Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-04-01

establish at once near st. Louis, Mo.
a floating base of supplies from which
relief may be extended with the least
possible delay to any flooded COM
munity along the lower Ohio or Mis-
sissippi The base viii consist Of 2
number of vessels loaded with food,
clothing and medical supplies. MAJOR
Normoyle Will be in charge.
LOUISVILLE, KY, April Little
anxiety was felt over the few inches
of additional rise predicted for the
river before the crest of the flood
reaches here late today or early to-
morrow, with a stage Of forty-fiVe
feet.
Major James A. Logan. jr., OF
the quartermaster' department;
Lieutenant Simon Boliver Buckner,
IT,, and sixteen men who arrived here
last night from Hamilton, o., ex-
pected to have their federal relief
work well under way at lower river
points from the final swell reaches
that section.
NEW RICHMOND. O., April l.
The entire town of New Richmond
was under water today. The people
have taken up quarters ON the hills
surrounding the town. Provisions
have been received from Batavia,
and there is no suffering. No one
has been reported dead or missing
Fifty houses have been washed from
their foundations at Moscow. near
New Richmond.
LAWRENCEBURG, Ind, April L.
An inspection made today showed
that seventy homes OF persons In
good circumstances have been prac-
tically DESTROYED by the food here.
Relief work is being conducted sys-
Dramatically, and there is no suffering.
MOUNT VERNON, H., April L.
The levee at Shawneetown was in
tact early today and conditions there
were not threatening, according to
news received here.
PARKERSBURG W. Va, April t.
The three-story building occupied by
the Martin WhoIesufe Grocery Com
pany was burned and the adjoining
building, occupied by the Miller Fur
niture Company, collapsed today.
Botliewere IN the flooded district and
fremen could not reach them, The
water Is receding and Baltimore and
Ohio railroad officials express the be-
lief they will have train in here
from the East by nightfall.
HAMILTON. o., April Factory
whistles here early today called hun
dreds of workmen to labor IN clean
ing away the mud and wreckage left
by the flood. The manufacturers de-
cided to reopen shops as quickly as
possible giving employment at once
to all employees in cleaning up the
factories.
COLUMBUS. o., April With tile
recovery Of three more bodies from
wreci5age in the west side OF this city
the toll OF the food disaster on that
side stood at seventy. The number
OF missing rennins large. and three
flood victims have died within the
last twenty -four hours as direct re-
suit Of the ordeal through which they
passed before being rescued.
Hundreds Of men we're at work to-
day attempting to recover other
bodies that are supposed TO be buried
under the huge piles of wreckage in
the vicinity of Green Lawn Gene
terry. Martial law has been Withdrawn
from considerable part of the flood
swept area. and means of commun!-
cation with that section became
nearer normal today than at any time
since the great rush of water from
the Scioto and Olentangy rivers over
whelmed it.
Constructive relief work in Ohio
will be the object toward which the
efforts Of the relief organizations will
now be bent. Governor Cox announced
today. 4 definite plan viii be formu-
lated tomorrow, when the State relief
commission viii confer with Governor
Cox. Miss Mabel Boardman, national
secretary of the Red Cross, and En-
nest 2. Bicknell, the national director
Of the Red Cross
The members of the commission
have been summoned to be in Colum-
bus tomorrow at 10 o'clock. They
are: John IL. Patterson, Dayton; S.
O. Richardson. Toledo: George w.
Lattimer and Colonel James Kill
bourne, Columbus; Jacob Schmidt
lapp, Cincinnati, and Homer II. John
son, of cleveland Colonel NJ. w. Will
son, of the Ohio National Guard, is
treasurer of the fund
CHICAGO. April t.--Contributions
to Chicago's relief fund TO the flood
sufferers today aggregated $4,000.
The Chicago Association OF Commerce
shipped thirty carloads Of provisions
and supplies TO Ohio and Indiana
cities. In the last week five hundred
nurses have been sent from this city
into the Hood zone.
FOREIGN RULERS CABLE
REGRET AT FLOOD HORROR