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Show LEVEES BREAK IN NIGHT FLOOD 101 TCHAFALAYA, FED BY WATERS OF MISSISSIPPI, IS RUNNING THROUGH ALL BARRIERS People In Melville, Awakened, Flee From Danger; New Inundations New Orleans Conquering its earthen, earth-en, man-made barriers, the swollen At-chafalaya, At-chafalaya, fed by the Mississippi flood water, added Melville. La., to the Ions list of towns that have been inundated during the present flood. Leaving Inhabitants viewing the remnants of their town from levee tops as they awaited rescue boats, the waters raced southward and westward to join those flowing through the Bayou Ba-you de Glaises' breaks which already have spread some forty miles down the valley to Palmetto. Palmetto is approximately fifty miles northwest of Baton Rouge. The east side dikes of the Atchafal-aya Atchafal-aya still were holding the waters out of the eight parishes comprising the "sugar bowl" of Louisana, located between be-tween the Mississippi and Atehafala;-a rivers. |