The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1901-07-25
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Tho conditions at ri Reno DO not
justify the many yellow stories now
in circulation relative to suffering and
distress in chat place. Even the El
Reno press IS yellow in this respect
and one paper has gone so far as to
warn people TO come prepared for
the worst"
The fact OF the matter is III Reno
SIS the not unwilling victim Of Rock
island greed. The town is not blame
able for lts congested condition. The
blame falls on the government. But
o-Spife III Reno's forced condition,
the metropolis Of the west side Is be
having herself very gracefully consid-
ering the temptations which beset
her and the stories OF actual want and
suffering are but the vagaries Of dis
torted minds The waterworks at El
Reno were built for a town Of 5000,
and It was but natural that a scarcity
Of water should prevail when the beer
resorts were emptied and fifty thou
sand thirsty souls were forced to turn
TO water Happily the water scare
was brief, and the railroads seeing the
result OF innumerable blunders, quick
ly arranged for the transportation Of
supplies While it is true the sani-
tary conditions OF El Reno may be
bad, this was only to be expected
since the municipal authorities had no
premonition Of governmental exact
ments.
Taken all in an, El Reno is certain
ly a poem OF decorum when one con
siders the strange viclssitudes which
she is passing through. There is
nothing existent, which iustihes such
rank fulminations as the following
which appears in the Chicago Inter
Ocean:
Kansas City, Mo-, July 22-Alex-
ander Henderson, assistant chief Of
the fire department, returned from El
Reno, Okla, this morning.
q registered for myself and for a
friend. en- old soldier" he said, "and
when I had finished I took the first
train for Kansas City There are
100000 strangers in the new country.
and the sight was one of the most
astounding have ever seen. I
wouldn't have stayed in El Reno three
more days for 500 a day. There isn't
any good water in the city, and the
day ! left the beer ran out. Friday
morning at II o'clock seven car loads
Of beer arrived in El Reno, and the
next day at the same hour every drop
OF beer had been sold at 10 cents per
small glass.
People are going hungry. There
isn't half enough to eat, and what food
there is isn't 1T to eat did not eat
a square meal while / was there. The
sanitary conditions Of the city are
something awful If the rush should
continue three or four weeks there
would be an epidemic Of disease, I
dare say, unparalleled in the history
Of the country.
J saw hundreds Of women sleeping
on the ground in FL Rneo. Many Of
them had no bedclothes and used
sticks Of sordwood 70. pillows. There
are numerous tents where a cot can
be obtained for 81 per night The
clothing was so dirty though, that I
decided to stay awake AT amy hour
of the night you can find hundreds Of
persons walking the streets and in
the saloons one saloon keeper told
me that he would clear $4,000, and
Il he could get enough beer he could
make double that Half the time the
saloons have been without beer The
last day was there ] went to the
posto6lce, as I knew there were some
letters for me. got TO the Office and
found line OF people IN waiting at