Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-10-24
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Mundy s. Collins, Hoss &. Noel, Souther-
land s Page, P. F. L. Frank, L. Beer,
Dreyfuse Brothers, Sale s. Murphy, III. l..
Lee & Co., and many others that / cannot
now call to mind. These are whole firms
that have been swept away. Then there
are many others where one or two of the
firm have died. There is hardly a bust
ness house in the whole city that has not
lost some member of the firm or clerks.
Oh! am satisfied there never was such
an epidemic before known on the Ameri-
can Continent. 'Twould be worse than
futile to even attempt to describe the terri
BILE suffering and distress of this poor
afflicted community. When the disease
was first proclaimed syellow fever" by
the physicians, every one who could get
away from the city, by any and every
possible means, eft, and of the few
remaining, between five and six
hundred souls have passed to their
final account. Nearly Is per cent.
of the remaining population have died
within the short space of thirty-four
days, and the end is not yet, and where it
will stop God above only knows. Many
who were considered entirely well, and
had been on the streets for eight or ten
days, have suddenly taken a relapse and
died within few hours, So you see it is
impossible to tell when one is safe and
out of danger Many, many immediate
friends have been buried before | have
heard they were sick. / know of whole
families that have been swept away in the
short space of one week, and not child
left to bear the name. s5
There are not actually we'll ones enough
left to nurse the sick and bury the dead,
notwithstanding New Orleans has done
all she could in sending us nurses and
physicians. Their physicians have met
with no better success than our own. The
disease is of a different type from what
they have had in New Orleans.
At the present timeli is estimated that
there are between 800 and 900 down with
the disease. So far, over twenty-five per
cent. of those who have taken the disease
have died, and many who left here have
died in the country. The exact number
of deaths, or who they WERE will never
be known, for, soon after the sexton was
taken down, they were buried promiscu-
ously, and, in many instances, no
record made of the interments. In many,
very MANY cases, the corpses have had to
lay on the ground for twelve or eighteen
hours, awaiting their turn for lntermcnt.
Now, as for business, that is one of the
things of the past. No one thinks of do
ing anything but the drug g-stores, three or
four little retail groceries, and one or two
bakeries. These constitute the business
of Shreveport, excepting the "Howard
Association" which (God bless them) have
done yeoman's service; and as for the out
side world, had they not responded so no
blv to our relief, Heaven only know
whether there would have been one left to
tell our woes.
AS for the citizens of Shreveport, do
not know, at this time, one solitary soul
that has not gone forth to battle with the
enemy and render every assistance in his
power to alleviate the sufferings of the
sick and distressed, watch over the sick
and dying, wash, dress, and bury the dead.
| know of no one who has shirked duty,
but all have come forward, fearless of the
result, as if of one family-and regret
to say, very many sacrificed their lives,
martyrs to the cause.-Shreoepot Cor. st.
Louis Globe.