The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-11-14
rae YELLOW FEVER.


city on the 10th of August last.
from New Orleans, has been laid
up at Cairo some time past. AT
ter the death of her commander,
c. B. Coll, she became floating
pest house, and she will doubtless
remain idle until she Is thorough
ly deodorized by good hard
freeze. 1t is now a settled and
indisputable fact that the Bee
landed on Sunday morning, the
10th of August last, alongside of
the Mary Boyd, at the foot of
Market street, lay there several
hours to receive her meat and 9th
er supplies, and receive medical
attention for her captain. After
putting OFF two sick men, she
pushed ON up the river the same
afternoon. The next night Capt.
Coll died, near Osceola, ninety
miles above here. His remains
were brought back by the down
ward bound steamer Future City,
commanded by Captain -Cephus
Coils brother William, and his
body shipped through to st. Louis
the following Tuesday evening,
by express. One of the men who
worked his passage up on the
deck of the Bee, was led across
the bow of the Mary Boyd in a
very sick and PROSTATE condition.
After sitting in front of the cab
ms in the "Hollow" he was taken
indoors to die the next day.
The other man was W. w. Davis,
an-elderly person, who was trying
to make his way to Center Star,
Lauderdale county, North Alaba-
ma, where his son, r. II. Davis,
resides. He was in pitiable
condition, and the captain is said
to have handed him five dollars as
he went ashore. That night he
slept at the Adams street station
house, and on Monday morning he
died there, but neither his or
Capt. Coils body spread the in
lection. The disease started from
the poor fellow who died in Hap
py Hollow, and the first to die af-
ter him was young man that
aided the sick mariner. Then
Pete Riley, drayman, died, and
afterwards one or two persons
died daily for a couple of weeks,
when the sickness gradually in
creased until it carried of two or
more daily. About the end of
August it appeared on the top ofthe
bluff, carrying off Capt. John L.
Shirley, on the 9Th of September,
in the naval commandments resi-
dence on Promenade street, after
which Mrs. Shirley died; then two
relatives who came from Helena
sickened and died at the latter
place, and after this the saffron
hued sickness spread rapidly over
the northern part of the city, until
now, after nearly three months of
pestilence, we have to record the
loss Of nearly 1900 of our people
by the fell destroyer. Surely the
towboat Bee was the innocent
agent of a terrible fatality among
us. It has been stated on good
authority that Capt. Coll landed
at Helena as he came up, and re-
ceived medical attention there.
After his death a number Of the
boats crew suffered, and several
deaths occurred on board. The
craft for some time was nothing
more nor less than q floating hos
pital and pest house, as before
stated. She came here from New
Orleans, and not from Shreveport,
The vessel was never at the last
named port.-Memphis Avalanche.
Proposed Wholesale Irish Emigration.
The Liverpool papers mention
that Mr.. P. O'Leary, who had just
returned from Ireland, whittier he
was delegated on a tour of inspec-
ton by the English agricultural
laborers's union, had received a
letter from Mr.. p. j. johnson, the
honorary secretary of the Irish
agricultural laborers' union, in
which the writer says: cat our
monthly meeting it was resolved
that in the event of the govern
ment failing to introduce a COM
prehensive measure dealing with
the waste lands of Ireland, ! be
empowered to proceede to Amer
lea and have an interview with the
authorities there, with the object
of our initiating an emigration en-
m&sse to the Western and Pacific
states. OF course I feel deeply
that it should be necessary for US
to leave our native land; but what
could I do? All faith here is lost
in political platitudes, and little
left in our public men. I strug
gled hard, but the Irish laborer
will not remain a slave by the
Shannon while there is a chance
of his becoming a freeman in q
peoples land. / had to accept the
Office, but consoled that I am to
have the assistance of one whose
services / shall not soon forget.
You were chosen to accompany
me. Will you? Yes, l know you
will give your services to remove
our brothers from slavery. 1 have
had many conversations with
members of the constabulary.
Do you think the American gov
eminent would refuse them as
settlers with Us in the United
States? On receipt of your letter
I shall go to work to mature our
scheme. If we are denied a home
in Ireland. we can build uD q ma
ton in America" The propo-
sal of the Irish Union has been ac-
cepted by Mr.. O'Leary.
The ANrI-BALD HEADED HAT.