The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-05-02
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New Orleans. May I-Another 50.
rious break occurred late this after
noon in the Mississippi River levsss at
ToTras. La. on the west s-de OF tho
swollen stream. where tn. food waters
from TIE disastrous Dog Tail crev..se
md re-entry into the big river Tae
break at ToTras occurred n: $50
O'Clock, and within two hours 800 feet
of the e!Ghteen-foot em5ankment mad
oesn carried array. 4 large force o.
workmen ana material were imre-
diately ordered 20 the scene by Cap
tain G Reilly chief of the United
states engine rs, and an effort is BEING
made 70 check the crevasse by CRIB
bling" the ends
Unless the Torras crevasse can be
closed which appeared doubtful to-
night. great damage will be added 10
the already heavy tolls in property de-
struction and devastation of farms
brought bv the food waters of the
lower Mississippi River during the
at TorTas mean tn" inundation OF the
vast sugar cane lands along the west
banks OF the river for a distance OF
perhaps sixty miles
The territory which lies in the nath
OF the Torras creVarse is vastly rich
or than the se"crai millions of acres
which were inundated by the Dog
Tail crevasse of three weeks 20 near
Alsatia, La and il more d.nsciy po7u-
lated.
While the Torras break will rivc
some relief from the enormous pres
sure against the levees south OF tina.
point. the flood waters tonight are
from half 4 foot TO two feet above
the previous high record marks from
Baton Rouge south. and prospects OF
otter crevasses are extremely grave.
Thousands Of Victims.
Reports to-day from the territory
in Northeast Louisiana. which was
flooded by the Dog Tall crevasse, add
Cd several thousand victims TO the
homeless light. Several hundred more
in West Feliciana Parish were report
Atchafalaya and Bayou Des Glaise
territory reports We're received OF
stin other hundreds OF poor people
who have been driven from their
homes.
1t is estimated that the United states
government * now furnishing ratiOns
for 1905 900 melcss people in Louis
lana and Mississippi. and tonight the
prospects are that this number will be
Increased BY $4,000 within another
week.
The Federal engineers already have
expended more than 100000 In the past
three weeks in their efforts to save the
leVees from NickSburS south, but the
responsibility came to them TOO late in
many instances and the height and
force of the food waters have far en-
ceeded the expectations Of every one.
The engineers are continuing 10 spend
thousands OF dollars day, trying TO
prevent further breaks, but where the
fight is hardest they say they ara ex-
periencing great difficulty in securing
labor. In some instances negroes who
arc getting free government rations
show no disposition to assist in the
work of preventing additional ccrvass-
es from the ravages of the big Hood.
Country * Inundated.
Cairo. ILL.,. May 1.-The Mississippi
River at this point registered depth
of forty-seven feet this morning. a rise
of nine-tenths of foot since last
night 1t is still rising.
The drainage district north of tho
city is under five feet of water and
the country south of here is being
rapidly inundated
AT st. Louis the Mississippi River
gauge registered fall OF one-tcnth
of a foot to-day.
on TO the Rescue.
Baton Rouge. May IA small fleet
of boats for the rescue of flood vic
Tins and livestock were dispatched