People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1897 — Relief Wanted for 60,000. [ARTICLE]

Relief Wanted for 60,000.

Over nine-tenths of Washington, Issaquena, Sharkey, Sunflower and considerable of Yazoo and Warren counties, Miss., are overflowed. It is estimated that 6(5,000 persons need food; stock is also suffering severely in the eastern half of this territory, where the distress is becoming acute.