Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-09-02

Seed and Food Badly Needed at
Once = Many Texans will Pay
Back.

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Once = Many Texans will Pay
Rack.
A dispatch to the GAzRTTR from Chicago
yesterday week said, special from
Fort Worth says: Colonel Hunt Oanteman
Of Eastland county, gives full account
of the condition of the people in the
drought stricken district. The counties
are Callahan, Coleman, Eastland Stephens,
Young and parts of Brown and Jack. The
people are not starving now, but will be
in very short time unless aided. The
farmers are now ready to pillow for wheat
if they knew they could get seed. They
are waiting for the seed to be given them
and II this is not done there will be a
hegira from all the counties mentioned
and the improvement by them will be
lost. They have the land which is now
in fine condition from late rains; they
have the teams and the imple-
ments, all they ask is seed
and bread stuffs and little
bacon ON which to live. The
people ask that an account be kept of
everything furnished them and when
able, they will return the same or pay for
it, Texas cities are doing what they can,
bnt the merchants and farmers in the dis
trict say the great cities of st. Louis and
Chicago might aid them. The railroad
companies have agreed TO carry seed and
provisions free of charge. The need is
pressing, and if they are to be furnished
il must be soon TO be of any benefit.
Fort Worth has done something for the
distressed people by individual donations
and Will hold mass-meetings TO take con-
MI .IFsAnF ia 10. a.
William Nenl uf Stephens county, will
visit st. lonis aud Chicago and lay the
natt,r before The citizens Of those eplaces,
Ehilt Sheriff Douglas goes 10 Austin to
10 what he can there.
THE APPEAL OF RELIEF COMMITTEE.
V1croRIA, Texas, Aug. rs. Tie citizens
of this city held a meeting Inst night in
the ecourt-house for the purpose of dovising
measures for the relief of the sufferers
by the recent storm, the devastation being
so widespread that the impending suffer,
ing is beyond local aid. A relief com.
mittee was appointed which issued the
following address, requesting that it be
sent ont for publication in the newspapers
of the Union:
To The olaritdbg Inclined people OF
American Last Friday this section wns de-
vastatod by the heaviest wind storm eyer
known on this cOast and many of our citi-
zens are without food or shelter. Not alone
were the aeeumulntions of years IN mans
Instances swept out of existence by
the ilerce hurricane, but growing crops
were destroyed In the Holds. But few ol
our citizens escaped the general calamity
and many are irretrievably ruined. Butw
lre threatened by q worse danger. tiiIiini
famine follows close upon the whirlwind',
track, and men and women and lnnocen
children suiTer for food and clothing, The
people OF Victoria county, themselves heav,
suirorers, are doing all and will continue IL
do everything In their power to relieve the
distressed and give them temporary assist
anee until they can arrange for a now start
In life. But the fast multiplying demand.
OF their destltution are exhausting our re-
sources, and unless help can be obtained
from tho charitably inclined through.
out the United States, our best
efforts must fall largely short
of the existing necessity. We therefore
with all confidence In the lustness of oul
undertaking feeling sure that the great
heart of the American people throbs in sym.
pathy with the distressed of every nation
and every color, issue this our appeal fol
help. Food and clothing are imperutively
needed. Without them the growing pangs
OF hunger will be succeeded by sickness
and death. Out OF your plenty unswept by
storm and secure from the rush Of the gulf
made waves, send us moiety be 1t ever sc
little. 1t is only for those who ARE helpless
and in cruel want, both white and black
that we appeal, not to replace what has
been lost, but to reduce human suffering
and check as We may be able the torrent
of human woe now surrounding SO many
of our once happy homes.
Contributions may be forwarded through
A. l.. Levy of Brownsen & Slbley, bankers
of this city, to ]. W. Brownsen, chairman
G.. A. Levy, d, s. Rydan, q. @. Ohaffee oil
A. Quedman, general relief committee.
Respectfully, II. A. GLENN,
Chairman.
Simon Levy, O. L. Thurman, Jr., Il. L
Dunlap and W. s. Glass, committee OF
appeals.