Ogden Evening Standard | 1912-05-15 | Page 1 | Hundreds Fleeing before the Flood

HUNDREDS FLEEING BEFORE THE FLOOD New Orleans, La., May 15 Hun-diedo Hun-diedo of persons are fleeing before tho flood In the country just north of New Orleans, on the opposite side of tho Mississippi river. The bleak that came In the west levee last night Is widening and thousands of persons are in the path of the flood. Tho danger of loss of life is small. Approximately sixty thousand por-sons por-sons will be affected. A stretch of territory adjacent to tho Mississippi rhor, varying In width from ten to thirty miles and uu-broken uu-broken with few exception from the Arkansas state lino south to tho SL CharleB-Jefferson parish, approximately approxi-mately 300,00 miles, probably will be Inundated before the new crevasse Is closed. Dozens of villages along the Texas and Pacific railroad, Including Taft Btation, will bo under water before another week passes. The news of the brealc was carried rapidly last night by couriers, telegraph tele-graph and telephone to the thousands of persons in tho affected district and throngs of women and children sought I refuge on tho leveos above and below the break, awaiting the rescue boats.