The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-10-10
YELLOW FEVER.


special telegram 10 the Commercial
MEMPHIS, October THE epidemic
sickness RACES with unabated violence,
and narrowing tales of distress are re-
ported by the Howard Association, who
have divided the city in beats and given
each cf their number route to mete out
relief and search out the needy. Auc-
tion, jackson, Oyerton, Winchester and
Exchange, and all streets from Washing
ton to the Louisville depot, are in a fear
full condition, the plague having stricken
down half or more of the remaining
population. In this section of the city
of over thirty saloons only one remains
open. The grocery, trading and market
shops are all closed. Milk and baker
carts have quit going into the region,
and necessaries can not be reached ex-
eept by going several squares, while
bread retails at more than double its for
mer price. The scenes of suffering are
simply appalling, and relief as yet can
not be afforded as rapidly as it should
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Committee will have systematic order,
and the needy will be able to obtain eat
ables as fast as they are wanted.
A light frost occurred last night, but
its effects, if good, will not be felt for a
few days, and the warm temperture to-
day causes fears of fresh impetus to
the disease The sickness shows an in
crease in several downtown localities.
More people are leaving the city, and
business is almost suspended. The news
papers are all short-handed, and the
Evening Ledger issues only half sheet.
Father, B. v. Carey, a Dominican
priest, died this morning. F. S. Bow
man, a Presbyterian minister, was buried
this forenoon, and during his funeral the
inside of his church tumbled in, without
injury to any one.
Another nun is lying low, but all
priests, nuns and clergy in the city are
doing everything possible. Four social
evil mistresees have died, many of their
inmates are stricken, and others fed.
The funeral hearses drive through the
streets at run, in their haste to keep up
with the demand for burials. At the
Howard Inirmary seven dead lay in a
row, on and outside the gallery, for many
hours, in plain view of the suffering, and
no hearses or carts could be obtained.
A little twelve-year-old girl nursed her
mother until she died, and then was her
self compelled to 60 for the coffin, make
the burial payments for her dead mother,
and is now nursing her father and sew
eral other members of the family. DIR. c.
E. Miner, and early victim, has been
followed under the sod by two sons and
daughter, and the last of the family, an
other daughter, is likely to die to-day.
His drug store, opposite the Overton
Hotel, is closed, and there is no one to
attend or claim it.
Money continues to arrive in large
sums, and everything it will supply will
in few days be obtainable. The banks
open from 10 to o'clock each day. Bu
siness all close at p. NJ, and other Of
fees at 8 p. M.
The steamer John B. Maude came up
from below to-day, turned about and
went back at once, no freight being here
to go below. One hundred and fifty
nurses are now employed by the How
ards, and many new cases are reported
to-day for which none can be obtained.
There was a heavy frost last night,
and indications of anothes tonight,
though to-day more new cases of fever
developed thaa before. There are about
six hundred under treatment in the in
fected district. To-day there were forty
two yellow fever interments, and twelve
from other causes. Among the former
was Rev. Father Carey, of the eDomini-
can priesthood.