Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1927-05-15 | Page 1 | Flood Waters Pour through Levee Breaks

FLOOD t WATERS A POUR pou THROUGH LEVEE BREAKS Rich Ri h Area In Louisiana Attacked By Mississippi sippi Torrents NEW ORLEANS La Ixu May 14 By By The Associated Press Press Press- Mississippi flood waters water's with all the reinforcements of ot the Yazoo the Black the Red and other southern tributaries were assault- assault assaultIng assaultIng assaultIng Ing five south central Louisiana parishes tonight pouring through earthen embankments which crumbled crumbl d before beor their onslaught Hope of ot saving savl g the Bayou Des section a part of ot the sugar sus bowl and the Evangeline country disappeared with the tho fall fall- falling fallIng ing of ot the plantation levee before the attack of ot tho the waters Other breaks at Moreau- Moreau Yule Bordelonville and Cotton CottonPort CottonPort CottonPort Port still sUII had left levee board officials with the tho hope that they the might be able ablo to save a part of ot the rich district With the breach at I in tho the middle of ot Big Bend along Bayou Des work 1 ork orka was a abandoned along the mile 30 stretch from Cotton Port to the southernmost of ot the tho Bend Four Foul crevasses occurred today in Bayou Des and another levee le went vent out at Cotton Port along Bayou Daou Three other breaks had occurred previously one at Cotton Port and two at Moreau- Moreau The Tho affected district is ap ap- approximately ap- ap proximately miles northwest of ot New Nc Orleans and on the tho op op- opposite op- op pO erde of the tho e river lt In addition to the five major breaks along Bayou Des Guises aviators flying over over the district at least I Mt 15 minor crevasses crevasses asses through which the water was as tearing