Slow Methods Being Employed

Work of Pumping Out Cellars Not Being Hurried

MORE HELP IS REQUIRED To Clear Away Stagnant Water from Flooded Houses--The Danger of Diseases

There appears to be a laxness In the methods employed in pumplng out the cellars In the flooded district. There does not seem to be enough men at work and the work of cleaning out the cellars is progressing rather slowly. A business man who drove over the district with a representative of the Argus yesterday, said"

"The work of pumping out these cellars ought to be carried on more rapidly. The city ought to have more men employed and the work ought to be rushed. To leave those cellars in the condition they are now for any length of time, is liable to cause much disease, maybe an epidemic. I would suggest that the Mayor himself see that this work is being pushed more hurriedly than it appears to be now."

Most of the wells in the district ravaged by the flood have been condemned. This work of protection was quickly attended to, mainly through the energetic efforts of Dr. W. B. Hinsdale, of the board of health. He went about the work in a businesslike way, with the result that every well in the district has the condemned warning tacked upon it.

Despite the precautions of the board of health, it is, however, feared that some persons are continuing to drink from the wells that have been placed under the ban. This morning, the Argus representative, while driving past a house noticed a man drinking from a well which had been condemned. This is a most serious state of affairs as the sickness of one person, brought about through drinking the impure water is liable to affect the whole neighborhood and for that matter afflict the whole city.

Some of the cellars that have been flooded are so much filled with water that it will take considerable time to pump them out if more men are not put to work.

Moses Seabolt, president of the board of fire commissioners, said in the afternoon that he and Chief Fred Sipley have been busy directing the pumping out of the water-filled cellars in the flooded district. They expect to have all of the cellars pumped dry by this evening.

Ald. H. W. Douglas has aided them with a new pump just received by the Gas company.