New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-05-21
What a Water Famine Here Might Mean

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eli-uses % r. can - seer ss re sros
zsvers row and the- DoTr CT re 1Er
ing lire trey can see nothing sX-ep, =
toz-f.,e smoke TIE Perrsv.ra--a -s---iri
makes : magnificent f-=trsak s-i hol1i
rack TIE Ssrss Ike 2 6s- t-- ---s -nt
~ Sc has eater - "a 1-oI-+ - -
-r= Hra goes over a. sooner -- ls'e- az
SWEEPS re cry clean For c1-s. t1srs
~ vice T. re Terseri'in. Ire re toss ~
take hush money.
First i vas criv t.0rz nat va
threatened swiftly re 6re ears re va
cas-, and west bslchir- cr- across ~
9-ehresk sowing i-s burning bands troit
cast over re buildings b-t srerFNas'
there ara men watching o. tr= roots-ne-
AMI now hey have water fro-- re i,si
haus-itlA river whole burning umS'
plunge through skyl,Ehrs. fires start
Yards and IN roots and smoke Slsaes
IA beyond Tire dynamite i-e SUI u'|
lighters have taken fresh heart Tiin vi
news from the front. AMI new volcn'ss'
are coming every minute Somehow
other. with pals - IRE eXt-Elisaes
high pressure streams the 1.aIes
cue-chei ore hy one
IT az the frehrsak rnen who ave ih''
themselves unceasingiy 70 ff,y and 81
hours collapse and die. and le Vhese ..
have fallen. 4 hundred times re 'uiAa.
facing the fra have burst into ZANE
every time battsry % streams has =
th4 neishborins structures safe An''-
-
fagrstion has spent i;s force InsN
promise q saving the rest 4 me ioSh
by morning the worst Is over MI"
ruins are sin burning fsrcey. ne
stiil lights Up TIRE whole SKY ~, ihe's
no more flying embers. and TIE pr"
beats across the hrebreas Vii nAl1''
ter q mans haired face. 4
The people o. New YORK are sea'ss
to the four winds Hundreds 81, tno-s
@. --thersd Al the Battery ans Dlf
Park OF -oam through ire ooN'~s
streets. romeless and penni.ess. r,x
stream yoars back into the teseI'e- =.
SIDE In Brooklyn mere are
refugees from Manhattan. ~
Men without wives and woaea vs.,
children rush from hospital 90 hosl "a
oesiege the depots thai have 0eS- 49,.
ushed for fLruislus lO-l ana -
searching for their lost. The c..y " -,
martial law. The regular arry tAAss
mand Of the whole situation. E'dl
in Brooklyn has lodsers g-arteF'' ii
according 10 the number o. UN
Warehouses are seized and parties
diers ccnnscate the food IN shops sh' ~
kets RaticnS Of food and water H-' rss-
out AZ the quartermaster : tepo's ~,
sands sleep on desks in the gte'' ,,e
tan downtown Office buudinss an ID
sands more in the open air 81 inc
Food. clothing and drinhins water w
every train ana steamer. IA
SO. slowly. New York taxes up '..,,c
OF plecins together civilization I'D
a CITY North from sd street Ma. a
stretches. one black. smoking n'-" I'D
a vast ridge OF volcano. SCARED VIM s,.s2
red seams marked with fantssW,
ened towers. lts heat beats -.
shores of It's rivers It's smoke Fc'" :, n
sunset az Charleston and haEans 90
ine thing is on /, and no life can
there IL will take days FOX tie .a,
cool ard years for the city % NV n
on the heels Of the sale that nSs "A
swept New York from the face Of wv
there comes a driving rain.
All this sounds Ike the ns'f"n
sick mans dream. does Il no'. az
other hand. is IL not worth whie ,,ss
Workers TO ala the Water Conrn's 80