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Show 16.000 PEOPLt 7 ii Lit? FLOODED AREA Mississippi and Tributaries Continue to Spread Over Large Territory NEW ORLEANS. Ma 4. The Mississippi Mis-sissippi river and Its tributaries con-; tlnu. to spread over a large section of. Louisiana and Mississippi and t..da. extend far from the crevasses and i spillways. Eleven parishes already have felt the effects of the flood, and five Mississippi counties where 16.000 j persons arc reported in need of assistance, as-sistance, are being inundated It Is estimated by Vicksburg Red Cross officials of-ficials that 40.000 will heed aid In that section until new food crops can I. produced The congressional party which is Inveslgatlng the flood conditions proceeded pro-ceeded southward todaj toward Natchez, where It is expected to land late today. Rich farm lands In Rapides and Avoyelles parishes, 60 miles from the .Mississippi river are threatened, ac-. ac-. ui ding to reports received here, bj the junction of water pouring through the crevasse at Ferrlday with backwater back-water in the Red river basin Report ' of the break at Poydras. south of New ' . . . . . ..w. Orleans, S31U me wmcr n. niuuwii-i lng on land hitherto regarded as safe, from floods. The relief situation continued acute, at Harrisburg. La.. Red Cross workers there reporting 6.000 persons driven from their homes Sn St Martin parish and suffering from lack of food, as are thousands of persons who insist 'on remaining with their Inundated homes, |