The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1856-09-03
From N. Y. Herald, Thursday Aug. 2Sth.l
The Yellow Fever at Fort Hamil,
ton, near New York.

The news We received from Fort Ham
ilton late last evening was heart rendint
in the extreme. Not only il the yellow
fever raging with great virulence among
the few people who remaiR in tina.
plague stricken spot, but the sick ant
dying are neglected, and neither love
nor money will induce purses and rela'
tives to wait upon them.
Heretofore the disease has been main
ly confined to the wealthy families liv'
ing OIL the sea-shore, but now it has bro.
ken out at a place known as Trishtcwn
among a population of very poor people:
and is reported to be very fatal.
To show how stricken the people in
that vicinity are, it is stated 500 u day
are offered to nurses, but even that ex-
orbitant price will not induce them to
risk their lives by attending to the SIGH.
The whole labor has fallen upon q few
persons, among whom are Mr.. Paul Oh
liver, whom we mentioned yesterday, aud
Rev. Michael Scofeld, the Episcopal
clergyman, and the latter has been COM
PEELED to retire to recruit, so arduous
and exacting has been his labors.
The friends of those who have rela-
tives sick at Fort Hamilton Ger any
money to physicians and nurses who can
be prevailed upon to go down, for 1t is
notorious that mpny wealthy people have
died of sheer neglect at this place, be
ing abandon to die a painful aud loath-
sorue death, with 10 one to comfort or
attend them in their last agony.
Here follows a list of the sick and
dead.l
Mr.. Cummings aud wife we're buried
yesterday. There was no one to lay
them out except Mr.. Paul Oliver aud
Rev. Mr.. Scofeld.
Mr.. Cummings was a wealthy man,
and so Indeed are nearly all who have
died so far.
The o companies of United States
soldiers in the fort were marched ont
some two weeks since, and are now en-
camped to the number of two hundred,
several miles inland. There are only a
few sentincls left in the fort, and they
daily sicken.
The following is an extract of a letter
We received from a gentleman who
has relatives sick ut Fort Hamilton:
Mr.. Scoicli aud Mr.. Oliver have
stayed there, and done all they could
from the time of MIR. Chaudler Whites
illness, with no one To assist them. Mr..
Scoiield is uow worn out. aud has been
Obliged TO leave to recover some OF his
lost strength aud Mr.. Oliver is o
tie only one left there. One hundred
dollars per day was offered for u nurse
for Alr. Cummings, aud there was EGte
- be bad.
Any amount Of motey can be raised
tn hire nurses, and the residents Mt Fort
Hamilton ant the public attention cal
10 that fact.
Mr Grcel aud his son are lying very
low. There is 10 prospect OF any one
wi,o is now sick recovering. They are
dying fro sheer neglect Every fami-
~, rich aid po"r, who can raise money
to get away from the place, are leaving.
Yollum, of the army, is the only
physician in this place. All the others
fed but he has done all that one
man can do; aud now the Government
him to Bellows Island.
AT Staten Island the fever ALEC pre-
aud the Herald says:
The utmost CONSERVATION prevails
among the villagers aud there has been
, regular stampede from that part of
the island. Over twenty farmers have
eft since Saturday last, and there are
hardly teams enough to take away the
An effort has been made to keep the
secret.