Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1873-08-08
THE CHOLERA PATH TO WARDS
VIRG INA

The cholera seems to De steadily steering
It's way towards Southwestern Virginia, and
ease has already appeared % me South
si;e, that OF Miss Lark who died at Roam
eke in Charlotte county, last week. six
hours after being attacked In Bristol, ON
toe Virgins line there was panic last
Friday. created BY the report that the d.
sease had appeared there. A letter from
that town says:
From Jonesboro the news is awful
There are only some seventy-Gve persons.
all told, in tie place, aud one third of these
are down with the cholera. Since Friday
there have been sixteen deeths Yesterday
oue entire family died father, mother and
three daughters Three out of -four phvsi-
clans are down with the disease. DR.. Lee
ver still not attacked DR. Campbell, of
Knoxville, came to his assistance yesterday
and hopes are entertained that the terrible
plague will soon abate. There have been
two or three cases at johnson City, six
!, miles this side of Jone4boro The people
cent mountaius-some Came to this place.
The Knox vile Press Of the I'd inst,
gives the following account of the ravages
of the epidemic
Our information from the epidemic at
Jonesboro continues gloomy There seems
to be no cessation 10 its raw ges and as it
will be seen further on. the number of deaths
indicates a fearful rate of ma tally in the
present depopulated state of the town. Rev.
! P D Cowan, who came to this city from
there, on Wednesday night urged upon
those OF our citizens whom he met, the Le-
ressity for aid both in help 10 take care Of
the sick and in money TO providt food for
| the living and the burial OF the dead. Of.
fers OF money we're made to him aud pre-
scriptcn clerk, Gus Knab,, son Of our well
known fellow-citizep, volunteered his sergi-
ces Young Knabe went up oa the noon
| train
A litter was also received from Gen. A.
E. jackson, addressed to Mayor Rule, call.
ing for aid, and we are informed shat Mr..
Chas DAVIS, at the Knoxville BaDk, will
receive and forward any amounts 'hat may
be handed to him by our citizens Conduc
| tor Smith, who was taken sick while on his
train, on Wednesday, went on to Bristol to
his home and was reported last evening to
be doing we'll Two cases are reported at
Mos~y Greek, but we have not been able to
verify the report
At Rogersville Junction, yesterday after
noon, q man named Thomas Evans lay on
the platform, suffering from violent attack
of the disease, with DO one to care for him.
| He is said to live three miles FROM the June
ton, and to have lost daughter last week
from the cholera. By the noon train yes
terday, we learn. thar two negroes died at
Joneshoro, Oh Wednesday night. By the
| l o'clock train, last nj ht, We learned that
three other deaths had occurred during the
day-Hattie Reese and Minute Floyd
whites, and Fanny Jobe, a colored woman,
while there bad been seven new cases. Three
Of the sick were not expected to live through
the night. The death OF Minnie Floyd
leaves only one OF she family alive there,
and her death was looked for at any mo-
ment, Up to 6 O'clock, p M, yesterday
there have been eighteen deaths since the
disease first appeared in Jonesboro.