Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-02-28
RELIEF WORK
 IS COMMENDED Monsignor J. M. Lucey Says Praise is Due the County
 Judge and Others. THE RAILROADS roo Says Graphic Editor Distinguished, Himself in Giving the Immediate
 Story of Tornado to Public.
THE RAILROADS TOO

Editor of the Graphic:
 l think that congratulations are ill order t1 those who distinguished themselves in the rescue work of th9 victims of the tornado last Sunday night. It was altogether as fine a piece of fiescue work ,s.st could be foundEn the great st2Ihas of Pennsyl- vaEia or New York and will be one of the ml5IsIt effective advertisement S that Arkansas has ever had In the middle of tha night amidst a danger ous df1Wnpour of rain and severe cold, a scene of devastation twenty miles distant was visited by a regularly organized band of physicians, nurses and necessarily assistants gathered at a moments notice and before the dawn of day all the sufferers were placed in a fully equipped E1spitGl in Pine Bluff. It is almost beyond credence that such work was done CT could be done and no doubJ the cor rect report of the affair will hardly be accepted by northe.n newspaper men, Who can scarcely believe that an Arkansas city of the size If Pine Bluff posse ses sapitariums and facilities for relieving the sufferers from such visitation of Providence.
 The char.ty of this work is also to be commended None of the nurses who tok part in this expedition could know Ti-etheJ even acf.ual expenses would be offered them from any scurc1 and as it turns out there will be no earthly reward bestowed ugo1 ttl2m. Nor WIS a thought ever giV- f> fc Of 4hn T. WIS the comrisn impulse to relieve .he distressed without any distinction ef race ost anything elss-an inspira- %ion fthe brotherh3cd of man and the fatherhood-GGd
 Our railroads certainly merit prai.e fir t.,efr energetic work. Special t.ain were sent out by the Cotton Beltf from Pine Bluff for iahe north side of the AEkangsis river and from Stuttgart, on the north side, wieh mag.oal promptness and complete ness Of equipment that are asltclisll ing.
 Judge Philpot merits 'a share in the EOElors of the occasion. As judge of the county he may have felt that there was a call to duty but thele was also evidences of the mighty movements, of @ patsrnal l.'e'2rt and all intelligent mind. The physicians, nurses and ass stanits had sn unus uol experience and the outcome ',e:ti- fies 9 very creditable nlscord ill tEeir @Aeha!f.
 The newspaper wetrk performed by the editor of the Graphic, Mr. Meyer Solmeon, was admirably dine. How ere small Eisl,d could contain all he knew is as the roet says anl'szing To g: 'lei' within an t,l1Ur or two so comp.ste and accu.'ate an iaccoun. of tEe widespread desolation, telegraph the news in time t'.r the morning papers in Little Rock. Memphis, St. Louis snd Chicago s-d then at sun- rise Monday morning set the presses Of tEo Graphic to WCrIk on an extra to be delivered at '2tn early hour ill Pine Bluff was an achievement nCi- by the most famous news paper men.
 lr viewing the marvellous work of tEe rescue party of Hast Sunday night, Pine Bluff is entitled to feel that she has done herself proud on the occas- ion. Our Chamber Of Commerce will | ce.tisl'n.y seq in this event another evidence of the greatness of Pine Bluff. It must be oWrg to eur at ad the pelcular dzcne that it Tiat we can do sucn things. Jefferson count offers an ad l.-Iionai inducement to prospective setblors.
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