The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-04-11
RELIEF AGENCIES
SPEND BUSY DAY
Neiphbors Ready to Help
out Unfortunates in
Flooded District
SALVATION ARMY BUSY
Pod Cross Officials Are Keep
ing Constantly in Touch
With Situation

p.ref agencies OF the city spent
-,.,lIv a0 dav Sunday and Mon
w.. a., Tho flooded districts between
uGy uiyy,.n and Bruner stations on the
go spring line, learning what help
,,ss needed. In the main, folk in the
H'gher parts OF the suburbs along
~ liver have been able to take care
otthclr less fortunate neighbors ana
nave opened their homes to them.
rsmmandant and Mrs. johnson OF
bc salvation Army went as Tar as
prYner. sunday, and found that all
tbe dIspossessed families along the
liver front were being cared Tor IN
.to bomes OF neighbors and In the
F.'Eg't houses. The salvation Army
',,Ggi mas been offered as temporary
,g,rfers to any who may have no
,,,re 20 20. Reverend Clock of
r-.sf Tulsa has opened the Com
,ru-,iv house for temporary shelter
and a great many people are being
,,rg5 for there. Two families who
vyod near the old city dump, their
homes nearly covefcd by water, came
,o tbo salvation Army. Sunday, for
sbeltcr and after staying there awhile
,rorc directed to rooms that Com
,rendant and Mrs. Johnson had
fognd for them for the present. Com
rrandant Johnson has left word at
the police station for all who need
shelter or material aid to come 10
the citadel
Every Agency Helping.
Whue up to last evening the
Humane society had had no calls
for material aid. Humane Agent
WEIGH mad had men out for two
days 10 help in getting families and
their possessions out OF their homes
in time. The major part Of the
families assisted in this way had
friends 70 whom they could go
until the waters receded. one man
near the waterworks had about
eighteen people quartered in his
basement until temporary quarters
could be found for them.
Clarence II. Dawson, director OF
Red cross relief. stated last evening
that but few emergency calls had
lad To be answered to date, but
that men were constantly in touch
with the situation In the flooded
lowlands in order that every need
might be met. Reverend Wheatlcy
OF the Verne Baptist church asked
Tor and received from Red Cross
headquarters n load of tents that
were to be set up as soon as the high
wind would permit to provide tenn
Iorary shelter. Superintendent ReGs
Of the watcrworks plant is quarter
ins as many people as can
be cared for at the plant and asked
FOR sleeping cots for the night last
night.
Formed Second River.
nTiVnn hN tho hiUh winds tho
mud-laden waters of the swollen
Arkansas swirled through houses
along the lowlands between Glenn
Station and Medic Monday while the
owners stood along the banks help
less TO save their furniture from
ruin. The backwater in this district
formed q second river. eight and
nine feet deep at its deepest.
Scores of families in this district
fled from their homes late Sunday.
Others slower about moving out
battlcd with the winds Monday
morning when they attempted TO
leave their flooded homes by boat.
Beaten back again and again by the
strong wind that chopped the sur
face OF tho backwater and made II
look as though 1t were ruffled by
strong river currents, the boats
drlftcd back against the inundated
rowers could make the north bank.
Virtually all families between Nern
and Medic stations had TO leave
their furniture, so rapidly did the
waters rise. Awakened by the water
lapnng at their front porch about
. o'clock Monday morning, one man
hurried his family across the road
70 his sisters. There was a sick
baby In the family and he stayed
Fu ~ uHa
20 be all right. Returning 10 his
home he was amazed TO find that
the newly formed river had over
flowed his porch and flooded the
rooms OF his home so that rescue or
the furniture was impossible. one
woman mourned the mud ruin Of a
set OF ivory wicker furniture on
which she had just paid the second
lns,allment. Another made her liv-
ing from eight cows that she owned,
all OF them drowned before she
could get them TO a place OF safety.
Dead chickens floated on the sur
face Of the river, along with debris,
shlngles and pieces OF outhouses'
Between Glenn station and Tulsa
tho bare tops of trucks, parked
along the side OF the road where a
SAND company had been working,
were visible above the thick black
water.
Saved All They Could.
Along the flood-lapped banks or
the backwater river, dozens OF peo-
pie stood yesterday and viewed with
chagrin and resignation their erst-
while habitats being washed nearly
20 the caves in a muddy and noisy
bath, Women and girls trudsed
along the Sand Springs road TO hos
ptdble neighbors' homes, some 0f
'hom carrying bird-cages some cud-
dlng chickens in their hands, some
or them with clothing over their
arms-all that they had been able
10 save from the too-sudden waters.