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Show GOVERNMENT AIDS FLOOD SUFFERERS "WABHIXCTON. Doc. S. Aid for sufferers suf-ferers from the disastrous flood in Texas has been extended by the war department depart-ment upon tho baslH of reports from Brigadier General Bliss, commanding the American troops on the 'Mexican border, who for tho moment has turned his attention at-tention from the war game to works of mercy, Reports from Lieutenant Colonel Krouthoff, who was sent to Bryan, Tex.. and Lieutenant Colonel Brown at College station, were embodied hv flnrml miRS today in this statement to the war department. de-partment. "Consulted with citizens' relief committee com-mittee and estimated there were 11.000 People in the bottoms beroro the floods. 10,000 negroes and 4000 whites. Approx-jniutely Approx-jniutely .000 bad been rescued and 10.-000 10.-000 are Htlll in tho bottoms marooned in Bin houses and on the roofs of houses. Practically all are destitute and rations, clothing and blankets are needed. One thousand more rations arc needed for ten days or two weeks and It Is .recommended .recom-mended that 20.000 rations and 10,000 b anketB be rushed to Brvan for immediate imme-diate use. Thoy now have 100 tents, obtained ob-tained from a college." General Bliss said ho had collected tho necessary rations and blankets and Secretary Sec-retary Garrison promptly ordered them sent forward. Twenty Lives Lost. HEMPSTEAD, Tex., Doc S. Twentv persons, ten of whom were whlto farmers farm-ers and members of their families, aro known to have lost tholr lives in this neighborhood as a result of the overflowing over-flowing of the Brazos river. The negroes were drowned when tho barn on which they had taken refuge turned over. Arkansas River Rising. FORT SMITH. Ark.. Dec. S. While no further damage is reported from the high water In the Arkansas rivor the water roso a foot hero in tho last twenty-four hours and tonight is stationary at seventeen seven-teen feet. Rises upstream today indicated indicat-ed a maximum stage of 1S.5 or 10 feet would be reached tomqrrow. |