St. Landry democrat., 1883-03-24
THE FLOODS,
Destitutfon. Sickness and Death-The Ruin
and Destruction in Cincinnati.

restitution, Sickness and Death-The Ruin
and Destruction in Cincinnati.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, March H.
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, lnd., village of 12O inhabi-
tants, there are thirty destitute, fifteen sick
and two deaths. The disease is pneumonia.
AT Uniontown, KY, with a population Of
1,5oO, nearly everybody suffered, with fifty
destitute.
In shawneetown, ILL.,, $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
ed of pneumonia, catarrhal fever. and
dysentery. The latter disease has almost
reached an epidemic. About la5 houses have
been swept away or damaged. At least 700
persons ere 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 waite" The committee found family of
fen persons, father and mother sick, living in
the englne-roop Of an old saw-mil.
New Liberty Ill.,, had been entirely SUBJ
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 COM
mittee of the Board of Trade are now on an iu-
spection tour from Lawrencehurg to Cairo ON
the ONO river with boat-load of provisions.
ST. LOUIS, March IL.
diCnatch fba
loss of human life by food in that re-
gfon 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 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 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 thedstrict between Fifth
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
those OF the better part of the laboring pop
ulatton, teamsters, railroad hands and skilled y
me a None of these had eyer known
what 1t was to receive any aid from charity and,
in fact, with that sturdy independence eharat-
teristic of the class they would have secuted
the &c idea OF either municipal or private reflex.
The first dwelling we entered was of one
suGh the father of six children, the eldest
thirteen. a more complete wreck it would be
d,flcult to lind. With but one exception
THAT OF 9 ha1r-cloth loungel 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 stores.
But the great ocean was before us, spanking
something of the disaster which follows tho
occupation OF an army, but the havoc hero
loosen ng the furniture, and then by the cur
rent drifting part of it away and piling 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-
fmre e tt ally mattresses Z, These were
latter sort OF greasy substancel covering
them. Sewing machines, the repair Of which
Is So Costly. Whiie not hopelessly ruined. were
seriously damaged SO that they will be useless
for long time.
!" Books and keer sakes were spoiled, and the
pictures upon the walls, which, while not
works of high art, We're dear from association,
were fit only to be burned.
= I" In such homes to attempt to restore them,
stepped the wives of these artisans. AS we
saw them standing amid the ruins scarcely K
knowing where to begin, and as we realized
that most of them had a struggle sufficiently
hard already. we wondered at their courage.
- In one instance mother of six children,
all of them with the whooping-cough was try
ing to make things toerable. but the treacher-
Gus waters had completed their work
!" need not say how exceedingly valuable is
the generous aid proffered by the public to
these sufferers, and with the experience of
years in the sensation Of relief, have only
to remark that the work of extending help has
been done with. far less friction than we had
reason to- expect"