The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-15
STATE NEWS AND GOSSIP.
Lawrenceburg People Earnestly at
Work Repairing Damages.
The Recent Accident on the J., L, g. W.
Near Crswfordsvilie-Funeral of Mr..
Hathbone-Notes and Gleanings.
INDIANA.
Lawrenceburg Frightening Up, and Work

Commenced in Earnest.
Rev. Chidlaw in Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
The rations issued are not one-half what
they were one week ago, and the stores on
hand are ample. Since the dispensary was
opened by the Board of Trade of Indianap-
oils 344 prescriptions have been filled. There
is no increase of sickness, and the hospital is
closed. The supply department, distributing
clothing, shoes, beds and bedding, is in good
shape, and the difficult work of distributing
is we'll conducted. Two men and two wo-
men, competent and faithful, are in charge
of this department, and its affairs are salts
f~actorily managed. Every case applying for
} relief is carefully investigated, and the wants
thus ascertained are promptly and properly
supplied. As far as possible every applicant
receives the relief his circumstances require.
The poorest of the poor are not neglected,
and all favoritism is avoided. The new
goods, including several cases of boots and
shoes, 300 mattresses and $40 pairs of blank
cts, have been provided by the State of Indi
ana. Already 453 families have been sup
piled, and 800 individuals outside of these
families have shared these benefactions as
their necessities demanded. This relief
must be supplemented when these desolated
homes are restored, and the committee are
wisely arranging in view of this fact.
The committee have commenced the work
OF restoring houses that were washed from
their foundations, Parties from Indianapo-
lis and Greensburg are taking contracts.
This morning, with strong teams and trucks,
q party commenced the removal of O frame
shop thirty by twenty-five feet that had
drifted 300 yards. 1t is the property of a
blind man; he had used it as a broom man
ufactory, but without help he could not re-
store it and business
again. The contract for the re-
moval of this building and its restoration to
the foundation from which 1t was
washed three weeks ago, was only forty dol
lars. If this is a specimen of the contracting
done by the committee, the public may rest
assured that the funds intrusted TO their care
will be carefully expended, and the work
honestly performed.
Many families have returned to their
houses, and are occupying the second story.
The sad effects of the flood are seen in the
great damage inflicted on the building, and
furniture. Visiting several of these houses
this morning, l found the men clearing
away the debris, drift wood, corn stalks and
sediment, and the women spreading out
their submerged beds and bedding, carpets
and clothing on the fences and sidewalks.
These sufferers were resolute and earnest in
helping themselves, and many were out
spoken in expressions of grateful recogni-
ton of the help and sympathy bestowed
0ROA Al bIho AllS " 4 DGcU.
The Recent Accident Near CrawFordsvil1e
Special to the indianapolis JournaL
DARLINGTON, March 14-To give justice to
whom justice is due, L wish to make a few
corrections concerning the Inflated Alamo
hack that was struck by an l., B. & W. pas
senger train near Troutman's Station, two
miles west of Charlottesville, last Mogday.
L YoouiI~ T0ea,b G-oa, (Lt~o I.aat~ 1.--N
Mrs. John A. Clark and Milton Rash. %not
Rusk, as statedG almost as we'll as ] do my
parents, and knowing the ground thorough
ly where the fatal accident occurred, 1 take
the liberty to make corrections. The
Waynetown correspondent insinuates that
Mr.. Green was drunk or asleep. l saw Mr..
Green in Charlottesville not to exceed a hall
hour before the accident happened. He was
perfectly sober, and more than that, 1 never
knew of him drinking a drop of intoxicants.
The crossing has been considered very dan
gerous ever since the railroad has been built.
The railroad at this point has a cut from ten
to fifteen feet deep for t~hree-quarters of a
mile, with the dirt taken from the cut
thrown out on both sides so that it makes
the cut almost twenty feet deep, with a grade
OF over forty feet TO the mile. Trains going
west generally shut steam off at the top of
the grade, letting the train glide down as
smooth and ~noiseless as a buggy. Several
others have come very near getting caught
in the same death trap. I. M. CAMPBELL.
The Herald Commissioner on the Ohio,
New York Herald, Tuesday.
By the courtesy of Commander Henry f.
Picking, in behalf OF the Lighthouse board,
the services of the government steamer Lily,
Comma nder Roderick s. McCook, has been
placed at the disposal of the Herald com
missioner, who goes to the Ohio Valley for
the purpose of deciding how the unexpend-
ed balance of the fund shall be distributed.
The Lily will receive the Herald representa-
tive at Pomeroy and proceed down the Ohio
river, stopping at all necessary points, thus
atfording him ample opportunity to deter
mine the relative needs of the different
towns and villages yet untouched bv anv
aid movement. The subscribers to the Herald
und may, therefore, feel satisfied that their
money will be expended to the best advan-
tage and where it is most needed.
Tell City's Thanks to Mr.. Bennett.
The Tell City town board, at a meeting
held on the 18th, adopted the following: