The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1897-04-07
REAL FACTS STATED.
Citizens Relief Committee Of Aanphii
Makes a Statement
FLOOD WORST EVER KNOWN.
Great Want Among small Farmsri
Along tho Mississippl Memphis
Ovsriarsd with Refugees
From All Quarters
FLOOD WORST EVER KNOWN.

Washington. April Mears r. c.
Graves and J. s. Menkgn. Iep-oslntrg
thc citizens relief committee OF Mem
phis. Tenn, organized f1r tha purpose
OF relieving the people in th. foodai
county tributary % that cIiy. have ar.
rived In the city They have pr plroI
the following statement which ines
viii submit 10 the president
From Marion. Ark. north n Nom.
ph.s 10 Greenyllle, Misa.. there IL nos
a. least 80 towns and villages under
water. and the territory extending from
100 miles north of Memphis 10 200
miles south and Eve 20 forty miles MIDI
is submerged and devastated by the
Hood. Hundreds of thousands of aers
Of cultivated soil vIth growing crops
are Included IN the submerged territory
ane there are from $1,000 90 g0O0o peo.
pie whose property has boan DESTROYED
and whose business has been rn pended
thereby. Tho amount " dlmar.s e
property if lncaiculablo Ia addition.
10 growing crops. which have boon De-.
siroyed. thousands % head of aora.ne.
stock and cattle have been drowned
and starved
The great majority OF sufferer. are
small farmers. mostly uor-1-s who
with the present crop DESTROYED and
their working stock aud i.mlnr tools
swept away arr lei, utterly destitute
ana are unprepared 20 begin work
again even after the foods subsidized
The extent q suffering has grown b..
yond tie capacity ~ the local auth8fi.
iie7 and of private local chart.ss t5 r..
hevt The Citizens Relief committee o,
Memphis are n0v caring f8r irsm C5o5l
10 1000 refugees from the n8oIed ais.
'rici and they are siill arriving by blst'
loads every day ln addition to tt.s
large supplies Of prov s.ous are being
sent 20 various points .u Arta. 1s ana
Mississippi vhor 90 is possible tr rsu.
gees 20 b. cared f0r ou higher Ground
and 10 relief blrEes Tho utmost thafI
can b. done BY these efforts is .l me-,
ug2hly and temporarily n.Is.s bal
present suffering The crmm...a INV.
found it very difficult ana very cosiig
TO reach sufferers living lu ths interior
Who can only De- reached ty skis mn
Grated with neht daueht u.,mrrs
that can leave main river ,rsmpb.s
being The Only p9In, ou h.gh r-1und f5-l
about go niles north and r5utb BE-
necessarily has become place of rsf
uge Tor al seekIug 20 escape hs gertl
10 thar locality.
THIS hood is the r-saur and m5s.
destructive that has ever Javssa.,fI
Mississippi valley. water being %. f.t|
higher than me hlghe, aass IL b.s|
ever reached before
The relis' comm..ts. Is .h8,Brtly /
organized Tor che purpose o., J.sr.b- /
uuns 20 The people tributary 90 the t---
fl'ory and willing TO DO everything M I
'heir power 20 mend but h.v now
have almost reached the end ~ ,ba.r|
resources and reluctantly conf hari
inability 90 cope with tbe auarsa|
Without obtaining relic, from ,ao g5y-.
erEment"
Representative Carmack who repre-
'en's the Memphis district ln tha h-u-s
Also signs the statement and -ayse
Information by wire and letter from thsI
overflow district Is entirely a accord
with that made by The committee