The Sentinel=record., 1912-05-23
100000 ARE
 BEING AIDED
NUMBER OF FLOOD REFUGEES REACHES ENORMOUS FIGURE
 WHEN ALL ARE KNOWN.
Government Is Feeding Vast Army of Homeless people-situatIon Still Serious at New Roads
 and Morgan City

Mississippi river and tributaries
 steadily falling and no further dis
 astrous creyasses in the levees an ticipated, interest in the devastating flood that swept millions of acres of Louisiana's lowlands and stretches
 of fertile fields in Mississippi and Southeastern Arkansas now centers in the task of caring for the tens of thousands of people who have 1 been made homeless.
 More than one million dollars in cash and a still larger amount m clothing and supplies have been de- voted to the refugees and there IS almost half million dollars in sight for their urgent needs.
 From some sections of the flood ed districts have come stories of distressing conditions but the United States army relief corps and local relief committees have been prompt in every instance in dispatching food and medical supplies and today | the condition of the various refugee camps are declared to be in fair to good condition. Only a few deaths have occurred amdng the refugees and every effort is being made to keep the camps in sanitary shape.
 Out of approximately 170,000 per sons who have been driven from their homes by the floods, the United States army relief corps is dispens- ing rations daily to nearly 140,000 and such of the others as need as- sistance are being cared for by To- cal relief committees. The towns and cities in the hills have without exception almost thrown wide open their doors to the homeless folks and their pastures are given freely for the cattle taken from the log- lands.
 Capt. James A. Logan, U. S. A., in charge of the army relief corps in this state south of the Red river has approximately 30,O00 refugees under his care. They are distrib- uted at various cities and towns ad- joining the overfowed territory in numbers ranging from 80 to 5000. Fifteen thousand are distributed at points in the Bayou des Glaise sec ton and along the highlands between Qpeloueas and Morgan City; 5000 are quartered in towns along Bayou 1 Cross Tete and in the vicinity If Plaquemine; 2,50O are being cared for between New Roads and Port Allen; 5000 at Baton Rouge and g. 700 at Port Hudson.
 In the camps of northern Louis | jana and in the Vieks5arg territory | more than 100000 persons are being cared for and reports received to- l night declare that conditions in the camps are good.
 At Crowley sickness has developed among a number of the refugees and | at Moreauville, in the Bayou des | Glaise section, there has been some criticism because government ra- tions were not supplied in sufficient quantity to feed the homeless peo- pie. Captain Logan yesterday dis patched a lieutenant to Moreauville, 1 and another shipment of supplies was sent.
 Owing to the large number of flood | victims that are being cared for, in some instances many are huddled | together in large rooms and ware houses, others are living in tents aud | necessarily there is suffering, but the army and local relief headquarters declare that not one person has been denied food or clothing.
 There is approximately $4O,000 of the army relief appropriation left and local relief committees have per haps $40.000 in cash and supplies on hand. This combined sum will sui flee probably for another two weeks and 1t will be necessary to raise sew eral hundred thousand dollars more to feed and properly care for the un- fortunates.