The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1916-09-01
GOVERNOR HATFIELD
continued from Pirpt Par,
ian IN the flood territory who have
lost all that they had. 10 w.
Ackc Eos

o SAND IN the flood territory who hay.
e Iost all that they had w.
Asks For Aid
"a uaF or so following The flood Son
q alor Chiffon wired me, as Gid Gon.
: eIeSSman Cooper, asking if the Fed.
r v iao HgVernnent could be of any ser.
Ioe. dld not answer these teja.
S Siia,nS until had made a personal
miles into the flooded territory my 10y
gram: to'o"1as leie-
hon; ". L. Chiffon, 49, 1'lo'
a.: ). Senate, Washington, D, E.
,br raare Just returned from visit
ddiiouEh Cabin Greer and Coal Rivnr
si;,,a,;S. Newspaper reports of the
nnssih ION are not exaggerated excent
nroy IN loss of life, which is an.
five +, vpA thnnly Seventty'fiYe. More than !
witbo o,,ou SAND people are homeless and
fift tuo ~ 1000 and clothing. Thirty 70
mediate relief work. have is. ,al
an appeal to the people of tho s,atu
: LOT u; iund'; Provisions are being d.:
- !ouira EFFECTIVELY through heroic ef
o1Iis OF live hundred men of West Viz S
s !ila National Guard. West Virei r! s
Thl ne glad 10 receive any aid frnna I
ns feqeral Government in his d;s &
;rs me greatest and most dcs,rir. v
I've III the history of the state. l.
Ar II. i. HATFIELD" d
, W VIZ people IN and out Of the state I!
nousand dollars, and so far AZ Itr nay tc
i,Ia ana every family has been INV OF
!Shed up 10 this time with tbe p ,uI' n;
ssary food and clothing, and nee! Z,
Ippprt Is being continued. There 4 i.
,rs =. tive, or six thousand doll. 10 10 W
~ ~, III me hands Of the Conmittao' ye
r mi Inc exception Of blankets bejnc de
\ 1 iniS and the food and clo1hinss Vi,
'n 1vi' HaS alrnldy ben mentions
r"M VI no other service being
,on noae unfortunate people, many of IN,
nin 10 house. and others IL ha -
ltS; Some are DESTROYS of n1orip III ID "a
" n'ner sections of the state: mans t tio,
We Already gone. As for the amnmn . I'm
money required, it largely dnnsndiot i tet
~, now much the people or the Gov: W
,he ~ wants 10 do for these peonIe i i.l
.ne i Coal River section families wbo Jus1
i I've. ilsea there: for half a centnru no
i si1 destitute; their homes uItl'
o al, mat they had accumuiateS PEG
bin nu n9lnlng left other than fhe -. w
I, tOoo lIlul Has Deem Div,
mem in the way OF relief. sl'' to h
~ Done Great Work, our
ne soldiers have done a o,oo Is n
K; so has the church organizatiio oeat reac
Women's Christian Temperan.s. tain
IN, the citizens comnit,oad Hce from
rdeston. Mrs. Woodman Of ~, there
Is organization, and the dep..rn.e Ing '
T. OF health. Senator Chiffon ha OF Il
uested an earnest desire to bei rS parti
rave other members of conproip, ZION.
West Virginia. eSS Th
ie citizens of the state of pvoo. custo
ma are not beggars, even tho ese With
suffered the greatest loss m r"o a this !
OF Inc recent flood; but I rene aC own
am already on record as bdl zens,
AID, that they would be era+a ar, OF thu
:nything; the federal gorernmant Thurs
lFone else cares to do for tbe set az
aoie them to start again in Iitn Ior att
done what could TO helm a, l,re | earn
work Of relief. and I leave a'ons possib
r TO the citizens to decide ne City cl
wing or otherwise of thosn hos. IN day II
N who attempt to make cboaIs very
IS out OF suffering and denr;uaIp lake a
~ the misfortune o&,er Dart tT a. the fai
itizens. whose pr ent nea5 i OF built 1t
and urgent. Is themse