The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-03-23
THE rINoDs.
Oestltutlon, Sickness aud Death--The Ruin
and Destruction In Cincinnati.

,e THE FLOODS.
Destitution, Sickness aud Desth--.The Ruin
and Destruction In Cincinnati.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. March II.
The committee IN charge Of suppl es for sui.
ferers on the Ohio River south Of Exam willie
returned Saturday. They report great suffer
ing and sickness at near'y all river towns. At
New Franklin, 1nd.. vill"ge of 10 inhabi-
tants, there are thirty destitute, fifteen sick
and two deaths. The disease 10 pneumonia
At Union.own, KY. with q population Of
l,5o, nearly everybody suffered. with fifty
destitute. - ~
In sbawneetown, H.. 1870 people are deeti-
tute and depending on the public for pro-
visions AMI medicines. One hundred and
twenty-five are sick, and twenty-four have
ed of pneumonia, catarrhal fever, and
dysentery. The latter disease has a most
reached an ep damic. Az out 125 houses hive
been swept away or damaged. At least 200
persons are liable to disease.
At Caseyville. H., no rrlef had been fur
n'shed. There were forty-five case' of sick
ness, mostly phoid fever. and one dea h.
re hundred hou es had been under water,
and alf Of them ruined.
Rosi"lare, ILL.,. had been entirely covered
by waite. TIE committee found n mily Of
ten pc sons. father and mother sick, wing in
the eny!ne-room Of an old saw-mil.
New Liberty H., had been entirely sub.
merge1, and sickness to an oil rmng extent
prevailed.
T. is Information is obtained from reputable
physicians AMI agents of the Board OF Trade
Relief Committee, of this city, sent to dis
tribute Supplies. Cove nor Porter AMI d com.
miGt 70 OF the Boari of TT, de are now on an in.
spection tour from lawrence u~g to Cairo on
the Ohio Rive with a boat-load of p DIVISIONS.
ST. LOUIS, Mar h II
A dispatch from Helena says the first
loss of hum"n life by flood in that re-
gion occurred by the upsettin2 Of house
twelve miles south in which were SIX
ADULTS and four children. The latter were
DR. wnel, and the form werr rescued by q
party of hunters who took them of the roof
after they had chung to it three days. The st.
Francs swamp contains bun1reds of horses
and mul and c'ttle standing up to tn il
threats in water. their owners being una lie tc
rescue them. Many c,rcasse. are tloatnQ
abou'. The Legislative Committee is examin.
ing into the conii ion of the people in the over.
fowe1 distri' {, and will report in favor of Civ.
ing State aid to actual sufferers.
AFTER rHE FLoOD IN CINCINNATI.
w. P Mitchell, City Missionary, in relating
facts and incidents in Cincinnati on the re-
occupancy of the flooded Districts says: "A
tour Of investigation. coveriny the larcest
part of four DAYS, in the district between Fifth
street AMI the Southern Raj road ridges. has
shown us pictur g OF ru n and destruction
such as we n ,vers W before.
"On the lower part OF CIR street, in SlOo
street, an on Front street the families were
NJ hn hnff Of ha ahor r,0r
ulation tesmsters, railroad hands and SIX lie !
mechani's. Non of these had ever KIN ,wn
what It was to receive any a 4 from charity, and.
in fact, with that st''r,y ndepepde ce 'hara"-
terist of the class. th"y wou'i have secuted
the idea Of either municipal or rrvata rei
1.-THE first dive ling we entered was of one
such, the tn r of six G b ldre,. the eide I
irteen. A more C mpete wreck it wNu d be
~ cult to fnd. With iut On, keep i n
that of a hair cloth lounge every article wa
br ken to peces. We had sc n in our bov-
hood shipwrecks on the cast and Z o bea b
strrwn with merchant Sc and ships It res.
But the great ocean was efore us sp akin0
cont nually Of power and might. Wehads, n
something of the disas err VIII CHI follows he
oc upat OF of an amy, b t the havoc her
was mrde n tho sill nee. The no s"iess riv r,
loosen n9 the furniture, and then b. the cur
rent lifting part f 1t away and pilin2 the
rns'd in the middle of the fioo- Bure .rs
end beds eads far ii worst. but WIN ever de-
pended for "chns on pom 81 ~ gave way.
:" Manv o these pnO la owne good furni
t%E nss e tbs ay ma tire Sc he river Se
latter sor greasy subs ance) ov na
them. SEWN : mrchne', he repnr { VIII oh
f. costly. VIII lie not no ele ly ruinef. W. e
sercu ly d."a ed so that they W ii be use ess
TO- - lon tim.
"B ok and ken sares were SPOIL d, AMI the
pctur uro, he W lis, whic wn /" no,
works of h Oh art, err dear from us ociatiC n,
wor, III only to be burned.
4" In on sane we ran eleg mt Dcu v
b BILE co ple'eIv s'tura d nj dropp ng o
pieces. We rec led the ubl C ii n of the
work T. wa many e'rs ago. L ii rfer
had pub 'shea a. III m mated b bic. 20 be So II
in numb r. mi the Catholi s. not to te u
done, had followed with handsome one of
thereon
Photographic albums. tho children's school
books AMI The family clio hing were mixed
in mass of sOdden m tie ial.
"ln such b m g, to a "pt to re tore them,
stepped the wives of IN 3 artisans we
s'w them stand NJ amid the rIii g, scarcely
knowing wher" ( b'~'n. and "a W rea liz ii
that m st of them h d a struggle sui cicn ly
hard airaadv. we wo ldere' at their courage.
e! - ONE instance y u"ther of child on,
all OF them with re VIII 'OIin cough W IS trv-
ing to make things I'll. IA ! hut the treao her
Gus wa e-s had complet"dt eli W. k.
e. need not sa howe g ngly valuable is
the generous AID rro cred b. the rubl;c tn
the @ sufferers. rn' With the experience Of
years in the 8 ensatiOn Of relief. haze only
to emark that the wo k of ext ndi e lp "a
b en- on with ar less frict on than We hal
reason to expect"