Salt Lake Telegram | 1930-01-29 | Page 8 | Planes to Drop Supplies for 90 Families in Need

PlANS TO DR DROP r f R Rf f IN NEED E A 1 A Ind id Jan 29 J AP Taking 1 relief relict to ninety ty families s cl In hi distress from fro lack JacK or of n l food and fuel Cuel in tho the bo flood bound nd tt territory south of ot Ind IntI was vas the immediate goal today of ot tour our national guard l airplanes en engaged enta en- en ta gared ct in relief work One OM hundred and twenty bags of ot food and clothing were ware ready for Ol tho the aviators to drop at It the tho homes of ot these families famines and others marooned noro mOIo than a It wC week k ago when wheat th the tha waters of or the Wabash aba h and Ind White rl rivers l' l overflowed o d spread Q over r a A. largo argo territory ry and dud then froze Th The planes yesterday esi dropped supplies to tw twenty nty persons parsons Isolated on Cutoff Island bland and nud others In tho vicinity of ot Hawthorne I I Island an Claypool Clay Clay- pool ool Hill lIUI and The Tho serious plight of ot pett persons In Inho inthe th the ho flood load territory was nas emphasized by tho thin experiences o of tho the aviators yesterday esterday One pilot related d how v a no bag dropped near a 3 farmhouse broko through tine the l ice e whereupon thero aman ft a man miln who had b been watching th the tho plane dived und under r tho the ice tee to re re re- o th the tho supplies At another point tho the pilot said a ft man and boy pounced on tho the bag and anti tore It t apart an QA ra ravenous enous animals would wouldn In n search of ot ro road food d. d Mrs Irs Henry Williams wh who reached high ground after a 3 walk of ot several e miles 3 o over or r tho the foe lae with h her t five 10 email small children n. n told how tho ho low lower r part of ot her home homo was floo flooded d and said Mid th the hou house e shook hook hookon on Its foundations tt as th the tho flood waters waters wa wa- swirled d ft about bout It It