Evening star., 1927-05-06
RESIDENTS ASK AID
/ AS FLOODS COVER
I LOUISIANA TOWNS
Urgent Appeal Made for
Boats to Remove Refugees
From Treetops.
RED CROSS CAMPS BEING
J! CUT OFF FROM SUPPLIES
, More Than 100000 Acres of
Farm and Swamp Lands Sub
merged by Muddy Torrents.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW ORLEANS, La. May 6.-The
muddy torrents of the Mississippi
still raced uncurbed over northern
Louisiana lowlands today after haV'
ing overrun more than 100000 acres
of farm and swamp lands on their
mad rush for the Gulf of Mexico.
The spread over eleven Louisiana
,narishes continued. Rayville had dis
appeared, and an urgent appeal was
anade for boats to remove residents
from treetops and the roofs OF
houses. Tallulah and Newellton were
being invaded. Delta Point stood on
the fringe Of the tawny sheet. Doz-
ems of smaller villages already mad
disappeared.
More than 1900 square miles had
been covered by the MISSISSIPPI and
it's tributaries in Louisiana as the
giant stream gathered its forces after
their rampage over six other States.
Huge Areas Submerged.
Kentucky had suffered least and
EArkansas most. In Kentucky 39,300
acres were submerged south Of Wick
life. Four hundred and slXty-slX
sthousand acres were inundated IN
Tennessee and 100 900 more in SOUTH
east Missouri, while backwater in the
st. Francis and White River basins
claimed 100000 other acres. Other
hundreds Of thousands acres in MIS-
sissippi had disappeared, but this wa
ter now was stopping back into the
4 main stream to be poured again
through broken levees into Louisiana.
Tributary overflows wrought most
damage in Arkansas and Missouri.
The Black River claimed $4,000 acres
in Missouri and 378 900 in Arkansas.
The Cache River in Arkansas scored
another 6T2 900 acres, the st. Francis
reached over 200 acres and the
White River, below Batesville, COW
cred 640, 900 acres.
In Missouri, the st. Francis was
satisfied with $4,000 acres.
AS the river continued its rampage,
venting its fury upon the parishes
along it's banks, with the waters from
the Arkansas breaks slowly ebhing
over the lowlands to join those from
more recent cTevassessAn IN the Mlssls-
sippf Ievees, they pushed over new
territory to meet the hackwaters
! from the Red and Black Rivers.
Red Cross Camps Cut Of.
Red Cross concentration camps
were being cut off from their sources
of supply and the expanding muddy
pool threatened to envelop them.
lRescued persons became refugees
iagain and gradually they We're re-
a11oyed from Delhi TO Monroe. Seven
teen thousand refugees had been
assembled at Delhi from the flooded
area between Macon Ridge, Sicily
Island and Oak Ridge. The town
of st. Joseph was slowly disappear
ing.
Motor boats and skiffs replaced ex-
bensive limousines in the aristo-
cratic old river town.
In the inland towns. difficulty was
Experienced in removing tenant
farmers, since the waters were
spreading so slowly it was hard for
boats to navigate. Many tenant
farmers were threatened with star
walton, plantation owners said, be-
cause they were reluctant to leave
their homes and had no food.
Vfdalia, seat of Concordia parish.
after three weeks of battling with
rising waters of the Mississippi, was
forced to about face and meet the
assault of backwaters which Were
climbing up the protection levees at
the rate of 10 inches a day.
323,837 REFUGEES so FAR.