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service in the ^v.^pon-tan area was knocked out for 4,600 customers. This service was also being restored. Betsy crippled telephone service for some 351,000 families in Louisiana.
All major arteries in New
three 'tP'* of water was reported iome sections, although most residetns decided to remain in their homes.
Edward L. Lennox, Orleans Levee Board president, said a “three-foot backlash tide” near
throughout the day.
Ninth Ward Area Has Nightmare
sheriff . 0f Ascension , Paris#, cdmmands this task! force. * McKeithen said there wa\ no damage at Grand Isle an< except for the lower sections o: St. Bernard, that parish escapec experi
and Fi*>rt Jackson. t •
Gov. McKeithen terme s damage in Plaquemines as ■unbelievable.”
He said:
“The thing in Plaquemines
Orleans were open for traffic the U.S. Coast Guard barracks	the heavy flooding it
nT1! th6o/ay tM°tnday’ but at ^ f,ont was resP°nsible Sulphur south are just in the enced during Betsy.
U.S Hwy. 90, past its junction	for the break.	'march ”	t-
with U.S. Hwy. 11, was closed He said that much of the 1 dIf‘p pnvprrinr	.... that Damage Extensive
because of debris. Work crews''flooding was: also due to ram	|gs extensiye . SUd „ in Bogalusa
were clearing the fallen trees, and other	“The	damage was very ex
primary cause of the flooding. :d“® !if as0 tensive in B°Salusa- worse thai ^ .	damage m	s ® SHi ^ OTe ^ „
Water Driven	|es®e^; *?e	1	!?a11 Gov- ,Joh”	trees	down.”
r t i	Bell Williams	of	Mississippi and
However, residents of the °ut of Lake	offer the state’s help. “That is,” In Slidell, the governor said
JvTinth Ward, in particular those He said that strong norther- he said, “if we have any help to there was some flooding and ex pn either side of the Industrial ly winds of 90 miles an hour spare.”
Canal, suffered perhaps the first lashed the levee area, and Referring to lower
tensive wind damage, and hi Pla-;said 100 National Guardsmei
worst living nightmare during then winds swung to the west, quemines, McKeithen said:	been	called out to preven
the early morning hours Mon-driving water out of Lake“It’s utter devastation. I’d say,*°°ting at Bogalusa.
House Driven Over Rail Tracks by Storm
of
clay.	;Pontchartrain	into	the	Industrie	it’s	equal	to	that	of	Betsy.” He' Lt. Gov. Charles Sullivan
With the flooding of Betsy al Canal in the tidal wave that said water from the Mississippi: of Mississippi said that dam-----------	■	-	------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- age to the Gulf Coast was “almost beyond imagination.” Streets in Gulfport, he said could not be traveled; bridge on each side of the city wer out and “big pieces of heav; cement were washed up on thi ! highway.”
Sullivan, whose comment | on the devastation were mad'
■ to the Mississippi Senate, de I scribed how people were pulle ifrom wreckage. In one locatio 1 he said, an elderly man, h .wife and their nine childri iwere pulled from wreckage u jhurt.
In Camille’s aftermath, Si livan said, there was no potab ! water and no utilities. He sa wreckage was strewn all aloi the coast and into South Missi sippi.
In Gulfport store after sto had no protection. Windov were broken and many tff tl buildings damaged, he sai Merchandise was exposed ai a minimum number of office, were on patrol, he reported.
“But I saw no looting <
: any effort to loot,” he said. ‘
; didn't see any panic.”
People, he continue .seemed depressed and wants to know, "My God, what’s ha ipened?”
Mississippi Adj. Gen. Walti ! Johnson, reporting to Gov. Jol Bell Williams, said rescue wor ; ers had been unable to rea I many areas of maximum da i ger.
’ “There is no U.S. 90 left,” 1 said, referring to the heavi traveled highway that extendi across the state near the p. turesque coastline.
WINDS and tide waters of Hurricane Camille pushed this house directly across the .railroad tracks in Gulfport, Miss, Several
persons sought railroad bed to await rescue.
—Photo bv The Associated Press.
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i National Guardsmen Are Called Out
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