The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-09-17
The Plague-Stricken City.
Ine PeStiience Still Raging at
Shreveport.

SHREVEPORT, Sept. 15.-The yellow fever is
gu raging, the weather heing unfavorable
oiAty per cent, of those attacked die There is
great suffering in all classes Of society for want
~ ~ nursing The surviving citizens are doing
al IN their power to check the disease There
w ~ many interments latt night. The Howard
;nnsssociatlon is greatly in need of assistance
1ne southern Telegram (newspaper) has sus-
pended The Times still make its appearance
TTe"rSe kea, manager of the Western Union
telegraph here, died to-day.
Ihe Fever Abaiing for Want of Subjects.
:, SHREVEPORT, Sept 16.-It is supposed that
e,e number OF new cases of yellow fever is
aoatng for want of subjects There were
is cool
p NEW YORK. Sept. 16-A despatch from
resident Orion of the telegraph company,
Sizes Sues mat operator Burnham, who went to
shreveport was taken sick and returned to Me-
rlden, where he now lies ill., Operator Davis
went to Shreveport from New Orleans and is
Inere alone. both manager Rea and operator
sS having died and other operators fled.
ihere are 500 cases Of fever there now, and
slere are not enough well people TO care for the
SICK SICK. The fever is unusually fatal. 1t is be-
iieved to be the Mexicab vomito introduced by
1s circus. Nurses and physicians are needed,
hne condition of the place is heart rending.
NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 16.-The Western
Onloh Telegraph Company has made arrange
tnls city who have branch at Shreveport, T.,
:. free of charge all monies received for
Tue shreveport sufferers. In response to
telegram from Philadelphia as to the nature of
t tae ASSISTANCE desired the telegraph Snperin-
oeuueut at New Orleans says: "Nothino but
money is needed. Apothecaries. physicians,
ana above all nurses, are the chief wants, and
Gnese are being supplied by the New Orleans
howard Association, who rely upon contribu-
tions here and elsewhere" The President of
the Association tn Sbrayppnrt To fin I,
supply of muses.. The Association has sent
81 nurses. five physicians and three apotheca-
ries to Shreveport.
A private despatch from Shreveport reports
the death OF Rev. Father Qnenerais, and the
serious illness of Rev. Father Pierre There
are now telegraph operators ia Shreveport
Tae Fever in Memphis.
MEMPHIS Sept. 16-There is no abatement
of yellow fever. though its ravages are almost
exclusively confined TO the north. western por-
ton OF the city adjacent TO the mouth of the
Wolf river, where it first appeared 1t is i'm
possible to obtain rel able data in regard ed to
the mortality, but it is evident there is no de-
crease in the death rate. The city authorities
to-day took the first step towards meeting the
exgencies of the occasion. The whole street
force is being put to work distributing coal tar
and burning it in the infected quarter
The white citizens met and organized a How
ard Association. The Association will open an
office Tomorrow to be prepared to furnish
nurses and relief to all who apply. Physicians
are advising all that can to leave The city and
the traits in all directions are crowded The
number of deaths from all causes has not
reached twenty on any day, aud since the
flight of the horror stricken ones there is less
excitement than during the prevalence of the
cholera.
Spread of the Fever.
LITTLE Rock, Sept. 16-Ths yellow fever is
reported at FultoG, the terminus of the Cairo
md Ill n fla,
towns in northern Louisiana. Ten circus men
died with the fever at Vernon, La "Wednesday
There is no trace of the fever here yet, though
fears are entertained that twill reach here