Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1908-05-07
THEY WANT FOOD.
CARING FOR THE LIVING is 4
PROBLEM.
The Injured Are Doing Well and the
Death List Will Not Exceed Eour
Hundred.

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| Practically complete returns FRI. ;,
all portions OF Louisiana. Mississinni
Alabama and Georgia show thai tine
death list in the wind, rain ani alec
trical storm of last Friday. Saturday
and Sunday will not be more Than
400. The number of injured stand
at about 1900, with reports indicat-
ing that number of the persons hurt
IN this storm probably will die
Relief measures have been extend
ed by the United States governme ,t
10 Hattiesourg. Miss. Purvis and 9th
er towns in the four States. In ad-
dition to federal aid the States took
prompt measures for the PROMPT as
sistance of those made homeless bv
the storm and for hospital accommo-
dations for those injured.
a dispatch from New Orleans I'M
der date OF April % says with about
326 newly made graves distributed
broadcast over nearly the entire widtl,
of Louisiana. Mississippi and Ala
bama, the dead in Fridays tornadoes
has been mostly cared for Mt this
time, and it was possible with ac-
curracy to say that the death list
in these States would not exceed $50.
The few who may be added to this
fatalities are possibly a score of the
200 most seriously wounded in hospi-
tails throughout the States. The re-
naming injured number about 1000
were reported on the road to recov-
cry
The gravity of the situation CEN
tered in the problems OF the living.
namely, hunger and shelter. AT least
one stricken town was reported to
have eaten literally its last meal at
that time and was relying on charity
for its supper. Fortunately. the great
territory over which the stricken dis
tricts were scattered left an oppor-
tunity for the unharmed neighbors in
terspersed everywhere throughout
these centres of want to furnish relief
more quickly and effectively than
would have been possible had the dis
raster been confined to one place.
Cities, little and big. on all sides of
the tornado belt made rapid prepara-
tions to ship supplies and men into
the tornado districts. New Orleans
started j money subscription and also
shipped food to Amite. the worst
damaged town in that State.
Amite was the town which reported
its food supply practically exhausted.
Otherwise the little town was making
rapid progress toward rehabilitation.
the primary feature of the restoration
hni hn
dragging trees, roofs and other wreck
age off roadways. The churches, ev-
cry one of which was wrecked were
among the first edifices to rise in
he form OF temporary pavilions above
the ruins
At Purvis, Miss, cook stoves were
about the most valuable assets in the
community. \ few of them had been
brought from the wreckage and un-
der the direction OF the authorities
their use was loaned first to one fam
lily and then to another. Purvis was
one of the few communities still re-
porting fresh lists of injured and dy-
ing, who were found in the outlying
country, some of them in a desperate
state from lack of care. These nm
fortunates were made as comfortable
as possible. So far as known, all were
negroes. Superintendent of Education
T. W. Davis, is ncharge of the relief
work at Purvis. said in describing the
situations:
What we will do largely depends
upon what is done for us. We our
selves have no resources. The debris
must be cleared away, the dead stock
removed, the injured cared for. We
have put on small froce of workers,
but will not be able to continue them
unless money is rapidly forthcom-
ing"