| Show RIVER LAUNCH SWEPT D DOWN GOVERNMENT BOAT IS SWEPT THROUGH LEVEE BREAK REFUGEES RE ARE ARC DROWNED People Marooned Appeal For Help At As Earth Crumbles From Under Their Feet I Eighteen Ark lIel Helena na n Eighteen persons were r re retorted drowned when the government govern government ment launch Pelican was waa pulled through a levee break at Knowlton's Knowltons landing fifty miles south of hero here on I the Mississippi river according to messages s received here The boat was said Enid to tn have been caught in the swirl of water outside the break as It was attempting to deliver refugees from tha the bank bunk to the steamer Wabash which was W passing up the river It became definitely known here hen that tho the levee lovee had broken at Knowl ton tun but no communication could be es es- with that district which IsI is I from a telephone by twenty twenty- Ave lI fix e miles or more mOle Local lied ned Cross I dispatched a boat for Knowlton Knowl- Knowl ton hoping to save sa others reported to toI tobo tobo I bo be on oa the leveo levee top lop there I and in immediate te peril perU The Tho levee ns caving it was said and people I were crying for aid when the Wabash Wabash Wa Wa- I bash passed up with hundreds crowd crowdS crowded ed Id onto a barge and Its decks deks They I were unable to take the additional re refugees ro- ro fug fug-cl's according to tho the reports received received re to here hero |
