The Oskaloosa herald., 1914-07-02
HOMELESS ARE
WELL SUPPLIED
RELIEF POURING INTO SALEM
FROM ALL QUARTERS.
BIG MILLS WILL BE REBUILT
Property Losses Are Estimated at
Twelve Million Dollars, With In.
suranee Of About $1o,ooo,ooo
Dead Number Four.

salem, Mass, June II. - Salem TO-
day began search for her dead.
The work of relief so effectively be.
gun yesterday tended to round itself
ont TO completion today. Already
several cities of militia tents have
sprung up to care for any of the 49,.
600 homeless who could not find re.
fuge with friends or relatives. The
Red Cross, Salvation Army relief sta
lions, breadline and distributing cen
tiers for money, clothing and other
supplies dotted the city. The old
Puritan Salem which stands unharm-
ed has turned the help to the newer
city of French Canadians and Poles.
Many relief funds have been received.
Among the first to contribute was
San Francisco, still mindful of her
own disaster. The Boston relief com
mittee raised 100000 not to mention
TONS of bread food and car loads of
supplies. TIE biggest ray of light is
in the fact that the Naumkeg mills,
which employee two thousand persons,
said to have suffered a $4,000, 900 loss,
are TO be rebuilt Immediately.
Losses Well insured.
Insurance adjnsters who went over
the devastated district estimated the
loss at $12,000,0 900, of which 10000
Gtr0 was covered by insurance. This
insurance, 1t was stated, was well dis
tributed the heaviest amount falling
upon any one company being 100000.
The Naumkeag Steam Cotton com.
pany was the heaviest individual los.
err. The loss on its plant was placed
at $3,5000 Fifteen hundred EN-
poyes were thrown out OF work by
the destruction of these mills. The
total number added by the fire to the
ranks of the unemployed was estimat
ed at 5000.
Immediate steps are to be taken for
rebuilding the city. In the meantime
the unemployed will be given work
in the rehabilitation of the city or will
be provided with work in nearby
places.
The active work of relief was TEN.
porarily in the hands Of the state mi
litia.
The strictest sanitary precautions
were taken. A few cases of measles
and two of scarlet fever were imme-
diately isolated.
The list of dead to date numbers
four. The identified dead were Mrs.
Jennie Cunningham and Samuel p.
Whitney, a Grand Army veteran. An
other body was so badly burned that
it's sex could not be determined. The
fourth body was that of child.
Red Cross Sends $1,000.
Washington, June 27.-The Red
Cross telegraphed $4,000 TO their rep
resentatives in Salem to aid the strick-
en- citizens of that city.
President Offers Aid.
Washington, June 27.-President
Wilson telegraphed Governor Walsh
Of Massachusetts expressing his sor-
row at the fire disaster in Salem HIS
message read:
u am sure / speak for the Amerl-
can, Neople in rendering heartfelt sym
patty through you to the stricken peo-
pie of Salem. Can the federal govern
ment be of service in the emergency
WOODROW WILSON"
Salem, Mass, June 27.-Two hun
dred persons were unaccounted for
In Salems great fire. The flames
were under control at 500 a. m, after
raging for fifteen hours unchecked.
three people are known to be dead
Fifty have been injured. From $4,000
to 10000 are homeless. The property
loss is estimated all the way from
100000 to $25,OOO,000. The city is
practically without water.
The thousands of homeless are be-
ing fed in a great army camp set
up on Highland avenue. One thou
sand cots, one thousand tents and one
thousand blankets are being distrib'
uted among the fire sufferers. There
are rations for ten thousand being
served by the militia commissary de-
partment. Five thousand homeless are
being sheltered under canvas.
The rations to the homeless con
sisted of a loaf of bread, can of
beef and a cup of coffee. Rich and
poor were served alike. The wealthy
section of the city as we'll as the tene-
ment districts are in ruins. One thou.
eand buildings we're burned.
List Of Known Dead.
GEORGE LEE,
SARAH FISKE, a nurse,
INFANT CHILD OF MARY HA'
SELL.
Fifty persons were injured and re.