Show ARE PUMPS PUMP USED IN NEW TO DRAIN One fifth of City City- Remains Flooded After After- Fall of 1401 Inches Rain MORE LEVEES BREAK Sev Seven n Others Drown as High Water Continues fN f N NEW W ORLEANS La April 16 The P-The The chug of pumps resounded resound resound- ed through the New Orleans business business busi busi- ness district tonight as fire cn engines bUSI 1 ines sucked water put out ut of Capal Canal street theatres banks and commercial houses after a rain which brought a re record ord fall of 1401 inches last night Almost one one fifth fifth of the city re remained remained rea re- under water of varying depths t tonight night and rowboats Po regularly through portions othe oJ o the uptown residential residential- district The flooded ded area was confined to to an n arcq above Canal street and tind between St. St Charl Charles Clarles es avenue and Lake Lak P ar train Members of ot the New Orleans baseball team many o of whom resided re re- sided In the flooded section were forced to Journey to o. o the he ball bail park parkIn In wagons BA i M E The thousands sands who wh whY Y Were yere r expected expected to attend the opening game gam how flovA ever were vere und and only about 1500 were present Th The lower lower- Mississippi l river levee system came through the rainfall Jn In splendid condition engineers re reported reported re- re ported ST. ST L LOUIS UIS April 16 AP AP Thou Thou Thousands sands of wet and weary men tonight continued their struggle to strengthen strength strength- en en Mississippi river rier against what threatened thre to be be the greatest gre test and most damaging flood i In the nl history tory of the the lower vall vaile y Other tl thousands Dus of men women and children driven from their homes homes' by flood and threat cf flood were were- refugees under th the care of Red Cross and other ther organizations Five hundred r refugees were being cared for In the courthouse and churches at Charleston Mo 2 Additional levees broke today todar r on both the Missouri and shores inundating wide areas but relieving pressure on other levees below MEMPHIS Tenn April 16 AP The The mighty mighty- Mississippi l testing the strength tJi of or levees throughout its more than 1200 miles mUes from Cairo Calo Ill to the sea found additional weak spots today des despite ite the combined combined combined com com- efforts of thousands of jf m men n nand and mules SEVEN MORE DEAD DEAP Here and there the weeping w waters wa wa waters tel'S claimed additional lives s a and t tonight to to- night the death toll stood at eleven for or the the Week seek Seven deaths were vere reported today toda Thurman Burns Burris 17 was drowned at Atkins Ark while trying to rescue his tather father and mother a baby fell into the thew w water ter at t Paragould Ark and died led Ray Rogers 12 was drowned d In Illinois a negro woman and her newborn babe di didd d in a refugee wag wagon n en route to Hickman 1 man Ky and two negroes negroes were drowned at Dardanelle Ark Arl Four i ur persons had Jost ost ost their lives earlier in the week To the thousands of ot acres of land already flood flooded flooded- d' d were wera added a greater great great- er and heretofore untouched territory terri tarn tory today by breaks in levees at Doreno Mo In Faulkner coun county and at Big Lake in northeastern Arkansas and at Whitehall Landing Land Luid- ing Ark on the St. St Francis river Hundreds of persons were driven from their lr or marooned in them railway highway highway- all and teler tele- graph services services' were were d disrupted I and property done doneas as the mud Ia mud laden e waters v te s spread out out |