Arizona republican., 1916-01-31
RELIEF WORK
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 ago. Since they were first driven from their homes they have been pro- vided with the necessities of life by the committee formed for relief.
 Hotels, churches, hospitals and countless individuals have signified willingness to house and are now shel- tering their share of those made home less by the flood. The exhibit, rooms of the Chamber of Commerce have been given over to ever accommodating piles of bedding, clothing, household fur nishings, new and castoff, and boxes, barrels, bags and parcels of food and fuel. Since early yesterday there has been steady stream of applicants for aid, while volunteers have worked un- ceasingly loading supplies into auto mobiles and other vehicles. Where the roads to the stricken districts were passable long lines of trucks threaded their way, while others transferred their loads at the docks to boats which , transported them to more remote and inaccessible districts.
 The flooded portion of San Diego
  tricts, each under the direction of chairman working with a committee of citizens residing in the districts. A canvass of the districts needs was un- dertaken, and before noon relief work was progressing rapidly, with fewer persons finding themselves obliged to apply to the relief station in person. It was at the request of the Chamber of Commerce officials that United States army and navy authorities gave their prompt aid in policing the strick- en areas, and in providing boats to make the trips into otherwise inac- cessble places.
 Coroner Otto Marsh was kept busy throughout the day sending his assis- tants to investigate reports of loss of life, which were for the most part un- substantiated. One such report was that received early today that United States marines and sailors had recov- erred tWenty-one bodies in the Otav valley. Inquiry at all the undertaking rooms in the city was met with the re- sponse that no bodies had been re- ccived.
 Coroner Marsh said he was using ev- cry means at his command to obtain as quickly as possible an approximate ly correct list of those who lost their lives, but that beyond the possible re- coverI and Identification of one or two a day for several days, it probably would be week before he could hope for anything like complete list
 The trouble not only the coroner, but all others have encountered in reach ing isolated districts, was instanced today when district chairman in charge of the relief work in the San Diego river valley was obliged to row across the swift current and stretch d cable, to be used by ferry in carrying supplies aclosS the stream.
 In this district the relief committee found Miss G. A. McDermott. a teacher in the public schools. who was forced by the swollen waters to leave her home. She told of having watched with pair of field glasses the drown ing of six Chinese farmers. whose names no one has r zen able to learn. The Chinese were surrounded by the flood, when they sought safety on q mound, with their three horses. Help less to summon aid or to do anything herself to assist them, Miss McDer- mott stood horror stricken as she watched the men run madly one way and the other in efforts to climb upon a piece of drift wood, until after their horses had been swept away by the rising torrent.
 A report reached the coroner from , cfr-in of three bodies, two Japanese and Mext- can, bound together, indico-..---. .le thought, that they probably dashed i themselves to some floating object in l hopes of being rescued.
 Until today, the first day that no rain has fallen in more than a week, prac- ] tlcaIly all roads into the city have been | Impossible, which with tbe fact that , telephone and telegraph lines are down Tn all directions accounts for the slow ness Tn receiving reports of propertv damages and loss of life.
 It was due to these conditions that residents of San Diego, removed but fifteen miles from Otay City and the Otay valley, did not hear until late Fri day If the calamity that befell that district. That the lower Otay dam had broken and it's water swept the valley clean. afterward wrecking Otay city, became known for the first time when Raymond Morris, a:i aviator of the i United States army, and a San Diego Newspaper reporter made flight which laid the picture of desolation be- fore them
 1 Other VentureSOme persons by Wad- ing waist-deep in muddy water gained a high point overlooking Tijuana, Mexi- ! co, and there they saw vast expanse Of water stretching off to the horizon : in one direction and to the mountains
 in the other. Few houses appeared to
 be standing, the Tia Juana fort was mo-
 where to be seen, and only few up