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Show FLOOD DANGERS I ARE INCREASING I Two Thousand Marooned H With Scant Shelter and No 1 Food Await Rescue at H Newelton. H WATER 25 FEET DEEP H Fear Felt That Parish Will Be H Covered by Great Lake One JM Hundred Miles Long H New Orleans, La., Feb. 19. Incrcas- IH ed apprehension was felt today for M the two thousand or moro persons H marooned around Newelton, without IH food and with but scant shelter. Most H of them are negro plantation laborers M who were unable to reach safety when jH the Mississippi river broke through IH the levee at the Buckridge plantation. M The crevasse is nearly 700 feet wide. H A quarter serai-circle with a radius lH of 25 miles is flooded from six to 25 IH feet while beyond this another 25 M miles is covered with water from a few inches to one and two feet deey. H The flood will not reach its climax M for at least a week, authorities pre H diet. Concordia parish, in northeast H Louisiana, Is almost entirely covered tl with water. Great Crevasse Opens. H Below Melville, La., the crevasse M in the Atchafalaya river was reported M having reached a width of 3,100 feet H today. Back levees still protect Mel- M vfllo frnm ihp, brink- flnw IH Fear is felt that the parish of Ten- JH asas, Concordia, Franklin and Cata- IH houla with the exception of a few M high spots, will be covered by a great H lake nearly a hundred miles long and M half as wide, caused by the gathering lH flood waters from the crevasses and IH back water from several rivers. jH |