Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-02-17
$4,000
Already Expended Among tho SUI
fersrs at This Point
And the Expense Continues to be
a. Great az Ever.
Showing the Necessity Of Uaremit-
ting Contributions.

upon the amount of money already e1-
pended in relieving the distress OF the nooo
sufferers in this city, makes 1t Sloooo.
While this is a matter of news, 1t is also
printed 10 assure those who have contriou-
ted il that their benevolence was not Ill
timed, and to convince others and all OF
the stern necessity of seeing that the fund
is kept up. The number of sufferers mas
increased since the first, and it is no small
task to clothe, warm and keepin provisions
an army OF nearly $500 persons. Only by
the closest management can we keep actual
suffering from the doors OF our own people,
and we can only do it by the aid of our out
side friends
This great calamity that has befallen us
has served, at least, the one purpose OF
showing the gres, heart OF people. The
gloom OF the occasion is relieved by the
brightness OF thousand acts Of benevolence
that may be seen every day about the city.
Ladies and gentlemen have neglected their
household affairs and their business mat
tiers and given bJth their days and nights
to the relief of the suffering. 1t is said
that not one member OF the several COM
nlittees has shown any sign Of giving up
or resignipg and while this may be said OF
all, there are single instances Of devotion
among them that appeal to the warmest
feelings OF praise and gratitude that
people can feel No words of the recipients
of this devotion can ever express their
thanks, and no lines in newspaper can
adequately reward the service which has
been rendered in several cases.
In the common struggle to do the most
good, everything else has been lost and
forgotten and there seems to be but this
one thing in all the city-the sufferers and
how they can be best relieved.
The towbost Iron City, sent out from
Pittsburgh by the newspaper and business
men of that city, arrived at our wharf
shortly after one o'clock yesterday after
noon. The boat is in charge of Rev. E. r.
Donahoo, was commanded by Captain
Joseph Graham, and had on board the fol-
lowing representatives Of the Pittsburgh
press: Post, Robert Herbert; Dispatch,
Charlie jain; Commercial. Gazette, Will
ism Davis; Chronicle-Telegraph, Z. L.
Walter; Leader, Charlie Wakefield, and
Times, Marion Ogden. ?. l.. Walter was
secretary of the expedition. and Messrs
Jahn and Davis were the executive COM
mittee; the Others of the party acting as
general advisory committee or engagingl In
the work OF relief Independently aud IN
Discriminatory.
To REGISTER reporter Mr.. Walter said
I'VE left Pittsburg at 8 o'clock last night.
Some difficulty was experienced in getting
boat, but finally Mr.. W. H. Riddle, OF the
PEOPLES Bank, the owner OF the Iron
City, agreed to give his boat for the bare
cost of running her pay of crew, etc. We
ran down stream as far as Philleras island,
SO miles below Pittsburgh, reaching that
point ut midnight. There we tied up and
laid by until Daylight, in order to give the
crew rest and to arrange our cargo con-
sisting of -four, bacon, beans, hams, sugar,
salt, coffee, onions, clothing, mattresses,
bedding, crockery, corn meal, brooms,
SOAP, and other articles, so the articles
could be easily got at. Our idea was 10
act in conjunction with the regularly or
sanized relief committees in every town
touched at, but also to hunt up and relieve
the wants OF isolated cases and that large
class OF deserving persons who are reluc-
tant to make their wants known. We also
intend to make speciality OF running up
the creeks on both sides OF the river, and
relieving those who might otherwise be
overlooked
after getting under way the first stop
was at New Cumberland. The first man re-
| lieyed was John Eddy. We gave him food
| for his family and brought him down to
| Leasurville, &he he had heard his house
| had lodged. The first attempt at relief on
| a large scale was at Wellsburg. Here We
| met Mr.. G. w. Caldwell, who said the Re
| lief Committee had received 81 900 from
the general government, but that sum was
| insufficient. We left in his charge the fol.
| lowing articles: 81 sacks of -four, 6 sacks of
| corn meal, - brooms, IL pals, large box
| of roasted coffee, barrel of herring, 4 kits
| Of mackersl, and one barrel OF sugar.
| Warren, Jefferson County, Ohio, was
| the next place stopped at. This little town
| has suffered terribly, and the inhabitants
| were in utter restitution. We found ten
| or twelve men who had no food whatever
| for their families. We left there, in charge
| of John Taylor and William Jackson, of
| the local Relief Committee, seven mat
tresses and bedding, shoes and clothing for
| men, women and children, number OF
| boxes of crackers and bread and a liberal
| supply OF rice and sugar, barrel OF salt,
| another OF onions, another OF cornmeal and
| some buckets and tubs. We next landed
| at burlington. Here twenty families were
| entirely washed out, but the local commit.
| tee reported that they we're able to relieve
| all distress We notified the government
boat to stop there and then came on to
| Wheeling"
Represen tatives of the Wheeling press
boarded the boat here, and at o'clock the
| party cast off and continued on their err.
\ rand OF mercy. II the supply OF provisions
| holds out the boat will 60 up the Kanawha
| valley before returning.