The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-02-16
RELIEF MEASURES.

INDIANAPOLIS, IND, Feb H.
The Board of Aldermen tonight appro-
priated 900 for relief of the flood suffer
ers, but tue ordinance must be approved
by the City Council before it becomes GER
tainty. A dispatch was received from the
Mayor of Lawrenceburgh tonight calling
for immediate Aelp.in the way of food, and
there is a belief that all along the river
border the demand for relief will be nearly
as great as that of last year. In response
to the Masonic appeal for help Mystic Tie
Lodge of this city responded tonight with
500.
Bruce Carr, Grand Master Mason Of Indi.
ana, has issued an appeal to members and
lodges in the State, requesting donations
in aid of the sufferers, TO be sent to VIM. II.
Smythe, Grand Secretary at indianapolis.
G COLUMBUS, o., Feb. IL.
On advices from Pomeroy and other river
towns, making appeals for aid, meeting
of citizens was called this evening, at which
5000 cash was raised in short time and
committee appointed to canvass to-mor-
row. 1t is expected to make the amount
many thousands. All the bakeries will put
on full time and the first train load of
bread and hams will be sent down the river
by the Hooking Valley Road to Kerr's sta
ton in the morning, from which point pro-
visions will be conveyed to the sufferers.
Mansfield and the surrounding towns are
also sending large quantities of provisions
towns over the Hooking Valley Road. Tel
egrams received from towns in
the Scioto Valley and Hooking Val
ley, near to the inundated towns,
state that the whole of Ports
mouth is under water. The citizens fled to
the hills. The same story comes from Gal
lipolis, where thousands of people are
driven from their homes. POmeroy is in a
similar condition. The Secretary of State,
Governor and Adiutant-General have been
fpl hpH to m hal 70
people and the Legislature will take prompt
action for relief.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Feb. IL.
The Mayor has called meeting of citi-
Zens for tomorrow to arrange assistance
for the sufferers by Western floods. Calls
for relief are urgent.
NEW YORK, Feb. II.
Mayor Edison to-day received dispatches
praying for aid for sufferers from tile
| floods. Mayor Edison referred the appeals
| to various commercial bodies and urged
| them to take immediate action.
WHEELING, w. VA. Feb. II.
| TThe water recedes so slowly that the low
| lands in some places are still covered, but
| it is now so low boats navigate without in
| jury to properly through wash-of waves.
| No more firing on relief boats reported.
| The b. d o. depot and bridge adjacent is
| endangered by the flood and trains now stop
| at Water street south of the creek. Ac'
cunulated mails are pouring IN or all The
trains so far resumed.
An unknown boy was drowned on the
! South Side to-day by the caving-in OF q
| bank. About half of the homeless people
have returned to their houses or have found
| quarters elsewhere. Fully 5000 people are
shomeless, destitute and hopeless, and will
have to be fed by the relief committee fol
weeks. The damaged mills can not start
| for weeks.
| GALLIPoLIs, o., Feb IL.
The relief committee sent TO Pomeroy has
| just returned. Five thousand people ar,
| camped ON the hills i'll terrible want fol-
food and shelter. One hundred and fifty
houses have floated away. Boats land a
| the Courthouse steps. The people are bag
| gard and worn out for want of sleep, foot
and shelter. Nearly every business man i:
bankrupt The coal mines at Syracuse are
| flooded A house went by Middleport thii
| morning with a woman sitting on thu
gable end. Men rowed out and appealed
to her to get off, but she refused, saying
she had four babies below. The glass wal
broken, and the children were seen floating
dead.
MEMPHIS, Feb. IL.
The river here this afternoon at tw,
o'clock attained thirty-two feet ON the gauge
which is two feet below the danger line.
continues rising at the rate of nine inches
daily. 1t has gone over the banks botl
above and below here in low places, but s,
far no damage has been done. 1t will take
two feet additional rise before the trouble
in the bottom begins. The general impress
sion prevails among steamboatmen that TIN
Mississippi Valley will not be subjected h
serious inundation from the water now il
sight. The st. Francis basin is filling III
from breaks below Cairo, which will checi
the rise at this point, but which must fin.
its way again into the Mississippi at Hele
ma, Arkansas, where the st. Francis rive
! empties into the Mississippi.