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Show FLOOD ITERS BREAK LEVEES HUNDREDS OF HOMES BEING IN-UNDATED IN-UNDATED IN PLACE CONSIDERED CON-SIDERED SECURE Concordia Parish and Parts of Several Others in Louisiana Covered Natchez, Miss.-Flood waters of the Mississippi river were pouring Into Bouger swamp through four ereyasses to the lower Concordia parish levees causing the backwater that tlready covered the territory to rise at almost an inch an hour. Hundreds of persons per-sons who have clung to their homes as the Eiack river slowly Bpread out over its basin were danger. Crashing through about twenty-two miles below Vidalia at night, the river was roaring through a gap estimated to be 200 yards wide. The second crevasse occurred about one and a quarter miles south of tho Glasscock slough. Waters rushed through the second crevasse between 4 and 5 o'clock Sunday morning and rapidly widened it to 120 yards. The other two crevasses, both estimated esti-mated 150 feet in width, are in the levees at Bouger, eight or ten miles below Glasscock. |