Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-12-12
WEST POINT .FLOOD
DAMAGES REACH
To S1,5O0,0OO
Red Cross Workers and La
Grange People Furnish and
Distribute ReIief-0peIika
Merchants Help West Side
BY LAMBDIN KAY
(The Journals Staff Correspondent

practlCaIy every business eSCaDllSn@
ment in West Point standing in three
to eight feet Of water and with per-
haps two score homes in the same
condition, the people of the flooded
city are showing a wonderful spirit
of cheerfulness and courage as they
go about the work of distributing
relief wherever the need is discover +
ed. Thanks to the efficient work Of
The citizens committee and of the
relief workers who arrived from At
lanta last evening about 9 O'Clock,
together with thoughtful generosi-
ty of the people Of LAGRANGE, who
have sent truck loads of food and
other supplies, no unusual suffering
is apparent anywhere this morning.
opelika Aids West Side
Conditions on the west SIDE were
greatly relieved this morning when
trucks arrived from Opelika, Ala,
with food an dother supplies sent by
the Wholesale grocers of that city.
A committee of seven has been APP
pointed to assist the Red Cross in
all relief work, and they have manv
people busy now carrying food,
water, aspirin and other medicines
to the people maroned in the stores
and other buildings. A few people
are slightly i'll fro 'fnexposure, but
relief measures are being carried out
so rapidly with more boats in use,
that no serious illness is antici.
pated.
With Opelika sending aid to the
west side and the Red Cross work.
ers and others padding around in
the business district under the di-
rection of LeGare Davis, the whole
situation looks much brighter. The
water is now falling rapidly and
people are being taken from the
stores to the shores with more dis.
patch.
Rough estimates of the damage
done in West Point and vicinity place
the probable loss at something like
$1,50Q,000
The high waters have been reced- Y
Ing very gradually, but as the day
wore on the fall became more notice
atle. If there is no more rain crew
can begin work in few hours OF.
the work of repairing the railway
and telegraph lines. The water sit
uatfon is, causing the most WORRY.
The big water main was carried
away when the big wagon bridge
was washed away. Business tneY
are now working on a proposition To.
fr1ng temporary main across the
river on a. pontoon bridge. Help of,
this project is awaited from Camp
Gordon. Il' 80 =
AdJutant General Harris has wired
from Washington that the military
authorities at Camp Gordon will fur.
niSh aid, and it is likely that the first
thing they do will be to construct a
pontoon bridge on which a temporary
main can be laid for supplying water
to the west side.
There was comparatively little fire
damage yesterday when fire broke
out in a warehouse of the West
Point Iron works following an ex,
plos1on. The flames did not spread
beyond the building.
No lives have been reported lost
as yet. Iced Roberts, proprietor of
soda fountain in the business dis
trlot' has not yet been accounted for.
and searchers have gone out in
podt 10 try to find out if he was
drowned.
Word came from Camp Gordon
this morning that Major Finley. en-
glneer, would arrive here early in tba
day. Two business men, Mayor Mark
Mccullough and Ed Cook, nave been
designated to assist him in the water
main pontoon proposition.
IL IS possible to walk across the
"A az w. p. bridge this morning nv,
Wad1ng through the water on the an.
proach to the far side.
Places Flooded
Among the principal pIaces of
business, public buildings, etc. sun.
merged to a depth Of from Three 10
ten feet by the flood and constituting
the entire business district of Wesf
Point are the following:
Charles hotel, West Point Whole.
sale Grocery company, Adams Hard.
ware company, Lee STEMS Economy
store, A. c. Brooks & Co., general
supplies; Cohen Brothers, dry goods;
hudson Hardware company w. l.
Barker, dry goods; barber shop, CITY
Drug company, Terrell Tatum com.
pany, dry goods; Miller & Erwin
shoe store; M. Stark dry goods; Lee
STEIN dry goods; Solomon Brothers.
dry goods; Lee HerZberg, mems fur.
nishing; Citizens bank, Neal Allen
drugs; c. E. Hill, department store
Reid Roberts, soda fountain; A. Pal.
mtsina, restaurant; West Point post.
office; Phil Lanier, insurance; First
National bank, j. I. Zachary Broth.
ers, groceries; Ford Auto Supply
company; r. L. Williams, meat mar.
ket; j. L. B. Barrow, groceries; r
NJ. Scott, heavy groceries; Sunset
Tea Room, city council room, city
Jail, Sid Johnson, bottling works
West Point Iron Works, West Point
Coca-Cola Bottling company, Hugh.
ley McCollough, warehouse and
wholesale groceries,; Batson & Cook
lumber and building material; Farm.
Wainwright Roller Covering Works,
Presbyterian, Baptist, Episcopal and
Methodist churches, telephone ex-
change, Standard Oil, Gulf Refining
and Texas company filling stations.
River club and West Point-Lanetf
News. sr
Flooded Residences
Residences inundated were as fol.
lows: Lee Herberg, P. G. Whitaker
DR.. Norman Poer, Jamie Hudman
Grigg Zachary, w. Kirby, G. F. Ir.
win, NJ. A. Tice, Trox Bankston, T.
NJ. Scott, Charles Hill, w. S. Wood,
Forrest Sims, Charles Banker, Rob.
ert Dixon, J. S. Booker, John Hors-
ley, Jesse Johnson, E. D. Fuller, T.
w. Johnson, e. C. Barker, Grady
Webb, Lee Hardy, Abbott Johnson,
L. Strong, S. L. Dickson, James
Moore, Robert Hogg, E. Lanier, Noe
Lanier, Phil Lanier, James Lanier,
Hollis Lanier, John Daniel, J. S. Mil
Ter, Mrs. w. r. Lloyd H. K. Lamp
kin, Mrs. William Myra, A. T. New
ton. Grady Perry, Norman Reed,
Causey Hamilton, Willie Johnson
Mrs. T. NJ. Delamar, E. C. Bass, DR.,
Hugh Mccullough, f. Paul, Mrs. Ed
ward Schafer John McGlon, John
Ed Rutland, Mrs. William Brown.
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