Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 217, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1913 — HUMAN SAND BAG DOES DUTY [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HUMAN SAND BAG DOES DUTY

Ralph Blrpas Thrust Hit Body In Hole In Levee and Bavea Thousands by 8o Doing. New Orleans, La.—Ralph Sirpas, a youhg Louisiana boy, lay In the gap of the Poydras levee, holding back the

Water until sand bags could be filled to take his place, risked his ,life, but saved the day when it appeared hopeless to even try to hold the fast crumbling embankment

Ralph Sirpas.