Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-10-04
YELLOW FEVER.
The Situation in Memphis.
The Odd FeIlows cam ror Aid.

The Odd Fellows Call for Aid.
MEMPHIS, Oc., 2.-Twenty-one yellow
fever interments to-day. The Odd Fellows
are treating "a yellow fever patients, have
lost S. They have exhausted their supply of
funds and asa help from Odd Fellow lodges
throughout the country. st. Andrews
Society lso appeal to their brethren else
where for pecuniary aid in nursing the
sick; they have had several deaths. In re-
spouse to the appeal of the Citizens Execu-
tive Committee, contributions began coming
freely by telegraph orders to day.
At Montgomery, Ala.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. Sept. 2-One death
from yellow fever, and some rev cases
reported.
Special to the Louisville Courier-Journal.
MEMPHIS, Oct. 2.-Tbe warm weather
of last night and to-day has increased the
number OF new cases of yellow fever to an
alarming figure; and instead of the majority
being confined to the upper portion of the
city, as has heretofore been the case, they
are now scattered in all directions and IL
every part of the city.
In Pinch alone, at 4 o'clock this morning,
the number ofnew cases had been increased
w bWO AAbOlCO 0A0 oA0 IOAA OJlIOe-
pondent knows Of sixty cases in the south
ern part of the city, principally along the
bayou that passes through that portion
of the city. That msjority of these
cases must result fatally is without
question, for there are not physi-
clans enough to attend them, in the first
place, and nurses cannot be obtained for
even half. One undertaken to-day had
twenty-one funerals, another seventeen.
That alone will give your readers snidea of
the mortality. Quite number of the men,
bers OF the fire department ara down with
it, and some half dozen policemen are re-
ported sick, besides several who have died.
The citizens committee has asked assist
ance from the Memphis refugees in vain.
Not one dollar in money has been received
from them, and at this moment there ana
absent fully twenty-five thousand inhab-
itants, including ali the wealthy and aristo-
cratic, whose property and houses are left
to the charge Of employees and GER
wants, and they too are now fleeing. In
Pinch this evening, and on Front street es-
pecially, there are new or old cases in at
least every third house, and in Happy Hol-
low nobody remains but those that are
attending the sick. The Howard Associa-
ton is out of funds and but for the banks
and insurance companies donation of ff'
teen hundred dollars TO them to-day they
would have been compelled to dlsband and
discharge their nurses, as the city officials
confess, by their refusal to give them any ad-
ditional portion of the ten thousand dollars
appropriated, that they have no money in
the Treasury,
Total interments to-day were As, of which
20 we're yellow fever cases.
I.O. OF,
CAIRO, Ills, Oct. 3.-Grand Master
Brass, of the /. o. 0. f. Of Illinois, has is
sued call on the subordinate lodges of the
State for contributions in aid Of the SITTER
ing Odd Fellows in Shreveport and other
Southern cities.
In New York Han Dor.
NEW YORK, Oct. 3.-At the inspection
of the quarantine stations to-day by Gov.
Dix, it was stated By health officer Van
derpool that yellow fever had existed at the
lower quarantine station at all times from
the first of June to the first of October.
The total number Of deaths were IS. In
formation of the severity of the disease has
been withheld from the press to prevent
alarmists iDjuring the commerce Of the
port, the health officers considering that so
long as the disease is imported from foreign
ports, and kept in the lower bay, it is I'M
wise to needlessly alarm the public.
Jesuits and Army RatiOns for Shreve-
port.
NEW ORLEANS, Oct 9.-Revs. F7eerie
and Dufour two Catholic priests of the
Society of Jesus, left to-day for Shreveport.
Twenty female nurses left for Memphis this
evening, sent ny the Howard Association,
in charge of Mr. f. r. Southmayd. BY or
der of President Grant five thousand army
rations will be shipped to Shreveport to-
morrow. The Picayaae's special from
Shreveport ssys the interments to-day were
| 10, all but from yellow fever. Five were
children and two eolored. Aft. Saville, tel
egraph manager, who came here (Sbreve-
port) from Memphis few weeks since, is
dangerously ill.
IT appears from an impartial calculation
| that there must be about three millions oil
pilgrims in France at the date of this letter.
| One of the most remarkable of the numer
GUS pilgrimsges on foot at the present writ
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