Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1915-09-03 | Page 2 | Five Thousand Homeless |

Type	issue
Date	1915-09-03
Paper	Mt. Pleasant Pyramid
Language	eng
City	Mount Pleasant
County	Sanpete
Rights	No Copyright - United States (NoC-US)
Publisher	Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
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Article Title	Five Thousand Homeless
Type	article
Date	1915-09-03
Paper	Mt. Pleasant Pyramid
Language	eng
City	Mount Pleasant
County	Sanpete
Page	2
OCR Text	Show FIVE THOUSAND HOMELESS. Many Driven From Their Homes by Floods in Arkansas. Little Rock, Ark. More than 5.000 persona are homeless within a radius of 200 miles of Newport, Ark., and many others marooned in their houses by flood, have been living in upper stories or on roofs for four, five and even six days, it was said here Sunday Sun-day night by D. C. Welty, agriculture commissioner of the St. Louis. Iron Mountain & Southern railway. After a motor boat trip of a week through the flooded section, Mr. Welty Wel-ty reported that he found conditions serious; thousands of acres of rich farm lands under water, heavy loss in live stock and personal properly, but apparently there had been no loss of life and refugees were being well cared for in various camps.
Reference URL	https://newspapers.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s60c5vt9/9003127