The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-05-27
ASSISTANCE FOR
FLOOD VICTIMS
Estimate Is that Citizens Aid
Fully One Thousand Per-
sons During Day.
NEED MORE money QUICKLY
Alter Surveying Situation in All Its
Pathos, Those in Charge Issue
an Earnest Appeal.-Des-
ttute Are Many.

/ Dallas, Texas, May eth the
long line of applicants for assistance
yesterday at relief headquarters it is
estimated that 1000 were accommo-
dated. The assistance was given only
after thorough assurance on the part
of the workers that the applicant was
deserving. In this work the ladies
were of special service. They were
tender in the administration of sue
cor to the needy and positive in the
requirement that assurance should
be given in instances where there
was any sort of reasonable doubt
Women with babies in their arms
applied. Many of them had only the
clothing they wore and the children
were wrapped rather than attired.
Small boys toddled along with their
, mothers. The boys wore such gar
ments as they were able to get from
| the neighbors, and generally had
coats and pants of different suits
and both of a vintage more matured
than the present wearers Careful
! courtesy was given to all coming in
/ to relief headquarters at 303 Com
merce street, just east of Field
street. Such immediate aid as was
| imperative was given, yet it was no.
ticeable that the requests We're from
'the destitute and that the needs re-
ported were small. 1t is expected that
larger demands will be made today
and in later days Up to this time,
! 1t is believed, much of the need has
been met by the neighbors.
But the committee studying the
needs of the city and making the
rounds of destitute places reported
that there will be larger calls upon
the hospitality and charity of the
citizens, and that a fund of not less
i than $4,000 ought to be raised.
Yesterdays work brought little
more than $4,000. The several sub
committees of the financial workers
will be engaged again today until
! the required amount is in hand
Bodies to Cooperate.
! Ladies of the city have organized
committees to cooperate with the
work of the men It will be their
province to canvass for clothing and
for food and furniture and to ask
that it be conveyed to the headquart-
! ers. There the ladies are to attend
to the proper distribution of it. The
public is requested to be especially
liberal in this respect as there is said
to be great need of clothing and of
the home furnishings
i Rescue Near Cadiz Street.
Frank Coe, who was a member Of
the crew of one of the rescue boats
Monday morning, said yesterday that
his boat rescued a man from a pile
of lumber opposite the foot of Cadiz
street at about 10 O'Clock. Mr.. Coe
said they set the man ashore and
asked him no questions He supposed
him to have been one of the men
who was on the Texas and Pacific
ltrestle when that structure went
down.
Seventy-Five Mules Drown,
The report reached the sheriff s
office yesterday afternoon that seven
ty-five head of mules were drowned
on a ranch near Eagle Ford. 1t was
said that they were in pasture
which was flooded all over to depth
of six or eight feet in the shallowest
places and that the mules, unable to
cross the barb wire fences, swan
about until they sank with exhaus-
ton.
Pile Drivers Begin Work.
Two trains, carrying pile drivers,
piling, heavy timbers and a bridge
gang, came in from the east over the
Texas and Pacific railroad yesterday
and stopped at the river, where work
was at once begun on the trestle.
which was carried away by the flood
Monday morning. During the after
noon considerable work was done on
the west end of the bridge.
Rock Island a Heavy Loser.
The Rock Island was perhaps one
of the heaviest losers by the high
water. The dump OF that road, which
begins at the intersection of the
Texas and Pacific railroad and ex-
tends several miles up the river bot
tom is, with the exception of a few
yards at the south end. under water
its entire length. 1t appears to be
badly water soaked, and giving way
The dump of the Cotton Belt rail-
road, which is also under water, has
fallen away from the track and ties
in the vicinity of the Dallas Gas
Works.
Engines Out of Water.
At the Dallas Brewery the f1rebox-
es of the engines were out of water
yesterday evening and one of the en-
gines was being used to pump out
the cellars, which were full of water
Finds Cow on Roof.
Deputy Sheriff Allen reports that
one of the incidents of the rescue
work in West Dallas was the taking
} lof big Holstein COW from the rool