Williams news., 1913-04-12
INTERESTING LETTER
 FROM INDIANAPOLIS

tending school in Indianapolis and writes of her experiences during the recent flood. The letter in part reads as follows:
 "Here 1 have let a whole week pass without writing home and now l have so many things to tell that it is almost as hard to know where to begin as it is to know where to start sorting clothes for flood victims at ETomlinson Hall I will use the method I have been using there and begin on the thing come to first
 Tuesday morning I heard when I got to school that White river, Fall creek and Pogue'h Run were very high, but no one seemed much excited about it. During the sec ond study hour we received word that pupils living north of Fall creek were likely to be cut off from their homes by water and would be allowed to go home at once. Most every one, glad of an excuse 10 leave work, left; but few foolish and in- dustrious individuals like myself stayed by the ship, because we loved our peanuts so.'
 ''At noon the report reached us that all street cars had stopped run ming and I discovered that it was up to me to ride home in an ice wagon or walk. It cost quarter to ride in the ice wagon and it was already Epretty full, so l chose to walk with two other girls. One girl had no umbrella and one discovered that her umbrella had been stolen, so three girls, two violins and about sixteen school books walked home bunder my umbrella
 We learned that the water com upany's pumping station was under water, so that those who did not wish to drown could die of thirst. 1.-The gas company was in the same fix. You can imagine how it in- convenienced city which probably hasn't coal range in it.
 | "When l got home, Fall creek was raging river, Central avenue on the other side of the bridge was Ia lake and Twenty-eighth street Iswift stream. People north of the boulevard were leaving their homes lin boats. The creek was rising five Iinches an hour and it was still rain ling.
 | "Weduesday morning North h. ldianapolis was in a turmoil. Peo- Iple were called from their beds at s o'clock in the morning and told Ito be ready to leave any minute the Ialarm was given. The Meridian Istreet bridge went under, the boule- ward where we had walked the af- ternoon before was washed out ana then the White river levee broke land the poor people in west Indian lapolis were flooded and the fine northside homes were saved. At noon we went over in a hack to west Indianapolis and 1 saw a sight I never expect to see the equal of again. Water as far as we could see, with the roofs of some houses and the top stories of others just above water. The boats bringing people from their homes could hardly be rowed against the current.
 We heard people telling of their dreadful experiences. Then the guards came and ordered us away. "What we had seen and heard made such an impression on us that we could talk of nothing else at supper Miss Webster grew quite enthused and we finally all decided to go together to the relief station at Tomlinson Hall the next morn ing and offer our services. The pa- pers had stated that help was need ed, so our little regiment, with Miss
 Webster as captain, reported for : duty the next morning The place was under martial law. The Red Cross association was at the head of , the work.
 ''There had been oceans of old clothes sent in for the refugees. l can not possibly tell you how many, because you would think 1 was eX- aggerating. The small balconies } down stairs were filled to the roof and out to the railings win miscel- laneous packages of clothing from all parts of the city. These had to be sorted and the head nurse put us to work at this.
 '1t makes me feel quite uplifted } to realize that the only reason I did not have Red Cross armlet on my } arm was because we forgot to ask for them until they were all gone; E; that the head boss patted my head l last night and told me that I had worked well and faithfully and other such things. When I think of what
 we really did I can only think how