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Show 'CANVAS CITK TO HOUSE MS VOLUNTEERS RGNorR LL AG- SISTANCE F033IBLE TO PEOPLE OF STRICKEN TEXAS CITY Red Cross Authorized To Establish Homes for Sufferers From Storm' t Waters; District "Balng ' Cleaned of Debris Sun Antonio, Tex. Tho Rod Cross was iiiithoilzed Tuesday to. establish a lent city hero In wh'ch to care Cor lioiiielosB flood sufforors. Tbo United States army will be asked for 50C touts nnd '2000 cots, Rod Cross work-ors work-ors said. The Red Cross will furnish (lie bedding. Mnny of the Mexicans roturnod to their homes, or what was loft of thorn, and arc reported to bo living In tho ruins. Sanitary inspectors under the direction of tin; city and county healtr Ninrds havo been orderod Into tho district dis-trict to compol the Inhabitants to clean up. Kvcry effort It bolng nindd by the authorities to got the districts which wero under water elennod and disinfected. disin-fected. Plenty of labor at 52.50 a day has hqon obtained for the property owners requiring help. There hnvo boon volunteers especially especial-ly for street cleaning. The federal authorities furnished twenty large trucks to haul off debris, and the city employed more than 100 extra men to tond the trucks. Tho woodon blocks torn from the pavnments nro being liaulcd to ono place and thoso not broken will lie salvaged and used for pntcli'.nrf stroets Tbo majority of the soldiers who have beon on guard duty will with1 draw Wednesday It was said' Tuesday night. Police, American Lcgfcm men and a smaller number of soldlors will tako over tho work of directing trnfl'lc und keoplug.tlio curious out of districts dis-tricts whoro their presence would interfere in-terfere with the work of cleaning up. How 'Sylvia Van Ness, 15, nnd her brother, 18, saved' two youngor boys from drowning Saturday wns told Tuesday. Tho water was rushing down the street in front of their homo. Tboy heard cries for ihclp, unci by the light of a lantern saw two small boys cjlnglng to a treo across the street. Tbo girl and her brother put on bathing bath-ing suits and attempted to cross tho street. They waded In an far ns thev could against the current and the swam, letting the current curry them loward tho tree. Between I hem thoy curried tho two boys back across tho .street. Tbo younger-boy rescued died of exposure und Injurios caused by being struck by debris. Neither of thoiii has been Identified: |