The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1873-09-18
YELLOW FEVER IN SHREVEPORT.

The yellow fever is raging in Shreve
port, Louisiana, terribly, and there il
possibility of the dread disease
spreading. Shreveport is a town o
about 4 900.
SHREVEPORT, Sept. 15.-The feyel
is still raging. The weather is unfa,
vorable. Sixty per cent. OF those at
tackled die. There is great suffering in
all classes of society for want of nurs.
es, The surviving citizens are doing
ali in their power to check the disease
The interments yesterday were twen-
ty-twO. There were many deaths last
night. The Howard Association is
greatly I'm need of assistance. The
Southern telegram, newspaper, has
suspended. the Times still makes its
appearance. Geo. J. Rae, manager OF
the Western Union Telegraph Office
here died to-day.
NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 15.-New Or
leans is quarantined in every direc-
ton, and commerce is for the moment
stagnsnt. The quarantine is tho re-
suit of & panic on account of the
Shreveport affiiction.
MEMPHIs, Sept. l5.-The widest ru-
mors prevailed to-day ia regard TO
yellow fever, and the trains leaving
on the various roads were crowded
with persons fleeing from the scourge.
Ii is difficult to obtain reliable data in
regard to the spread of the disease, but
il is quite certain that it made its ap-
pearance in various portions of the
city, and Is no longer confined to
Pinch. The Board of Health tonight
has returns from only two undertak-
ers who report twelve interments here
from yellow fever.
The following dispatch was received
tonight from the Superintendent of
the telegraph OF Arkansas and Texas,
dated Little Rock. to-night: To
Agsnt OF Associated Press-Latest adj
vices from Shreveport represent the
yellow fever unabated, and the dis
tress in that city indescribabIe. OF
sixsuen in our telegraph Office five
have taken the fever, and two are al
ready dead. Intermenfs average 80
or 40 daily in q population of perhaps
not over 1000. The physicians and
nurses are worked down. People of
the country should know these terrible
facts and send aid TO this suffering
city. LORD c. BAKER,
superintendent.
New YoRK, Sept. 15.-The Super
intendent Of the Western Union Tel
egraph Company at New Orleans tel
egraphs the company here under date
Of to-day, as follows:
f.sfanrra nh fr-n >, f.a-- rarur,o,-
be made with Shreveport, as Man
ager Rae is dying, and the operator
who went from here has no money for
that purpose. I have transferred
money, however, through a banking
house, without cost. and can transfer
whatever may offer, unless the bank
ing house at Shreveport should be
closed by sickness. The last messen-
ger at Shreveport laid down sick this
No report of the aff1iction
can possibly exaggerate the actual con-
dition Of the town"
rFLEGRAPHIc MEASURES FOR THE
RELIEF OF SHREVEPORT.
WASHINGTON, Sept. I5.-President
Orion, Of the Western Union Tele-
Sfapu OOtHpouyy noo Acc1CO Tue lOl-
lowing order, addressed to Superin-
tendents 81 the company throughout
the country:
Instruct all managers to send free
messages relating to the relief of the
OF Shreveport, and at the re-
guest OF the Governor or United
States Senators of Louisiana, direct
Of money to be received
and transferred by telegraph without
charge"
By this action on the part of the
telegraph company money can be
forwarded instantly to the sufferers
by course OF the mails it
would take ten days 70 get there. bv
which time the needy might be psst |
relief. Any one feeling Inclined TO
something to the aid Of the
stricken community of Shreveport, |
can send it without expense by pay.
ing IL in at any Western Union Tel |
egraph station. Contributions are al !
ready going forward from this point.