The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-05-08
FLOOD At It's WORST
gsEE g,ssfEE STRICKEN DISTRICT IS VERY
LARGE N AREA.
The Problem OF Providing for the
Living ana Preventing "estIence
Demands Great Deal Of Attention.


The need for relief work N ;he
Mississippi valley increase daily as
the cres: Of the flood moEes ocean
ward. Already upwards Of $4,000
people are being teG BY the United
States army il the district between
Hickman, Ky, and Natchez, Hiss.
Secretary Of War Sdmso0 made an
estimate this week that the Govern
rerc VIII have 10 keep up this work
Tor - days, or Until the food suffer
ers are able TO establish their homes
and begin 10 cultivate their lands.
To carry On This work he has
asked for a total appropriation OF
$500, 600. While the Quartermasters
are feeding and sheitering the af-
eicted ones from Arkansas, louisiana
and Mississippi, and the engineer are
strengthening ard repairing the
levees, the medical department Of the
Red Cross is already planning for
cleaning up tie flooded areas to pre-
vent the spread OF disease.
The food has reached its worst
stages in the e-delta region and It is de-
clarea the loss Of lie will reach sew
eraI hundreds. More are dying from
starvation, disease and exposure than
from drowning in the high water.
Delegates from six states are IL
Washington, D. c., this week to in
v..se the House Rivers and Harbors
committee to be their guests on a
cruise from Cairo, H., to New Or
leans, La, While the Mississippi river
is still raging.
Reports have reached Jackson,
Miss, that over 100 were drowned
IN Bolivar county when the dixie
broke &: Beulah. Tbs county was
never before known TO be covered.
It under water fcoE1 three to TWEEN
| II feet deep. The chief concern CT
the entire district now is the problem
OF proTiding Cor the living Supplies
fare wholly inadequate. Clothing,
bedding, and food are lacking. Ra-
lions are being distributed by the
United States army. but they are IN.
liable 20 reach hundreds in their
places of refuge.
| Gov. Earl Brewer, Of Mississippi
ordered immediate aid sent this week
Ito camp Of 6.000 refugees in Cieve,
land, Miss. They bad retio1s that
would last about q hours. Three
Thousand negroes took refuge in box
cars at Benoit and Beulah with nc
sort OF comforts or provisions. Two
train loads Of provisions and skits
were sent out to rescue them. Tn.
coubtedly the heaviest loss OF life il
the delta region was at Greenvi!le
There many died OF exposure.
| At Roosevelt, Miss, few person:
were drowned IN North Louisiana
this week, a family Of five was res
coed after spending three days on Z
Ehouse roof. They were unharmed
Nearby man was rescued from tbs
second story OF his home. He be.
came insane when placed on the raft
THAT more leyees will break anG
cause still greater damage is no
doubted by the army experts who are
doing their utmost to prevent further
Iloss along the course OF the river.
Rain weakened the caving dixie:
land they cannot hold, it is feared
Most OF the water in the delta terri
tory Will have to go back into the
river, ard with this water eating Al
the breast Of the dikes and water
washing along the back Of the same
dikes there appears to be no hope
OF preventing greater losses as the
force o. the great food spends its en-
ersy in its mighty rush toward the
Gulf Of Mexico.