YAZOO CITY, Miss., Dec. 29.--The last act in the Yazoo City tragedy was enacted this evening. All day great excitement prevailed at Yazoo City, large crowds pouring in from the country.

That old bothersome catchphrase, “better late than never,” certainly applies to the Yazoo Backwater Pump Project in Mississippi’s southern Delta. It required 80-plus years of wrangling with agencies ...