Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1927-04-17 | Page 18 | Rain Swamps New Orleans

RAIN SWAMPS S NEW NEVi ORLEANS Inch 14 Fall Flood City Streets Are Arc Like Rivers NEW ORLEANS S La April 16 B By By Tho The Associated Press The fhe chug of pumps resounded through the New Xe Orleans busi busi- business business ness fleas district tonight as fire en- en cines ines sucked water out of Canal theatres banks and com corn commercial commercial mercial houses after a rain which brought a I record fall of ot 1401 Inches last night Almost one fifth of oC the city cit re- re remained remained under water of varying depths tonight and rowboats row boa Is oper- oper operated operated ted regularly through portions of the 10 uptown residential district The fhe flooded area was confined to ton toan toan an n area above e Canal street and between St. St Charles avenue and Lake ako Pontchartrain JEW FEW ii AT BALL n. GAME GAIC Members of ot the New Orleans baseball team tam many of whom re- re resided sided aided in the flooded section were ere forced to Journey to the ball park wagons The thousands who were expect expect- expected ed cd to attend the opening game however ho er e were and only about 1500 1100 were present The Tho lower Mississippi river levee system came through the rainfall in splendid condition en engineers en- en engineers engineers reported Weaknesses which developed de In spots along the line lino above New Orleans were quickly strength strength- strengthened strengthened ened sand bags were used to fill CUI threatened breaches and they still were holding The river rose 4 of a n. foot at New Orleans during the last 24 4 hours It had reached feet teet today toda still almost two feet below the expected At Lutcher the banks are being topped with sandbags Water Yater was as trickling over o the railroad embankment which since a break in the main levee has protected St. St Francisville An night all-night watch was being kept as water ater had reached the lower part of oC the town PIPE X Probably the greatest damage here 11 ere was sustained by Loene's Loews State theatre Located Located- directly across the street from the Saenger theatre at nt Canal and Rampart streets in the center of ot the busi busi- business business ness district the theatre was flooded with two feet of ot water and a a. large pipe organ was W practically lIy ruined No Xo estimates of ot damage throughout the tho city that in any anyway an anyway way could be regarded as accurate or comprehensive were available Observers said sal that half of ot the tho city was inundated by b water from three Inches to ten or twelve o feet deep at some time during the rainstorm St St. Charles street and Canal street were miniature rivers Into which creeks streamed from Crom side streets Sidewalks were sub sub- submerged submerged submerged merged beneath several Inches of water which flowed lIo ed through door door- doorways doorways ways was into business houses DON DOX B. SUITS Many a persons n obliged to t re report re Je port po for r work donned o old ld cloth cloth- clothIng IO Ing or bathing suits and waded through water to such car lines as were being operated Wagons were ere ero called upon to aid In the rescue work as hun bun hundreds of automobile motors stalled when submerged ed by the water One man duo at his office at 7 o'clock this morning reached It at o'clock this afternoon after paying an enterprising boat boat- boatman boatman boatman man two dollars and a a. half hair to row him some two and a half halt miles through residence streets Then wading for some distance he caught a wagon which carried him the remaining distance dL to a a. street streetcar car line which was operating Another man appeared at his office at the usual time attired In his boots and old trousers surmounted by b a whito white shirt and well pressed coat