The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-11-03
APPEAL FOR RELIEF.
RE People OF the United States Called
Upon for Help for Michigan Sufferers.

RE People or the United States CGilod
Upon for Help for Michigan Sufferers.
The Michigan State Relief Coumit5ee
have ISSUED Al appeal to the people OF
the United States, calling urgently for
aid to relieve the ,hcus ,nds VINO have
been made houseIess md deprived of
all means OF subsistauc in consequence
of the terrible fires which have Tor
weeks been raging aud which are still
burning iierceiy in various parts Of the
State. Generous contributions are
coming in from every direction wIihou,
the State. Even across the waters 10
London subscriptions iu money and
clothing are making. The New Yo!k
Chamber Of Commerce has voted $25,-
600 for the relief Of the sufferers in
this State aud Wisconsin and numer-
Gus contributions have been made al.
ready 10 various sections Of the country.
The people Of our ovn State are doing
well and nobly in the good work. But
the Belief Committee, having studied
the situation and the awful magnitude
of the present. calamity, hsve been led
to conclude that the people of Michi.
gan alone will not be able to M Get the
emergency aud afford ali the assistance
which the great disaster, so suddenly
thrust upon them, impers.iyeiy de
mands.
That the Committee are justified in
thus calling upon she generous and the
benevolent throughout the couotry for
prompt and eflicieD, aid DO one who
reads the following appeal can doubt
We frost that the terrible story told by
the Committee will stir ~ the better
nature--the benev0lence and the bu-
nouity-oi the men AID women of
Kalamazoo county and inpe! all to
even greater earnestness aud llberaiity.
Many OF our citizens are doing nobv
10 response 60 ,be urgens duty vi tbe
hour, and May wonld do mere if they
but fully cornprehended the extent and
the demands Of tbe work to be dopc.-
READ this.
APPgAL or TIE STATE RELIBR COM.
AITTER.
To TIC People Of tie United States:
We need instsu, aud plentiful aid 49,
From 1900 to $4,000 people at least
in the S ate of Michigan have lost their
homes, food, clothing, crops, horses
and cattle. On the night of the Chi
cage fire two thousand people on the
east shore of Lake Michigan, and j, 900
or 5000 on the west shore Of Lake
Huron were reduced almost TO absolute
destitution. Within TWO or three week.
other small villages aud settlements
have been blotted out. The number of
individuals, farm houses, barns ard
frontier dwellings which have been de.
slroyed By the all pervadiDg fire can not,
for want OF information be accurately
collected. The aggregate we know 20
be enormous. The 6rcs are still burn.
ing aud new ones breaking out. The
area of ruin and devastation is daily
increasing The intensity aud dramatic
maenificcnce of the calamites which
overwhelmed other cities and towns are
lacking here, but the suffering
exists A long, hard, cold winter is
approaching. Large numbers of these
people are accessible only by water, and
navigation will soon close. Scarcely q
mon.h or six weeks now remain in
which to feed, clothe and shelter them
Tor the winter season, which extends
Tar into the months of spring. They
must be helped now or they will perish.
They will need too, 10 the early spring,
seed and implements for The harvests
of next year. The greater portion OF
them must commence lite entirely anew,
without preparation and at the begin.
ing Of winter. Their isolation from the
eeusers Of commerce aud the com uuli.
cation make the problem of relief all
.be more difficult aud all the more or.
gent. The people of Michigan have
noble responded to the appeals which
sEis misery has made to their sympathy
add generosity, but they are severely
crippled indirectly in their business by
the Chicago fire, and directly by the as.
distance they gave to the sufferers by
that calamity before they were aware OF
the demands which would be made up.
on them at home. Many of them, too,
have lost their resourcee by the fires