Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-05-10
BIG WALL OF WATER
TEN FEET HIGH IS
3 RUSHING ON T0RAS
South End of CreyaSse Is, Torn
Away and Wave Half a Mile
Wide mandates New Terri.
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CBy Associated Press.)
NEW ROADS, La. May BY tear
ing away 1.4OO feet of the south end of
the Torras crevasse wall of water
from eight to ten feet deep and half a
mile in width is today bearing down
upon the already overlooked area of
other parishes to complete it's work of
ruin begun week ago. By tomorrow
or Saturday the gap will probably be
a mill across.
New Roads. heretofore considered
practically safe from the Torras food. is
! rapidly becoming inundated. The negro
quarter of the town has already been
invaded. All live stock in this. neigh
borhood is being shipped out or driven
down the levee towards Baton Rouge.
Boats are being built and other prepar-
atoms made by the townspeople for a
hurried exit in event of the flood reach
ing dangerous depth.
MORE RESCUE WORK
This section of the parish being
thickly populated. much rescue work
win be required If the flood reaches
alarming proportions Motor boats
and skiffs are being concentrated here
by the government representatives in
an anticipation of urgent need for them
In some instances the officers have
conffscated boats and are holding them
in readiness. Lieutenant Weeks. who
has about cleared the country around
Bachelor and Lettsworth of refugees,
viii establish headquarters here and di-
rect the relief work
Rail communication with Morganza
has been severed. a washout in the Tex
as and Pacific tracks having occurred
two miles south of that place. Trains
are being operated as far north as
Schwab. a mile this side OF the wash
out, and those of the few remaining
in Morganza who wish to leave are
taken aboard the train at the little flag
station Out Of a population Of 500
there are 20 of Morganzas residents
who have refused to leave their sub
the St Martinville military company
were moved from there to New Roads
today.
SAVING. LIVE STOCK
Farmers driving their live stock in
advance of the hood arrived here early
today from the country around For
doche and report there are hundreds
of people marooned in their homes in
that vicinity in urgent need of relief.
Motor boats were unable to reach that
district yesterday owing to a series Of
accidents.
Judging from the large families that
have passed through the New Roads res
lay station during the-pRst week. there
is no race suicide in Pointe Coupe par
fish. One robust white woman with
Amazonian build had IL little children
strung out, after her when she climbed
down the steps out. of a relief train.
Mothers with eight and nine children
are numerous among the refugees.
The majority OF the negro refugees
who pass through here are as happy as
a crowd bound for a picnic. When one
of the relief trains pulled into the sta
tion here today a negro was seen sit
ting on pile of household plumber
loaded on a fat car picking a banjo,
another rafting a pair of bones and a
group of others dancing on an end of
the car. 49, .ius.r H..
over 1000 refugees have passed
through New Roads during the last "a
hours. ..-.. as 49,
WEATHER BUREAU REPORTS.
Notwithstanding the widening of the
Torras crevasse and the constantly in
creasing volume OF water which it is
causing from the Mississippi Eiver and
spreading over the Iowlands west OF
the big stream. the weather bureau to-
day increased slightly its forecast of
maximum stages in the river at points
south of the river These new figures.
of course, are ba sed on the presunp-
ton that an remaining levees" viii
hold.
AT NEW ORLEANS.
For New Orleans the prediction or
21.5 feet was renewed with the quali-
fication that ff=south winds should pre-
vail here the maximum may reach GAS
feet. ~