Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-10-03

Austin. Pa, Oct Shorty before
II o'clock today State Commissioner
Dixon issued an order that nobody bd'
officials and employees of the state
Health department, other state officials
land newspaper correspondents should
lbe allowed in the flood zone. This or
der was issued because the news OF
the disaster had attracted thousands
of persons who have been pouring III
lie Austin by railroad from north ana
south. Not more than 5 per cent, oil
these sightseers have brought any
thing to eat. They have been present
ling themselves at the public commas
lsary in such numbers that the desa-
lutte citizens of the town nave peth
Icrowded out and had it not been that
members of the citizens committee
were on hand to pick out the para
sites from the deserving. the latter
would have had 10 go hungry. Sneeiai
arrangements have been made Tor the
:, ladmission of undertakers and clergy
"a men. -.
proo,ley Wharton. secretary OF the
STATE Hoard of Charities, and Herbert
Ia pack of Philadelphia, the special
apant of the ChIdrens Aid Society
are now making arrangements to care
for children who have been orphaned
III. tho aaod THESE children for the
M present will + put in receiving homes
~ land latar wiIbe placed in proper per-
In manent honf
to In no CAP will any of the children
,inr be put in Aims houses, saiu ~
Wharton fay. ster
81 anfpaIIv effective Sttl
n { toward a Iorganized movement to ex-
nro- t,icate ~ community from its desc
had lation n assuage its grief was ae-
to- comnlis Va today when DIR. Samuei U
cd NV, xata commissioner of health
ea1led meeting and appointed a com
to ,,it,aa Ihich Immediately proceeded L
OF start {rk on a systematic OASIS -
HIS lDixots president of the 1oous co.
les Inn,I Co; NJ. NJ. Metcaif' eeneia
IRE erna ktendent of the company ..
'ht H. general manager OF the bul !,
eaIG s,usauehanna Railroad' ..
XII superintendent; G. y. nay i'''i :, :
liant superintendent
EIs General freight agent rreu
us,I;r general superintendent
Iho poyless Paper and Pulp 70
h., Krebs. forest superintendent.
-. III GOODYEAR Lumber Co.; state Sen
w. + =, Baldwin,: Burgess Mic.'a =
nU nrr;ns of Austin; DIR. Dixon ssa''
ny Ihd Iiert. William Maier ana s'''i
isl he state constabulary. -,
I'D within an hour of the close Oh u
n ot;ps a steam derrick ana iVu nv
i 80 at work in the main street
II village. Telegraph poles ana ios
Torn from the ruins and tnro"
80 while the laborers worked
claar the tracks of the buiiaio
S,souehanna Railroad down the Na'
s lev to Costello.
: A. the same time another hunole
e were sent to Costello, 10 W.
!, l.hro,,gh to meet the crew from
.,ace hundred bridge men q.
arstructing two bridges TO repias
stee, structures that were "as'io
Iway. -, Mid
THE railroad tracks lay III 80
y a,o of the devastated district a'iN' -,
reinforcement is necessary TO sol 40
$ 80 ,rains in. The bread h'o 49,;
: 1r,,,oa for the first time III
n ,oy Heretofore relief haa ~,
.e tho needy ones becai',s .ssa1
: sro,,cb neichbors or friends "a
9 nj, e,,nn,ies today were piaceu, i
,saI,o,ys hall and We're s u'.
Q ,,,,ar. az fhes state eoh stts'' I'm,
,a" ~ name Of the appiican., nc
nis family and his NV, e n,
9 per ~ ~ ,sas,ey were asked. 40 -, -,
fare lns I, way arms -
! |. ~ y 49, rrsa,,-neat. potatoes. colee -
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