla had been flooded. Flood observers ob-servers at Natchez Immediately denied the rumor and said the story had boun circulated in a. general scheme to affect the cotton market. Late tonight the .situation was unchanged un-changed at Giles Bend. There has boen a break In a subsidiary levee, but government gov-ernment engineers say they have the breach under control. Tho levee at Miller's Bond near Greenville. Green-ville. Miss., held strong today. There has been little privation among the flood sufferers south of tho breaks below Helena. Hel-ena. MELVILLE. La., April 10 Another serious break occurred today In the levees lev-ees of the Atchafalaya river and tonight to-night a considerable section of the lowlands low-lands of St. Landry and St. Martin parishes par-ishes are inundated. The new crevasse on the -west bank of tho river at Atkins bayou, seven miles south of Melville, was seventeen feet wide tonight. President Gordy of the district levee hoard tonight expressed the belief that the levee had been cut. There Is only alight possibility of loss of Jlfe, as the flood waters will stretch out over miles of marsh lands without n settlement In Its path nearer than twenty miles from tho break except KreU Springs, a village of 150 Inhabitants. Inhabi-tants. Tomorrow morning, however, the water wa-ter probably will have reached Port Bar-rand, Bar-rand, within sight of Opelousas. The Inhabitants of these smaller towns probably prob-ably will be forced to abandon their homes and go to Opelousas, which Is safe from the floods. It Is altogether probable that large sections sec-tions of the Frisco and the Opelousas. Gulf & Northeastern tracks either will bo washed out or covered with water. |