Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-03-23

Destitutiop, Sickness and Death-The Ruin
and Destruction In Cincinnati.

Destitutiop, Sickness and Death-The Ruin
and Destruction In Cincinnati.
INDIANAPoIIs, Ind, March II.
The committee in charge of supplies Tor sufs
terers on the Ohio River south of Evnn willie
reterned Saturday,. They report great suffer-
ing and sickness at nearly all river towns. At
New Franklin, Ind., village of -120 inhabi-
tants, there are thirty destitute, fifteen sick
and two deaths. The disease is pneumonia
At Uniontown, KY, with a population Of
l,5O, nearly everybody suffered, with fifty
destitute. b
In shawneetown, Ill, 500 people are desti-
tute and depending on the public for pro-
visions end 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 ep demic. About 1s5 houses have
been swept away or damaged. At least 200
persons are liable TO disease. ID
AT Caseyville. H., no relief had been fur
nished. There we're forty-five cases of sick
ness, mostly typhoid fever, and one death
Ooe hundred houses had been under water
and alf 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-mii
New Liberty H., had been entirely sub.
e0 S@~NhOoS " OH CAI0Hl
preValied. q fr'rN 1885 g. - iti -.'.
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 AMI a com
mittee of the Board of Tra de are now on an In
| spection tour from Lawlenceburg ID Cairo on
the Ohio River with boat-load of d DIVISIONS.
| ST. Louis, March IL. @
| dispatch from Helena says the first
/ loss of humqn life by flood in that re-
! gion occurred by the upsetting of a house
twelve miles south in which were Elk
| adults and four children. The latter were
| Or DwDe Land the fOrmor were rescuel by a
! party of hunters, who took them of the roof
after they had chung to It three days. The st.
1 Francs swamp contains hundreds of horses
and muls and cattle standing up to their
! Threats in water. their owners being unable tc
rescue them. Many. clrcasses are floating
| about. The Legislative Committee is examin.
ing into the con iiion 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-
occupancy of the flooded districts says: "A
tour of investigation, covering the largest
! part of four DAYS, in the district between Fifth
street AMI the Southern Railroad ridges. has
shown us pictures of ruin and destruction
such as wenever saw before.
ION the lower part of Carr street, in SloC
street, AMI on Front street the families were
/ those of the better part of the laboring pop
'ulation 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 indepeDde 'ce Charac.
terist C of the class. they would have secuted
the idea of either municipal or private reli
The first dive ling we entered was Of one
such, the tn T of six Oh ldren, the eide 4
irteen- A more complete wreck it wou be
| dfeult to find. With hut one exception
that OF a hair-cloth lounge, every article wa
br ken to pieces. We had sesn in our boy
hood shipwrecks on the coast. and tie bea
strewn with merchant Sc and ships st res
But the great ocean was before us. sp akinp
| continually of power and might We had sec L
something Of the disaster which follows the
| ocfupat on Of an army, bit the havoc her,
was made IN the silonce. The no seiess riv r
| loosen ng the furniture, and then by the cur
/ rent drifting part Of it away and piling the
| res'd Elm the middle of the floor Bureaus
and bedsteads Jared worst. but whatever de
pended for cohesion Cpon CLIO gave way.
MANY o these PEG lie owned good furni
ture, lespec ally mattresses. These were
! ruined. the mud an slima OF the river UhC
! latter sort o. greasy subs ance) cover ms
| them. SeWlng machines, me repair 0f VIII ct
| il So costly, VIII lie not hODele SLY ruined. were
serou' ly dana ed so that they will be use. es
| for n Iona timn.
"B )ok and kee sakes were spoiled, and tn,
pictures uTon the w lis, whcr, WIN IL no
works of h Oh art, wera dear from as ISOLATION
were 1T only TO be burned.
=" In on irstanc we saw an eleg mt Douay
| b bic co pletely satura" and dropp ny t(
pieces. We rec led the Publ 1tion of the
work II wa many years ago. The II ,rpeF
had pub ished an illrm mated ID Bile. to be sole
in numb r., and the Cathol, s, not to be ut
done. had followed with a handsome one OF
their own. ..-t So
Photographic albums, the children's school
books and the family clothing were miXeC
in a mass of sodden IN terial .i
" In such b ON S, to ate pt to re store them
| stepped the wives of IN s" artisans W.
| saw them stand ng amid the ruins, scarcely
| knowing where t. bagin, and reaize
that m st of them hid a struggle suifcien L.
hard already. we wondered at their courage.
a. II one instance mother of six children
all of them wit the whOoping-cough was try
ing to make things tolera'l hut the PREACHER
Gus wac had completed t"efr wo k.
/ I" need not say how excse ngly valuable Il
the generous aid proifered by the public L
I these sufferers, Gni with the experience o
Years in the ensation of relief. have onl,
to remark that the wo k of extending lp a
bFen one with lar less friction than we ha
reason TO expect" .r .