The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-03-28
NOTHING UNDONE
BY GOVERNMENT
Heads Of All Departments Busy
Preparing to Aid
Sufferers.
WHOLE MACHINERY IN MOTION
Army and Navy Are Rushing
Relief to Ohio and Indiana
Districts.
| special 10 rhc Times.pisratch !

Washington. March 27.--At a word
from Secretary Garrison, who to day
left for the Ohio Hooded district Pres
ident Wilson Will himself leave for
Ohio, there to take Charge OF the eN-
tcnsive rescue and relief work which
he has ordered every government de-
partment to undertake. The President
viii no. hear from sir. Garrison be-
fore noon Tomorrow. In the mean
time. he is in readiness TO start. His
private car. provisioncd and equipped
for the trip is sidetracked aud wait
ing at the Union Station.
The machinery OF all the govern
mcni departments has been set at
work by the President to relieve the
food sufferers
Maior-General Wood. chief of staff:
Colonel Russell, signal officer: Major
connor: Major Rhoadcs, who in addi-
ton TO being the Presidents aide is
an army surgeon. Captain Mccoy two
stcnogra pliers and a corps OF signal
men, who will be utilized TO construct
pontoons AMI operate boats to take
survivors from the watcr-swept areas.
left Washington this afternoon
May Declare Martial Law.
General Wood has been authorized.
IL he deems it necessary, to declare
martial law in the district, and to use
the troops that now stand in readiness
in the Middle West I. enforce it.
Secretary Daniels. of the Navy De-
partment to-day ordered five navy
surgeons TO report to Captain Hall, of
the Marine Corps, who is now at Day
ton. They will carry hospital sup
. Plies and equipment and enough nurses
TO care for many OF the suffering.
Secretary McAdoo dispatched Dir.
Blue. chief of the Public Health Ser
Vice 10 Columbus. All surgeons of the
same service that can reach the strick
u ie,b
have been ordered to proceed thither
imr ediateIy
After conference with all Cabinet
members whose departments can be OF
the least assistance, the President
started Mr.. Garrison on his way 10
Ohio with instructions to notify Wash
! ington ii Mr.. Wilson's presence can be
Of value. Following this conference
Secretary Daniels issued these orders
designating Navy Surgeons Sheldon G.
Evans. william Chambers and Roy
cuthhcrtsou, with two assistants
wnom they may select for Immediate
duty in Columbia. With them went
Paymastcr &. Ncisbit and Pay Clerk
Cornell, who were supplied with album
dan; funds 10 meet any ordinary con-
! tingency, and given unlimited drawing
account besides
Fourteen members OF the hospital
corps at Washington with three stew
ards were assigned to the charge OF
| the hospital tents, which will soon
/ do; the very SiSh tract OF ground ad-
| joining the turbulent waters in Ohio
| and Indiana. The tents have beer
( ordered from Philadelphia and New
1 York, and Will be shipped as soon at
they can be loaded aboard express
trains.
Field WanEcs on Why
The field ranges capable of cooking
meals for hundreds OF hungry people
we're ordered expressed from Philadel-
| ph,a 1t is proposed to set up these
| ranges within az short distance as pos
siblc from Dayton, and to prepare
! meals OF them for all comers
Secretary Daniels wired the Navy
Hospital authorities at New York II
snip with all dispatch tho supplies tina
in tacir opinion will DC ,,eedcd for thu
sick and famine stricken. No expense
is to be spared. Officers have been in
formed that promptness is the only
condition imposed.
! The secretary wired all the officers
in charge of recruiting stations In the
stricken districts to direct the nom.