Show L ac 1 P T government NT BOAT IS SWEPT THROUGH LEVEE BREAK REFUGEES ARE DROWNED people marooned appeal for help As earth crumbles from under their feet helena ark eighteen persons were reported drowned when the govern ment launch pelican was pulled through a levee lavee break at knowltons Knowl tons landing fifty miles south of hereon the mississippi river according to messages received here the boat was said to have been caught in the swirl of water outside the break as it was attempting to deliver refugees from the bank to the steamer wabash which was passing up the river i it became definitely known here that the levee had broken at knowlton but no communication could pe be established with that district which Is isloa ted from a telephone by miles or more local red ned cross officials dispatched a boat for K knowlton W I 1 I 1 hoping to save others reported t to be marroon ed on the levee top there and in immediate peril the levee was caving it was said and people were crying tor for aid when the wabash passed up with hundreds crowded onto a barge and its decks they were unable to take tha addi additional additions tiona 1 re fugers according to the reports re elved here |