flooding routs 600 in a three-state region

By With Analysis from Monitor Correspondents around the world; Edited by Ruth Walker

April 1, 1980

Franklinton, La.

Continuing floods from the Bogue Chitto and Pearl Rivers, the worst in a century, have forced more than 600 residents from their homes in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. National Guardsmen Monday patrolled in canoes for looters and poisonous snakes.