The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-02-27

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pounds of meat, 500 sacks of flour,
100 barrels of -four, 600 pairs Of
blankets and two tons Oh other sup
plies at Middleport. AT Clinton, IN
West Virginia, opposite Middleport,
the Standard Nail Works have sui
fered severely and viii not resume
work for at least five weeks. Its
salt works are destroyed. About
| five tons OF supplies were put of.
The Laura Bell relief boat from
( Gallipolis took cargo of supplies
from the stockdale and will run into
the smaller streams with them where
the Stockdale cannot 90. A boat
lust from below states that much OF
1 Ironton O., Cattlettsburg and
Greensburg, Kentucky, are still IN
der water. Soup houses have been
established at Ironton. lronton
was first reached with supplies Sat
urday morning. The peaple are
gradually returning to their houses
| in the bend and are occupying the
second floors. It viii be hard Tor
many merchants in the towns along
| il TO resume business, their stock
having been destroyed, and they
have nothing to resume with. Last
/ Tuesday the food reached its
heighth, and was eight feet three
inches above the high water of 1892.
Last week thousands of valuable
horses, cattle and sheep were taken
/ from the parlors and dining rooms
of the residences in the farm
ing country below the bend by
steamers with fiatboats. The health
of the people is reported in
all districts as excellent. Immedi-
ate necessities are supplied, but the
/ idle class viii need help for fully
two or three months. POmerOy, in
/ the bite of the bend, is still in water
about its first floors. The river is
slowly falling.
/ CINCINNATI, Ohio, February IS
The steamer General Pike, win
/ Government supplies, went down
the river from here yesterday, Lieu
tenant Ruhlen IN charge, and landed
at Trautman's Ohio, and Anderson 5
Ferry. Stringtown and Taylorsport,
/ XIV. 1t distributed about equally in
these four towns 800 rations TO 80
/ persons.
From ten to fifteen houses were
washed away from each Of the above
places. The destitution is very
great. Many of the sufferers are
barefooted and otherwise scantily
clad. Instances are numerous Of
4 five families being housed In one hut
on the hillside. This Is the first as
sistance any of these people have re-
ceived since the flood began.
New York, February lS.-Mayor
Samuel NJ. johnson, of Portsmouth,
Ohio, telegraphs to Mayor
Edison that the city Of Portsmouth
is entirely under water; that one
/ half of the city will be washed away ;
that ovor 100 others have been turn
ed and twisted, and that the citizsus
will have to camp out on the hills
tomorrow night.
IRoN7oN. O., Feb.16.-A relief
boat will leave supplies here and
then return TO Pomeroy Bend and
the vicinity. Catlettsburg and Iron
ton is fully supplied with provisions,
and the relief committee Is distrib-
uting supplies in the flooded coun-
try. The business portion OF the
town is clear and trade Is being re
sumed.
EVANSVILLE, Ind, February is
The steamer Matte Hays, from
Louisville, is here, awaiting orders
which way to 90. She reports that
there is not much want yet, but
that there will be more when the
river falls.
PIrTsBURG, February IA staff
correspondent of the Commercial
/ Gazette, who accompanied the relief
boat down the river, SAYS: This
morning a family was discovered
living in a house that stands alone
close to the river bank near Sunfish.
4 widow named Craig lives there
with a grown son who is out Of
work, a daughter fast approaching
womanhood and three smaller chill
dren. They We're poor, so poor that
words cannot express their pitiable
condition. They were clothed in
rags, the entire covering of the fam
ily not being sufficient to have kept
a single member of it warm. They
had not had a full meal for twd
DAYS. money they had none and the
only store keeping for miles around
refused a request for creditlast night
They were the most pitiable objects
we have seen and were so close tC
starvation that they had given uI
all hope.
SHIvERING IN RAGS.
1t was a pretty day. the sun shin
ing brightly and balmy air blow
ing. Young Craig stood on the
shore shivering in his rags, a pict.
uresque and miserable object Hi:
gaunt face, shaded by n torn and
faded hat, was bronzed by exposure
to the weather and drawn by anxiety
and hunger. His hair was unkep'
and fell down on the remains ot
what had once been a coat. Hi:
tattered garments hung in confusion
, about him, and even his boots were
in holes. I'VE don't care abou
clothes, so much he said to Mr.
, Donehoo, whol was regretting that
, the clothing was all gone, but We
would like something TO eat. On.
, house is bare, and we have no mon
ey. | have no work and don't know
when | will have That house was
, well stocked. Just a little wayt
down we ran into the shore wher,
, two houses stand. One of them
owned by an old man, IS a wreck
, and the old fellows wife lies dying
= in neighbor's house on the hil
above. The widow Davis, with siA
small children, les in the other
? Her husband was a well-to-do rive
- man, but they are in reduced circum
, stances now. Both We're LIBERAL,
- aided. Powhqttan. which was visite,
$ again going down, received a secont
call and as further assistance was re
a uuired. il was given.