Show DEVASTATION r rIN IN LOUISANA IS SPREAD BY FLOODWATERS FLOOD WATERS i Racing Mississippi i Breaks Through More Places SO SOME ill WONT WON'T LEAVE YE They Live on Rafts With Their Livestock Wait Wait- Waiting ing for Normalcy N I NEW EW ORLEANS May By ByThe The rhe Associated Press I ion of northeastern Louisiana ver o a L stretch of approximately oUr four thousand square mites miles rapid rapid- rapidly ly y was becoming complete toda today Is as tho madly madl racing Mississippi toro oro through Its banks at two ad- ad additional places between Vicksburg Lcd and Natchez A new army of refugees was lent on the march increasIng the In the great flood to I and rich cotton to sugar ugar caneS cane trucking hardwood 1 nd oil and gas lands were claim claim- claimed ed d. d adding almost immeasurably to 0 the staggering total property properly loss 1000 HC MILES Murky flood waters vaters now cover nearl square miles In Louisiana Arkansas and ippi and the picture of oC desola- desola desolation ion tion prO Is appalling For of miles In Ar and nd Louisiana along the there are aro only scattered 1 laces not under water From Arkansas City almost I down own to a stretch of more than miles as the crow I lies flies flood or back waters are arc SOMI LC LCJ J NATCHEZ Miss lIss May ily By The ho Associated Their Iress pound one deck guns covered with n c their machino guns stored t the holds l S sic I foot 75 coast I patrol boats b ts have turned from rotc their normal activities ot of pursuing rum running schooners and nd are patrolling the flood a tra of the Black Dlack river basin for refugees Among the fleet Is the iO CC-iO G In command ot of II laurice which was here tOday with 39 31 refugees trout fron arid La alter atter a three day cruise LIVE OX OS HAPS HAP'S I Commander Maurice said the majority of the tho people In the area areado areado do not want to come out prefer I Iring ring to on Itt In houses and bans anti on rafts I There are between 40 and GO at Horse Shoe lale laie that 1 refuse to leave lea unless their lIve lIve- stock Is brought out he salt said Leo Lee Lanehart who with his wife came here Iere on the CG said that most of the people In iii the In- In Inundated inundated undated section would stay through the high water They have ha theIr livestock on rafts cows In ono one pen hogs In another and some families are living on rafts with their live live- stock |