Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-02-15
MANY REFUGEES
 NEEDING HELP
 NEAR PENDLET0N  Supplies from Pine Bluff Being Distributed Among
 Flood Sufferers.
RESCUE WORKERS
 LOSE THEIR LIVES
Three Negroes Drown WEen Skin Oy. crturns While Moving Food from Warehouse to EeYees Where Rfu.
 gees are. Hnddlcd- Whites Saved.

The steamer LightwoOd arrived at Pine Bluff last evening, from Pen del cn and other poins down the river, where she carried a great quantity of food supplies for the flood refugees in that section.
 Murray Auerbacn,. representative Cf the Red Cross, who went down on the boat with D. C. Welty. representa- tive of he Iron Mountain, returned to Pine Bluff on the Lightwood. Mr. Welty remained in the Pendleton- Watson-Psa Ridge secticn. to dis tribute the supplies, and he expecs to spend the rorainder of tae week in that work in that section.
 The conditions around Psndleton were even worse than had been re- ported, in that there were about 5000 refugees at the point of starvation, and most of them virtually without clothing. Wha~ little clothing they had was constantly wet, and they suf- fGred terribly, in the cold weather which has prevailed since the floods overspread, that part of the state.
 Mir. Welty Is Active.
 Mr Welty. aided by residents of the ocStiou, IS SeeiIIS lHot IcIuSteS .dlI through that section are receiving some of the foodstuffs he brought down. Boats are going in all direc- tions. carrying succor te the starving men, women and children. It is esti- mated that under the plan of ,distribu- tion. giving each. person the govern ment ration" MT. Welty has suffi cient supplies to last several days, for that section.
 Three Negroes Drown
 A letter from Captain ]. c. Cross tu Secretary E. B. Bloom of the chamber of cotrmerce and the com miree of The Graphic's relief fund, yesterday announced the arrival or the Lightwocd, the unloading of the provisions, and the drowning of three negroes who were helping the whits men in tlAir work.
 The dead negroes were Andrew Jackson, a ohauffsur in the employ or Col. Cross; Sam Williams, night waterman at stockade; and Robers Hays. tenant farmer These, with Grant Charles. negro tenant. were in a boat with Clay Crass. son of col. Cross, and Capt. John Ponder, trying to row from the warehouse to tn~ levee with a load of provisions for the refugees cn the levee. It was night about 9 o'clock. of February II. and the current was so swift, and the boat so fSi! that the vessel turned over with them. Clay Cross and Capt Ponder swam safely to the levee. Charles clung to the over- turned boat. and was finally rescued. The ether negroes were washed away and drowned. Two bodies have since been recovered
 More Help Needed. That tnore provisions and clothing will be absolutely necessary, because of the continuance of the flood condi- tions in that section, where many plantations and half dozen towns are submerged and will be sub merged a week or more, is the opin- ion Of men returning to Pine Bluff from the scene.
 Mr. Auerbach will make report at Little Rock today, and it is presumed another appeal will be issued to the people there for further help for the flood victims.
 Women and children have been the greatest sufferers. They have had insufficient food, insufficient cloth- ing, no fuel, no place to sleep but the tops of levees or hard, wet boards, and their condition is pitiable, ac- cording to reports from men who have been among them. in an effort to help them.