Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-13
AT PITTSDURG.

Pittsburg, February l2.-The river
is swelling again at the rate o.
two inches an hour. Dispatches
from points above repor'
continued rains and the water rising
People living in the bottom lands are
filed with apprehension of another
flood. Many have not yet recovered
from the late deluge, and the discour-
aging outlook tends to increase the
uncomfortable feeling. With - feet
of water now submerging the low dis
tricts of the two cities, it is quite prob
able the situation of affair among the
sufferers in Allegheny Is
worse, If possible, than
any day since the flood, with numer-
Gus additional cases of restitution.
Many of the victims, in addition to
having been plundered by the water,
were thrown out of employment by
the workshops being devastated, and
under any circumstances this fact
alone is productive of more or less
want among the poorer classes.
Over thirty-iive hundred people were
supplied with food yesterday, an in
crease over any previous day.
AT WHEELING.
Wheeling, February I2.-Donations
for the benefit of the flood sufferers are
still coming in literally, but the COM
mittee has q heavy expense yet. Sen
ator Payne of Ohio telegraphed sub
scription of 81 900 to-day. a telegram
was received from the secretary of war
authorizing the mayor toexpend 81 900
and draw on the department. The re-
lief committee reports that the worst
need is clothing and bedding.
AN APPEAL FOR RELIEF.
Toledo, February l2.-The following
appeal is issued by the supreme dicta-
tor of the Knights of Honor:
SUPREME LODGE, *. OF H.,
TOLEDO, o., February 10, 1854.
Distress Call to all Lodges and Knights of
Ho or:
Thousands of families are suffering
from the awful floods in the Ohio and
tributary streams This cry only
needs be named TO induce instant aid,
much or little, from each of our three
thousand lodges and one hundred and
thirty thousand members. The distress
IL too dire to await relief through
a single channel. Aid sent by tele-
graph or otherwise to either of the fol-
lowing persons will be distributed in
their own neighboring and remote
communities to needy sufferers, wheth-
er they be of us or not: Col. Lewis
Wilson, Cincinnati, Ohio; A. G. Scha-
held, Wheeling, West Virginia; Judge
hobt, j. Breckenridge, Louisville,
Kentucky; Judge Akey johnson, Par
kersburg, West Virginia; Thos. ..
richards, GAINESVILLE, Ohio; j. b.
EVAN, Covington, Kentucky; Rose
MAJ man Gardner, Steubenville, Ohio; Rev.
Ihos. Maybee Allegheny, Pennsyl-
yyaniai w. j. Godfrey, New Albany,
indiana. Sufferers In other commune
ties viii report needs to one of the
above.
(SignedJ II. IL. COCHRAN,
Dictator
RELIEF FROM PHILADELPHIA.
Philadelphia, Pa, February 1.-The
society for organizing charity voted
Sf'o00 for relief of the sufferers of the
MOODS, that being the sum remaining
rom the fund raised last spring for
similar purpose. Drexel 4 Co. were
made treasurers of the Western flood
reiief fund, and distribution COM
mitlee appointed. The Pennsylvania
,aliroad company contributed $500
,or Tue sufferers, u, 500 to be distributed
rom the Pittsburg office, and 81 600
racn along the line of the Panhandle
X ~ Plttsburg and Fort Wayne and
Chicago roads.