The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1871-06-10
Yellow Fever Horrors In South
America.
1,Piague SriekeH City--Drcad-
ful Raragos Of he Scoargc in
Bsenos Ayres.

Seem Hundred and Fifty DEATHS n
Dcy--Fligh Of The P~epalahioa--
Propositions 70 Bum TIE City.
Nen,sviaso Correspondence Ne. York TIeraldE
The black wings Of pestilencc are
lowering with sombre shadows over
our neigboring city Of Bucnos Ayres
and a population which ten weeks
since numbered at least 100000
souls is now reduced by death aud
fight to 10000. Up to this date
there have been over $4,000 deaths
and the daily average mortality for
the past week has been OYER $50.
On Saturday last, q week ago TO-
day, five hundred and one deaths
took place.
Seven hundred and forty-nine
bodies were counted at the cemetery
gates as the mortality bill Of Sun
day, and this, as in many other cas-
es, was doubtless short of the actual
number, as 1t comprised intcrments
only.
Over 400 fatal cases were reported
up to 2 O'Clock in the afternoon OF
Monday, the total report for the
day being five hundred and thirty
sever.
Tuesday showed somewhat OF a
decrease, the days interments being
only three hundred and thirty-scv-
en-.
On Wednesday, up to half past /
o'clock, three hundred aud thirty
burials were registered, the mortali-
" for the day reaching four hun
hundred and twenty-scven.
Thursday witnessed a consllera-
Bile diminution in the number of
deaths, there being being only two
hundred and niucty-seven--one
hundred and thirty cases less than
on the previous day.
Yesterday, according to the re-
port of tho president of the public
commission thedeatlis up to l o'clock
p. m. were two hundred and thir-
teen, and he expresses tho opinion
in his dispatch that the fever is d.
minlshing somewhat; but it Is a dis
case that varies greatly, rs l will
presently show.
Families are broken up aud seat
tered; husbands abandon their dy-
ing wives; mothers leave their
children TO die alone, and in some
cases entire families are swept away.
AS many as five or six corpses have
been discovered IN o single house,
and there is a lack of laborers to
perform the duties of removal aud
scpulchrc of the dead. There is al
80, as might naturally be supposed,a
a scarcity of physicians and nurses
TO attend the sick in the various
hospitals, aud where almost every
inhapitatei house is a MIXTURE hos
pital in itself, the extent of suffer-
ing must be indeed dreadful. Scv-
eral Of the most eminent physicians
Of Montevideo volunteered to the
euccor Of the stricken Buenos Ay-
rcans, and have labored with zeal
in the face of the imminent and ter
rlble death That stamps them as ho-
roes and philantbropists second to
none in the worlds History. Among
the physicians Of both cities who
have within the past week given up
their lives In the noble work, are
Drs. Muniz, Riva and Poyet.
A new cemetery, to receive the
fever victims, has been opened in the
campo south of the city, toward the
Riachuela--thc old panthcons being
inadequate. A tram railroad has
also been laid from the city to this
new metropolis, and the bodies are
carried out on the trucks like so
much packed freight. There is no
time % construct collins or burial
casea. The stock on hand was long
since exhausted, and the undertak-
- have IN son,e instances fled from
the terrible harvest Of business that
~ sprung up.
About 10000 persons have fed
ne citysome take refuge in Monte
vidso md the towns mp the river
Parsna, but ~ far tho larger por-
don N the easspo, within . distance
: 11on - = iifty miles from Bue-
Peasants mud gaucho,
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