Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1882-06-22
TELEGRAPHIC.
APPEAL For AID 10 TIE PEOPLE Of
THE UNITED STATES.
CONDITION OF A STRICKEN
PEOPLE.
Instant and Generous Help is
Needed.
A Million Dollars Wanted to Alleviate
Their Condition.
ESPECIAL TO THE SENTINEL

DEs MONIES, June 21.-The following
appeal for aid is furnished to the Asso-
ciated Press: To the public: After two
days and nights spent in travelling the
track of the tornado, and having reports
from scores of reporters sent to all parts
of it, l find the condition Of the stricken
people so piteous and SO needful of instant
and generous help, hat I send this appeal
to the people of the United States in their
behalf. The tornado made aswath OF de-
struction through the thickly settled por-
ton of Iowa, some $50 miles in length,
and on an average half a mile in width,
extending from a point south of Ames, in
the centre of the State, and swept in the
shape of a crescent to South English, in
Nebraska County, in the southeastern part
of the State. We have the names now of
SO dead and 500 wounded. Half of the
latter are in a pitiable condition and help
less. All that the people OF lows can do
will be lone to alleviate their condition
and repair in part the losses of the suf-
f%erers, but it will take 81 600, 600. Chill
dren, with both parents killed, were left
MANNED and wounded themselves. Every
condition of woe exists that most tenderly
appeals to the pity of humane hearts. The
wounds inflicted by the debris that filled
the air, and by electric balls Of
fire that seemed to traverse every
inch of space, and that exploded
with fearfully fatal effect, will, many of
them, defy all skill and nursing. The
storm took up in its great spirals, or fun
nels, houses a thousand feet high, and
took up and carried large herds of cattle
through the air for thousands Of feet, and
dashed them down dead in heaps. Many
thousands of cattle, horses, hogs and other
animals now lie in the track OF the tornado.
1t will take the help of every humane city
and town in the West, and every liberal
city and town in the East, to put comfort
and safety between these stricken people
and further suffering and fatality. Grin
nell is a town of New England people,
thrifty and intelligent; a people with the
lowest rate of crime and illiteracy in the
State and the highest rate of intelligence
and morality. The Moloch of the air has
killed fifty of its people, destroyed 160 of
their homes, manned and mutilated 200
more Of its people, many Of whom will die,
and all Of whom must be cared for for
months, and wiped out totally nearly half
a million dollars in uninsured property.
The Iowa College has had all of its build
ings destroyed. The 400 students are
homeless, and it has suffered a loss Of S75,-
600 in uninsured property. The condi-
ton of other towns and farming commu-
mites is fully as grievously hurt, and
probably a fifth of them fatally. Over 800
families have had their houses totally de-
stroyed, and there are at least 300 persons
homeless and in want. The loss of property
will exceed 81, 000, 600, and may reach
So, 000, 600. In Grinneli alone over ST.
600, 600 in property was destroyed, on none
of which was there a cent OF insurance, as
in the case of fires. 1t will take at least
100000 at once to put the people there
beyond need and distress. 1t will take
500, 600 at once to put the wounded peo-
pie in q condition to be cared for. 1t will
take 81 ,000, 900 at the lowest to keep the
sufferers from want and put the humblest
of roofs over their heads. The people of
Des Moines and Iowa are responding gen.
erously. The citizens of this city have
subscribed $4,000, and will make it $40, 900
within "a hours.
Davitt's Reception in Boston.
BosToN, June 21.-Between 1000 and
5000 people gave Michael Davitt a loud
and prolonged greeting as he appeared on
the platform of the Mechanics Fair build
ing, accompanied by John Boyle O'Rielly.
Mayor Prince presided. When the ap-
plause subsidized Davitt read a carefully
prepared address in calm and dispassionate
language. 1. was a presentation of the
wrongs and grievances of Ireland, and the
remedies which, in his judgment, should
be applied. He explained that his address
was intended rather for an American than
an Irish audience. 1t was an appeal to the
understanding Of the American people
through their press. The position OF the
American people is purely judicial, and
public opinion in this country will only
consider the facts and statistics as pre-
sented by the Land League. The speaker
then presented statistics, and argued that
landlordism as it stands to-day is a
wretched, complete and unmitigated fail
ure. Under its rule the peasantry have
been compelled to live in one-room huts,
on inferior diet, and have been driven to
agrarian crimes, murders and disaffection.
He then proceeded to show that for the
last 10 years millions OF dollars have been
extracted yearly from the labor and soil Of
Ireland by some 10, 600 individuals who
contributed scarcely anything to the ooun-
try themselves. Side by side with the vast
drain Of Irish wealth during the last CEN
fury, were no less than five famines, and
millions Of pounds have been extracted by
a few landlords, and yet Englishmen can
not understand why the Irish van this
state Of things abolished.
A Guilty Editor.
CLEVELAND (Ohio), June 21.-Editor
Cowles of the Cleveland Leader was found
guilty to-day Of a technical assault upon
Father Hauck, Bishop Gilmore's Secre-
tary, and paid the costs.
Large Arrival of Immigrants.
New YORK, June 21.-About 1880 i'm
migrants arrived to-day. Three hundred
Russian-Jews have arrived since Thursday;
more than the society is able to find work
for.
Gamblers Sent to Jail.
ST. LOUIS, June 21.-Five leading gam
blers were sentenced to-day to six months
in Jail.