The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1912-05-02

nAAvVap anu tuc eltLiiC PopuAdttvh -
fleeing and a panic situation prevails
in Torras. following a break in the
leyee last night
The crevasse is 500 feet wide this
morning and the rich sugar belt win
be Inundated The loss in this sec
tion is expected to reach twenty mil
lion dollars.
New Orleans, May 2.-Another SER
ious break occurred late Wednesday
afternoon in the Mississippi river
leyees at Torras, La. on the west side
Of the swollen stream where the flood
waters from the disastrous Dog Tail
creyasse find re-entry into the big
river The breaks at Torras occurred
at $3.50 and within two hours 300 feet
Of the eighteen-foot embankment had
been carried away A large force Of
workmen and material were immedi-
ately ordered 10 the scene BY Capt
sherlIl, chief Of the United States en-
gineers and an effort is being made
to check the creyasse by "cribbing'
the ends.
Unless the Torras creyasse can be
closed, Which appeared doubtful We'd
nesday night inestimable damage will
be added to the heavy tolls in prop
erty destruction and devastation OF
farms wrought by the flood waters Of
the lower Mississippi river during the
past six weeks. "A permanent ere
vase at Torras means the inundation
! Of the vast sugar can lands along the
west banks Of the river for distance
OF about sixty miles The territory
which lies in the path Of the Torras
creyasse of three weeks ago. near
Alsatia, La, and is more densely pop
ulated,
While the Torras break win give
some relief from the enormous pres
sure against the levees south of that
point, the flood waters Wednesday
night are from half a foot to two feet
above the previous high record marks
from Baton Rouge south and pros.
poets Of other creyasses are extremely
grave.
At Baton Rouge the Mississippi
river Wednesday night registered AL
fet foot and a half above the 1908
record and at New Orleans at 2 p. m.
teh gauge registered 209 feet, half
foot above the record stage.
The worst is yet to come and Wed.
nesday the weather bureau predicted
thirty-two feet for New Orleans, or a
half foot In excess OF the previous
crest prediction. This would mean a
foot and half more water in the
= river than was ever before recorded.
I Reports Wednesday from the terri.
tory in northeast Louisiana which was
flooded by the Dog Tail crevasse.
added several thousand victims to the
homeless list Several hundred more
in West Felieiana parish were report.
ed in need OF supplies, and from Al
r chaialya and Bayou Des Glaise terri
q tory reports we're received of still
D. other hundreds Of poor people who
e have been driven from their homes.
I It is estimated that The United
/ States government in now furnishing
rations for 10000 homeless people il
n Louisiana and Mississippi and ths
It prospects are that this number will b.
h Increased by 10000 within anothel
e. week
a The federal engineers have alread.
z expended more than 100000 IN thl
Y, past three weeks in their efforts 4
IN save the leyees from yicksburg soan
g but their help came to them too lat
Ie IN many instances.
IS In some instances negroes who ar
N getting free rations snow no disposi
he tion to help in the work ol protecting
ii those who are vet free Ffam tie fas
T. ages Of the big flood and # IS kafa i
gel enough labor