Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1855-09-12
Epidemic at Norfolk and Portsmouth.

Epidemic at NOft0lk ana foEtsmouInsI
The Petersburg Express has the fol
Icnings
am deeply panied to ada TO the listef
new cases the name of our mutual friend,
Mr.. j ames 81. Finch, of Norfolk Argus.
He has labored night and day for several
days past, in order that one paper at least
should be published in the city. But
aiasl he has been compelled to yield to
the memorable demand of the fell de-
stroyer. He has the fearful yonsio.
In Portsmouth the fever still RACES
fesrfully and the, mortality seems to be
increasing. During Saturday there were
El8 deaths, and from sunset Saturday,
evening to- sunrise yesterday morning
there was an order for fifteen collins
thus making 80 deaths in about twenty
four hours.
The gallant Daniel ]. Ricardo. now at
Norfolk, has telegraphed to New Orleans
for twenty more nurses. Fever in Nor
folk beggars all description.
A despatch dated Richmond on Saturday
says:
"Wm. G. Shields, Esq, founder and
for many years editor and proprietor of
the Norfolk Courier, and VIM. B. Cain,
Esq, proprietor of Gains Hotel, Union
street, Norfolk. both died here last night,
of yellow fever. The disease was nli.
doubtedly contracted in Norfolk, although.
both of deceased had been here for seYe>
raj days"
The Richmond Dispatch says of Mr..
Shields:
The greater portion of his life he was
Iconnecta6 vvitJ, t6a. Drass T;,L tl,a l,ts,
Leroy Anderson he founded the old Rich.
monds Compiler in 1906. Whenit pass
ed into other hands he removed to Nor
folk, and established the Beacon of that
place, which he, with others. conducted
for many years. He was.a well-bred and
intelligent gentleman, of exceedingly So
ciable, kind and benevolent disposition
always enjoying the respect and cordial
good will of all who knew him.
A Norfolk letter in the Express says or
ders have been sent to both Baltimore
and Richmond for a large number of cot
fms. The same letter in mentioning the
deaths of Miss Laura Mallory and her
sister, two accomplished young ladies,
says they died within FIVE minutes of each
other, and adds;
" They were in Hampton when the fe-
yer first broke out. on visit to relative,
and enjoying every comfort and blessing.
which this world can afford and a. gen
tleman of this city informs us that as soon
as the tidings reached them that the fever
had made its appearance in Norfolk, and
they reelected that fond mother aud
father were there, they Immediately
decided that under the paternal roof
was their place when danger threatened,
and the next morning they emarked on the
steamer for home. The result of their
return is that both are dead.
Another Norfolk letter in the Express;
speaking of the death of Mrs. Walter E.
Jones, says:
"She was the widow of WalterF. Jones,
deceased, former postmaster Of this city,
and the mother of Passed DLidshipman
Walter F. Jones, Jr,, who died at the Ma
\ val Hospital few days since. She had
seen her son, in the very bloom Of man
hood, and with bright hopes before him.
suddenly stricken down With the fever,
and after desperate struggle of but a
few days duration, laid low in the cold
embrace of.death. Next. she was called
to the bedside of her sister, Mrs. JOS HI.
Robertson, who was the wife of Joseph
H. Robertson, Esq, one Of our most pro-
minent and justly Distinguished lawyers
With sisters love and sisters devotion
she stood at the bedside of her relative
and ministered to her wants through Sc
veral long days and tedious nights.
"Death at last come to the relief Of the
feYersscorched patient, and Mrs j ones was
called upon to mourn the loss of a sister
as well as son. With heart well nigh
crushed out with grief, at the earnest en-.
treaties of friends, shemade preparations
for a northern tour, and was on her way
to the steamers wharf, when the unmis-
taxable chill made its appearance, and the
unmistable chill made its appearance, and
the fever claimed her as its victim. She
returned to her home, and was sire ched
upon couch Of pain, from which she ne
yer moved, until her lifeless form was
placed in the narrow coffin, and carried
to the now rapidly filling cemetry. There
at one fell swoop a devoted son, afec-
tionate mother and beloved sister, all
swallowed up in death"
The Richmond Despatch of yesterday,
says:
The Augusta on Saturday evening
brought up several persons who had gone
down to tend the sick, some of them hav-
ing yielded to the earnest advice of ply
sicians, who assured them that to remain
was almost certain death.
Our informant, who left Norfolk, Sa-
turday, says that the state of things there
is truly appalling. While walking one OF
the principal streets, he saw man lying
on cellar cap, in almost the agony OF
death, with no one in sight of him. A
little further on he saw a young child
rush screaming from house, and upon
going in, found that one. of her parents
had just died. and the other was ying on