The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-04-02
QUICK TO RESCUE
PRESIDENT WILSON GOES TO AID
OF VICTIMS
URGES NATION TO HELP
Food Sufficient to Feed 200, 900 Per-
sons Five Days Ordered Rushed to
the Stricken District-Also Tents,
Blankets, Field Supplies and Medt.

A1AAAhCto, TiClO supplies dHO WcU1s
cines Are Started on Way.
A dispatch from Washington says
the principal function of the govern
ment of the United States Wednesday
was to extend relief to the thousands
of homeless survivors of the Ohio and
Indiana foods.
In quick succession every agency
Of the Government, from the Presi-
dent, the Secretary of War to every
bureau chief in the department, un-
der whom relief expeditions could be
organized, moved swiftly to assist the
State authorities in providing food,
shelter and medical attention for the
sufferers.
All the troops Of the department Of
the East were ordered to hold them
selves in readiness for duty in the
flood districts. One million rations,
sufficient to feed 100000 people for
five days, at least, are being purchas-
ed by the war department at the
nearest supply depots and hurried to
the Ohio and Indiana towns.
Tents to shelter at least $4,000
people, thousands Of. blankets, cots,
hospital and field supplies, are being
loaded in the Philadelphia, Pittsburg,
St. Louis, Chicago, Fort Thomas, KY,
and nearby army posts, and within
twenty-four hours should reach the
devastated sections.
Messages Of sympathy exchanged
by the President and the Governor Of
Ohio were followed quickly by a Sc
ries of requests for help which were
promptly answered by the Govern
ment departments. The President
was in his Office all day in close touch
with the situation. He was in con-
slant communication with Secretary
Garrison. of the war department.
He apprised Chairmen Martin, Of
the Senate, and F1llse!e:ch Of the
House appropriations committees,
that the Government was going ahead
with emergency expenditures on the
assumption that Congress would back
up the Administrator later on. They
both wired promises of hearty sup
port, and orders went out on every
side for gigantic work of relief.
The President called upon the peo-
pie of the nation to contribute money
literally to the American Red Cross,
which in turn appealed to the Gov
ernors of the States to help gather re-
lief funds.
Majors James Normoyle and James
A. Logan Jr., experienced in fighting
the Mississippi Valley floods, were or
dered by Quartermaster General Ale
shire to Columbus, Ohio, to take
charge Of distributing food supplies
for the Federal Government.
Major P. c. Fauntleroy was sent
Immediately to Columb bus to handle
the medical supplies. Nine medical
officers and ffty-four Of the hospital
corps went from the department Of
the East, carrying big supply OF
surgical dressings, anti-typhoid pro-
phylactics and the complete reserve
medical supply, comprising hun
dreds Of drugs sufficient to treat 20,-
900 patients for one month. Pre-
cautions against the spread Of di-
sease are to be handled by sanitation
experts.
Miss Mabel Boardman, Of the
American Red Cross, was active at
the headquarters, telegraphing Or
ders to nurses at Cleveland and Gin
cinnati and calling upon other near
by chapters for physicians and
nurses.
Life-saving crews were ordered
from Louisville to Dayton, and from
Lorraine, Ohio, to Delaware, Ohio,
and the public health service tlstri-
buted it's agents over the afflicted dis
tricts.
Postmaster General Bur.eson di-
rected the departments representa-
tiyes to make every possible effort
to stall temporary mail service and
restore the main routes between the
East and West as rapidly as possible.
Only the railroad routes close to
Lake Erie have been getting the
mails through from the West, and
there has been practically no long
service in the territory bounding
Cleveland, Toledo, Columbus, Indian
apolis, Terre Haute, and the Ohio
River. All lines south of the Ohio
are reported open.