The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-04-14
THE CHIC DISASTER.
Movement of american Ladies' to
aid the Suffering Survivors.

MOYeI1ent Oh American A~auheS 10
aid the Suffering Survivors.
WASHINGTON, April 11.-Mrs. Blaine.
Mrs. Sherman and a number of other
ladies' prominent in Washington society
and well>knuwn throughout the coun-
try make the following appeal to the
people of the United States in behalf
of the sufferers from the recent disas
trous earthquake in Chic:
WASHINGTON. April Ito the peo>
pie of the Uuited States: The calami
ty of Chic touches the whole world.
A disaster which no human foresight
could perceive or prevent has laid waste
the beautiful islands which have been
among the worlds most treasured pos
sessions for five or twenty centuries
A single Sunday afternoon destroyed
the fruit of sixty years of industry
and turned a peaceful and pleasant
country into a scene of desolation and
horror. Without one moments warm
ing. by unheralded and unresistuble
forces of nature, 1000 human beings
we1e crushed and buried beneath the
ruins Of their once happy homes. Ten
Gn0uSADu nOLC uuN0 OVfu VAtltCutVtt.
wounded and dying, and 40. 900 are left
wandering without roof or food or plan
for the future. stricken by an unseen
hand, famisiIed, despairing, The snffer-
ing is present and pressing. No com
mupity could ecove from so mystic
rious and terrible q blow except
through the slow lapse of time. Neigh.
boring powers have rushed to Chic
with instant aid, but the shocked and
sorrowful people must be nurtured
through many long days back to com
fort and confidence. to hope and homes
Joy, to strength, to eelf>dependence.
In this sudden and overwhelming an
puish, the accredited representatives OF
the desolated province have appealed
to us to implore the generous assist
ance of the American people.
We do not appeal to the American
people. They need no appeal. To this
sweet charity the New World in
sists upon its right to stand and share
with the Old. But. gathered in the
national capital. from all sections OF
this great lend, feeling profoundly that
the s.King's business requireth haste"
and confident that in thus complying
with the request of our friends and
neighbors fromsover the sea. we rightly
interpret the eagerness OF every Amer>
loan to minister not only sympathy.
but prompt and definite succor. we
venture earnestly to beg the passions OF
all cburehes-Catholic. Protestant and
Hebrew-to take mp collections in their
several congregations at the earliest
practicable moment, and we pray the
president Of boards OF trades, and the
managers Of all moneyed institutions
TO circulate subscription papers. that
the rich may have on immediate oppor-
tunity to give of their wealth and the
poor Of their poverty, through channels
that shall soonest reach fainting suffer,
ers whom nature could not spare and
whom humanity must restore. The
we'll known banking house Of Riggs 4
Co.. of Washington, has kindly con-
sented 10 receive all moneys collected
for this purpose, and for convenience
and dispatch the several Gums received
will be acknowledged in the daily pa
pers Of Washington We ask from
editors Of newspapera the favor OF
giving this letter q prominent place in
their columns.
Harriet s. Blaine, Of Maine. Ellen Ew-
ing Sherman, Of Ofio. Alice Key
Pendleton, of Ohio, Mary c. Miller,
OF California. Annie L. Morton, Of
New York. Mary Montgomery Glib,
SON, OF Louisiana; LiLdia McLane
Johnston, of Virginia, Mary 3.
Logan, OF Illinois, Malyina F. Har-
Ian, Of Kentucky.