The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1913-03-29
NATION IS AIDING
FLOOD VICTIMS
MILLION RATloNs, SUFFICIENT
TO FEED 100000 PERSONS,
ARE PURCHASED.
TENTS FOR STRICKEN PEOPLE
Troops Of Department Of East Ordered
to Be Ready to Move-Wi3son
in Close Touch With Stu.
alton.
All Are Assisting.

All Are Assisting.
Washington, March 2S.-The princt
pal functions of the government of the
United States now is to extend relief
to the thousands of homeless surviv.
ors of the Ohio and Indiana floods.
In quick succession every agency Of
the government from the president and
secretary of war to every bureau chief
in whose department relief eXpedi
tions could be organized has been
swift to assist the state authorities
In providing food. shelter and medical
attention for the sufferers.
All troops of the Department Of the
East were ordered to hold themselves
in readiness for duty in the flood dis
tricts. One million rations, sufficient
to feed 100000 people for five days al
least, are being purchased by the wal
department and hurried to the Ohio
and Indiana towns.
Tents to shelter at least $4,000 peo
pie. thousands Of blankets, cots, hospi
tai and field supplies, are being loaded
in the Philadelphia, Pittsburg, ST:
Louis. Chicago, Fort Thomas, KY. and
nearby army posts for the devastated
sections.
Requests for Help.
Messages Of sympathy exchanged by
the president and the governors OF
Ohio and Indiana were followed quick.
ly by requests for help which were
promptly answered by the government
departments. The president was III
close touch with the situation all day.
He was in constant communication
with Secretary Garrison and appraised
Chairman Martin of the senate and
Chairman Fitzgerald of the house ap.
preparations committee that the gov.
eminent was going ahead with emer
gency expenditures on the assumption
that congress would back up the ad.
ministration later on. They both wired
promises Of hearty support, and or.
ders went out on every side for 81.
gantic work Of relief.
The. president called upon the people
of the nation to contribute money lib.
orally to the American Red Cross,
which, in turn, appealed to the COVER.
nors of the states to help gather re.
lief funds.
Majors James Nermoyle and James
A. Logan, Jr., experienced in fighting
the Mississippi valley flood, were or.
dered by Quartermaster General Ale.
shire to Columbus to take charge OF
distributing food supplies for the fed.
eral government
| Major P. c. Fauntleroy was sent i'm.
mediately to Columbus to handle med.
zeal supplies. Nine medical officers
and 81 hospital corps went from tho
department of the east, carrying a
| big supply of surgical dressings, anti.
typhoid prophylactics and the com.
plete reserve medical supply" com.
prising hundreds of drugs sufficient to
treat 10000 patients for one month.
Precautions against the spread Of dis.
ease are to be handled by sanitation
experts.
Miss Boardman Active.
Miss Mabel Boardman, of the Amer.
lean Red Cross, was active at head.
quarters here, telegraphing orders to
nurses at Cleveland and Cincinnati
tiers for physicians and nurses
| Life saving crews we're ordered
from Louisville to Dayton and from
lorain, O., to Delaware, o., and the
public health service distributed its
agents over the afflicted districts.
Postmaster General Burleson direct.
ed the departments representatives to
make every possible effort to install
temporary mail service and restore the
main routes between the east and
west as rapidly as possible.
| Governors Estimate 1000.
Columbus, Ohio.-That the loss of
life in Dayton will not be less than
1000 was the estimate made by Gov.
srnor Cox, after an analysis OF the
Information received by him had been
made.
How many more than that there
will be, no one can tell" he said.
1.-THE fire which swept the block
bounded by Jefferson, Second, Third
and Saint Clair streets, subsidized
somewhat. All the people in the
block were saved"
This final word came from Tele-
phone Operator John Bell to relieve
the anxiety Of the crowd which hung
over the end Of the wire in the gov
errors Office all day.
"All the women and children who
were in the block are removed to
safety in the Beaver Power building"
announced Bell. "There are thirty of
them"