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Show TEN THOUSAND PERSONS IN NEED OF AID WHERE LEVEES DREAK Hundreds of Volunteers Search for Marooned Families in Vast Flooded Areas While Red Cross Organizes Forces to Provide for Homeless Folk i i NEW DRLEAN'3. Ta.. May 1 I Levee engineers and thousands of workers ;iro preparing a crri 1 nx t ani'thr rise, expected within few dnvi. Meanwhile the problem of phelterln I find feeding refugees bdhtinued nn in- Icreaelngl serious one. I Thousands of volunteers continued n search for maroonej famllbs. I Many residents In the Blnck river, section are 75 mile from dry lnnd and the fac thut they r.m be reached onlv it!i launches and small bowts presents .-i serious problem to the' rescue workers it is estimated that ten thousand people in this district must he eared for. A Red 'ross sta-' tion hns heen established Shortage of tents nd other shelter preAenls a! SerlouS problem At Rhlnebart. Ia-, It Is hoped to care or at least 5.000 refugees. There wn:-- reported to he j serious' food shortage In Issenua county, where a large area has been under water for six weeks and In the district around Yazoo city, MisS. Fifteen hundred refugees encamr'fcd at Harrisonburg, i-i are reported to be practically without, food, owing to interruption of rail traffic. There the situation is made more acute g. the ileady arrival or homeless. NATCHEZ. Miss., May 1. The basin f..rrned In 'tic Louisiana parishes of Qoncordis Catahoula and parts of Tensas. Avoyelles and Lasalle Is being rapidly filled by th flood waters eweeplng through the Crevits.se near Kerrlday. liOinslana und within a week the basin will be level with the main channel of the river. In the vldnlty of Shaw, LJIackhawk and BOUgere the water Is 2(1 feel deep. |