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Show ! THOUSANDS ADDED 10 HOMELESS LIST BREAKS IN THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER LEVEES IN LOUISIANA FLOODS VAST TERRITORY. It la Estimated That There Are On Hundred and Twenty Thousand Homeless Persons in Louisiana and Mississippi; Number Increasing, New Orleans. Another break occurred oc-curred Wednesday afternoon In the Mississippi river levees at Torres, La., on the west side of the swollen stream, H lid within two hours .'100 feet of the eighteen foot embankment had been lurried away. No lives are reported lost. The territory thrt lies In the part of the Torras crevasse Is vastly richer and more densely populuted than the millions of acres already Inundated. While the Torran break will give some relief from the enormous pressure against the levees south of that point, flood waters are from half a foot to two feet above the previous high record rec-ord marks from llaton Rouge south and prosK'cts of other crevasses are grave. Reports from northeast Ixniiaiana added several thousand victims to the homeless list, it is esilinated the government gov-ernment now Is furnishing rations for 120.000 homclctis persons In IouiHiana and Mlsaisriippi and the prospects are that this number will be Increased by ."(!. 000 In another week. Terrible conditions prevail in the II lack river region. In many instances parents ami their children have taken refuge on rang which they share with livestock. |
