Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-03-22
THE FLOODS.
DestitutIon, Sickness and Death-The Ruin
and Destruction in Cincinnati.
INDIANAPoIIs. IDd- March,


and Destruction in Cincinnati.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. March IL.
The committee in charge of supDltes for e,lf-
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 12O inhabi-
tants, there are thirty destitute, fifteen sick
and two deaths The disease is pneumonia
at UniOnsOwn, KY, with q population of
1,500, nearly everybody suffered, with fifty
destitute.
In Shawneetown, ILL.,, 1900 people are desti-
tate and depending on the public for pro-
visions and medicines One hundred and
twenty-five are sick, and twenty-four have
ed of pneumonia, catarrhal fever, and
dYsentery. The latter disease has almost
reached an epidemic. About 125 houses have
been swept away or damaged At least 700
persons are liable to disease.
At CaSeyville, H., no relief had been fur
nished. There were forty-five cases of sick
ness, mostly typhoid fever, and one death.
One hundred houses had been under water
and half of them Iuined.
Rosiclare, ILL.,, had been entirely covered
by waite. The committee found a family Of
ten persons, father and mother sick, Living in
the engine-room of an old saw-mil'
New Liberty H., had been entirely sub
merged, and sickness to an alarming extent
prevailed.
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 a COM
mittee of the Board of Trade are now on an in
spection tour from Lawlenceburg to Cairo on
the Ohio River with a boatoad of provisions.
ST. LOUIS, March IL.
A dispatch from Helena says the first
loss of human life by flood in that re-
gion occurred by the upsetting of house
twelve miles south in which were six
adults and four children. The latter were
drowned, and the former were rescued by
party of hunters, who took them off the roof
after they had chung to it three days. The St.
Francis swamp contains hundreds of horses
and mules and cattle standing up to their
Threats in water, their owners being unable to
rescue them. Many carcasses are floating
about. The Legislative Committee is examin-
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. r. Mitchell, City Missionary, in relating
facts and incidents in Cincinnati on the re-
occupancy of the flooded districts says: "A
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.
On the lower part of Carr street, in SlOO
street, and on Front street the families were
uation, teamsters, railroad hands and skilled
mechanics. Nom of these had ever known
what it was to receive any a ID from charity, and,
in fact, with that sturdy independence CharaC-
teristc of the class, they would have secuted
the idea of either municipal or private relief
The first dwelling we entered was of one
such. the father of six children, the eldest
thirteen. a more complete wreck it won be
ffiCut to find. With but one exception
that Of harclOth lounge every article was
broken TO pieces. We had seen in our boy
mood shipWrecks on the coast and the beach
strewn with merchandise and ships st res.
But the great ocean was before US, sp 'aking
continually of power and might. We had seen
something of the disaster which follows the
occupation of an army, but the havoc here
was made in the silence. The nOiseIesS river,
loosen ng the furniture, and then by the cur
rent drifting part Of it away and piIinG the
residue in the middle of the floor. Bureaus
and bedsteads Jared worst, but whatever de-
pended for cohesion upon glue gave way.
Many Of these people owned good furni-
ture. eSpec ally Mattresses. These were
hitter sort of greasy substance) covering
them. Sewing machines, he repair Of VIII eh
Is SO costly, while not hOpeleSsly rnined, were
seriously dama2ed so that they will be useless
for 81 long tim".
book and kee sakes were spoiled, and the
pictures upon the walls, which, VIII IL not
works of h Oh art, were dear from association,
were fit Onlv to be burned.
" In such homes, to attempt to restore them,
stepped the wives of tbs artisans. s we
them stand ng amid the ruins, scarcely
knowing where t. bagin, and as we realized
that most of them had q struggle sufficiently
hard already. we wondered at their courage.
" In one instance Il mother of SIX children,
all of them with the WhOOpin%-cOugh was try
ing to make things tOorablo, hut the trcacher-
Gus wa erS had completed their work.
need not say how exceed ngly valuable IS
the generous aid prOtfered by the public to
these sufferers, and with the experience Of
years in the S ensatiOn of relief. have only
to remark that the work of extending b. Up as
been cone with far less friction than we had
reason to expect.