The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-09-13
THE YELLOW FEVER AT NORFOLK AND PORTS
MOUTH.

THE YELLOW FEVER AT NORFOLK AND PORTS
MOUTH
The following despatch received from Baltimore
yesterday afternoon
Norfolk up to yesterday The number Of deaths
in Norfolk during the previous twentyfour hours ending
at g. D. M. on Monday SO; from that time to noon
Tuesday but few deaths were reported, but 1t IS
thought there was no decrease Of deaths.
In Portsmouth the panic increasing There were %
deaths in fourteen hours previous to 3 p M Of Tuesday,
The Rev Vernon Esridge United States chaplain in the
navy, and his Richard, are dead. The Rev james
Chisholm, of the Episcopal Church. is dead Rev. Fran
els Devn, Catholic priest has had relapse, and 1t Is
thought will die.
or a party Of eleven physicians and nurses, who went
bs wife Of he REV. Dr. r dead Dr. eshe
Washington is very i'll. Dr. Morris, OF Baltimore Will
probably
The Howard Association have declined sending the
phan children TO Baltimore although every preparation
being made for them.
Several families have removed to Camp Falls.
private letter says Disease, misery and death have
desoated our fair town. if the fever much longer holds
its triumphant sway and not removed from this in
ected region all die Our friends of to-day are
in their graves tomorrow"
From Norfolk letter we make the following extracts
common spectacle in the streets is cart laden with
collins which deposited convenient street cor
ner aud removed thence by the undertakes occasion
demands Three four OF these collins often stand to-
geher The dead Immediately taken out OF the honses
and placed upon the sidewaks strip of parchment in
scrbed with the name age and date of dccease OF the VIC
TIM being nailed upon the lid Of each coffin duplicate
of this parchment record is preserved The bodies OF the
dead conveyed away by carts which traverse the streets
at stated intervals There three places or burial
"The houses Of the citizens who have He'd are u y be-
eved pretty generally respected Few cases OF THEFT are
reported and Lurgaries considerable
of valuable property frequently LETT in the hands
of the physicians This is always conhded to the care OF
the sanitary committee.
"Thc approach Portsmouth cannot be mistaken, and
is terribly marked by the ewlyturned earth under which
the victims Of fever have been laid extends for hun
dreds Of yards and in many spots studded with stakes
upon which marked the of those who rest be-
Meath This has been done by friend or relative
who emplates If life be spared to him. to remove and
again Ger the bodies This sight is perhaps the saddes
in Portsmouth Here lie father and mother, sister and
brother the rich and the poor the prepared and the unpe
pared -
he passerby is met at every corner nearly BY collins
cof,s made in every shapeattop coins raised collins
red collins, and white collins.
The fever raging terribly IN Norfolk than II IS
here and the sight in the hospital IS truly distressing
ong rows beds contain patients who are perfectly de-
rous and mir resounds with their cries and inprecn-
tons while they are strapped down with linen to their
beds In this situation they have the black vomit and
the sight presented is truly awful Let physicians else
where be what they may those in Norfolk and Portsmouth
are heroes, aud nothing less