Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1913-04-05
THOUSANDS OF FLOOD
VICTIMS TO Be FED
DETACHMENT OF TROOPS AID IN
WORK OF DISTRIBUTION
OF SUPPLIES.
CAIRO NOW IN GREAT DANGER
Six Miles Of Levee TO Be Protected
Protected and Soldiers Are Aid
ing in Work-LeVee Cut.

Springfield. Tl.-Governor Dunno
and Adjutant General Dickson are
preparing to feed ten thousand refu
gees from the flOOd-stricken districts
of Southern Illinois. General Dickson
is planning TO 20 to the various refuge
camps which have been established to
distribute supplies to them. A de-
tachment of troops will aid him in the
work.
Levee Cut Below Shawneetown.
Tuesdays Developments, epitomized,
follow
Leyee cut below Shawneetown to
allow the water to come in gradually
in order TO save the town from de-
struction. Appeal from Epworth, ILL.,,
White County, for state to send motor
boats to rescue persons marOoned in
the Wabash bottoms
Troops being sent to Mound City
forced to 20 to Cairo on account OF
railroad washout and make trip from
Cairo 20 Mound City on tug.
Mayor of Pulaski wires that a band
of one hundred traps is interfering
with work of protecting the city.
All hope of saving the drainage dis
trict levee near Cairo abandoned. and
territory of one hundred square miles
will soon be flooded to depth of five
to fifty feet.
Levee which protects Cairo from
Ohio river in dangerous condition,
with river rising at the rate of one
tenth inch an hour.
Request made Secretary Of War
Garrison for use of United States
boats on which to house one hundred
state troops now on duty at Cairo.
Dayton, Textile situation at Day
ton: Forty thousand persons must be
fed. clothed and housed for a week
more.
Many thousand persons, who lost
their all when their household goods
were swept away, must be cared for
indefinitely. They must be provided
with a few necessary household ar
iicles, such as bedding, pots and pans,
stoves and a few dollars. A half mil
lion dollars could be used in this way
by the relief committee.
Fifteen thousand houses and bus
ness buildings must be rehabilitated
Two thousand houses and other
structures, or what remains of them,
must be pulled down.
Thousands of tons Of debris must
be removed.
Following are some of the accom-
plishments since the flood broke over
the city Tuesday morning:
The water works pumping station Is
in operation but the distribution OF
water is greatly retarded by open
pipes in wrecked houses. The press
ure is feeble but growing stronger as
leaks are checked.
The main sanitary sewer is in op-
GRAFTON, although many of the laterals
leading from houses are clogged with
mud or backed up with water
The flood sewer, separate from the
sanitary, will be in operation this
week. These sewers carry off the
rainfall from the cutters and are need
-
pumped from easements.
Telegraph service is fast catching
I'D with requirements. No Drawer serv
ices have been performed than those
by the telegraph and telephone line
men, who made possible the dissent
nation of news to hundreds of thou
sands of friends and relatives OF Day
tonians. They waded and swan icy
floods and entered tottering buildings
unhesitatingly in pursuit of their duty.
There is enough food and clothing
for present needs, but relief will be
required on diminishing scaleNfor
another month.
BY order of Gbvernor Cox, the reign
of martial law over Dayton was ex-
tended to takei in the whole county
Monday. The flood did more than
sweep away property, for it swept
away the city administration tempo
rarily at least and brought in what
amounts to a commission form Of gov
eminent.
Immediately martial law was pro-
CldlH1eu the uiuuiSipdi auihihiSudtl0u
was 'eciipsed.
Washington.-"All places affected
by the flood in such way as to need
help are receiving II. and IL is not be-
lieved there is any suffering anywhere
now from want of food or shelter"
was the report Sunday to Adjutant
General Andrews from Major General
Wood, chief of staff, who, with Sec.
rotary of War Garrison, is in the
heart of the flooded district directing
relief operations. He added that.
while loss of life had been heavy, II
was not anything like the reports in.
dictated.
do not send any more government
supplies" said the report, unless the
departments representatives on the
ground request it. Any supplies avail.
able hould be held for possible
need further down the river, Major
NorriioyIe has received the greet bolk
of the supplies sent to Columbus and
is busily engaged in shipping them out
to points where required"
Checks in Sundays mail including
$4,000 from Boston, $4,000 from
Hartford, Conn. and $4,000 from a
brewing company, amounted to sS3.
000. bringing the total already In TO
1891, 900.
from Columbus, Ohio, Ernest
BicknelI, national director OF the