The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-13
NO REST FOR Them
Angels of Mercy at Auditorium
Recalled to Duties.
Over Three Hundred Homeless
Being Cared For.
ALL HAD GONE HOME.
Many Came Back During the
Night.
ALL HAD GONE HOME.
Those Run Out by Shunganunga
Make Number Larger.


Brooks Thomas and Miss Kate Gun
Their and other faithful workers OF the
and l club who had been acting as
first aid to the Provident association
in the flood relief work at the Audi
torium and had been cooking ana
serving meals and caring for the sick
and the destitute all week, dismissins
the last of their charges yesterday,
were recalled to their disheartening
mission by the news of the rise OF the
Shunganunga and the resultant need
of more than one hundred and fifty
residents of South Topeka who were
driven out of their homes by the
flood. Over 800 men, women and chill
dren from the flooded districts or
North and South Topeka are being
cared for at the Auditorium and more
are arriving as fast as the boats and
wagons can get them out of the
houses wherethey are marooned. Con-
tributions of clothing, beds and bed
ding are earnestly solicited. From
Monday to Friday fifty refugees from
North Topeka were sheltered and fed,
Friday the last of these returned to
their homes and at O'Clock this
morning families who had been in
their homes on the bank of Soldier
creek less than twenty-four hours
were again driven out and returned
through the pouring rain to the Audi
forum from whence they had gone
only the day before. They were the
van guard of the army of flood VIC
tins who have been arriving constant
ly since.
Nr Va Of no
citation, "are of course in South To-
peka, where the water from the Shun-
ganunga rose rapidly and without
warning and the people were driven
to the second stories of the houses and
were brought out, first on horseback
and afterwards in boats. They had
no time to save their clothes or bed
ding and they arrived at the Audi
forum wet to the skin. We will have
to take care of at least 500 here and
we need help of every sort. We espe-
cially need bedding for we have only
fifteen cots and very little beside and
all these homeless people must spend
the night here. They have no place
else to CO.
The flood relief work which five
men of leisure to the exclusion of al!
other interests, would have been neg
lec:sI had it not been for few msu.
BEES of the U ami I club who remained
L
iu1n. Today, however, a number of
volunteers came 20 their assistance as
the alarming conditions became gen
orally known. Mr.. w. w Mills sent
eight or ten employees from the Mills
Dry Goods company under the direc-
ton of w. L. Trump to help in the
preparation and serving of dinner and
the distribution of dry clothing for the
drenched arrivals. Mrs. c. L. Mitch
ELL Mrs. Joe Morgan, Mrs. Willard N.
Hall, Mrs. Robert Pierce and others
who had been working at the Elks'
club house preparing for the bazaar,
abandoned the work there, went to
the Auditorium to offer their services.
The bazaar has been Indefinitely post
poned. fs..
The city federation of womans clubs
met with the president, Mrs F. w
Watson, this morning and voted all the
funds in the treasury for the relief
work. The members Of the organiza-
ton also Offered their services to the
Provident Association. Mr.. Robert
Pierce of the Commercial club offered
help from that organization and a
special meeting of the club and the
county commissioners was held at
o'clock this afternoon to discuss the
situation and plan methods of relieving
| it. C. L. Wood of the Glenwood, tele-
phoned the State Journal this morning
| that people who had no place else te
| go would be accommodated free at thai
| hotel where % CT 80 rooms are at theil
service. ]. w. Ripley, Of the Topeka
| Steam laundry. offer to do laundry
| work for flood victims without charge
| The scene at the Auditorium vividlJ
recall that of five years ago when th<
| flood of 1903 gave Topeka its frs
glimpse of such horrors. Men, womer
and children, both white and colored
from the flooded districts are gathered
| there and waiting upon them are theil
| more fortunate sisters and brOt hers
| from higher walks of life. Many OF
| these PEOPLE have been driven out OF
| their homes twice in one week. They
were worn out with the work of re-
! storing order and cleanliness to theil
houses when the river rose and drove
| them out for the second time and
many of them are half sick from ex-
haustion and exposure. There are many
| little children among them and the en-
tire situation could scarcely be more
j