The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-09-16
HELP THE PERISHING.
THE CYCLONE SUFFERERS NEED AID
BADLY AND PROMPTLY
Women and Children Frustrated and Scores
of Persons sickened Through the Ter
rfble Excitement-An Appeal for
Dollars and Dimes-Notes.

wAsHrSaTos c. h. o., Sept 2.-Hu- |
cert Haggart. night operator at the teIe-
rflone exchange. died OF his wounds. J. C.
Vanpelt. hurt at the Odd Fellows meeting,
dangerously. is growing worsa. The other
wounded are recovering. The work of re-
pairing is being pushed One hundred fam
lies are shelteriess. The militia are still on
duty. Thieves are plenty. The Hill gang
from Springfield were jailed
Preservation following the excitement has
made MANY sick. Scores of women and
children are very i'll, and the doctors are
very busy. The number of houses totally
demolished is over $50. The cemetery Is In
ruins Costly monuments were crushed
The ground is covered with dead BIRDS
MANY horses and cows were killed amt or
chards vineyards and cornfelds IN the
track of the cyclone were destroyed. The
stricken people must have generous aid from
abroad
Congressman John Little, OF the Eighth
district, makes the following statement:
ssThe destruction here is not so generally
sweeping as at jamestown, but it is vastly
greater The general course of the tornado
was from southwest to northeast, through
the long way and center of the city. Its
general width was about SIX hundred feet
with occasional breaks to the right or
left In its course of a mile and a half in
town it is the exception that any square
escaped injury. In most of them
damaged to property are marked, and
in some fearful The business portion
| from the SCATTERING of windows to
every stage of demolition. IL
single house in the portion escaped harm,
have not noticed the exception In two
blocks alone practical men have estimated
the loss to buildings at $50, 800. The dam
ages to goods ia these Will not fall under
$50, 0G0. No class of property escaped.
Dwellings of all grades, public halls,
churches schoolhouses, fell prey to the
storms fury the individual losses, as shown
by est mates of committees, VIII exceed
| quarter OF a million. These are total as
they are not covered by insurance. They
fall most largely, but not most disastrously,
upon business men. The devastation
will be most seriously felt by the poor,
who have come in for their full share.
l should say as many as forty houses occu-
pied by poor families were utterly demol-
ished The relief committee estimate-fOr
all the subcommittee have not reported
that hundred families will need assistance
because of losses incurred. Some of them,
as know from personal observation, are
rendered destitute. Numbers of them are
on the streets in borrowed clothing. The
business men, as a rule, Will be heavily bur-
dened to make their own necessary repairs.
Aid for the suffering poor must therefore
| come from outside sources. 1t viii require
many thousand dollars to- allie
viate and prevent suffering, and
there should be no delay in fur
nishing it, There is a reluctance among
citizens to ask for outside assistance. They
should not be required to ask. 1t should
come without the asking, and come gener-
ously. Winter is close at hand, and the re-
lief committee, which is a most excellent
one, will have all it can do, with all needed
funds at hand, to provide shelter for the
necessitous cold weather Every dollar sent
the chairman, Col. H. B. Maynard, Wash
ington c. H, will be applied to the relief Of
the needy poor. l trust the necessity fol
prompt assistance will be appreciated.
John LITTLE"