Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-07-17
KNOXVILLE.
The Croakers Get mp a Little Panic
Rb0Ut Cholera.

aDout CnOAerA.
Panicky people had surfeit of news to
relate to gaping listeners, yesterday morning.
! The proportion of our own citizens who
| greediy swallow all sorts of tales, was in
creased on this occasion by numbers Ct
| people from the country, county magistrates
and others, called together by the adjourned
meeting of the County Court, and witnesses,
| and others in attendance on the United
States Court. The excite il snt was created
by rumors of sudden deaths and wide
| spreed sickness in certain part of the city
along First Creek, said rumors being added
to and exaggerated by almost every repeti-
ton. The facts as they were successfully
| ascertained are these: @
On Saturday night, Mrs. Woods died in
| the vicinity of the mouth of First Creek.
| She had been sick for some time, but the
| immediate cause Of death was fux. -
On Saturday night, at Y o'clock, Mrs.
| Harris, wife of The toll-gate keeper on the
Tazewel road, about two miles from the
city, died Of what her physician pronounced
| cholera.
Yesterday morning, Mrs. Lse died on
the corner of Main and State streets, after
a sickness of three months.
On Sunday afternoon, man living on
East High street, East Knoxville, was at
| tackled by choleraic symptoms. He re-
ceived proper attention and was doing well
| yesterday evening.
A FrenchwOman, living Oh Crozier street
was attacked Sunday night, but was doirg
well yesterday.
Two other cases, in the same neighbor-
| hood, had been Ill with cholera symptoms
HrrrC. fhran Haua brIT yir,rY
| yesterday evening.
a man named Johnson, living on CroZier
| street, below Clinch, was taken SILK on
Saturday morning, but attempted to pre-
scribe for himself and when a physician
was called 10 yesterday morning, he was in
a state ofcollapse. Every half hour during
| the day, SONS peripstetic news monger in
| formed us Of the death of the unfortunate
mau, but be lived TO 10:I5 O'Clock, last
night, when he expired.
| We heard of several other cases of slight
sickness along First Creek, but none of
them at all serious, and in every other part
| of the city, the general health Of the COM
munity is exec lent.
In this connection we would note theo-
| ry advanced By some to account for the
sickness prevailing in the valley through
| which First Creek RUGS. II will be remem-
| bered That several cases of cholera occurred
at Fountain Hesd-the spring in which
| First Creek takes its rise-during the past
| two weeks, six ofwhich proved fatal. The
| Mrs. Harris who oied at the toll gate, lived
in q small house built over mill race lead
! ing from this creek, two miles above
| town. Crozier street runs parallel
with and close to First Creek, on
| on the west side of it. On the east
side, in the same distance, there is
no street and but few scattering houses.
The theory is that the poison, or whatever
| it may be that creates the sickness, came
| down on the water Of the creek from Foun
| tain Head and spread It's miasma through
the valley; st he same time, old citizens in
form US that in 1854, when the cholera pre-
vailed here, Crozier street, then called
| Water, escaped the visit of the pestilence
entirely, while the high grounds on both
sides of it We: veritable slaughter grounds.
Whatever may be the actual facts, anum-
ber of the residents on that street conclud-
ed to move away from it, and did 80 during
| the day. Toward the evening, yesterday,
the excitement on the subject cslmed down,
and the people began to realize that they
were worse scared than hurt, and better
| feeling prevailad.-KRoTuilIe Press and
Herald, July 10.