Salt Lake Telegram | 1920-04-08 | Page 1 | Break in Levee Threatens to Flood City

i BREAK IN S LEVEE THREATENS TO FLOOD CITY 1 la April 8 8 I VI With With more than acres of farm lands covered covered cov coy ered by the risi ng w of the Mississippi the result of a break in the tho levee twelve miles south of Muscatine hundreds of refugees refugees refugees refu refu- gees flocked into M Muscatine to today today to- to 1 day by every available road their wagons piled high with their their- belongings Every available man man- manis is engaged engaged engaged en en- in strengthening the levees near Muscatine Should these give way the city would be flooded The several thousand thousand thousand thou thou- I sand persons in the lower end of I Muscatine are preparing to abandon their homes I