Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-09-13
SHREVEPORT.
Statements f,Om Correspondents Rela'
five to the Epidemic and the
Panic Among the
People.
Abundant Cause for the Epidemic In
Mountains Of Filth aad Dead
CaToasses.
Warning 10 Every COmmunity-Dirt
Breeds Disease and Eatails
Death.

Death.
New ORLEANS, September PA dis
patch from Shreveport to Mast & HCdg-
son SAYS that city Is in great eed %
help The yellow-fev is of a malig-
nant type, and does not yield readily 10
treatment There are Is great scarcity
Of people to attend to the sick. A dis
patch from w. A. L HOmmedue, of
Marshall, Texas, superintendent Of he
telegraph line, 10 Superintendent Flour
nOy, ( this city, says that everything
is in great confusion at Shreveport.
There were thirty deaths there yester-
d Y. The fever is reported worse to-day.
The Rcdy1ne has the following: 1--WE
have been permitted to copy the follow
ing private letter from ShTevep TT:
SHREVEPORT, September p
DEAR JACK-We are row passing through
an awful scourge. The yellOw-feVer has come,
and like some awful black pail, has thrown
its folds about us, spreading terror and death
among u. The town is nearly depOpulated |
by the stampede and sickness. There has
been, near as ! can ascertain, up to date,
about sixty deaths, and a great number are
sick. There is one awful characteristic about
the sickness, and that's no one as yet has re-
DFereQ. some ara NnaN llltN GEl4 DONG r.
well a. could be expected; the next thing a
corpse is awaiting hearse. On the point Of
malignant fatality 10 surpasses any yellow
fever ever known here. II appears as II the
fell-mOnster, whenever IL gets its pestilential
fangs fastened on its victim, never lets q Its
fatal grip until the victim is stiff
and stark dead. a few cases at first
dropped dead in the streets, before reach
ing house. These cases, however have
been rare. None Of our particular friends are
yet dead. The only ones in danger now are
the Messrs. Jordan. both OF whom are very
low. We have organized a Howard assOcia-
tiOu, and IL is doing great deal Of good. The
following are all The dead tina / know Of up TO
the present time: Mr. Bal, the carpenter, and
wife; Nj. Chase; Mr.. Mundy, Of the firm Of
Mundy 4 Collins; Jim Anderson, H. Smith,
aud two Of Mr.. Grtswolo's children, besides
many strangers. The following are very sick:
colonel Cummings, Judge L.erney, the two
Misses JOrdans, Mr. Alexander (the lawyer,
q. J. Alexander (the tailor, ana Billy Mar
shall II this is yellOw-fever, Clay says il is
different from any yellow fever he ever rsa
Of or saw. 1 will move away. Oue Of the at
tendant incOnvenienceS Of fever is thorough
embargo on the carr. They viii let no vne 90.
The town is, in the way OF business, dead.
p $ MoSDAY, September s.-There are
great many new cases reported this morning.
Joe Howell is dead Yours, CHARLES.
FROM ANOTHER SOURCE.
LITTLE Rock, Septembr l2.-SeveraI
parties who left Shreveport yesterday
arrived here this evening. They report
the yellow-fever on the increase. Every
stage leaving that city for this is crowd
ed with terrOr-sITlcken people. The son
of Mr.. Brooks, proprietor of the South
eTn hotel at Shreveport, who arrived
here yest erday, 61 route to St. Louis,
received a te egram this evening an
nOuncing the death of his father from
the fever. 1t is thought the removal of /
the Red river raft has considerable to do
with the epidemic.
FROM SHREVEPORT.
SHREVEPORT, September l2-Up to
four o'clock this evening eighteen deaths
from yellow-fever occurred. 1t is on the
increase. Whole families are down with ]
it, and the nurses are worn out.
by MALL
From the Vicksburg Herald.l
The sickness at Shreveport, reported I
to be yellow fever Of a very malignant !.
type, affords food for reflection, and we .
hope that our city authorities may profit .
by the misfortunes Of our Louisiana .
neighbors. The laws of nature cannot .
be violated with impunity, for retrib
ton in some form or other is sure to .
follow. The laws Of nature and the laws .
of hygiene have both been outraged in
Shreveport, and the people of that IN
fortunate place are paying the penalty.
We had previously heard that the town
was in horribly filthy condition. We
had been told that the bodies Of putrid
animals were to be seen sweltering in
the sun in different portions of the city,
while mudholes reekiDg with filth and
yspors were poisoning the
entire atmosphere in every direction,
but our information, derived from gem
tleman Of character, betrays state Of
facts that is absolutely appalling, and if
not properly vOuched for would be re-
ceived with incredulity.
We are informed that a boat, having
on board a hundred or more Texas
cattle, was recently sunk 10 Red river,
very near to Shreveport. IneXplicable
and incredible as the statement may
seem, we are informed that these dead
animals have been fished from the
wreck and taken ashore for their hides,
and that, after being skinned, the blOa'-
ed bodies have been permitted to remain
exposed to the rays of a burning sun,
whera they have swsltered and poison
ed, with the sickening effluvia arising
from these decaying carcasses, the whole
atmosphere! Is il astonishing, or rather,
is if ~o' perfectly natural, that s. ch q
vi ,Istion af The laws Of health should
be- followed by 3 frightful epidemic?
the wonder is that tue pOpulati n of
has not already en- decl-
mated by the ravages of malignant ty-
Dhus fever, or some other equally deadly
and malignant disease.
We desire TO impress upon our ciu-
zens the danger that we are in, of being
visited by a similar scourge induced by
a not dissimilar cause. The sewer un-
der Washington street, Is to-day a pro-
Iific source Of disease and death, and If
we escape some dreadful epidemic, We
shall have abundant cause for gratitude
to an all-wise and merciful Providence,
but none whatever TO our city TGlers.
Any citizen may observe, any night, to-
ward nine or ten O'Clock, the horrible
stencil arising from the vent-bOles at
the street-corners, and it requires no
ghost from the grave TO give assurance
that such foul and nONiOus vapOrs are
highly pTejudicial to the general health.
We understand that the board of health
has tsUice appealed to the mayor and
aldermen to take measures to have the
sewer cleaned Of the deposits of filth
from which is endangering the
ICdALu Va stAC NANg1 1AAeA eAS7N 49, Q
ar with that remarkable body will not
le surprised to learn that these applica-
ions have been treated with cOntemptu-
BUS indifference. When the whole at
nOsphere has become poisoned, when ,
disease and death are rampant, when
he community is stampeded, and the
business OF the city ruined for the sea- ,
,on, then Our watchful authorities will
begin TO scstter lime and car
DOlic acid, burn tar, and make night
lideous with the discharge OF cannon,
Is not an ounce of prevention worth a
vast number Of pounds of cure? Think
# it, people Of Nicksburg.