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Show "RISING WATER j IMPERILS MANYj i MORE THAN 108.000 PEOPLE'S, EXISTENCE THREATENED j BY RAGING RIVER i I V3st Territory Will be Thrown In; Pth of Torments, Relief ' Is Rushed j New Orleans A caving dirt barrier J stood between the five "sugar bowl" j parishes of Louisana and the Missis- j sippi flood waters, speeding to the Gulf of Mexico down the Atchafalaya basin, as a huge relief fleet was being concentrated in the lower basin. More than 2000 men still were working work-ing in sodden clothes at McCrea, filling fill-ing sand bags and lugging them into place over slippery paths that led through the mud to new embankments behind the crumbling old ones, tired from many hours of labor in the rain; still they fought on as their women and children moved livestock and personal per-sonal belongings across the Mississippi Mississip-pi river to Baton Rouge concentration camps. Thair task appeared hopeless at times as the raging currents, pounding pound-ing into the rain soaked levees, tore away huge chunks of the protecting ramparts and charged upon the new barriers which had been erected in anticipation of the slough later, however. |