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Show FLOODED RIVER ill III HUNDREDS OF PERSONS IMPRIS. ON ED BY BACKWATER FROM THE ATCH AFALAYA McCrea Crevasse Is Approximately 13Q Miles North W.st sf New Orleans i New Orleans Hundreds of persona !n the upper tip of Pointe Coupee parish par-ish were marroned by backwaters from the McCrea crevasse on the east bank of the Atchafalaya river as sweeping torrents streamed over a railroad embankment em-bankment on which they had relied for protection. Failure to heed flood warnings had kept the residents in the district until the backwaters became throantening. Hundreds of persons were brought out on tho last train operuted by the Texas Tex-as & Pacific railroad, but is left hundreds, hun-dreds, unable to leave, except by boat. Waist-deop water poured over the railroad rail-road embankment a hnlf mllo north of Morganza as the train left. The SIcCrea crevasse ia approximately approxi-mately 130 miles northwest of New Orleaus on the opposite side of tho Mississippi river. The rapid spread of the flood brought consternation to many who had remained re-mained serenly In the threatened area, confident that their homes would not be flooded, and a steady stream of refugees poured from Points Coupee parish Into concentration camps at Baton Rouge. |