The new daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1872-1873, 1873-03-05
OH 0au 1ailp appeal.
THE .SPo-TED FEVER, PANIC

The quickly fatal disease which
has lately made its appearance III
Tehama county, California, and
which. for want of something more
startling and explicit in the way %
M epithet, has been called nc
S,,o.,,,l Fever" seems. bv latest ac-
e,nnts to be Il disorder some degrees
less dreadful than at first 1t was re-
ported to be, but yet of asufhclently
rElent and fatal type to be a cause
Of much alarm. Amongst the worst
xpnorts that have reached us con-
eer,,ing the same is contained in the
following. which is from the Tehama
Independent of March 1st:
Within the last five days some twelve
ar fifteen deaths have occurred on Deer
and Pine creeks in this county, the major
ma of the victims beirg children. The
x,hxsicians of Tehana pronounce II
pneumonia and spotted fever comoinea.
hath occurs in almost every case within
kx,s,.y-four hours after person becomes
afflicted with the disease. A dispatch
mas received here on Thursday last oy
r. Il. Lyon, to c. W. Fickert, under-
kaker Of this place, from Harvey
Simpson, Tehama. which we puphsh
rs,tr,.im. as follows:
VIVA. Tehama County, Feb. 70.
H.ssrs. Hycey Il Simpson: Please
,za,d Ms velvet trimmings for about half
a ,fazen cotfins, and screws and handles
ss same. and all the extra fixtures that
n needed on collins. also one dozen
Hisits cotton gloves; send down oy eA-
y.pss in the morning: II you nave 'leih
not. telegraph, to Red Bluff for same, so
a., 20 lseve them in the morning we
are having the hardest time here on the
creek among the young folks, ana even
among older ones, that ever was Known
think there will be three or tour Ole To-
night. Frank Peake is about gone
may live till morning Grundy Glass
s,s.k cannot iivetil NJ orning. and several
more Will not live longer than twenty
f,,r ho.,rs. Buried two to-day. Every
ssotv is leaving the crack on account OF
,ii;s epidemic McLaren stayed with
Pa.ka last night and says there are no
hopes OF his recovery. Doctors have
gwen them all up on the Greek. lie
s,re and send what we have ordered, II
10 be had Theirs are many on the
Greek who have no means d. cannot
get co.fins made here, amt 80 !oinbei
procurable. Respectfully,
DIcUs & i;IlAaEN.
In the subjoine,!, viii se find
IN Yesterdays dispatc would
seem to be a more ration and less
alarming statement of the effects and
probable nature of the disorder:
SACRAMENTO, March B.
A gentleman who arrived here to-day
from Vina Station, gives the following
Information in regard to the late severe
aud fatal epidemic oa Deer Creek and
vicinity: He says OF the thirteen deaths
which have occurred from sickness, the
majority are children under II years OF
age; that only one person % years Old
has died of the disease. Medical prac-
.itionars say it is bilious pneumonia OF
a consestive type-the livet, lungs AMI
brain being in a state OF congestion:
that it is confined strictly to the locality
where it first made 1t appearance, and
tina: there is no dam I of its spreading.
Residents OF that vicinity are becoming
less fearful Of the disease, which they
do not now recognize as All epidemic.
This probably comes nearer an
exact statement of the case. 1t
would seem to be evident that there
nre certain malarious influences of
m exceedingly malignant type and
local nature, underlying this fearful
malady. Spotted Fever" is not
IN unusual term for virulent. fatal
disorders of mysterious sort; and
Shat term comes as near expressing
IN idea of the presence of deadly
plague as anything else. Some ap-
prehensions which have been excited
hereabout by these sudden deaths in
California may we'll be allayed in
view of the latter report given above.