Several Hankow Streets Free of Water: Suggested' Cutting of Dyke Hankow, Sept. 15. cities. were falling speedily to-day.
feed waters in the Wokan With the river at the level of 30 feet three inches a number of the streets are now free of water and tone by one the different institutions fate getting back to normal.
As' the stagnant Athy' pools gradually disappear from "the freets, Hankow is present badly "mutilated appearance. The destruction wrought by. the. floods and the storms is more in evklenee than when the water way high, There is hardly one building that has escaped damage. With fences torn down and walls badly damaged, some of the dwelling houses have no Fevemblance to buildings. The two. cinema gardens on the Bund, the Vietorin and the Empire, Jie flat fon the ground. and are almost beyond recognition, White th SA. Dis (former concessions), they are'still high in the areas. outside ihe business abet, "A the How are tire region on the oth railway embankment are still in vast sea, For miles no dry. land ould be seen, Behind the Chang-kung Dyke the sight is simply harrowing, the flood stretching from horizon to' horizon, Tt will probably, take another two months for waters exceedingly low lying areas protected by the Pinghan part of Hanow Railway embankment on the Yangtse front, by the ink of the" S: from the Han River and by the Changkung Dyke connecting the two Railway embankments. The height of Railway embankments above Customs zero is SI fect, the Dyke is 55. fect; previous. record high, water in 1870, 50.6 fect; this year's high water mark 53.6 feet.
The breaks in the Railway cni-Bankment were closed two. weeks ago and the 20 square miles confined. The ed in front of the town to 50.3 feet, while at the back the level is 51. he back contains dens, but ty only little over half a million!
including the American Red (Cross "donation of G-$100,000, _or ex. $457,000 and also the remit tance of $50,000 from the Central Government, " Both the American gift and the government appropristion were made before the Commis. ion fesued the appeal, is apparent that the provincial government. will be unable to cope the situation. The provincial treasury is empty, the Administration being unable to secure funds to preserve its own existence. To. re-fave the stringency the authorities fare obtaining © Toan of $600,000 from' the local banke, but this will be barely enough. for paying the back salaries of the government's employees, It has also been prosed to issue $6,000,000 provincial mils, to be known as, Flood "Rehabilitation"" Bonds. with, salt re-Venus as "securities, Red Cross donation $100,000 or "Mex. $457,000 will be mainly used for the purchase of foodstuffs... The United' Press is informed by. off als of the National Flood Relief Commission that fu view of the fact that the fund is to be used for flood relief in Wuhan only, a special foudget is being prepared for its disposal and a. separate account) Iwill be kept. The plan of. the [Commission is to buy 26,000 shih of ice int the cost of Mex. $262,146. This will provide food for 100,006 refugees for 50 days. The remai Ider of the money will be devoted ito plague prevention work, the erection of matsheds and the making outlined. lof winter clothing, as already,
Under, instructions from Mr. a V. Soong, Chairman of the ional Flood Relief Commission, $20,000 has already been turn-Jed over to the Health Division for the further num of ""$70,000 "will ar chase of medical supplies, handed t0.'the Di lout Its programme Iestlence. $59,000, Sept. 16.
"With the approach of cooler we ther in the Wuhan area the Ni Flood Relief Commission to-day decided to hasten measures to Ieviate the suffering of the stricken oR While efforts to stave off ste tion are being continued in Sinti and Fankow, relief is now being] vushed to Hwangkang, another inundated Hupeh district.
'The Commission considers that the provision of winter clothing for; the flood refugees is now a, matter Of the most urgent Mecessity. has been resolved to, make 00,000, cutlite of winter clothes within' the next 20 days with money from the' yeliet funds. Of these 100,000 will be made in Shanghai and' the remainder in' Hankow. Of the sum of Mex, $457, (G-$100,000) donated by the Amarican Red Cross Mex, $50,000 will be spent en elthing.
'As the river continues to fall sanipans are finding' it, impossible, to pass through many of the stea Tu many. places where the water is, shallow. the boats are pushed like wheel barrows instead "of—being] rowed. In some places they are actually carried, a though they were sedan chairs.
According to officials in charge Of the work of epidemic prevention, approximately "7000 vaccinations were given in the unit of Hankow and 18,000 in the unit of Wuchang, for the prevention of typhoid fever and cholera, up tothe th of this In addition to the local doctors, Doctors J. B. Grant, B. R. Dyer, Boreie, and Chinese doctors from Shanghai and Nanking ai their assistance in the task domic prevention, 'The appeal of the National Flood Relief Commission at Hankow for immediate financial "aid to make lo immediate relief for flood Victims in Hupeh province is not meeting a satisfactory response, To date the funds at the disposal' of the Commission amount tion camps at the Pagoda Hill the outskirt of Wuchang and the Black Hill in Hanyang. The report} that cholera hi its "appea tance and is. tab hheaxy toll of lives is confirmed in a. statement submitted to the National Flood Relief Commission by Dr. Vu Yoh, who is in charge of epidemic pre-ye ation work in the provincial Gepital. Dr. Vu reports that Tiboratory examinations—showed that the dread disease is now raging! in the midst of the flood sufferers.
The horrors on Black Hill are in-[creasing hourly as the death—toll rapidly mounts. The Red Cross} workers to-day picked up—and ¢ofined in the huts there no less 7 dead human bodies, 23 being those of male refugees, 21 women and 26 children. During the Vast two days over 120 persons died matsheds, being victims of typhoid fever, dysentery or cholera.
Sept. 20.
cholera, dysentery. and typhoid fever increasing in the reance camps the death fall at Black ili, Hanyang, was mounting, rapidly today.' The camps are occupied by 20,000 men, women and children and according to authentic reports one-third of them are il and many are doomed to death. They are dying at the rate of from 70 to 100 per day. Children are succumbing to. the diseases in the larger proportion.
A visit to the stricken area re-Yeals to the observer horrors beyond words. The Hill is a big graveyard which at some of military campaign, was altered tothe fit the needs of warfare with bar-[Amagi bed wire entanglements and trenches.|Tokyo yesterday afternoon These trenches have now been almost. completely filled with dead, and pits are being dug each hour to take the corpses which, wrapped in matting. are carried there bs coolies with their carrying' pole: During the rst few days of the outbreak of cholera the dead were cetined, but this cannot bs dove now. There is no time for Red
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