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Repairing The Levees

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Day
23
Month
April
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
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New Orleans, April 20. - The river is 1S.9 above lovv water mark, and the ieeling of uneasiness has nowhere subsided. The fine weather has given ampie opportunity tó make hard work the outlet for the general excitement, and thousands oí men are at work in the oity and Besides the constant strengthening of the banks many armed men patrol the levees at nlg-ht to prevent the other fellows from cutting them. With three breaks in L,ousiana addd to those in Mississippi. the situation should be somewhat relieved for the rest of the section, but the crest of the flood wave has been lost somewhere, and fears will not allay until the gauges show a drop of at least two feet.

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Ann Arbor Argus
Old News