Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-01-30

ton through the records kept by Dor
rance Atwater, q Connecticut boy In
prison at Andersonville. He had been
detailed to keep for the prison authsri-
ties record of the dead and their
burial. Thinking that the folks at home
would like to know he preserved on
rags and bits Of paper duplicate set
of the records, with the graves indi-
Gated on plot of the burying ground.
After the war Miss Barton secured
these lists of 10, 900 names. and together
they had thousands Of graves marked
with head-boards ut Andersonville and
elsewhere.
In 1860, nearing her 40th birthday.
Miss Barton went abroad for necessary
rest and recuperation. The next year
the Franco Prusslan war broke out
and Miss Barton sought the battle
fields and did effective work among
the wounded, especially at Strasburg.
From Strasburg she went to relieve the
suffering after the fall of the commune
In Paris. Her services won her the
Prussian Order of Merit, gave her ac-
quaintance with the workings of the
Red Cross agencies in Switzerland and
Germany, and brought her under the
notice Of the head of the latter society,
the Empress Augusta.
Gifts from Royalty.
As a result of this and other visits
and services Miss Barton has received
jewel gift from the, grand duchess Of
Baden, the jewel Of the American Red
Cross, the Servian decoration of the
Red Cross, presented by Queen Ma
talie; the Gold Cross OF Remembrance,
from the duke of Baden, and Red
Cross medal from the queen of Italy,
and an English decoration, pinned on
by the hand of Queen Victoria. When
all was over Miss Barton returned from
Europe to find that, while she had won
fame abroad, her work was almost
wholly unknown here. For four years
Miss Barton worked to have the Uni
ted States government sign the Inter
national Red Gross convention. In 1881
Congress passed the needed legislation
and the American Association of the
Red Cross was formed. Miss Barton
was subsequently elected president.
The first field work of the society was
done in 1882, when the Mississippi over
flowed. Miss Barton started for the
scene with a meager fund, but aid soon
poured in and more resources were sup
piled than were needed, so that sur
plus was put by for the next great dis
aster. In the next year the Ohio floods
and the Louisiana cyclone, and in tho
following year the Mississippi and Ohio
floods again called out the Red Cross
workers.
= In 1886 the drouth in Texas and the
Charleston earthquake sent the Red
Cross agents hurfying to the scenes Of
suffering and death. In 1887 Miss Bar
ton represented the United States gov
ernment at the court of the grand duke
Of Baden, and in the same year she re-
lieved the sufferers from the Mount
Vernon cyclone. In the Johnstown dis
aster Miss Barton was in the field, and
the distribution of clothing was under
the personal supervision Of the National
Red Cross headquarters. The society
expended $4,000 at Johnstown.
The Sea island hurricanes gave the
latest occasion to the Red Cross for
taking the field. Tide and flood COM
bined to strip the low-lying Carolina
islands coast of almost every inhabit-
ant, to destroy crops and homes, and to
destroy hundreds of people. 1t was es-
timated that 10000 were in need Of
food. The colossal work Of feeding this
population was undertaken a month
after the disaster by the Red Gross So
ciety, under Miss Barton. Within three