The weekly soliphone., 1915-09-03
Newport and Surrounding
Bottoms Sustained Heavy
Losses the in Big Overflow
(Bv H. M. JACKSON

order on the tables bu why speak that!
that of relieving distress and detuon
Merchants bankers DOCTORS lawyers clerks laboa classes nave
apparently completely engaged in work. In sending
supplies who marooned the bottoms
extending miles all four directions from Newport that
thought been losses the city After succor has
given those distress and the waters recede sufficiently TO
permit preliminary inventory it will be time enough for the people
Newport the colossal task of repairing the staggering damage
the flood waters from White river and pu
tary streams
Residential Section Still Inundated.
o'clock yesterday afternoon only very small section OF
Newport flood waters The business district proper
embracing extending nearly two blocks east from the
station dry Practically all of the residential Sec
still under from to eight feet Boats were being
operated Second One boat aloat in front
the postof about hundred feet east the Hazel MOTEL Inc
court house was The south end of Front
On all four sides of the city the floods are hold
ing On the west side of the railroad the waters White
river are falling confines though the
stage the grade line of the city the waters being held by
dump that eve Steamboats, anchored on the
west dump almost level with the second floors OF
the buildings Front street ~T&aa
Wall Of Water Surrounds Newport It
On the from Newport Lake broke through
the flooded those sections of Newport break the
railroad dump added the volume of onushng waters
swept through the city from the north South the city three
breaks home John Keel completed the Gordon
swiftly flowing around the city For five days the people
egd city have fought the ravages of the floods Hun
relief during the days and at
nights patrod boats protect the property OF the citizens
nights without for few
guards citizens their first relief from their
vigil The placed under martial law and regular boat patrols
all Those who had been sheltered
for in the second of the court house were removed
high place east the placed Here raons have been
given direction of the relief committee and members of
the state guard
Damage in City Will Be Great.
In the began recede and the people who
wo-stoy buildings returned their homes in boats Very few
damage thousands dollars worth of
furniture rugs carpets pianos ruined All the manucur
bevy oSeS The Iph
plant compress mill those most seriously damaged
Government Gave Flood Warning
Friday forecast stage "a feet at
Newport Every informed citizen knew White river reached that
stage Newport But few had confidence in the prediction
Flood warnings sent the owand
and many admonion the
sought safety high ground But Newport the people
had reached "a foot there had
while apprehension
precauon taken strengthen weak places the levee
get people of the low sections of the city The river
Of three inches hour The reach
Sunday when the registered 39 the highest
Newport general then sounded and laborers
put strengthening the evees and the railroad dump Mon
day morning the flood waters began breaking through and by night the
city inundated
Flood Follows Three Drouths.
Viewpoints loss however only minor matter when compared to
nesmabe destruction restitution wrought in the fertile bot
tributary that city The overflow said to extend
caly country both sides of White literally
washing every vesg vegetation drowning thousands of head
cattle hogs and fowls destroying fences barns farm machinery
and buildings The deep many that
boats plantations people who sought
housetop and patches high land Leading citizens Newport
territory tributary place embraces bottoms
miles all directions The Oil Trough bottoms about four
miles wide miles long all This said by
government experts fertile farming
bottoms north embracing
miles, washed The bottoms
tending to the Woodruff county line ruined
All this of three rouths that brought nearly five
people living this territory almost the verge
Thousands Face Long Period of Suffering.
fhe Of
relief flood victims but how them
plant crops already