Telegram-herald. ([Grand Rapids, Mich.) 18??-1892, 1891-06-30
MORE HELP is NEEDED
An Appeal From the Victims or
the Cherokee Disaster.
GREAT SUFFERING FROM TIE FLOODS
thsy Are Homeless and Psanftsss aad
Need tmmsalAts Assissane<-far-
ther Reports OF the D~vasta-
tlsa kiss here.

CHEROKEE, Ia, june 80. The fol-
lowing appeal for assistance hAs been
seat cut by the mayor Of Cherokee.
To rsH AhEslcAs PusLtc WHOSE HxAKTs
AID roc kxrscoKs ARE OPEN SIMULTANEOUS
IL 10 Essnr APPEAL TO InosE IN MED: Tse
snsssrrisiaS. progressive and siwsys pros
Sersas htsis iowa " Cherokee IL ia
sore cistrsss Floods have .endsreA
e1 pespis homeless and deSs.dess upon
feSse sAsrity. May Of tAsso have
toss svsrytsiAg they psssessed barely ssoap-
ins sfsh their lives. rse damage ioas vii
reach 80 ss Every sriaze in the cry is gone
ana neaFy every bridge in tas county. 80 that
outside q csrtss for those wao have been REQ
dereA hoEaeless eur people feel the burden Siil
De heavy We feel mai ws cannot meet tAe w
mediate ants 81 AL the people in distress ana
ssk the eatside woftd for Asslssance. Our people
have Always rsspc ndsd nbers1y 10 every sp
peal for AID. and much - ws regret the asces-
sisy for asking H. ve feel that IL Is only neces-
sSfy 20 notify the American people and our APP
peal vii - responded ". Contribution. may
be sent ~ u. ii. Bloom. mayor. and our ex-ca
tive committee viii see that every dollar Is
properly expeaded
DAVID II BLOOM Mayor"
Words fail To convey an accurate idea
of the nature Of the damage done here.
Cherokee has in the last year increased
its population by 900 Many of these
are young people, employees and me
chsnics, the hard workers aud build
ers of CITIES, with but limited supply
of this worlds goods, who
have been saving TO build a
home and have lost that home and
al their effects The fortunate ones
of the city are doing all in their power
A. .l.v,ata ~ an ~. -tnxs ~ thos. ~
were deluged. Communication with
the city by rail is entirely destroyed.
and II is only by fording swollen
streams and wallowing through mud
that any one outside can reach the city.
Nearly the whole track from here TO
lie Mars is washed out
HorsrEIS. Ia, June 29.-Lightning
and hail in abundance have done ire
parable damage in this section To crops
and cattle. The district stricken by
hail is s miles west of here and is
miles wide and 10 miles long Barley
Is almost totally destroyed; wheat and
oats are damaged At Cushing and
Correctionville the houses were flooded
and two children were drowned at
Correctionville. Lightning struck and
killed Chris Kline. Two miles from
this town the barn of r. Leonard was
struck and two horses were killed.
KANSAS CRY, Mo-, June 2o.-The
DANCER of a serious flood from the Mis-
souri, river becomes greater, and the
river was rising at the rate of an inch
per hour. A rise of feet since Sat
urday night is reported at st. Joseph,
which insures still higher water here
In the lower arts OF Harlem the water
Is running through the streets and a
number of the people are moving &c
higher grounds
CINCINNATI, June GA Dillsborc
Qnd. special to the Times-Star says
the severest rain and windstorm ever
known there occurred about O'Clock
Sunday. Trees were uprooted anc
streets flooded until impassabs. From
other sources il is known that loca
storms of wind, hail and rain passed
over different portions of southeastern
Indiana and into Kentucky Sunday af
ternoon- Great damage was done t,
wheat