New Britain herald., 1927-04-25
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homes, before the flood waters from the Sops Landing crevasse arrived, reports to the national guard officials at Greenville last night indicated that few left.
 Urgent appeals from Arkansas City, Ark, related that the flood had swept into the town to a depth of five feet and that 500 persons, in addition to many refugees from the surrounding lowlands, were home less. Engineers discounted rumors of a new break in the Arkansas river and believed the Arkansas City flood was swept over the protection dikc from the wave which poured out Of the break at Pendleton.
 Winchester in Desha county. Ar kansas, was under water from the Arkansas, while near Texarkana. Lafayette county sections were cov- cred with waters from the break in the Red river lcvee at Finley Bend Men and materials have been rush. ed to two places on the main Mis- sissippi levee at Fairs Point where q, slough occurred yesterday and at I Brunswicks Circle. ten miles north Of Nicksburg, where the levee ap- peared to be weakening.
 Floods Advancing | Thousands Of acres in northern 1 Louisiana were going under water | from swollen tributaries of the Mis- sissippi. Refugees poured into Nat ! chez.
 ] A mighty volume Of water tore in i to the lower western section of the i Louisiana delta from the break at Junior Plantation near Diamond. It 1 was estimated that 24 square miles would be inundated.
 | Weather forocasters did not be- liove the break would lessen the i flood menace to New Orleans.
 Meanwhile relief workers reiter- ated appeals for boats and mon.
 Fifteen thousand persons were | reported marooncd at various places and in urgent need of food, clothing | and medical attention.
 Refuse to Leave ! Flooded Grecnville, under volun-
 tary military control, will not be i evacuated. since about 4.000 Of the ] townsmen have declared their inten-
 tlon of remaining in the city with some 6,o0o negro refugees cnCamped . on the Mississippi leveo.
 Additional refugees were arriving there as boats sought out isolated groups in the countryside. Food and medicines, together with vaccineS for the prevention for possible epi-
 denies. have been received Four
 thousand persons were yaccinatcd with anti-typhoid serum yesterday, Three feet more Of water is eN- pect"d in Graenville and the relief
 committee announced it expected
 flood conditions would prevail there for at least six weeks longer.
 15 Women Drowned Fifteen negro women Were drown ed at Wintcrvillc when the house in i which they were marooncd was swept away. These drownings in- creased the known death list in this area to 21.
 Motor boats and skiffs. brought by train from Gulfport, Miss. raced 10 : tn" Leland sector where varying es- ! inmates had between 5000 and 5000 | marooned persons. Other boats 1 plouGhcd their way to ArCola and ! Hollandaic which have gone under ! water, isolatnc many hundreds of i people on entertainments and upper i floors. AdVic"s to authorities at 1 Greenvillo said no lives had been 1 lost at Leland.
 Additional air craft have been ' placed in service, hauling food. ] medicines, making resources and scouting for isolated groups. , River steamers ply the main chan . mel bearing food to isolated cities ! or refugees to concentration camps. i A disease continued it's spread among the refugees quartcrcd in some Arkansas camps while strenu-
 ouS measures were adopted to insure { against epidemics. Anti-typhoil and l smallpox vaccine were rushed to every camp. Orders were issued
 that all drinking water must be | boiled.
 Vaccination has been made con- 1 pulsory.
 Slight Improvement.
 Memphis, Tenn, April 25 P'-A