The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-03-16
THE FLOODS.
Destitution, Sickness and Death-The Ruin
W and Destruction in Cincinnati.

vA and Destruction in Cincinnati.
IyDIANAPoLIs, Ind. March IL. &
The committee in charge of supplies for SUI
ferers on the Ohio River south of Evansville
returned Saturday. They report great suffer
ing and sickness at nearly all river towns. At
New Franklin, Ind, village of 100 inhabi-
tants, there are thirty destitute, fifteen sick
and two deaths. The disease is pneumonia.
At Uniontown, KY. with a population of
LEO, nearly everybody suffered with fifty
destitute
In Shawneetown, ILL.,, 1,500 people are desti-
tute and depending on the public for pro-
visions and medicines. One hundred and
twenty-five are sick, and twenty-four have
q ed of pneumonia, catarrhal fever, and
dysentery. The latter disease has Almost
reached an epidemic. About l25 houses have
been swept away or damaged At least 700
persons are liable to disease.
At Caseyville, H., no rel Ell had been fur
nished. There were forty-five eases of sick
ness, mostly typhoid fever, and one death.
and falf of them ruined
Rosiclare, ILL.,, had been entirely covered
by waite The committee found family of
ten persons, father and mother sick, living in
the engine-room of an old saw-mill
New Liberty Ill.,, had been entirely sub
merged, and sickness to an alarming extent
prevailed. M G M 1881
This information is obtained from reputable
physicians and agents of the Board Of Trade
Relief Committee, of this city, sent to dis
tribute supplies. Governor Porter and COM
mittee of the Board of Trade are now on an in
speetion tour from Lawrenceburg to Cairo on
the Ohio River with a boatload of provisions.
W $500 ST. Louis, March II
A dispatch from Helena says the first
loss of human life by flood in that re-
g1on occurred by the upsetting of a house
twelve miles south in which were six
adults and four children. The latter were
drowned, and the former were rescued by a
party of hunters, who took them off the roof
after they had chung to it three days The st.
z Francis swamp contains hundreds of horses
and mulfs and cattle standing up to their
throats in water, their owners being unable to
rescue them. Many carcasses are floating
about. The Legislative Committee is EXAMINE
ing into the condition of the people in the over
flowed district, and will report in favor of Civ
ing State aid to actual sufferers.
AFTER THE FLOOD IN CINCINNATI
W. E. Mitchell, City Missionary, in relating
facts and incidents in Cincinnati on the re-
II
tour of investigation, covering the largest
part of four DAYS, in the district between Fifth
street and the Southern Railroad bridges, has
shown us pictures of ruin and destruction
such as we never saw before. IS
ION the lower part of Carr street, in Sloo
street, and on Front street the families were
those of the better part of the laboring pop
ulation, teamsters, railroad hando and skilled
mechanics. None of these had ever known
what it was to receive any aid from charity, and,
in fact. with that sturdy independence oharac-
teristic of the class, they would have secuted
the idea of either municipal or private relief
1.-THE first dwelling we entered was of one
such, the. father of six children, the eldest
thirteen. A more complete wreck it won be
difficult to find. With but one exception
that of a hair cloth lounge) every article was
br ken to pieces. We had seen in our boy
hood shipwrecks on the coast, and the beach
strewn with merchandise and ships stAres
But the great ocean was before us, sp aking
continually of power and might. Wehad seen
something of the disaster which follows the
occupation of an army, but the havoc here
was made in the silence. The no ;seless rive
loosen ng the furniture, and then by the cur
rent drifting part of it away and piing the
residue in the middle of the floor. Bureaus
and bedsteadS Jared worst. but whatever de-
pended for cohesion upon glne gave way.
Many OF these peoFle owned good furni-
ture, espec ally mattresses. These were
ruined, the mud and slime of the river (the
latter sort OF greasy substance) covering
them. Sewing machines, he repair of VIII oh
is so costly, while not hopelessly ruined, were
seriously dama2 ed so that they will be useless
for a long time.
Book and kee sakes were spoiled, and the
pictures upon he walls, which, while not
works of h gh art, were dear from ssocation,
were fit only to be burned.
In on instance we saw an elegant Douly
B BILE completely saturated and dropping to
pieces. We recllled the publ cation of the
work. 1t was many years ago. The HarperI
had published an illum. mated Bible, to be sold
in numbers, and the Catholics, not to be cut
done, bad followed with a handsome one of
their own.
Photographic albums, the chldren's school
books and the family clothing were mixed
in mass of sodden material.
In such homes, to attempt to restore them,
stepped the wives of these artisans AS we
saw them stand ng amid the ruins, scarcely
knowing where to Begin and as we realized
that most of them had a struggle sufficiently
hard already. we wondered at their courage.
8 In one instance a mother of six children,
all of them with the Whooping- cough, was try
ing to make things tolerablo but the treacher-
Gus wae rs had completed their work.
/" l need not say how exceed ngly valuable is
the generous aid prOffered by the public to
these sufferers, AMI with the experience of
years in the S @ensation of relief, | have only
to remark that the work of extending help + as
been done with far less friction than we had
reason to expect"