Ogden Evening Standard | 1911-07-17 | Page 1 | Homeless People Urged to Go Elsewhere

HOMELESS PEOPLE URGED TO GO ELSEWHERE Bay City, Mich., July 17. Rain6 continued con-tinued today tnroughout northern Michigan, effectively dissipating all fire danger In the forest districts for the present. Relief work at Oscoda and Au Sable, however, will be a big task. Free transportation has been suspended by the railroads and there are now nearly one thousand men, "women and children chil-dren at the site of their former homes. The H. M. Louds' Sons' company, whoso lumber manufacturing plants were destroyed, is urging the men to seek work elsewhere, as it cannot rebuild re-build under sixty days and will not rebuild on a scale nearly as large as Its original plant. The city is beginning to fee the strain of the continued demand for relief. re-lief. Supplies are on the way frpm Detroit, but, with one thousand persons per-sons to care for, the task of relief will be the largest tho state has ever had.