The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1913-04-04
ALL PLACES AFFECTED By THE
GREAT FLOOD ARE RECElV-
ING RELIEF.
RELIEF FUNDS REACH HALF MILLION
The Situation at Dayton, Ohio, Re
lieved, and Forty Thousand Peo-
pie Are Being Cared For.
Wreckage Piled High.

now from want of food or shelter,
was the report Sunday to Adjutant
J General Andrews from Major General
Wood chief of staff, who, with Sec
retary of War Garrison, is in the
heart of the flooded district directing
relief operations. He added that,
while loss of life had been heavy, 1t
was not anything like the reports In
dicated
do not send any more government
supplies" said the report, unless the
departments representatives on the
ground request it. Any supplies avail
able should be held for possible
needs further down the river. MAJOR
| Normovle has received the great boik
of the supplies sent to Columbus and
is busily engaged in shipping them out
to points where required
Major Normoyle himself reported
that the principal trouble now as to
rations appeared to be in the Musk
ingum Valley, which can not be taken
care of from Columbus, but that Major
Gauiot had been sent to Parkersburg
with authority to hire boats and pur-
chase supplies for that territory.
A message to the White House from
Secretary Garrison announced he had
arrived and he expected to go by au-
tomobile to Hamilton, while Miss
Boardman of the American Red Cross
was going to Dayton.
Relief funds received by the Red
Cross are nearing the half-million
mark.
Checks in Sundays mail, including
$4,000 from Boston, $4,000 from
Hartford, Conn, and $4,000 from a
brewing company, amounted to $685.
600, bringing the total already in to
$4,000.
From Columbus, Ohio. Ernest P.
Bicknell, national director OF the
American Red Cross, reported that he
had established headquarters in the
statehouse and that he would work in
close relation with the state flood re-
| lief committee, as we'll as with the
army. He said he had held an eX-
tremely satisfactory conference with
Governor Cox and the others in au-
thority
Superintendent kimball of the life
saving service has ordered the life
saving crew from Lorain, Ohio, which
had returned from Delaware, to pro-
coed at once to Covington, Ky,
Dayton, Textile situation at Day
ton: Forty thousand persons must be
fed. clothed and housed for week
more.
Many thousand persons, who lost
their all when their household goods
were swept away, must be cared for
indefinitely. They must be provided
with few necessary household ar
ticles, such as bedding, pots and pans,
stoves and few dollars. A half mil
lion dollars could be used in this way
by the relief committee
Fifteen thousand houses and bust.
ness buildings must be rehabilitated.
Two thousand houses and other
structures, or what remains of them,
must be pulled down.
Many Tons of Debris.
Thousands of tons of debris must
be removed.
Following are some of the accom-
plishments since the flood broke over
the city Tuesday morning:
The water works pumping station is
in operation but the distribution of
water is greatly retarded by open
pipes in wrecked houses. The press.
ure is feeble but growing stronger as
leaks are checked.
The main sanitary sewer is in op.
Grafton, although many of the laterals
leading from houses are clogged with
mud or backed up with water.
The flood sewer, separate from the
sanitary, will be in operation this
week. These sewers carry off the
rainfall from the cutters and are need
, ed now to remove the water being
, pumped from easements.
Wire Service Catching Up.
Telegraph service is fast catching
up with requirements. No Drawer serv
ices have been performed than those
by the telegraph and telephone line
men, who made possible the dissent
: nation of news to hundreds of thou
sands of friends and relatives of Day
'tonians. They waded and swan ic,
4 floods and entered tottering building
!" unhesitatingly in pursuit of their duty
There is enough food and clothin,
for present needs, but relief will b.
l required on diminishing scale TO
another month.
y By order of Governor Cox, the reigl
;, of martial law over Dayton was ex
. tended to take in the whole count
Monday. The flood did more thai