Daily globe., 1883-08-25
Coz. HIbbard,s FIstt.

Last evening Governor Hubbard re-
turned from visit to MANNED and bleed
ing Rochester. The very moment he en-
tered the city GLOBE reporter was on his
track anxious to know what had been done
to, in measure, alleviate the sufferings of
the stricken city.
The governor received the GLOBE man,
as is his wont, most cordially, and pro-
ceeded at once to tell what so far had been
accomplished in the good work. He stated
that committee of twenty-one of the
leading citizens of Rochester had been
formed with Judge c. N. Start
as chairman and the Rev. w. c..
Rice, of the Post, as secretary and treas
urer. The governor met this committee
yesterday and conferred with it upon the
best and most prompt method of meeting
the urgent demands upon it. county
committee also met the general committee
and the governor, and two sub-committees
were appointed to cooperate with the
county committee, one to work in the west
and the other in the east division. Their
business is to ascertain the needs of suf-
ferers in the farming districts. The gov
srnor also met deputation from Kasson,
consisting of R. Taylor, G. B. ArAold,
L. G. Nelson, H. Hatch and
E. E. Fairchild. They sought
the governor for the purpose Of getting
aid for the sufferers in their township.
His exoeliency forthwith authorized the
deputation to draw on him for $500, at
the same time requesting them to commu-
nicate to him fully to-day the extent of
the needs of their district, SO that he might
know what further help they might need.
The citizens of Rochester, the governor
stated, are taking most efficient measures
to relieve the sufferers, and he believes
everything is being done that can be done
to administer to their wants and
alleviate their suferings. To the
urgent appeal sent out the cities
of the state have responded literally. st.
Cloud was the only one which had report
| ed to his excelleney, the subscription being
$3.50. But this amount was supplemented
by the magnificent sum of $3.50, which
the mayor of st. Cloud, G. f. Macdonald,
collected by an appeal to the lumbermen
of Minnesota, Michigan, Illinois, and other
states, attending the pine land sale at st.
Cloud. Other cities had reported direct to
the committee of relief at Rochester, and
the sum total of the relief fund had
reached the respectable amount of $4,000
before the governor left. But
his excellency is of the opinion
that there will be very much
large sum needed to place the poor people
who have lost their all by the dread vista
tion in proper condition to Withstand the
rigors of the coming winter. They will
require much, and the governor feels
assured the people of the state, who hap
PLY have not been victims TO so fell a
calamity, will do much to meet those nece-
sitous requirements.
Asked by the reporter if the devastation
was as complete and as narrowing as
described in the GLOBE, his excellency
replied that the GLOBE had not in one jot
or title exaggerated anythingA He said the
scene of horror and utter ruin was, past
all description, and graphically as il
was given by the GLOBES special commits
sioner the picture was but faint shadow
of the reality. Tongue could not tell MOI
pen describe, he said, the astounding hav-
oc that this stupsndous war of element.
has achieved in the wreck of Rochester. II
the beautiful and prosperous city had un-
dergone long siege and after being re-
duced by an inhuman cannonading with
heavy ordnance the city, or the wreck OF
the city-had been given over to hellist
fends to despoil and pillage, Rochester
could not have presented such lRmentable
such pitiful state of complete and
hopeless devastation. But the fearful de-
struction of property is not all nor nearly
the worst of the deplorable calamity. The
lives lost can never be replaced and the
deep wounds in sorrowing hearts all the
relief the state can give can never heal
The wounded. too, their pangs and suffer.