Show HUI HUNG SWEPT DOWN government BOAT IS SWEPT THROUGH LEVEE BREAK REFUGEES ARE DROWNED people marooned appeal for help As earth crumbles from under their feet helena ark Elgh eighteen teen persons were reported drowned when the government launch pelican was pulled through a levee break at knowltons Knowl tons landing fifty miles south of 0 here on tho the mississippi river according to messages mess agea received here the boat was wag said to have been caught in the swirl of water outside the break as it was attempting to deliver refugees fro from in the bank to the steamer wabash lV abish which was passing up the river it became definitely known here that tho the levee had broken at knowlton but no communication could be established with that district which is isloa ted from a telephone by twenty enty live miles or more local red crofit cro si officials dispatched a boat for knowlton hoping to save others reported to be marooned manoo ned ed on the levee top there find and in immediate peril the levee was caving it was said and people were crying tor for aid when the wabash passed up with mith hundreds crowded onto a barge and its decks they were unable to take the additional refugees according to the reports re here |