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Show THOUSANDS DRiVEH I FROM THEIR HOIS i BREAKING OF LEVEES FLOODS VAST STRETCH OF COUNTRY IN LOUISIANA. Approximately One Hundred Thousand Thou-sand Homeless, a Doxen Llvei Lokt, While Ech Day the Situation Grow More Discouraging. New Or'-;'mh - -! !! Hertiutm ot fifteui I cu nuiii'i p.ir.Bhe west f tlic Mlss'.-.,!p; I H-or :-o u"..lcr water, four oiher pit rltthc h have some flood water h:iI lire bound to get more thin week. Approximately nu,iino persons have been driven from their homes unci Hhout h d.i.cn II v-H have been lout. Kelugees Hie sheltered In rubliiH, churches and lodge buildings. Every day brings storit s of suffer-I suffer-I iii; In new sections. Some of the leinaililtig levees 0 1 til jf the river from the month i! the lied liver himiiIi are causing ib-cp concern. Millions of dollars' wotth' j of property Ik hi rtake ami thousands 1 of liven would be Jeopardized If sonn of the leg levees gae way, j l.ak of labor, due largely to the unconcern of negroes who have been i drawing i.v i nnu-iit rations, has .Mm a most neiloiH drawback. d'oveuior Sanders has ordered the l-otiihi:. n;i militia to round up Ml') negroes ne-groes and compel them lo do work on the lr v ccs, Nearly all the tie j ernes :eftlMe to work as long an tlicy idinw government rations Consc- , qt,ctiiy "no wink, no ra'lon" wiih' ! the ultima. tun given hundreds of I I able-bodied negroes at Natchez by1 Lieutenant W. K. Ilolliday, In charge I of the supply depot there. j |
