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Show FLOOD ITERS COVER FINEST PLANTATIONS Army of Men Find II Impossible Impossi-ble to Close the Crevasse al Terras, La., and Are Rescued Res-cued by Steamboat. REFUGEES SEEKING PLACES OF SAFETY Oyer 100,000 People Now Homeless and in Need of Food; Properly Loss Will Amount to Millions. Ry international News Service NLiW ORLEANS, Baas 2. Giving up their unequal fight against the great flooda pouring southward In the Mleaisalppl, u.e colony "i men who for twenty-four hours have been fighting i" close thr- crevasse In the Torres levee were tonight roscued by a steamboat The n..-.d water from the crevasse will Inundate Sections of eight paripbe-v but win he most dca,ructivc In Pointe Coupee, Wesl Raton Rouge and Iberville parishes, A' here nilllion? of dollars' worth of property prop-erty is endangered and the finest sugar and rice plantations of the state probably ,viii bo covered xxlth the. flood waters. The )rVf.p protecting the oonvlcl farm at Angole went out this afternoon and . f.ndillons a.r- most ?oi.iii tonight. Rich Lands Covered, The- Angola break Is across the river from Torras crevasse and less than si uiilrs distant The flood waters on (his side of the river will cover thousands of acres of rbir tarmlrtjr land along ihe east bank as far down as Bayou Sara and St. mranciBVllIe, and probably will return t the Mississippi near Morgansee. More than 10,000 pe.e arc homeless In tbe Terras region, and tonight are flepinq- in panic to higher ground, wliloh In many liistunoefl 1h several mil.-:; lh- tant The Morgan lvce, WblCh In the high est in the world, excepl tWO dykes In Joiiand, ii; weakening, and it Is tc:.r.-.i that il will go out tonight Tor erevoseti Id the Torrny lxe. is nearly 1000 feet wide and it Ih rapidly crumbling. Alarm at Baton Rouge. At Hai.. n Rouge the situation Is causing caus-ing serious apprehension. Although the crest of the flood will not reach there for several days, the river is already beyond flo.uj stage. The federal government is supplying railon-i to Ihe homeless In the flooded area The escape of people from I heir homes has been greatly impeded t.y the idujiipcdlng of animals turned loos by their owners, the frightened horses and i attlo Swimming up lo many of the boats and rafts carrying away refugees Irom their homes. The residents of Toi ras, relying implicitly im-plicitly on the strength of the levee, were taken i,y surprise when the break came. Consternation ensued Before the streets were entirely submerged, however, how-ever, most of (he population managed to board passenger cars that had been kept in readiness and were taken out of town. Several hundred escaped by riding in freight cars. No fatalities have been reported, but il s feared that there will he loss of 'Iff In the Interior, as ihe water Ik rushing rush-ing over the country so rapidly tliat it will be Impossible lo wain all points af- :'.-rt id Thousands Homeless. It In eHlitnated that 115 000 homeless persons are being taken care of; largely through government efforta, hi the rcfuK camps that have been established at various points during the laat month. How many will be added to this number by the Torras break cannot be estimated, but It will be many thousands. Tho gov ernment has made provisions for handling several thousand at Baton Rouge. Pointe Coupee parish Is the heaviest loser by tho last break, but the flood Waters may extend over uLx or eight parishes par-ishes (fourteen parishes had been flooded flood-ed before tho Torras break occurred. While citizens of Baton Rouge were doliiK all they could do for refugees brought In from Pointe Coupee parish last night, they also had a hard light of their own. 'Che water Is within a foot of the top of the bags and It seems certain cer-tain a portion of the city will be flooded. Only ihe wholesale district would he affected af-fected Appeals for Aid. Many appeals for assistance wove sept to Baton Rouge laat night from persons marooned because of the Tonus break, The homeless are constantly arriving :it Baton Rouge and boats and trains are making trips ss rapidly as possible. Although Al-though there win tie suffering among (be refugees before all are taken to Baton Rouge, it is said the. chance of loss of life Ih remote. Last night, a steady rain was softening soften-ing the already Btrained levees and adding add-ing to the volume of water. A peculiar situation exists at Melville, Ii. There the Atcbafalaya river levee In front of Uin town is holding but water wa-ter from a break live mlleS downstrgipi Is backing up r.Jid Roodtng the outskirts it the town. Tina la an old break. |