Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1912-05-01
HOMELESS AND
WITHOUT FOOD
Untamed Rivers of Missis,
sippi Watershed Again
Scourge People
10000 ARE DESTITUTE
100000 Voted For Relief and
Control of Floods
Planned.

tBy Special Leased Wire to New MexIcan)
Cairo, H., Ma y1.-The Mississippi
river here regis cred forty.sevcn feet
today, a rise of nine -tenths of foot.
1t is still rising. the drainage Cis-
tr.ct was under five feet of water at
lrrise and the entire country south
Of here was being rapidly inundated.
Torras, La, May 1-Relief is being
rushed to marooned families in the
flooded territory north of here Food
depots have been fixed at convenient
points for distribution. Terrible con-
ditions prevail in the Black River
section. In many Instances parents
and their children nave taken refuge
on RATS, which share with livestock.
Homeless and Destitute.
w. S. Simmons, who arrived from
trip over Concordia, Catahoula, and
Tensas parishes, says that all of these
were under water with the exception
OF a few towns protected by levees
"The inhabitants are homeless and
destitute" he said. Five thousand
white persons along the Black river
are to in desperate fix. The gov
ernment supplies received there are
inadequate"
Food and Shelter for 10000.
Washington, d. c., May Food
and shelter for 100000 probably will
have to be provided by the war de-
partment for another month as a re-
suit of the renewed flood of the Mis-
sissippi river The destitute are be-
ing turned over rapidly to local COM
mittees, but reports from the army
engineers indicate that the daily av-
erage to be served with plantation
rations' by the comnissary depart
ment continues to be about 100000
anu ll1C SOol 10 1lO,bUU a
Secretary Stimson estimates that
additional appropriations of 100000
for the commissary department and
S150,000 for the quartermaster's de-
partment will be required to cover re-
lief work expenses. To date, the
quartermasters have spent $277,179
e. fpy, u,hi1a q
commissaries have sent $236,000.
Voted 100000 for Flood Relief.
Washington, D. c., May Nearly
100000 more for the relief of Missis-
sippi river flood sufferers was voted
by the House Committee on Appropri-
ations today. For quartermasters sup
plies such. as tents, etc., the commit
tee provides $277,170. The commits
sary department, supplying the des-
titute with food, will receive $4,000.
Will Control RebeIious Rivers.
Washington, D. c., May IA river
regulation fund of $50,000,000 annually
for a period of ten years after the
completion of the Panama Canal and
the annual expenditure of $5,000,000
in the intermediate years, is proposed
in an amendment to the rivers and
harbor bill offered by Senator New
lands of Nevada. The plan contemp-
lates control at the headwaters as
well as at the lower reaches of trou-
blesome rivers. It's advocates claim
that it not only would prevent floods
in all of the great watersheds of the
! country, but would provide for the use
of flood waters on arid lands for
swamp land reclamation and for the
development of water power. 1t is
proposed to spend one-fifth of the
| money appropriated on the lower Mis-
sissippi and one-tenth each on Allan
tic coast rivers, gulf rivers exclusive
| of the Mississippi, the Upper Missis'
sippi. the Ohio, the Missouri, the Sac
ramento, and San Joaquin and the
Columbia and Snake and the remain
ing tenth in connecting the Great
Lakes with the Ohio and MISSISSIPPI
All High Water Records Broken.
! New Orleans, La, May AL pre-
vious Mississippi river high water rec
ords from Baton Rouge south were
broken today and the flood is increas'
| ing three to five inches daily.
Extreme anxiety as to the stability
OF the levees south of the Red River
Landing is felt. Unless sunshine con
tinues the engineers freely admit
they have little upon which to base
hopes OF winning the fight. At New
!! Orleans the river gauge registered
2O.6 feet, the highest water ever OF
ficially recorded here.
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