Show Nos APOE TO HOMELESS T BREAKS BREAK AN IN THE mississippi 1 1 RIV RIVER E R LEVEES I 1 IN N LOU LOUISIANA isa AN FLOODS VAST VAS T TERRITORY TERRITORY 1 jt it ls Is estimated that tha t T chwe he ee A arbone r hundred an and d twenty T u homeless pers persons ons jn n loucki a in and d mississippi number In increasing creasi ng new orleans another beak occurred wednesday afternoon in the mississippi river levees at terras la T a j on the westside of the swollen kream stream and within two hours feet of t the h eighteen foot embankment had been carried away no lives are reported 1 los t the territory thet lies in the part of the torras crevasse is vastly richer and more densely populated than the millions million 0 acres already inundated while the torras break will give some relief from the enormous enormous pressure against the levees south of that point flood waters are from half a 4 foot to two feet above w the previous high record marks from baton rouge south and prospects of other crevasses cre are 1 grave 1 reports from northeast louisiana added several thousand victims to the homeless list it is estimated th the e government now to is furnishing rations for homeless persons in louisiana and mississippi and the prospects pros let are that this bumbey number will lid be increased by in another week f terrible conditions prevail in th the 0 1 I 1 black river region himang in hi many instances 1 parents and their children have taken refuge on rafts which they share with livestock |