SEVENTY THOUSAND SUFFERERS
IN LOUISIANA ALONE.
NEW ORLEANS:
PICAYUNE STEAM BOOK AND JOB PRINT, 66 CAMP STREET.
1874
MAYORALTY OF NEW ORLEANS.
NEW ORLEANS, May 30th, 1874.
On the 25th instant, the kind favor of the Western Union Telegraph Company enabled me to send to the Mayors of thirty-four large American cities the following dispatch:
“By request of Relief Committee and leading citizens, I again call on American cities in behalf of fifty-four thousand victims of the great flood, for such aid as your prosperity may permit or your philanthropy prompt you to grant. Contributions in cash and provisions in thirty-five days have been less than one hundred and eighty thousand dollars. In fifteen days our means will be exhausted. The demand for relief will continue great and urgent for many weeks. Daily rations have been distributed to about forty-five thousand—eight thousand furnished by the Government. Painful anxiety as to the results is general.
“Nothing but large increase of resources for relief can prevent the horrors of famine and great loss of life. We need a million of dollars more. Details will be given by mail.