The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-03-22
THE FLOODS.
Destitutfon, Sickness and Death-The Tsulu
and Destruction in Cincinnati.
n TNDrANAPoLIs. Ind. March II.


81 EAPoE1s. Ina. March n.
The committee in charge of suppl es for suf- |
ferers on the Ohio river south Of Evan sville |
returned Saturday They report great suffer |
ing and sickness at nearly all river towns At |
New Franklin Ind.. a village of 40 inhabi- |
tants, there are thirty destitute, fifteen sick |
and two deaths. The disease is Pusumenia-
At UniontOwn, KY. with a population of
1850, nearly. everybody suffered, with fifty
destitute. -E 81 aEifiGE DaE 1r
In shawneetown, IA, I,500 people are desti- |
tute and depending on the public for pro
visions and medicines. One hundred and
twenty-five are sick, and twentyfour have
d cd of pneHmonta, catarrhal fever, and
dysentery. The latter disease has Almost
reached an-ep -deHfic. Afout 125 houses have
been swept away or damaged at least 700
persons are liable to disease - z-fa
At CaseyviIIe, IT., no rel eff had been fur
nfshed. There were forty-five ease{ of sick
ness, mostly TYPHOID fever, and one deah.
One hundred houses had been under water,
and alf of them ruined. fzl ~
Rosielare, H., had been entirely covered
by wate~. The committed fau nd "a fHmily of
ten persons. father and mother seks living in
the enyine-rooH of nsgld saBw-kEfll.ss
New Liberty H., mad beer entirely sub
merged, and sickness to an al lrmiDg extent
prevailed.
Tits information is obtained from reputable
physicians and agents of the Board OF Trade
Relief COMMITTEES, of this city, sent to- dis
tribute supplies. Governor Porter AMI a COM
init tee of the Board of Trs de are now on an in
spection tour from Lawn enceburg to Cairo on
the Ohio River with a boat-lOad Of p. DIVISIONS
! ST. LOUIS March II
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. Tho latter were
DIR wne1, and the form r were resoued by
/ party of hunters, who took them off the roof
Y a.. r they had clung to it three days. The st.
Francs swamp contains hundreds of horses
/ and mul, and cattle standing up to their
thrOats in water, their owners being unable to
/ rescue them. Many clrcasses are -hoating
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 CINcIENATI.
WE 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. ... .-...
! ION the lower part of Carr street, in SloO
street, and on Front street the families we're
those of the better part of the laboring pop
ulation, teamsters, railroad hands and skilled
/ Il0CndnC6s. Non > Oh lutSG udA EFEI hAAeWlA
what It was to receive any a d from charity, and,
in fact, with that sturdy Independence charac-
terist C of the ciass, they would have secuted
the idea of either municipal or private relief
THE fist DIVE ling we entered was Of one
such, the faith of six children, the eide (
thirteen A more complete wreck it wou d be
difficult to find. With hut one exception
| dhat of a hair cloth lOunge every article was
| br ken to pieces. We had seen in our boy
hood shpwrecks on the coast, and the beaCh
/ 1T.
But the great ocean was before us, sp akfna
continually of power and might. We had So II
! something of the disaster VIII Ch follows the
occupat on of an army, but fhe havoc her5
was made in the sill nee. The no seless riv r
loosen ng the furniture, and then by the eur
rent drifting part Of it away and ping the
residue in the middle of the floor Bure tus
and bedsteads Jared worst. but Whatever de
r pended Tor coheslon upon gl-le gave way: a
4" Many o2 these peOasle owned good tufni
ture, esPec ally mattre ses. These were
ruined the mud AMI slime of the river Cht
latter n sort Of greasy subs 'ance) cover ms
them. Sewing machines, he repair of VIII CT
Is 50 costly VII le not foPets sly F1iiinea ne Ye,'
q b 1ok and l1ee SAX es were spoiled, and thC
pictures uTon the walls, which, Nvh Re no
works of h gh art, wer9 dear from as sociation
were fit only to be burned: 80 ,,o,,,,
" In on. irstanc' we sawan eieg mt Dou7!
, | B bfe cor. pIcteIy saturated anl drOpp ng e
pieces. We rec lied the rubl cltion Of th'
had pubished an inm mated p bie to be sol,
| in numbers, and the Catholic 8, not to be ut
. done, had followed with a handsome one o
:" their own. r.
| | Photographic albums, the children's school
| books and he family clOI hing were nlKet
in a mass of sOdden material %. ....
: I"In such lmrs, to atte npt to restore them
stepped the wives of III artisans IS W.
Il saw them stand ng amid the ruins, sCaFeel!
! knowing where to begin, and as we ren!iz9
q that m st of them had a struggle suHcien l.
Z hard already. we wondered at their courslgea
q = In one instance a mother of six child reH
e all of them with the whooping-cough, was try
irr n things fOPTahl~. nut Ile TrGHCQol
z Gus wa ters had com pieted tNeir wo k.
d 81 need not say how eXe8ei nglYValuaD'e
j the generous aid prOfered by the public
these sufferers, ani with the experience q
!, to Temark that the work of extending help a
4 been Zone with far less friction than we ha
n reason to expect"