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Under the martial Jaw proclamation, chiefs of the National Guard and highway patrol exercise joint responsibility in supervising the area.
The first step, said Gov. Williams, was to quarantine the d area and limit the flow of peo- tl pie—particularly sightseers. ^ Gen. Johnson said his G ■Guardsmen would deal mainly lii iwith police and rescue matters.
!“They’re not going to try toipi 'run the government,” he said.
Mississippi Toll | Climbs Rapidly
The Mississippi death toll jumped rapidly Tuesday with the discovery of 23 bodies in a luxury apartment complex at Pass Christian, The Richelieu.
While Monday, the day after the storm hit, was a day of very limited communications and only sparse reports of what had happened, Tuesday was the day when the first personal accounts of the A storm’s viciousness began to be heard.	0f
Survivors told harrowing,he tales of destruction, personal jpn heroism, miraculous escapes jto and utter helplessness as theyjwh faced the death-dealing ram-;ne: page of Camille.	;
i Don Lee Keith, a reporter forlsin jThe Times-Picayune who ac- jin icompanied the first rescue ifan :workers to make their way to isip) :the Wolf River area of Pass an(; Christian Tuesday, quoted resi- get dents who said Camille’s waters were 15 feet in the area Bet compared with 12 feet during ble the 1947 hurricane.	ne&
Keith described the odor in cilit !the area as “revolting,” due in 0f I large part to the thousands of reqi dead fish that were carried Up 1 ! ashore in the raging waters. ;
! He measured a 3.2 milejvari ; stretch east of Scenic Drive i mot j where “there was not one sin-|wer |gle wall standing that could beiswe :seen from the beach. The road Mis; Js virtually washed out, and R^ none of the piers is left.” fede In Long Beach Tuesday after- he v noon he said that water was,that being rationed from kegs on spot trucks and that there were long'Keit ; lines of people waiting with va- H> ,rious-sized containers. “The ing | people were practically begging'tricl for water; especially for the1 41
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