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Show LEAVES COVENTIONS FOR STRICKEN SECTION j Huntington, W. v., Aug. 9 Govern- I. or Hatfield, -who arrived here tonight I to attend the state Republican con- j- vention, ordered special relief trains to the Coal river and Cabin creek diB- tricts, where, according to reports, more than 100 have been drcmned and 1 5,000 made homeless. Two compan j ies of the Second regiment of the West Virginia national guards have ' :1 1)een ordered .-with tents to the flooded districts. So serious is the situation . that Governor Hatfield left the city tonight t'o go to the scene of the de- f vastaion. I:j |