The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-07-09
RELIEF SENT TO 1.-THE MOUND"
BoATS WITH PROVISIONS WENT
FROM BRooISsHIRE.
Two Hundred Refugees Collected
Thcrc-ScvcraI Are Ill md Mcdi-
cines Arc Needed.


supplies of rations received from Houston
are daily distributed among the flood suf
| fercrs, and the committee In charge Ii
using rare judgment in seeing that no ra-
tons are wrongly applied. The commits
sary is continually crowded with negroes
some of whom have walked for miles In
search of food. Identification in all In
stances is required and tho foremen OF
owners OF plantations In the vicinity are
required 10 make up lists of all their ten
ants, and the number in each family; when
this is done each person therein repre
scented Is allowed IL pounds of meat. G
pounds of meal aud a pint of molasses.
which Is understood to be weeks sup
ply.
There are other sufferers, however, who
are cut OF from the main land entirely.
and 10 these u few noble hearted white
farmers are volunteering their services In
carrying rations. first In wagons to the
water. then in boats over the Hooded dis
trict. six miles distant, to what is known
as THE Mound" This is an island six
miles from land on either side. about 1--WE
acres In area and ten feet above high
water mark II is ana Of tha btoha.,
P''N'' :" VIZ Hooueu uiS''ic' ana Is tue
center OF the DR.. Ross plantation of 1000
acres. all of which is in cultivation. 1t
is located between Iron creek and the
streams u,are ratmrafIy n,,t ar frnn, ianS
on hotb eides 40 Inc a,raan,s s,,,aiIaa ,,,t's
wafer nnd Ind II moi hesr fnr tha .y,st
aroa 80 NH ,te,,'1., 'o' t'ie e St.
drowning wontd baya haa,, ,tre,,,i,. AZ
Gcult
on "rho uo,,dr ara ,ot lac, .ha ON
mamie ne r,arv ho,sas aoa 49, 70 IN
desrrIntion anS Avs tnnn,aora,,tn mn
keen ~, n bo,,lI,e, naort,. I'll 49,, ti,,'a
tbav snffer In Misery ana st,rv.tinn
gror, ,f,,,T,,, ,,,,t,,tr, LII ,,,h,',,
many ~ tbose ,,o,,,i ,,,nr, o,,ttrat,, ,,,t,ta,,
too5 Wy "ie''"'
rho ovipenc,es ~ tbo situation dom,nd.
cd tod a, a,,ca ,d q haat ha.tit,. $50
str,t,ted voc ,nt inta soryIne $500 ,,,,h
r,t,,,ns ,,st yv,dnnsda,, 10, tta,,a,,
Antono IIaIhison "a n Itnnsan ora post
Observation-Disclosures startoS ~ r,ith ~ 49,
anb ro,,r ,s'td,nn aaaGn't go. 'a 49,, 49,
p,.o,,r,,, ~ 'Io,, ~ 49, ,,,s 80;
tbronsb ro,res, ~ tra, 80 "a III
wnod a,d ~ s,a,oh 80 d ~ w u ,a,ii.
,,,1 ,a,,i ALL, n,e,t at $500 s 800
oycood,nsIv nn,1oasan, Soss M ', haa.
,y,,,, oy,oH n,d1irI ,Sra,rb onr, ala, LII,
dioi,nlt, snn,a ,,shira oida 80 ~ 49,.
stolks ~ ,non ,ha a.a,, go ,',,s,a n,.pah
y,iro fa,cos 49, sra,,,,'' nai
and TIA c,,rrant With ,ras nar,, s,,o vu
w. ,mo Iu.,em'' "nis" Was Vo,y stIons
49, ~ ,'ose sn"''oS piaCus, almost pinned tne
IN ,enn ~ hoat go ~ h on'eVs was
,yharn tho o,.ro, 10 ~ uespe9 n,. waso.,
", M"9,v t"e vun,vns WIS s'owes,. ms was
rros, LIS 'p''''''e 'Ner 'no oeu VI iron
~, ~ , .er
,,,sai i'e 80, ris,,, w mounu inc ooa'
cIar,,,s IA GnN c p'anea.ioH, Svo aeres
v,i,,, %, 30 ooo $3.50, SUNS ., IVY "crosi
p,,ai".t, 'Vg AIRES, fenriee >, oo acres,
aa'', - ~ aoies' mliuieolooh 3 ]uo
a - 90 CIV ~ noss oouu acres Al Oh
,l were ehllrely unHer water, ana dur
ms ene erlp nor iess imam loo iarln houses
alu CABINS were hoieu W water or various
uepths' MOST or the houses were filled
with COWS, horses and hogs, while the
snrsihs current rushed through doors and
WINDOWS, making IL IN some instances al
most impossible TO retain foothold. Cat
tie We're seen In every corn field, eating
as long as they were able 10 stand, but In
many cases they weakened and were
swept aaay by the current. The sagacity
of some animals In preserving their lives
either from drowning or starvation was
truly wonderful A hog with a litter of
pigs on an elevated gallery was seen to
swim ffty yards to a corn field break or
an ear OF corn and swim back to the gall
lery, where she rayenously deyouraa n |
Horses we're known tn swln, two miiss ana
reach land Though thrv ware hardly all.
To stand
The tree tons served as catch alIs for