| Show Heavy Rains Rain'S Block Travel Trav l In Swept Hurricane Swept Area k Planes Forni Form Only Mode of Entry Enty h Into to Santo Domingo Relief Work Goes Forward Under Difficulties I SA SANTO TO DOMINGO Sept 8 Alsoc Associated at d Food F od riots riot among the stricken hurricane-stricken and hungry pop populace of this city broke out t today day but were suppressed by soldiers soldier of the pOn Dominican nican guardia with Uni United ed States States' sail sailors jailors rs itana standing g by Several hundred d' d persons persons rushed the wharf where relief supplies supplies supplies sup sup- sup sup- plies were being unloaded from the United States de destroyer troyer mm min sweeper Most of the ref refugees gees had ad not had a ameal ameal ameal meal sin since e Wednesday when the hurricane struck the city PORT POW AU PRINCE Haiti Sept ept 8 Associated Press PresS PresS- Heavy eavy rains I lasting tin i more ore than t twenty four f enty-f ur hours hours' have sen sen- ri- ri Y swollen w Ile the Oz Ozama ma river and made travel through the hurricane zone m iL m the tb interior of of Santo Santa Domingo all but imI im- im I Continued 0 on page g S. S i tl i r tift I H Hea Heavy y y Rains Block travel Travel I IS S f lii I t Swept Hurricane Area AreaS S S Continued tram from page age 1 possible today The Ozama's flow has increased to fifteen miles an hour effectually preventing boat boats from entering Us its ts m mouth uth Airplanes today tody formed virtually l the only mode moe of travel into the area where last week about persons persone Io lost their lives and far more than that number received injuries Reli Relief Relief Re Re- li lief f work went forward today as energetically as possible under such circumstances L S L The population pathetically watched the tIme arrival of ot each plane plane at the time Santo D Domingo field hailing each as angels bf mercy alighting from Crom the time sky amid a scene of or great misery Aviation reconnaissance sance has lias shown hown that the hurricane after razing Santo Domingo o city traveled northwest destroying everything in Us its path In an nn area 25 5 to 40 miles mUe wide for a distance of ot about 50 60 miles amiles S HURTLES INTO AIR When the time hurricane hit hh the side of the mountains arising almost perpendicularly In fn its Its path the storm actually skinned the south Houth slope slope- of the mountain range lunge there and hurtled into the air nil touching only the time high h points In the succeeding succeeding succeed succeed- ing ranges upon Its course to to time the sea J j S rhe The area of or the Santiago Vega which the tho and Boca valleys s are ate productive parts of or the time country were spared The Time people o of Santiago Santiago San San- tiago with whom observers ers talked related that they could hear the time storm howling like a n million fiends In the air all as It passed overhead The Time p people ople were greatly awed by bythe bythe the time phenomenon Plantations cast st of or Santiago within the area of the storm were wiped out for a distance of to miles Relief work organized in Santiago Santiago Santi Santi- ago the the- metropolis o of northern Santo Domingo today was greatly I hampered cred by the condition o of roads and rivers The Time f forwarding of food tood to the time stricken areas arcas was almost tied up RELIEF PRO PROGRESSES Relief Relict work at Santo Domingo city to Colonel R. R SI M I. I Putts senior A American officer at Haiti in fri charge of or tho time air transport service was progressing as fast as adverse conditions would allow Yesterdays Yesterday's rain destroyed all aU hope that the time flood lood would subside within within with with- in a week or ten da days day and it w was s admitted frankly frankl today that the situation sit sit- nation lon was grave Boats In order to enter the harbor had to develop a speed o of more than 15 miles an hour In order to combat the cur cur- rent Small boats were seen at attempting attempting at- at tempting to land provisions at the thc S 5 toot foot of a fifty foot cliff near n ar which lies s tho time hulk bulk of f the tire old United States ship l Ier Memphis thrown ashore b by a tidal wave wae In August 1016 Colonel Cults Cutts because of or his Ion long experience in Santo Domingo as aM ashead he head Hl of or tho the g guard gilard ard was I enabled to speed UP up tho the service somewhat Commander Johnson of ot the the- medical corps has been operating ing tirelessly He performed 51 61 amputations the first night h he lie reached Santo Domingo Medical Supplies To Be Sent by Plane WASHINGTON Sept S AP AP- AP The Tire Red Cross arranged d today to send pOlin pounds s of ot surgical lc l dross dross- Ings antitoxin and anaesthetics to Santo Domingo by airplane The Time emer emergency ency action l followed receipt of word from Charles B B. Curtis American minister to the hurricane swept republic that medical mcd- mcd ical leal supplies from adjacent regions ns had been exhausted John Barton Darton Payne Red Cross chairman con conferred with Major General W. W Ireland and andRear andRear andRear Rear Admiral Charles E. E Riggs s. s surgeons general of or the army and navy S I They decided the time planes either cither I army or navy should be started either front from Washington or 01 NewYork New Now York depending on n the time speed with ith which supplies supplies' c could uld be assembled at those places Thc They may leave tonight Rear Admiral Hughes chief chic of the navy operations had placed a destroyer now at Newport at the service of at the lie Red Cross hut but it was decided to use the time airplanes in the time interest of or speed rhe will stand ready for or further call from from the time Red Rel Cross 1 r |
