The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1914-07-03
SALEM HOMELESS
ARE PROVIDED FOR
MILITARY PRECISION MARKS
HANDLING OF RELIEF MEAS
URE FOLLOWING FIRE.
LOSS ESTIMATED S12,o00,OO0
Total Insurance Estimated at $4,000.
OOO-Four Are Dead-PIans for
Rebuilding City Are Already
Being Made.

Being Made.
Salem, Mass, June Enclosures
for the relief Of is. 1000 persons made
homeless in this city's conflagration
have proceeded with military preci-
sion. More than $500 are directly de-
pendent upon the relief committee for
shelter while $500 wait patiently in
various bread lines for food which
has streamed into the city in abun.
dance.
Poorer Glass in Tents.
Those cared for in the tent camps
are Of the poorer class, mostly Or
e%igners. Nearly all the we'll to do have
found refuge with friends and relatives
elsewhere.
An insurance adjuster who went
over the devastated district carefully
estimated the loss at Sl2, 600, GOO OF
which $4,000, 00o was covered by in
surance This insurance, it was stat
ed, was we'll distributed, the heaviest
American interest falling on any one
ItAIlpdus D6ll5 2fou,VOc.
Greatest Individual Loser.
The Naumkeg Steam Cotton COM
pany was the heaviest individual los
or. The loss on its great plant was
placed at $780, 600.
Fifteen hundred employees we're
thrown out Of work by the destruc-
ton of these mills. The total number
added by the firm to the ranks Of the
unemployed was estimated at 5000.
Hand in hand with the measures for
relief Went preparations for rebuild
ing the city. The Naumkeg company
and some Of the other large firms that
were burned out announced that they
would begin construction of new aud
better plants as quickly as possible.
In the meantime the unemployed VIII
be given work in the rehabilitation If
the city or will be provided with Jobs
In nearby places.
Militia Directs Relief.
The active work of relief has been
temporarily in the hands of the state
militia, directed by Adjutant General
Cole, who commanded $50 men from
the Eighth and Ninth regiments. The
strictest sanitary precautions are be.
ing taken. A few cases of measles and
two OF scarlet fever We're reported and
were Immediately isolated.
Property holders answering inquiries
Of friends, announce their losses in
n1nCf tncfonnnc u.ifb n r-,;1. .-
shrug and begin to talk of rebuilding.
One of the saddest places in the city
Is about The quarters of the domestic
affairs department of the relief COM
mittee. Early the committee had the
names of 200 men, women and chill
dren who had become separated from
their families. This number has been
greatly reduced.
Relief Committee Busy.
A relief committee of seven, ap.
pointed by Gov. Walsh, had a long
conference with Mayor Hurley and the
local relief committee.
After a survey of the situation, the
committee announced:
pIAlSAPdl HCCu ID ulOHCy, uOL
food or clothing. The people who we're
burned out managed to save all the
necessary clothing and there is ON
hand a supply of food enough to last
a week or possibly longer"
Miss Mabel T. Boardman. national
relief secretary of the American Red
Cross society. arrived and offered the
services of the organization she repre-
sents.
SO many maternity cases were re.
ported that a number of women prom
inent in the wealthy North Shore sum-
mer colony organized a hospital for
them in the North Church.
The list of dead as a direct result OF
the fire is placed at four.
The identified dead are Mrs. Jennie
Cunningham and Samuel p. Whitney. a
Grand Army veteran.