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Show t Rushing Piling to New Orleans Levee PITTSBCBO. Pa., April 10. A special train loaded with steel piling left Pittsburg Pitts-burg st express speed thla morning with Die hope that It will reach New Orleans in time to save that city from the rap-1lv rap-1lv rising waters of the Mississippi. When It became evident that the flood watsrs of the Ohio and Its tributaries would endanger the levees on the lower Mississippi the government placed an nrder with a Pittsburg mill for steel piling pil-ing to be used In strengthening the embankments. em-bankments. Every man and machine that could be pressed Into service were nut te work In the mill, snd the order was lUled last night. The seventeen cars ware loaded before daybreak, snd ten minutes leter ths train dashed a war vvery mile of track In front of It la to be cleared to avoid delay, and what is expected to be the record freight ron In ths transportation history of the country !s under way. . The governlnent officer In charge ot the train expects to cover the distance In time to beat the flood wetera to the points endangered. |