Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-08-18
The Yellow Fever.

Through private letters, and other accounts
from Portsmouth and Norfolk, we learn that
there is no abatement in the ravages of the
yellow fever; in Norfolk, it having spread
throughout the city, and many of the most i'll
fuential citizens have been or are now down
with it. For the 48 hours ending at D. m.
en- Thursday, there were Is deaths in the city.
IL of them by yellow fever.
Among tke victims, not heretofore publish
ed, We have the names Of Capt. Jas. Z. Hen
derson, Miss Lewis, Mrs. Xvii and daughter.
Messrs. Rankin, Cosgrove, Nicholas Cooke,
Hannah, John Banks, Thomas Streeter, Eliza
Cooke, Mrs. Brown, Caroline Born, Samuel r.
BOrum, George Billups, DR.. Samuel Lightfoot.
Among those now down with the fever are
Miss Barron, daughter of Com Barron)
Capt. r. W. Bowden, Treasurer of the How
ard Association Horatio Moore, Esq; Capt.
VIM. Freeman; Mrs. Stubs, (wife of the ex-
Mayor; Capt. Elias Guy, (Chief of the Pc,
lice); F. W. Seabury.
The Mayor, Hunter Woods, Esq, is out
attending to business. He did not have the
fever.
From Portsmouth, we learn that there were
twelve cases on Wednesday, but the account
is not reliable, as it is but the rumor among
the terror-stricken citizens; 1t being impossi-
bic to arrive at the truth of the dreadful raw.
ages of the fever.
Charles f. Snead; George Dill, wife, sister,
and three childran and A;obool Tu.I
to be added to the list of deaths
Among the sick are John II. Myers, Emma
Snead, Mary Grimes; the irst named improy-
ing; but the ladies are not expected to re-
cover.
Midshipman Jones, in command Of the u. S.
ship pennsylvania, was down with the fever
as were also five of the crew. The frigate st.
Lawrence has taken off the Pennsylvania
crew, and anchored off Craney Island five
miles from the city, with them.
DIR. Warren Stone, one of the most eminent
physicians Of New Orleans, and who has en-
Joyed large experience in yellow fever cases,
arrived at Weldon, North Carolina, on Thurs.
day. and proceeded in nediately by way of
the seaboard road to Portsmouth, where thew
stand much in need of medical aid.
Miss Lucy L. Andrews, of Syracuse, Y.
has arrived in Norfolk and rendered her ser.
vices as nurse in the hospital. The Mayor
accepted the noble offer and promptly escorted
her down to Jalappi, where she was duly in
stalled with her noble predecessors, the two
Sisters of Charity She is a very pretty and
educated young lady; asks for no remunera.
ton, and has contributed literally to the OBJ.
jects of the Howard Association.
Sydney Giles, discharged United States
soldier aged 80 years, native of New Haven,
Conn.,, accidentally fell over from Newton's
wharf, in Norfolk, Wednesday morning, and
was drowned. There was no Coroner to hold
an inquest over the body.
The Norfolk Herald of Thursday says:
We have observed the progress of the dis
ease now prevailing in our city, and remarked
two very important points: First, that no case
has occurred north of Main street which was
not traceable to the infected portion of the
city lying south Of that street; and that the
deaths have been almost exclusively of stran-
gers and persons net acclimated. Among the
old residents there has been but very little
sickness, and no more deaths than in ordinary
times. With good nursing and attendance,
the disease is very little more to be dreaded
than bilious fever
In Richmond, there have been FIVE deaths
from the yellow fever, viz: s. T. Lyman,
Thos. Teddy, Ellen Casey, James Muld, and
Dennis Murphy; all of whom are from Cos
port, where they contracted the disease.