The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1873-08-30

The Demoerat of asst evening, speaking
Of the death Of c. J.. Brown, says: +
We believe Their. is but little use in
Disgusting the fact uat our young friend
died Of Asiatic ch1lra-and nothing else
The physicians, DR.. Peck and Preston,
who attended him, safe that the case was
one Of genuine cholera, and OF the seyerest
type.
And in anotherart lie, headed Cholera
the same paper says
There is no use u Disgusting the fact .
that a deadly comp int-eall it sporadic .
cholera cholera molous. or Asiatic cholera
whatever you plase-is in our city
The developments ct the past twenty-tour
hours prove that thu terrible destroyer has
reached Davenport, and is making itself
felt here. The fate Of young Brown tells
Us that this Is 10 harmless disease that Is
visiting us Beside that, we have the IN
formation 70 impart that there at least five
cases Of cholera nov under treatment in
this city. There may be more than five
that is the number hat we know Of Two
Of the young men iIken this morning were
not expected To live at the time we write
The others are dangerously i'll,
The Gazettf of tbs morning says
Because tw1sdCaths-no greater mum
ber-have occurred in the city from a dis
ease resembling CD lera. some people in the
city have become reedlesslv alarmed-and,
as consequence, reports of wlde-e extended
sickness and great mortality have been
spread abroad Not case of the sickness
has occurred but that the afflicted individ
ual had been careless in allowing diarrhGa
n run two or three days without attempt
ing t. check it. Our reporter called upon
doctor last evening, who had been freely
reported as having fifteen cholera patients
in charge He hadn't single patient Of
the kind, and moreover didn believe that
q case of real cholera had occurred in the
city. Out OF five prominent physicians
5 visited not one lad patient with anything
like cholera
The remains Of C. II. Brown, whose death
was announced in our last Issue, were in
+ tered in the City Cemetery, at 5 O'Clock
f yesterday morning-decomposition having
taken place to too great an extent to allow
conveyance To Nuscatine as was intended
FIVE DEATHs-MoRE CASES.
An ARGUS reporter visited Davenport
! to-day, and brings us word that there
=. have up TO this time, been five death,
- Of cholera. Mr. John Reed, expressman
who has lived in Davenport for tweut,
~ years, and was very well known, died at hi
home on Brady street, between Fourth AM
10 fifth, at five clock yesterday afternoon. o
j cholera. lie leaves a wife and five chill
f; dren
N Henry NJ. Stocked, of Brooklyn, Iowa
# Ia man who has had law case befor
Is Judge Peasants, in this city this week, OIL
" a charge of fraud in the purchase of good
in Chicago shipped first to Iowa and thel
to Princeton, this State) died of cholera a
70 the Burtis House, this morning.
,s These two, with Brown, make thre
~ deaths-two of them in the Burtis Hnnse
of where the first case developed. Tw
!. other deaths Of cholera are reported in tn
10 place, last night, making five. 1t is ais
IF said that three servant girls in the Burt
,e House, who were eating watermelons las
no evening, were taken down with the diseas
to-dav