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Title: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1874
Its Extent, Duration, and Effects

Author: Louis A. Wiltz

Release Date: April 5, 2010 [EBook #31889]

Language: English

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THE GREAT
MISSISSIPPI FLOOD
OF 1874.
ITS EXTENT, DURATION AND EFFECTS.

A CIRCULAR FROM
MAYOR WILTZ, OF NEW ORLEANS,

TO THE
MAYORS OF AMERICAN CITIES AND TOWNS,
AND TO THE PHILANTHROPIC THROUGHOUT THE
REPUBLIC, IN BEHALF OF
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.

LOUIS A. WILTZ,
Mayor and Treasurer of Relief Fund."

To give the information promised, to extend the appeal to many other
cities and to towns and corporate institutions, t