| Show DEVASTATING TORRENTS T23 Levees Breaking aid Fftllla Yalleys Inundated ThZaaauds or Live Break 11ritib ad Jralj Nes 01r Us trilliw hamlet UUEENVILLE MIS9 March 81 LOll night the levee broke at Bellil LaudluK the water now running wild Bolivar county betweea ro Jile aid OlOnloll The levee Ihoie li about fifteen feet higher and the orevBBie now la over a thousand feet wide There are now four breaks on the Mlisltalppl front hourly uurlug devastating torrents Into this fertile valley The entire Yrzio Miss delta tram A lit tralia landing South to Vicksburg Vicks-burg will be ovelU wed Placed never ailected in former yean will bn underwater under-water In two days Tnouiandt ol livestock live-stock are drowning and Ionia flowing people bad a close sbava for their lives SITUATION AT NEW ORLEANS NEW ORLEANS Marou 31ln the vicinity lilt city the love are In a good oondlllo A mull br11 reo ported oppulle Port Cualmette line bean clod The crevasse reported In the levee at Bayou Thibodeaux will do I little damage aa the water will flow i Into the lake The river al Like I Providence ou Monday marked 41 on the guage 21 feet higher thou ever known before Vttterday Ibo water began to recede The fall was caused by the crevattes on the Mississippi I side of the liver |
