The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-02-15
FLOOD-WRECKED, AND DISEASE
CURSED PADUCAH.

ANOTHER DELEGATION OF THE wRsTcHED
VICTIMS OF PEsTrLENCE AND WAFER AT
THAT STRICKEN TOWN SEEK sUCCoR AND
SECURITY WITHIN OUR IMPROBABLE
WALLS.
The steamer Fowler yesterday AFTERNOON
brought down another delegation from the
devastated city Of Paducah. This i the
fourth lot Of poor sufferers she has brought
down here and what little spare room Cairo
had 10 about filled, 90 that but few more
can be accommodated. The Fowler gen.
erously charges nothing for bringing the
poor people and what little personal effects
they managed to rescue from the rapacious
NAV OF the food here and she therefore
richly deserves the vote of thanks rendered
yesterday at meeting of prominent Pa
ducahans held at The Halliday
She has always been . popular little raft
with the people of Cairo, but she will find
that her kindness toward the suffering dsni-
zens of our whilom sister city.
THE REFUGEES.
The delegation Yesterday afternoon con-
sisted of over forty families, who had been
taken from trees and house tops, with what
little plumber they could carry alDug.
Among them were Mr.. Geo. jenkins, wife
and two children; Mr.. VIM. Stewart, wife,
mother and two children; Mr.. Horace Hib-
bard and mother and two sisters; Mrs.
Parvin and two daughters; Mrs. Ham.
Crenahaw, wife, six children and nurse 4;
Mr.. J. II. Wicks. and family Mr.. Timothy
Murphy and family; Mr.. Spearing, mother,
sister and three children; Mr.. Geo. Oblock
and family. Mr.. McCullam, wife, four
children and two servants; Mr.. Hank Boyd,
wife, mother, three children ard Mrs.
Fourdie, Mr.. John Runnels and two sons
and three daughters; Mr.. john Slime, wife,
and Miss Angie Slime; Mr.. Jarbos and
family; Mr.. John Mahin, wife and daught,
ers; Mr.. Wallace and family; Mr. Andy
Morrison and wife; Mr.. Prosser; Mr.. Nc
Connolly and family; Mr.. Billingsl'y and
two ladies'; Mr.. Whitney, wife and two
children; Mr.. Isaac Dickinson and family !;
Mr.. Joseph Morris and family; Mr.. Fayette
Young, wife, thrss children and servant;
Mr.. Geo. Simonds, wife and five children;
Mrs. Odds, Mrs. Merkins, and Miss MGR
kins, Mrs. Scott Plaisted, Mrs. James
Plaistsd.
Quite number arrived by the train,
whose names the reporter was unable to
ascertain. They were all made as comfor.
table as possible, though the crowded con-
dition of tho city made it impossible to
furnish them with the accommodations our
people could wish.
PEsTILENCK.
They oil, without exception, tell the
same gloomy and doleful story of danger
and CONSERVATION from the flood. But many
of them would have managed to remain
there upon log RATS, in trees and in tents
pitched on the roofs of the few houses
that remain, but for the fact that disease
has broken out in avery malignant form.
All through last summer and
winter the town had been afflicted with
smallpox aud fevers Of various diserep-
tons. The victims of these terrible mes
sengers Of death numbered three or four
per day for while, aud they were all hastl-
ly inferred in a few feet of ground lust
above the town. The food has washed up
the ghastly remains by the score and they
are floating slowly through the town and
are being arrested by fences, trees and
floating into The windows and doors of the
remaining houses. Wednesday night
family sought refuge in rudely construct
cd fiat, from the roof Of house that
threatened to be torn from its mornings by
the strong current. They were padding
slowly and laboriously along toward tree
near by when suddenly the wife and moth
or gave q fearful scream
and fell over the side of
the fiat which turned over, aud the whole
family but one were swallowed up by the
waves and swept down the rapid stream
The survivor, a lad of twelve who could
swim, and who came down on the Fowler
yesterday, states that his mother tainted at
sight of corps with grinning scull bobbng
up under the bow Of the flat right under
her eyes. This is but 4 sample Of
the horrifying incidents that occur daily
within the bounds of what once was Padu.
cab, and the fact that any people remained
there after the first great shock is only
proof of the strong attachment there 10 in
the human heart for homes and scenes to
which We have become accustomed.
The poor people who arrived yesterday
are quartered in comparative comfort, but
not 40 comfortably As could be wished be-
cause Of tho overcrowded condition of the
city. A subscription has been started, how
ever, headed by Mr.. H. B. Goodwin with
81 900, for the construction of temporary
quarters in the commons opposite the post
office for the better accommodation Of the
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