Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-03-22
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| ferers on the Ohio River south of EvaNsyi,le
returned Saturday. They report great suffer
| ing and sickness at nearly all river towns. At
New franklin, Ind. a village of I20 inhabi-
tants, there are thirty destitute, fifteen sick
and two deaths. The disease is pneumonia.
AT Uniontown, KY, with a population Of
1,5c0. nearly everybody suffered, with fifty
destitute.
In Shawneetown, ILL.,, 1900 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
d ed of pneumonia, catarrhal fever, and
dysentery.s The latter disease has Almost
reached an ep. demic. About 125 houses have
been swept away or damaged. AT least 700
persons are liable to disease.
At Caseyville. Ill.,, 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 ruined.
Rosiclare, ILL.,, had been entirely covered
by wate-. The committee found family OF
ten persons, father and mother sick, living in
the engine-room of an old saw-mil.
New Liberty ILL.,, had been entirely SUBJ
merged, and sickness to an alarming extent
prevailed.
This information fs 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 Lawrenceburg to Cairo on
the Ohio River with a boat-load 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 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.
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. F. Mitchell, City Missionary, in relating
facts and incidents in Cincinnati on the re-
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.
street, and on Front street the families were
those of the better part of the laborine pop
ulation, teamsters, railroad hands and skilled
mechanics. None of these had ever known
what it was to receive any id from charity, and,
in fact, with that sturdy independence charat-
teristc of the class, they would have secuted
the idea of either municipal or private relief
4" The first dwelling we entered was of one
such. the father of six children, the eldest
thirteen. A more complete wreck it won d be
difficult to find. With but one exception
that of a hair-c cloth lounge, every article was
broken to pieces. We had seen in our boy
hood shipwrecks on the coast. and the beach
strewn with merchandise and ships ST 2res.
But the great ocean was before us, sp aaking
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 noiseless river,
loosen ng the furniture and then by the cur
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-
ruined. the mud and slime of the river (the
latter a sort of greasy substance) covering
them. Sewing machines, the repair of VIII CHI
il so costly, while not hOpeleSsly ruined. were
seriously damaged so that they will be useless
for a Ions time.
Books and kee' sakes were spoiled, and the
pictures upon the walls, which, while not
works of h gh art, were dear from al ISOLATION,
were fit only to be burned.
I'm such homes, to attempt to restore them,
stepped the wives of these artisans. As we
saw them standing 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.
I" In one instance mother of six children,
all of them with the whooping-cough. was try
ing to make things tolerahl", hut the treacher-
Gus waters had completed their work.
"l'need not say how exceed ngly valuable is
the generous aid proffered by the public to
these sufferers, and with the experience of
years in the {" ensatiOn of relief, have only
been done with far less friction than we had
reason to expect"