The Sentinel=record., 1912-04-25
MORE LEVEES
 HAVE BROKEN
TENSAS RIVER LEvEES BREAK AND ADD THEIR QUOTA TO
 THE FLOOD WATERS.
A Million Acres of Land Ruined Near TalIula and the Entire Valley Is veritable Sea-No Lives
 Reported Lost.

Natchez, Miss, April 24.-The Ten sas river ievees at Clayton and near Goltman, in Concordia parish. Louis- jana, broke today under the strain of water pauring into that stream from the crevasse at Alsatia, La. Clay. ton, town of 200 persons, is under three feet of water tonight, and by tomorrow the town of Ferriday will be flooded. Backwater may reach VI dalia, across the river from Natchez, Twenty-Five hundred acres will be flooded by water coming through the break near Goltmah Special trains are being operated to Ferriday to- night to remove the inhabitants and moveable property.
 Three negroes were drowned today seven miles east of Gilbert, La.
 Million Acres Ruined.
 Tallula, La, April 24.-From Tal- lula, a sea of muddy water lies in every direction. Only an occasional high spot of ground is above the wa ter and everywhere one looks sldffs and gasoline launches are seen. There is no railroad communication and probably the people here will not see train again for another six or eight weeks.
 Not one life has been sacrificed in this entire flooded territory so far as is known, and for this the people are happy. More than 15.0O0 in Il parishes are homeless, however. and with perhaps 100000 acres of land ruined so far as cultivation this sea son is concerned, the suffering will be greater than this section ever ex- perienced in any past flood
 The loss to railroads will total sev- eral hundred thousand dollars. Near ly two hundred miles of track in northeast Louisiana Is oyerflowed with stretches of the bed washed away and probably another 60 miles of track will be hidden by the waters within another 10 days. A number of small trestles have been washed away. but most of the large bridges and trestles have been saved
 From Delhi to Mounds, 40 miles, the Vicksburg, Shreveport and Pa cific tracks are inundated and 8 threatened washout between Rayville and Delhi may put another 15 miles out of commission at any time.
 Added to the immense volume Of water from the Dog Tail, Panther For est and Rosemary crevasses is the flood from the Ouachita river, which has spread over a wide territory, in undating thousands of acres of fertile farm lands north of Monroe. The Ouachita flood is thus independent of the water from the Mississippi riv- CT crevasses in Arkansas, but within another few days they are expected to meet and continue their destructive work southward through the parishes of Ouachita, Richland. Caldwell. Cata- houla, Franklin and Concordia. Then down in the two latter parishes the floods will have added to their force the waters from the Dog Tail break which already covers vast areas of East and West Carroll, Madison, Ten sas and Concordia parishes.
 Very few towns in Catahoula, Con cordia and the extreme southeast La Salle parishes, within 40 miles of the Red river will escape complete inun- dation and time only can tell what will be the extent of the rise in the Mississippi south of Torras, when the combined flood waters begin to pour back into that stream, through the Red.