The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-03-31
MORE CALLS REACH
INDIANA GOVERNOR
Southern Indiana Cities De-
clare There is Immediate
Danger.
VINCENNES USE TENTS
Wabash River Has Driven a
Large Number of Persons
From Their Homes.
VINCENNES USE TENTS

INDIANAPOLIS, March 31.-The re-
ceding of the food waters in India
napolis and in the cities north of here
has not relieved the strain under
which Governor Ralston and other
state officials have been working since
the high waters first made their ap-
pearance. Word came from southern
Indiana to the Governors Office yes
terday that many lives and many
homes were endangered, and appeals
for assistance were made.
The situation was most acute in the
vicinity of Vincennes. where. accord
ing to messages that reached the Gov
ernor, many families were forced to
fee from their homes and seek high
ground Families living in the valley
near Mt. Carmel Ill, near which
White river and the Wabash river
meet fed to a knoll away from the
river, and several hundred of them
were on the high ground without shell
ter, it is said
That message came to William H.
Vollmer, treasurer of state whose
home is in Vincennes. The message
came from Mayor Mcdowell of Vim
cennes, who said the people who had
been flooded were in need of 200 hun
dred tents for shelter. Mr. Vollmer
Immediately got in touch with Adit.
Gen. Mccoy, who arranged to send the
tents to Vincennes to be taken after
ward to Mt. Carmel
Tents Started on Way.
The best that could be done with
the meager railroad accommodations,
was to start the tents at 1880 o'clock
this morning. They probably will
reach Vincennes by noon today. They
will be sent from here to Terre Haute
on the Pennsylvania and from Terre
Haute to Beehunter on the Chicago,
Terre Haute & Southeastern and from
there they will be sent over the Van
dalia to their destination.
1t was said that the people who
were driven from their homes by the
flood were not in need of food or
clothing, but that they had no place
to sleep. They evidently had to make
the most of being outdoors last night,
for the message asking relief did not
reach here until it was too late to
get the tents there for last night
use.
Another message reached the gov
was said, 100 families were made
homeless by reason of the flood. The
message came by way of Loogootee
and was from Fabius Gwinn and Ed
gar Wilcher./ They asked hhat sup.
plies be sent Immediately.
Taegart Promises Aid.
Governor Ralston got in commune
cation over the long-distance tele
phone with Thomas Taggart at
French Lick and IN McCarty, may
or of Washington, Ind, and both prom
ised to do all they could to reach
Shoals with assistance. Mr.. Taggar,
expected to send SUPPLIES overland as
near as possible to Shoals, and il
necessary to get boats from there tc
carry the provisions to the stricken
town.
The governors office was also in
formed yesterday that two car loads
of boats had been sent from Vincen
mes to Hazelton, Gibson county, where
the high waters had endangered the
lives of many citizens of that place
it was said According to another
HcSsd6S, IdllOdu neal
Shoals went out with the high water
and four railroad men were drowned
This report was not fully verified. II
was said the river in that vicinity
was four feet higher than it was ever
before known to be. At Mt Carme
it was said that the stage of the
Wabash was thirty-one feet.
Returns From Peru.
Elliott R. Hooten, chief of theStatt
Bureau of Inspection, returned yester
day from Peru, where he went tt
make an investigation of the flooc
conditions. Mr.. Hooten said the
greatest danger to Peru now is the
possibility of improper sanitary pre-
cautions. Eight persons are known
to have lost their, lives, Mr.. Hooter
said. In reaching the stricken city
it was necessary for him to wall
about four miles along the railroad
tracks that had been washed away b,
the food.
Governor Ralston talked over tn,
long distance telephone with w. H
O'Brien, auditor of state. who wen
with the relief train to Lawrenceburt
early yesterday morning Mr.. O'BrieI
said the river was rapidly rising ant
that there was likely to be serious
food