The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-11
THOUSANDS ARE IN RESTITUTION AND LIST GROWS LAS REPORTS COME Total Dead and Missing to
 Date Placed at IS and
 This Will Increase EELMA ORGANIZING RELIEF FOR THOSE \ CAUGHT IN LOWLAND lass Meeting of Citizens is Held and Big Sum ubscribed-Federal Aid is Asked by seenator "
 Senator Underwood

sWith thousands of persons homeless End destitute and with a growing death sst the federal government today took fficial notice of the serious flood condi- Scane in the southern states. At the touest of Senator Underwood the war Rpartment has ordered an engineer to Investigate conditions in the Cahaba and Sabama river valleys, where 2O0o fam- ses are reported without food or shelter. Nrhe floods have extended into eastern forth Carolina and rivers, creeks and Ranches in six southern states are out z their banks and flooding thousands of 8res of rich farm lands as result of rainfall since last Wednes-
 Ny.
 Eleven deaths reported today brought
 e storms total to 7S dead and missing.
 these 55 were members of 10 schooners sported unaccounted for at Biloxi. There a possibility that some were saved, &t marine men hold out little hope for %em The others are known to have 4st their lives, about half of them off
 s coast of Mobile and the others in the sterior of Mississippi, Alabama and
 eorgia
 DAMAGE IN MILLIONS
 ,he damage will total millions of dol Els.
 At scores of places boats are being Fed to bring marooned sufferers from Seir flood surrounded homes and from gse tops.
 Sn Alabama conditions have assumed xs continued for more than 100 hours at &ne places has crippled wire and rail *nmunication and demoralized business. 5ilroad yards and manufacturing plants " Montgomery are threatened by the ris- 5, waters of the Alabama river. Back ter has overflowed the greater portion \ North Montgomery, but warnings by S4 weather bureau prevented loss of sa.
 Selma citizens today organized relief Srties for work among the flood victims ,png the Cahaba and Alabama river val Ns, where 2000 families have been driven E,m their homes.
 K'rattville, town of 300 inha bitants, is k,stly covered by the waters of Autauga Beck, nominally stream a dozen feet Nde, but now a miniature Mississippi.
 CONNECTS NARROWED More than hundred convicts are k4rooned at the state convict camp near lbntgomery. The waters of the Talla- kpsa river have backed up more than a Me, covering the entire state farm. Eeneva county is suffering from the Arflow of the Choctawhatchie river At Nap with water. and in the principal Meet of the town water is standing five Vt deep. Inha abitants of about 60 dwell Xgs have been forced to abandon them, Nd boats have been busy all day rescu- N people from tree tops. Two negroes Ere drowned when a boat in which they Ere riding capsized. AA E,he Ocmulgee river at East Macon, Ga., Es left it's banks, surrounding many Fuses, interrupting the operation of Enufacturing plants and rendering many Enilies homeless.
 kt Columbus the Chattahoochee river is featening industrial plants. tMoultrie, Ga, is entirely cut off from segraphic communication and reports 1Sm throughout southern Georgia tell of eious crop damage and loss of live *,ck.
 FISHING BOATS WRECKED he wreck of the fishing smack Philip Sf,'es off .Dauphin Island, near Mobile,
 ded eight persons to the death list from Es gulf hurricane. Two survivors of the Nsw were picked up.
 S'he French Broad river and it's tribu- &-ies are at flood stage. and have seri- Nsly damaged crops in Buncombe, Hem
 s.son and Pennsylvania counties in
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