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Show NO HOPE OP CLOSING CREVASSE AT HYMELIA. i NEW ORLEANS, April W.-Hope of closing the Hymelia crevasse was practically prac-tically abandoned yesterday. ' All day a terrific current swept j around the broken bro-ken ends of the cribbing and through the great 700-foot gap In the levee, undermining un-dermining the light piling which It had taken thirteen days and nights to build. The weather bureau expresses the belief that high water will continue In the lower Mississippi j for three weeks or loager. The river here today was 2d.L I i |