New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-09-30
BY TELEGRAPH.
YELLOW FEVER.

Decrease OF Deaths ut shreveport-Inter
menfs on sunday and Monday-Th'
Population FrightfaIly Thinned Out
| Funerals-The Howards Open an Or
phan Asylum-They Feed TwO.third.
| of she POpulatiOn-The Disease Inn,
ported from Cubn-Appeal Of the How.
| ard Association for Aid.
| SHREVEPORT. September 2S.-B. Baker
aged . months: +. L. Calhoun, 10 years
j. Gar:tv. -: J. S. Ashton, 3i Hartwell
| Prescott. II: H. &. Coyle. 30: T. Ii. Garrett,
| a: Max Werner. 10: Miss Ellen Burleigh,
| l6; w. II. Cooper. "a; Ellen Brent, colored,
| :; Damon Williams. 60; James Horner, age
| not given; Becky Douglas. 23 years; Miner.
va Lee. 35.
SHREVEPORT, September 19.-The follow.
| ing is the list of interments in the city ceme-
teries for the twenty four hours ending at 6
2. M. today, as reported to the Howard
Association:
William Tagsart, aged 30 years; H. Schil-
ling, 90; Samuel Schinn, 3S; Emmett Rankin,
age no. stated; James Arnold, Is; James
Moseley. colored. %; Richard Thomas, age
not stated; child aged days.
Within the last four days several OF the
most prominent and useful citizens of
Shreveport have fallen victims to the
epidemic. The population is being feartully
thinned out by sickness and death.
We no longer have funerals. The hearses,
| followed by one or two carriages, dash
through the streets like section of artil-
lery in battle seeking position. A few
more are drummed up, the coffins showed in
the hearses, and driven rapidly to the
cemetery. This is the case even with the
mos: prominent citizens.
The Howards have opened an orphan
asylum. and are feeding about two-thirds
of the resident population.
There are fewer deaths and aew cases,
because there are fewer people.
The physicians appointed committee
last week to investigate the origin of the
epidemic, and evidence has already been
traced showing, beyond question, that the
fever was imported here from Cuba. Drs.
Chopin. Bruins and Davidson, here from
New Orleans. are fully satisfied on this
point.
The Shreveport. Times of tomorrow
morning will contain the following ap-
peal which the Howard Association
earnestly request the press of the country
to publish:
Tho yellow fever epidemic, that has al
ready swept away more than 400 of this
community, is still raging with unabated
fury i'll our midst. We have now at least
200 sick, of all ages. sex. color and nation
alities all of whom, from the peculiar char
acter of the disease. require constant and
skilitul nursing. In addition to this, there
are hundreds of people left without cent
and without employment. Among these
are many women and little children. All of
them must for the present be provided for
and fed BY the Howard Association, for
there is no work to do and no money to be
had. The destltutlOn in our midst Is aa
hear:.rending as the disease, and deaths
are fearful. The drain upon the funds of
the association has thus been enormous,
and the liberal aid sent us by our sister
cities is nearly exhausted. Under these
painful circumstances we are forced to
make this general appeal to the coun-
try for additional aid. We have
people among us suffering, in want
and dying from all sections OF the
Union. and from al! nations, and
We feel that the great public heart will
respond to this appeal, extorted by the most
dire necessity. Our own resources are
nearly exhausted. The well are broken
down: the poor are threatened with actual
starvation: the sick and dying are about to
be deprived of the commonest comforts
humanity can offer them. We appeal not
to our fellow cOuntrymen, but to our fellow
men Tor aid.
l.. K. SIMMONS.
President Howard Association.
d. ?. MARTIN.
wee President Howard ASSOCIATION.
d. p. FENNER. M. d.
THOMAS j. ALLEN. NJ. D.
j. S. CATLIFF. NJ. d.
MICKINSON DALZELL, y. D.
GEORGE A. PIKE.
Deaths at Memphis.
MEMPHIS. September .S.--Twentv-two
yellow fever interments yesterday. Total
for the week 90, against l23 the week pre-.
ViOus.
MEMPHIS. September c9.-Six:een yellow
fever interments yesterday.
Death of Colonel Charles J. BiddIe.
Colonel Charles j. Biddle, one of the pro-
prietors of the .ige. in this city. died to-day.
after a bIief illness. He served in the
Mexican war as major. and as colonel of
reserve regiment in the late
war; also represented the second Pennsyl.
van!a d.stric. IN Congress.
Fatal Cases in Cairo.
CAIRO, ILL.,, September .S.-Consiierabie
aneasiness is manifested at the prevalence
in this city of what has hiterto been de.
nominated congestive form of bilious
fever. but which some physicians now
pronounce yellow fever, i.odited by the
Northern climate. O lly six or eight fatal
cases have occurred, and these are confined
to those whose business kept them on or
near the river. There is more sickness
here than tn =; city has experienced for
years. and in a majority of cases the
Of yellow fever in mild form.