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Show 1 MANY STILL 1 SN DANGER (Sl'l Unless Boats Are Hur- W rie to Flood District jj Many May Die ffif flC New Orleans, La,, May 7. Unless M ' boats aro hurried to remote sections Wi, i ; of the flood-swept country In Polnto m? ! Coupe parish, it Is feared hundreds of 'UP 1 persons will perish. Word was rejig re-jig i , colved In Morganza this morning that ill ' Preat' numbers of people still aro ma-3o( ma-3o( rooncd In Iho country south of the $jl 1 levee breach at Torras. The lack of IPfji ft boats Is a serious handicap. Stories 1 of intense suffering among flood ref-tn? ref-tn? ugces reached hero today. tf' $ Unofficial estimates today placo the m & agricultural loss from the flood in ltf ' ; Louisiana at eight and one-half mll-q mll-q ; lion dollars. An estimate of the other rrftl "' ! proporty loss cannot bo made. Eight ) ? hundred and seventy-five square miles !. of the state have been inundated. I! Cattle Thieves Get Busy. j Morganza, La., May 7. Caravans of '; cattle aro wending thoir way toward l Port Alien out of the flooded territory j In this region. The railroads have i posted notice that no more livestock . "will be transported free, as it has been ij I discovered that speculators, taking ad. vantage- of the farmers' necessities, 5 have been buying up their stock at ; ridiculously low prices and securing M frco transportation to the markets. ft Cattle thieves are active, and many i p farmers have lost their stock. il Refugees at Bunkle. fiii ; Bunkle, Ln., Ma 7. Refugees from the stricken and threatened sections fc of Pointc Coupe, St. Landry and Aver- fnn ' '"ea I'ar'snes ttre flocking here on 0 every train. One hundred Italians, B ' mostly women and small children ) taken from the levee at McCree In I i Polnto Coupe parish, havo been H brought in. They had been camping WK on the levee for five days waiting to ITe be rescued. The task of caring for lt ' tho hundreds of flood-stricken people i coming in to this place, has become J . so great that tho government has been asked to aid. I Hundreds of people living in the i ; back country of Louisiana received no ' warning of tho flood until the torrent ? : swept, upon them. - They took refuge en housetops, in trees and on rafts " ', and now for several days they havo ; been without adequate food and shelter shel-ter from the heavy rains. j Imprisoned by Water. Scores of refugees who were r brought to Morganza in the relief iCi i j boats early today, say there aro hun- ! dreds more to bo taken from their flood prisons. The majority of theso people lived so far back In tho country coun-try that couriers did not reach them. Or, in many Instances, if they were warned, they scoffed at tho advice to leavo. "The levees always have hold," they argued, "why should they not hold now?" ItfM Ono family brought to Morganza iJj t last night has been for days without W ' sufficient food. When the flood came, t tho head of tho house rushed up stalr3 M with two small children and held them P on a mantel all night to koop them iX above the rapidly rising water. At pn daylight the entire family took to the t,U I roof They had just enough food to 0 ward off starvation until the boats gri reached them. "St Tho levee abovo Morganza Is lined with people and their belongings t waiting to bo taken to concentration camps. About five hundred wcro removed re-moved last night to Now Roads, where lll they wore fed and transferred to E Baton Rouge. Two hundred negroes H near Datchclor were brought here JJj enriy today on a government hargo. lit t They later were scut to New Roads. lUf MARKET CLOSES STRONG. fNcw York May 7 After heaviness ln the first hour today the stock market mar-ket inclined toward geucral improve-Y-q. ment. Bear operators raldod United vi States Steel and forced It down to 16-8 1-S in tho noon hour. American Can had a rise of 2 5-S points. St. Paul In the noon hour sold as low ns In the morning. Overnight developments, develop-ments, political and otherwise, were seemingly of little Influence. Tho market closed strong. Selling Sell-ing of Amalgamated Copper threatened threaten-ed to send prices lower In the last hour but tho publication of the government gov-ernment crop report, which was fair In most particulars, gave tho list some stimulus. A majority of the grain carrying roads moved upwards with especial strength in Union Pacific. Pa-cific. Reading scored a further advance ad-vance of 2 points and the averago lov- , el was tho highest of the day. Uul- 1 ted States Steel recovered the great-RS great-RS cr part of Its decline. ;i' ogden wholesale produce mJ' $ . fSelllne Price.) w 5- i ; Ogden, Utah. May 7. Buttor I: ? Creamery, extra, in cartons, 34c; i creamory, firsts, 33c; cooking, 25c; ranch 20c : Cheese Eastern, 22c: Utah, 18c; 1-2 ! : Y. A.. 19c. K ' ; Eggs Ranch, por case of 30 dozon. i i IC.00. B: Sugar Cane.3G.30; beet, $C10. I l I : Sugar and Coffee. ij ; t Now York, May 7. Raw sugar firm ; C i muscovado. S9 test, 3.G5c; centrifugal. ? ; 98 teat, 4.05o. saolasaoB, S9 ttat, ?..20c. !7 1 Refined steady. Is ji Coffee, No. 7 Rio, 14 1 -lc. Futures I?. closed steady; Julv, 13.85c; Soptem- SjSil her, 13.73. m$ 00 I I Kingston, Can., carpenters may a strike to enforce their demand for I ,$3 a dajr. ' - St |
