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

    By Louis A. Wiltz

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    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      The Great Mississippi Flood of 1874 Its Extent, Duration, and Effects - Louis A. Wiltz

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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

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MISSISSIPPI FLOOD OF 1874 ***

      Produced by Bryan Ness and the Online Distributed

      Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net. (This file was

      produced from scans of public domain works at the University

      of Michigan's Making of America collection.)

      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

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