Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1853-08-24
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New ORLEANS, Aug. 16.-The yellow fever
continues fearfully on the increase. The
Board of Health report two hundred and
thirty-two deaths during the past twenty
four hours, ending at six o'clock this morn
ing. Considering that so many have already
died, and the population being thinned by all
who have the means Of leaving the CITY, this
mortality is unprecedented.
The distress and suffering which exists a.
mong all classes, and especially the poor,
the sick and the dying, are beyond the pow
er Of language to describe. The survivors
are unable to bury the dead, and in some in
stances corpses have peen lying until they
have become putrid. The whole city is asol-
emn scene of funerals and death. There
seems to be no hope of an abatement of the
dreadful scourge, but, on the other hand, it
is f~earfully increasing, amounting almost to
a plague.
New ORLEANS, August 1.-THE fever
continues to rage frigltfully, and owing to the
unfavorable weather, is rather on the increase
than otherwise. 1t has now become a matter
of difficulty to find workmen to dig the graves,
and 1875 bodies have been burned this week
for want Of places of interment. This dis
tress exceeds any thing before witnessed, and
the ~afrighted inhabitants are flying to escape
the devouring pestilence. Business is almost
entirely staenated, and many merchants have
closed their stores.
The number of deaths For the last "a hours
were 2s2, of which 200 persisted from the fe.
yer. The total for the week sums up 1852
of which 1861 were from the fever.
BI=A terrible collision took place on the
Boston and Western Railroad, on the 18th
inst. The collision was caused by a differ
encc of two minutes in the time of the wat
ches of the two engineers. The collision Of
the two trains is represented as terrific, as
both were going at a high speed. On the
Uxbridge train the third passenger car lea
ped over the second, killing three persons
who were escaping from the windows. On,
boy had his arm completely torn from tn
socket. The dead were horribly mangled
Nine persons were taken from the wrecl
dead and laid side by side, presenting a heart
rending spectacle. tits estimated than twen
ty have been killed and forty or more woun
ded.
EXTRAORDINARY MORTALITY FROM THE HEA
OF THE WEATHER.-The New York Tribun
of the 10Th, gives alistof about220 deaths, an
so or go others Frustrated in that city, Brook
Ign and Williamsburg, during the last 81
DAYS, from the excessive heat Of the weather
and adds:
The frightful heat of the last week seem
to have eliminated on Saturday in a degre
of heat more fatal then any ever before know
at least so far as the mortality thereby OF
casioned shows. The number is entirely III
Iparalleled, so far as we know, in the histor
of the world. It is perfectly horrible, an
| betrays not only unequaled heat, but, j
many cases most unheard of carclessness 0
the part of the victims. There were no les
than lib deaths from heat in the city on S;
turday and Sunday, besides Is others VIII
were stricken down, and are lying i'll.
We attribute this scourgeto several cause
Fist, hoat; second, alcohol; third, pestile'
: tial filth. The thermometer was above Il
, degrees in the shade, almost every day, AZ
the heat endured by those fully exposed
: the sun, was often as much as lis degree
From various accounts received, we shOu
: Judge that at least a hundred horses ha1
3 been killed, In the mean time, In this eli
: alone. All sorts of business in the travt
2 ing line has been retarded; railroad trains, I
e laws o~mnibuses reduced to half speed, al
9 pedestrianism brought almost to astand sti
+ Another such week would outrival IN mort;
: ity the height of the cholera of 1S49.
The number of deaths last week is repC
e ted at585; but the realnumber must have be
e at least 700-the heaviest mortality havi
/ occurred too late to be included in Saturda,
IS report.
h Every city, town and hamlet in this nei2
borhood has suffered in like proportion, a
!, even in the ARREST regions of country Il
+ eastern bank of the Hudson) the compla'
of the heat has been equal in all but death
III The Times says the number of deaths fir
IL haaton Sunday, were as follows; in New u
u loo; Brooklyn 26; Williamsburg 3, and j
ne sey City 3-total 1872 in one day.