The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-03
CASH FLOWS IN.
Relief for Stricken Pennsylvania
Community Pouring In.
Thirty Two Known Dead at Aus
tin and 81 at Missing.
FINDING THE BODIES.
Mother and Two Children Taken
From Wreckage.
State COnstabulary Is Policing
Flood District.
FINDING THE BODIES.

Austin, Pa, Oct. 3-Relief work
OF tne night and early morning re-
veaied no new horrors and Austin to-
day believes that it knows the
worst of the calamity that overwhelTns
ed 1t Saturday afternoon when the
waters of the broken BayIess dam
swept the valley. The list of known
dead stood this morning at 80 while
missing.
Effective organized relief is well
under way and help is being offered
from many communities in the state
commissioner Dixon of the state
health department says that money
men and food supplies are in great de-
mand.
Philadelphia sent word that $4,000
had been raised and was on the Way.
Dubois, Pa, had $50 volunteers ana
200 1aborers that would be in This p1ie
morning, while Wellsboro. Pa. had
raised $4,000 in a few hours and had
dlspatched the cash in an automobile
The cash is needed largely in trans
porting the afflicted to friends and
relatives In other parts of the coun-
More laborers on the state payroll
nave been ordered in this morning.
they will bring their supplies with
It was definitely learned today that
costello does not need aid The CIT
liens are able to care for any in dis
tress. having several warehouses of
needfuI supplies and all the money
needed. Some clothing for women and
children will be required
Great inroads have been made into
the mass of tangled debris. Beneath
one building three bodies were found
They were those of a mother an in
liant and a child about 5 wears old all
terribly mutilated
With daylight further inroads on
the Wreckage were started and indi-
dor
the week the railroad will be onened
through to Costello, enabling the cart
ing away of useless wreckage
NO reports OF any illness prevalent
because of privations suffered have
been made to the headquarters Stale
conStabulary is effectively noticing thc
section and through the Vigilance If
this organization eight arrests for
petty thieving have been made. the
accused being comm itte1 to the coun-
ty Jail at Couders,oort for trial.
Eighty laborers reached Austin dur
ing the night and 200 moi are expect
swelling the total laboring force to
500 men. Health Commissioner Dixon
said:
I'VE expect to have the ruins cleared
by tomorrow night. Under no circurn-
stances will we burn the debris until
the last body has been recovered
What We need most is eood. Please
urge the public to send food stIJffs
Two carloads came in this morning.
but 1t will last only today, and our re-
serve is dwindling. We have word
from our representatives in Costello
that the situation there has improved
We expect to send $50 men to aid in
the work there today -
Another Boy Found.
Up to noon one more body had been
recovered from the wreckage and was
identified as Mrs. Preston Wolcott A
charred skull also was recovered. The
body of woman that had been a t
the morgue for two days was identi-
fed today as that of Mrs. McCollins,
sister of State Senator Baldwin,
whose fathers body was one of the
first recovered Sunday. With the great
ly augmented force of workmen every
effort was bent toward the search for
bodies.
There is still need for money and
more food supplies until the emergency
is over. A survey of the flooded dis
trict today shows 1877 homes wiped out
besides 81 stores, four hotels, five
churches and five factories. including
the Buffalo & Susquehanna railroad
shops and the paper mills. About $50
houses were left standing