Breaks In The Mississippi Levee
New Yokk, April 2ó. A dispatch from New Orieans, at a lato hour lust night, says the whole city is filled with rumore of orevaeses. Carofal mquiry and personal investigation reduces tlio number of crovaaeos from which imminent danger is ántícipatod, ! ■.■ 1'. ':.:it,, Walla.ce plantatij Bonnet Carré abovc the city, a i plantation bclow. To-nighl (!. aro rcported under control, leaving the ai Bonnot Cuno alone to be c:r.I [■ iv tlití ilimgcr is great and imoiinent, the waters of tho gréat river rnsbing tlirougb on opening 700 feet'Widü with a rushing, roaring sound, audll) inilí's, plowing a channel ftftyfeetdeep info tne vacant lanas, traile tho Jovco . uinblofl inio iu boiling waters. Pilos fout feel tliick driven t#ent; iuto the gronnd, and paokod with bftjs, iiwny like rc(dtt. Xi c)'ÜOW olöfW the cii-v.-isrt-s, andas Boon as tbo flood hos ent its way into the lakc, (hc tatter wi]l orerflotr the whöle rcar portion ut' the city of New Orleans. iHws is thut Bonnet revasso is st-íU oxteñding, and tli( i ,■. Ive miles nf tne Jtekson Railroad havo been tt'asliöd away. T"wo othrr in , one at Pöint Siansir, vcf ofBtonRonge andem aoowgfcestato, boloff the city, aroreportoá.
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