Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1855-09-06
Fever at norfolk and Portsmouth.

at Norfolk and Portsmouth, and II would seem
that nothing can abate it but their complete de-
population.
Dr. @. III. Jones, who returned to Baltimore on
Tuesday from Norfolk and Portsmouth, informs
the editor of the Patriot that the existing state of
things in the infected cities beyond all description.
| The epidemic is the increase and has assumed
more malignant form. On Sunday, in Norfolk,
there were forty dead bodies which could not be
inferred for want of collins and persons to bury
them. DIR. j. was informed by Mr.. Ferguson,
President Of the Howard Association, that there
were in Norfolk one thousand cases, and in Ports
mouth four hundred.
! Deahs in Norfolk on Sunday. ........... 90
Deaths in Norfolk on Monday. ......... 81
Deaths IN Portsmouth on Sunday. ....... 81
Mayor Fiske, oe Portsmouth, is i'll, and will
probably die. The sick in that town all suf
ferlng for the want of nurses, all of those from
the South having stopped at Norfolk.
In the Norfolk hospital, on Sunday night, there
were sixteen deaths.
From The Norfolk Herald Of September 8.
The arrows of death continue to be sped with
fatal accuracy at conspicuous marks in our midst,
and since our last issue the following have been
struck down.
The Rev Mr.. Dbbrel, pastor of the Methodist
| Episcopal Church He has died at his post, fol-
| lowing the command Of his Divine Master, even
in the midst Of the pestlence, and securing for
himself the rich reward of the faithful in Christ
John q. ii. Hatton, President Of the Common
| Council and teller of the Farmers Bank of Vir-
ginia, aged A. lgnatus Higgins, teller of the
Virginia Bank, aged 80. Alexander Feret, chief
book-keeper of the Exchange Bank DR.. George
J. Halston, aged 3S. VIM Fl. Garnet, most
devoted and efficient co-worker with the Howard
Il A S,,I,r -
the late DR.. r. w. Sylvester, aged 90. James
NJ Brooks, grocer, aged As. Dennis O'Brian,
! undertaken, aged 3S. Edw DAILY, grocer, aged
60 William II. Halett, of the firm of Dixon s.
| i1allett grocers. William Doyle, aged about so.
| Miss Sarah Freeman, daughter of Capt VIVA G.
Freeman, aged 40 Miss Martha c. Holden,
much-esteemed teacher, aged A. Miss Bette
| Baylor, daughter of Mrs. Catharne Baylor.
| Miss Evelina Fitzhugh, aged A. VIM. X.
Storrs, keeper of the City Prison.
We hear that VIM. 4. Cunningham, esq.,. Sc
| Nor editor of the Beacon is no more! Compelled
to suspend his editorial duties, he devoted him
| self to attending ON the sick, and has fallen
| martyr to the of humanity.
The twenty -four hours ending yesterday at p
| m, shows trightful mortality. Between forty
and fifty is aid to have been the number of bn-
| rails; but some were of persons who died within
the preceding twenty -four hours, and were kept
| over for want of collins to inter them! A start
| ling fact Fifty collins were received from Bal
| timore on Sunday.
The Richmond Dispatch estimates the popula-
ton of Norfolk to be reduced to from three to
FIVE thousand, and that of Portsmouth reduced to
twelve hundred, some say two thousand We
copy the following from the Dispatch
NoRFoLK September Is p. m.
! The new hospital under the SUPERINTENDENT of
| Mr.. Marks, of New Orleans, was thrown open
al al. l.. l.
| 1t is the large building formerly known as the
City Hotel
1t is useless to endeavor to keep full list of
those who are, one maynsay, taken down with
the fever hourly Out OF our present white popu-
| lation more than one-half already sick.
/ The Rev. Mr.. Armstrong, who goes around a
great deal among the sick on his missions Of love
and consolation, gives it his opinion that there
! are at the present time from one thousand TO
twelve hundred persons sick with the fever in
Norfolk, and we have no doubt whatever that he
| is correct
At least five hundred victims have fallen up to
this time, (about six weeks.)
| Mr.. l.. X. Gibson died day or two since iii
Princess Anne from fever also, Parker Sharpley;
al Ocean View
One hundred and forty patients had been
received al the City Hotel Hospital up TO this
hour, and numbers pouring in constantly
Six physicians are down at Norfok-Drs.
VIM. Selden, George j. Halston, Sylvester, IT. ;
McFadden and Quigenfeuse, of Philadelphia, and
DIR. Baird, of New Orleans. DR.. Rose is up and
doing very we'll
The Rev Joseph Ashwanden, Catholic minister
from Georgetown College, who went down to fill
temporarily the place of Rev. Mr.. Devln, (also
sick,) has been carried to the hospital sick with
the fever.
In Portsmouth there were twenty-five deaths
for the iwenty-iour hours ending at sunset on
Sunday.
The Condition of Norfolk.
The .4merican Organ of yesterday afternoon
says:
From conversation with several members Of the
Norfolk and Portsmouth Committee now in this
city, we have collected the following heart-rend-
ing details:
In consequence Of the absence of the country
people from the market the richest as well as the
poorest citizens wholly dependent on the
Howard Association for their daily food The
whole population must therefore be sustained at
the public expense.
that the noxious etfluvia thrown off by il 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 description,
and have had no parallel since the Plague Of
Athens as described by Thucydides, or the
| Plague of Florence as described by Boccacio
A gentleman relates that he had been unable
TO visit the house Of his neighbor, Mrs. Whttle,
for two or three days. When he called at the
expiration of that time, he found Mrs. Whittle
had been dead three days, and her remains still
lying uncofned in the house. in another room
were lying, on the bare floor, three young per-
sons, male and female, i'll with the fever, and no
one TO care for them. He procured wagon
| and mattresses to remove them to the Hospital.
Before he could place them in the wagon the
mattresses were stolen, and the young lady and
her companions in suffering were compelled to
lie on the bottom of the wagon, and when they
reached the Hospital to be placed on the floor
again
Many Of the dead have been buried in the al
| legs Of the Ciiy-of course increasing tenfold the
danger Of infection.
Nearly all the banks have lost portion Of their
most valuable officers.
The wives and children of several Of our most
distinguished naval officers have, in their last
moments, been utterly unattended.
Latest from the Fever District.
| BALTIaoRE, Sept. 5,--The Norfolk boat has
arrived bringing accounts of the most heart-rend-