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Show FLOOD WATERS FORM CONSIDERABLE LAKE VETV ORLEANS. !,, . Aprj Cfl. Misiippi lloud asti-r. pourinc thrnueh a break in the 'like near Gib on ' t.aniiir.ff. ba formed a lake (If leen mile, in length an. I manv mile, wide in aeetions nf Tensas and t'no-cordia t'no-cordia pariahra. in Louisiana It. depth at Ita outer edge nan from terr. np thrive feet and near the erevaase it reached a twenty-foot stage. The water had spread oer the town of OoMman. OusSfl, Wateri.roof and Atueema. Railroad trarke in tht. no '. path hge been washed awav. Kight river steamers and numerous launches are bringing hundred of ma rooned persons from the flood zone nd into eoneentratinn ramps. |