The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-03-15
THE GREArIxuNDATIoN.
Present Relief Not AdsquAte-Ths Ap.
paIIInE situation Ia some Localities.

WASnNGroS, March 1.-THE Secretary
OF War received a telegram from the Com
missionOrs Of the State Of Louisiana, u
New Orleans, as follows: Are supplying
eleven thousand souls for fifteen days will
curtailed rations from one hundred ant
sixteen thousand received which are now
exhausted. Applications are before US iol
fully as much more, and the distress is in,
creasing. Require at once one hundred
and fifty thousand rations additional. The
Secretary ordered the purchase Of one hun.
dred thousand rations at New Orleans to
meet the demand.
ST. LOUIS, March l4.-General Beckwith,
Of the Commissary Department, who has
charge Of the distribution Of Government
rations from this city to the flooded dis.
tricts on the lower Mississippi river, has
received the following dispatch from Capt
J. S. Lord, dated, Memphis, Tenn:
"Just arrived here; found Pennicot
county, No., in distressing condition, be.
ing almost entirely submerged and about
1000 people entirely destitute. The sup
plies sent TO GayosN are being carefully
distributed and will last until about March
25th.. More should be sent there or the
people will be in just US bad condition
when the water goes as now. The Gov
eminent, to prevent starvation, should
care for them at least until the lst OF May.
About fifty people are destitute at Hath
away, Tenn; $50 at Tiptonville; 200 at
Halter Point, Tenn; l5O at Bayfield, Point,
and l, 800 in the vicinity Of Osceola, Ark
are destitute and badly or At Osceola
some stores have been received, but not
sufficient"
General Beckwith has also received the
following from Capt. Lee:
MEMPHIs, March l4.-Returned here
Saturday night My dispatch Of the OH
inst. talls short Of the actual destruction
and magnitude Of the overflow. II an ad.
ditional appropriation is made 100000 ra-
tions OF meal and mea: should be sent
here rs soon rs possible in large install.
ments, for sufferers in the State OF Missis-
sippi. This is in addition to any rations'
that have not been sent from first appro.
priation. The destitutiOn is general and
increasing, and there are 5000 destitute in
Bolivar county alone. My estimate will
carry the sufferers through to the 10Th Of
April, and possibly the flood may subside
by that time so that the sufferers can begin
work. Capt. Lee has been directed by
Gen. Beckwith to take charge Of the little
steamer Anita, which left here yesterday,
and proceed at once on the mission desig-
mated for her, to-wit: the picking up OF
destitute people in theflooded districts and
taking them to dry land and shelter where
they can be fed in comfort and health.
WASHINGTON, March l4--United States
District Attorney Clarke has forwarded the
following letter to Register Bruce, OF the
Treasury Department.:
GREENvILLE, Miss, March THE situa-
ton here is appalling, as you have doubt
less been informed by your Bolivar friends.
The whole country is one vast sea OF water,
on either bank Of the river from here to
Memphis, nearly 800 miles OF water cover.
ing the high land aud low plantations
alike; not shallow water so the people can
remain in their houses, but deep, with swift
roaring current. Where plantations were
dry in 1876 you.will find six feet Of water,
with houses and fences all swept away.
There is six feet OF water in the Jail OF
Bolivar county, and the water swept right
through tie Court House, as high as YOU
know it is. They got the records in the
second story. They brought the prisoners
to GreenviIle. The result Of all this is
destitution, suffering, aud death. The poor
people are huddled together on Indian
mounds, in gin houses, where they are so
fortunate as to have one 10 get
into, and thousands are camped on
the levGes without shelter or food for miles
above Greenyille. This was their only
salvation, and there they are to-day hall
clad, their clothing having been lost byth
flood, strung along the narrow levee with
their mules, cows, and such plunderas they
could snatch from the sweeping flood from
n broken levee. These poor, shivering
women and children are to-day in n cold
north rain, with scarcely food to last them
twenty-four hours. was sent for last
night to address meeting Of colored peo.
pie. They organized a relief committee,
raised funds, and are sending skiffs (which
they had to make) to the country and are
rescuing the unfortunates from the tops OF
their houses, from rtis and trees, and are
bringing the poor iamished creatures to
safety. The colored people are not idle OF
indifferent, but are doing all they are able
to do in the emergency. asked the Cap.
tain OF a boat passing here lust Friday.if he
had any relietfor Mississippi. esaid about
100 tons. asked where they were being
shipped. He replied Nicksburg-as strange
place to send relief for sufferers from over.
how.
We are in ignorance OF the steps taken
for the people beyond the appropriation
by Congress and the Legislature, and We
sincerely trust due diligence is being used
by those having the matter in charge.
Greenvile is secure, think, from any
possible flood, and it is filling up by thC
refugees from the country, and here i:
where they must largely be fed
and cared for, and l trust help
may not long be delayed, for assure you
it is sad, sad sight to see these poor peo
pie without clothing, shelter or sufficient
food in such a storm as is now raging, anG
: many must die from exposure, as have
many Of their stock already. | only WRIT
that you may be informed, and am quit,
sure YOU will do what you can for the re
lief Of the distressed. Sincerely yours,
CHARLES W. CLARKE.
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