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Show STIPE, Thousands of Families in Alabama in Absolute Want and Slowly Starring to Death. ALL ' CROPS ARE RUINED. Stock Perishes in the Floods Which Carry Death and Disaster in Their Watery Wake. Pitiful Plea to "the Americans for Aid for the Unfortunate Southern '! People. HOMES WASHED AWAY. . Why Send Money to Starving Russia When, Oar Own Citizens Are Dying From Want. St. Louis, July 13. A late report from Jonesboro, Ala., 6ays: Thousands of people peo-ple have had their crops completely ruined, stock is drowned, homes washed away and, in many cases, lives were lost by the recent heavy floods. There are hundreds of families fam-ilies on the Little Texas and Black rivers who don't know where their next meal ia coming from, and have no means of obtaining obtain-ing it until the water abates. It may bo a Christian act for the people of the United States to contribute to the starving starv-ing people of Russia, but wo cannot look upon it in that light when thousands of our own countrymen are actually starving for " the bare necessities of life. |