Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1855-09-15
The Fever at Norfolk and Portsmouth.

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The Fever at Norfolk and Portsmouth
The details Of the progress of the epidemi
in those cities, are absolutely horryfying. d.
Jones reached Baltimore on the 4th, and fur
nishes the Patrio. with the annexed statemen,
The existing state of things is beyond al
description. The disease is on the increase, am
hardly any one to bury the dead. On Sunday
in Norfolk, there were forty dead bodies which
could not be inferred for want of collins ant
persons to bury them. DR.. J. was informed b.
Col. Ferguson, President of the Howard AS
ISOLATION, that there were, in Norfolk, ], 900 ca
ses and in Portsmouth 400.
We extract from the Richmond Despatch, o.
Monday, Sd inst, the following intelligence:
The accounts from the infected cities are of
most melancholy character. In Norfolk, on Fri
day there were forty burials, and nine deaths
after the list was made up.
The Augusta, Saturday evening, brought ul
several persons who had gone down to tend
the sick, some of them having yielded to the
earnest advice Of the physicians, who assured
them that TO remain there was almost certain
death. Among them are DR.. Hicks, of Char
louisville. Mr.. Clark, of Petersburg; and Messrs
| McDermont, Jordan and Doran, of Richmond.
Our informant, who left Norfolk Saturday,
says that the state of things there is truly ap.
palIing. While walking in one of the principal
streets, he saw a man lying on a 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 a house, and upon
going in found that one Of her parents had
just died, and the other was lying on a bed of
death.
In reference to the condition of Norfolk, the
American Organ publishes the following heart.
rending details:
Ia consequence of the absence of the coun.
try people from the market, the richest as well
as the poorest citizens are wholly dependent
On the Howard Association for their daily food.
The whole population must therefore be
sustained at the public expense.
The whole city is infected to such a degree
that the noxious efiuvia thrown off by it may
easily be scented at a considerable distance be.
yond the city limits. &,
All the resident physicians, with two or three
exceptions, are dead.
The scenes daily witnessed beggar descrip-
ton, and have had no parallel since the Plague
of Athens as described by ThucydiGes, or the
of Florence as described by Roccacio. !
a gentlemen relates that he had been nna>
10 visit the house of his neiehbor, Mrs.
White, for two or three days. When he call. |
ed at the expiration OF that time, he found
Mrs. White had been dead three days, ana
1er remains still lying uncoffine6 10 the house.
IN another room were lying, ON the bare floor,
hree young persons, male and female, i'll with
he fever, and no one to care for them. He
a wagon and matresses to remove
hem to the hospital. Before he could place
hem IN the wagon the mattresses were stolen
md the young lady and her COMPANIONS In
differing were compelled to lie on the bottom
4 the wagon, and when they reached the hosd
ital 10 be PLACED on the floor again.
Many Of the dead have been buried in the
Aeys Of the city-of course incwas;ng teufold
he danger of Infection.
PIsser Fitzgerald, United States Navy, was
OF expected to live on the 4th instant. Dr.
Vm. Seldsn is getting we'll. DR.. Gooch, of
richmond, died on the 4th, instant.
The Norfolk Argus of the 4th instant, saws:
We have now about 1000 people left in the
tx, and among these the mortality is posi-. /,
awfnivworse than anything vet written {
the yisitations Of the plague. On Sunday
err. were upwards Of fifty burials, and what
the most painful part of the mater is that !
the bodies were not buried that ought to
I'VE been-sach, is the. demand Of dead NOR ,
lily for its final home. "a J
Two doors from where we are writing tbers
2 fostering corpse, which has been Gecom- .
sing for nearly forty-eight hours. The house
empty, with the exception Of it's dead occu- !
nt-she fourth corpse in the house within a !.
But one or two children of the afflicted.
naily are left, and they are in the hospital
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IoRtoLK, Sept. 8.-Tbe fever is.till increasing
IN at Norfolk and Portsmouth. Great dis,
IS exists, and the POPULATION are nearly re-.
'ed to a state of famine, Large collections
'telng made in the Northern cities sforsthe
eft of.the sufferers. 1t is probable that the
tied States troops viii evacuate Fort Mon
aud eve it up for the use of the sufferers.
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