Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-09-17
The Yellow Fever Scourge.

The reports from SnreVepOrC are mOSl neaIl-
rcuding. One telegraph operator fled at the
approach of the pc~tlIence and probably saved
his life two remained and died another
came and went home sick, and one still holds
out.
Nearly all who were able to leave town
have !ett but there are fully SIX hundred cases
of fever there now, and the number OF people
who are we'll is not sufficient to take care of
the sick. The fever is unusually fatal, and 1t
is believed by many to be the Mexican vomlto,
aud to have been introduced by employees of
the transatlantic Circus IL attacked persons
who had the yellow fever 10 Shreveport 10 1867.
Contributions are coming in slowly from all
parts of the country. Physicians and nurses
are badly needed. The condition of the town
is simply heartrendiug, and the suffering is
something fearful to contemplate.
WASHINGTON, Sept Ex-senator West to-
day received the following dispatch from the
Mayor of Shreveport : THE sickness Is on
the increase. Do all you can for us. There IS
no money in the city treasury. The poor are
on our hands, and for lack of funds We lind
difficulty in buryiDg them.
MEMPHIS, Sept l6-There is 40 abatement
in the yellow fever, though its ravages are al
most exclusively confined to the northwestern
portion of the city, adjacent to the mouth OF
W oft river, where it first appeared. 1t is lm-
possible to obtain reliable data 10 regard to the
mortality but it is evepdent there is 10 de-
crease in the death rate The city authorities
TO-DAY took the first step toward meeting the
exigencies of the occasion. The whole street
force was out to work distributing coal tar and
burning it in the infected quarter, while the
citizens met and organized a Howard Assocla-
ton, which will open an office tomorrow to
furnish nurses and relief to all who apply.
Physicians are advising all that can to leave
the city, aud the trains in all directions are
crowded.
The widest reports are circulated through
out the country IN regard to the number dying
but it is safe to say that since the disease APP
peared the number Of deaths from all causes
has not reached twenty in any day, and since
the flight of the horror-strickeD cues there IS
less excitement than during the prevalence of
cholera.
LITTLE Rock, Sept. l6.-The yellow fever
is reported at Fulton, the terminus Of the
Cairo and Fulton railroad; also at several
smaller towns ia northern Louisiana.
Ten circus men died with the fever at Yer
non, La, Oh Wednesday. There is no trace
of the fever here yet though fears are enter
tanned that it will reach here.
CINCINNATI, Sept. l6-Private subscrip-
tons are being literally made for the relief of
the Shreveport sufferers.
William Bernard an old operator in the
Cincinnati office of the Western Union Trle-
graph Company, to-day volunteered for duty
at Shreveport, and leaves for that point TO-
night.
PHILADELPHIA Sept l6.-A meeting of
merchants for the raising Of a fund for the
Shreveport sufferers has been called for to-mor-
row. A letter announces that nothing but
morey is needed 1t will be received by the
New Orleans Howard Association.
NEW ORLEANS, Sept l6.-The Howard A.
ISOLATION of New Orleans have so far sent thir-
ty-three nurses, five physicians and three
apoc lecaries to Shreveport. The last batch
left here this evening A private dispatch
from Shreveport reports, the death .,5of heV;
Father Quemesias, and the serious illness of
Rev. Father Pierre. There arc now telegraph
GENERATORS in Shreveport