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Show Flood Danger Believed Ovtr New Orleans Contrasting conditions condi-tions were presented in the Atchafal-aj-a river basin as the lagging end of the Mississippi valley flood continued its slow flow to the Gulf of Mexico. The water was falling generally in the westren basin of the Atchafalaya, where St. Martinville, New Iberia, and a dozen other towns have been flooded, flood-ed, while south of Pointe Coupee parish par-ish on the eastern side of the river the flood was rising slowly as far south as the main line of the Southern Pacific railway. Danger was believed to have passed, however, and the weather bureau bu-reau declared in a special bulletin that svhile the new 'water coming down the Mississippi will prolong the inundation inunda-tion in the Atchafalaya basin, from present outlook it will not cause another an-other rise. |