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bulwarks of the city, this far in ad.
vance of the real crux.
The crest of a second rise, sweeping
down the Missouri River from Kan.
sas City, is expected to pass st. Louis
shortly, pouring an even heavier
deluge into already inundated sections
near there.
The larger Government steamboats,
are acting as mother" craft for the
scores Of small motor boats which are
doing valiant duty in the back waters
OF the river. Two are United States
Navy tugs, 10 are Army engineer
Doats and the others are ships of the
lighthouse service of the Commerce
Department.
1t IS on one of the latter sturdy
craft that Mr.. Hoover and his party
VIII set forth to take stock of the con.
dltions at Greenville, Vicksburg and
other sections now feeling the brunt
or the tide. The trip will be started
late this afternoon or tomorrow.
En- route to Memphis last night. Mr..
hoover issued statement explaining
the purposes of his visit to the
stricken region and calling on the
american people to contribute "an
absolute minimum of S5.0O0,O00 to
assist the unfortunate victims of this,
Inc greatest flood in our knowledge
of the Mississippi"
Need Food and Shelter,
AS personal representative of Presi.
dent Coolidge, he said, his job is to
see that everything humanity possible
is done TO assist the 100 900 already
destitute and homeless and the others
threatened with a similar fate. These
people must not only be removed to
places of safety, but must be given
shelter, food and medical care for q
month or six weeks.
He emphasized that afterward they
must be returned to their homes and
given new start in life.
While State and municipal authori.
ties are eXerting their best efforts to
provide food and shelter for the
refugees, he said, their utmost re-
sources are entirely inadequate to
the task, and they have called on us
for help"
Health officials are striving to con-
troll the sanitation problem to fore.
stall an epidemic Of typhoid fever or
other disease. DIR. w. r. Redden,
national medical officer Of the Red
Cross, accompanied the Hoover party
here, and he win take over active
supervision of the public health
work for his organization.
Other Red Cross officials in the
party were. J. A. Smith, financial as.
sistant; j. A. Hendrix, assistant ma
tlonal director of accounts; l.. d.
MacIntyre, disaster accountant, and
William S. Taylor, publicity director.
All are seasoned veterans in disaster
relief work
Five hundred persons were taken
from levee top at wayside last night
by the steamer Wabash, which
stripped away it's guard rails in a
dangerous ascent of q drainage canal
10 reach the morooned people, Told
that 1t would be impossible to nego-
tate the canal, Capt. Henry Meyer
nevertheless ordered the vessel into
the channel while screams from the
levee, mile away. rent the air.
The Government boat Tallaluh
rescued eight persons, including two
small children, who We're clinging to
Willow tops after their gasoline launch
burned in the flood waters.
With more than 100 900 persons al.
| ready homeless and refugee camps
| swelling almost hourly in population.
| grave fears were felt by officials for
| inhabitants of the delta country be-
tween Greenville and Vicksburg. De-
| spite warnings to evacuate their
| homes before the food waters from
the Stop Landing crevasse arrived,
| reports TO the National Guard officials