Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-03-28
that will sustain life.

We have cooking arrangements
 for several thousand We are send ing trucks to nearby towns, but ask
 that you haul to us as far as possi- ble."
 Red Cross officials also sent out
 urgent requests for assistance. Story of the Broken Leyees.
 A story of the break of the levee 1 and the onrush of the waters was told by Edsey Vincent, member of the Dayton fire department. His en- zine house was within a few doors
 of Taylor street, where the break in
 the levee occurred.
 The department watchers, fearing being flood bound, sounded the fire call simultaneously with the break il the levee.
 When the horses, which were hitched in record time, reached the street." said Vincent, Eve were met by a wall of water which must have been ten feet high. The driver was forced to turn and flee in the opposite
 direction to save the team and ap- paratus.''
 Main Street Under Water. The water poured into Third street, and fifteen minutes later Main street was under ten feet of water. Many of the buildings on the right side of the river were so insecure that they had left their foundations 1 within an hour
 What were blocks of thickly popu-
 lated one and two-story residences,
 occupied mostly by foreigners, are
 today only shattered lumber. They ! are believed to contain many bodies. Every effort has been made to
 reach houses containing living per
 sons. Reports of having seen bodies floating by in the flood make it cer- | tain that no part of the district un- der water escaped contributing it's 1 toll to the flood
 Bodies Seen In the Flood. George Burba, secretary to Cover | nor Cox said at noon that he had seen two bodies floating in the waters along the shore in the south side resi- dence district. Rescuers from time to time have seen a body disappearing in the flood.
 Organized relief was concentrated today in the National Cash Register offices. All of the buildings available had been filled with cots and means for providing food for the sufferers.
 The crop of flood babies was in creased today by two, making five little ones to be born in the hospital rooms of the factory within twenty four hours.
 Dayton Still Cut Off.
 communication with the outside world. Railroad trains have been un- able to enter and the nearest tel2- graph or telephone station operating is Lebanon, twenty-five miles away, where a single wire permits the news to be sent out. All linemen and cleo tricians who ordinarily could make repairs are held in the flooded dis trictS and no relief can be given un- til outside aid is sent.
 A plan by the relief committee to make a systematic effort to pene- trate the downtown district today fail ed through the non-arrival of a num- Der of motor boats which had been ordered. They are expected to be brought ill tomorrow Farmers Bring In Supplies. Hundreds of neighboring farmers came today bearing whatever supplies their own stores would permit. Wal gons containing bushels of potatoes and vegetables and many loaves of bread were delivered to the Cash Register company to be used by the refugees. Rescue work was continued in d disconnected fashion and many boa.- loads of women and children were taken out of houses in the flood zone. The powerful current on each cross street made it impossible for those manning the boats to pass stree; crossing without the aid of tow ropes.
 Automobiles meet the boats and the refugees are taken at once to the hospital.
 St. Elizabeth Not Swept Away
 The rumors that the St. Elizabeth Hospital with GOO patients had been swept away, which gained circula- ton last night, today proved to be un- true. Althought it has been impossible 1 to reach the building, field glasses showed that the hospital is still l standing. The water is not thought to be much above the first floor ot