Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-10-03
Terrible Scenes of Want and Dis.
tress In North Memphis.
The Howard Association EBJOlaed by
an Absent Judge.
The WalthaII InnFmary 20 be
CLOSED (fl--What Next.
Aid and sympathy from Abroad-AbSon
tees Heard Prom.
SCENES or DISTRESS.

oShNES VI DlbIhEbNs
The unutterable woe and distress de-
picted upon every face that peers out Of
the lonely houses in Happy Hollow and
Pinch and appeals for sympathy and
help will never be known to the outside
world, or even TO our refugees scattered
over West Tennessee and half dozen
States waiting for two or three white
frosts. Our reporters have visited many
Of these precincts, where a silence reigns
more oppressive than the tomb itself.
Whole families have been stricken down,
aud the last taken vainly strive to wait
upon the first. One would not think that
the disease could much longer find food,
yet the death list steadily increases. The
people in that desolated locality cannot
get away If. they would. They are mostly
poor people, of the laboring class, who
depend upon their labor for their daily
bread All our appeals for some con.
cert of action and positive measures
from the city government have failed.
We have given fair reports of the death
rate as far as could be ascertained, but
until now have not withdrawn the
curtain which conceals so much Of
squalid misery and despair from
the public, but we intend to clear our
journalistic skirts, and have the people
to locate responsibilities where they
properly rest. The sufferers are some
times too ignorant to apply for help,
often too obscure to be readily discov-
cred. The Towards are few and over
worked, although an occasional volun-
teer comes up and offers to take kind
of bomb-proof position during Office
hours, but none to hunt up the sick and
dying. We propose to give few cases
Of misery and death, and to continue
them from day to day, that the world
may catch some idea of what is going
ON here, and in every instance we
are prepared to substantiate the facts.
CASE NUMBER ONE.
Last night Sister of Charity found
woman very low with the yellow fever.
Her feeble moan was the only response
that answered the voice of mercy. By
her side, on the same hard, narrow bed,
lay the contracted form of her dead hus-
band, who had died not long before OF
yellow fever. This in the only bedroom
and in the only bed in the humble little
shanty they had known as home. A
sickly light from a feeble lamp, placed
there perhaps by some timid neighbor,
struggled to throw its pale, sallow rays
over the ill-furnished apartment and in
the faces of the dead and dying. No
nurse or doctor or kind, courageous
neighbor was found there by the gentle
Sister. She procured a mattress some
where for the sick woman and caused
other comforts to be provided.
CASE NUMBER TWO
was in dingy, dilapidated old rookery
with a sickening odor as if from the
depths of charnel house. No one had
sought them out for days. Their neigh
bors had their own funerals and sick
ones to attend, and when found by an
angel Of mercy, the husband, all pinched
and shrivelled, with his last mortal
agony, lay dead, and by his side his wan
and hollow-eyed wife, not able to rise,
but holding to her parched-up bosom
wailing skeleton of an infant not yet
two hours old. These two cases, prop
erly authenticated, are enough for one
day. Many others might be described.
The heart sickens at the thought and we
turn TO the public to ask relief.
10. o. B.
The new cases are brother Frank and
family, dangerously i'll, AM another
member of brother Geugels family is
down. Brother Schneider is dying.
Pwenty.four cases are in charge. Male
and female nurses are wanted badly.
TIE HowARDs.
A dispatch was sent last night to New
Orleans, asking for aid. The following
was received in reply to-day;
NKw ORLEANs. Oct. ,.
We will despatch by rail tomorrow
evening as many nurses as can be Sc
cured. If we do not send the number
asked for they will follow the next day.
Command our services in any way. We
are ready TO serve you.
WV. S. PIKE,
Pres't Howard Association.
Salisbury sends a contribution through
Messrs. ]. H. SsnnOner and X. NJ.
Wright OF 1925 to the Towards, given
BIZ various citizens Of that place. La
Grange sends $4s.75 through G. A.
Preston, for the same good aud noble
cause.
Mr.. Ben S. Phelan, Of Memphis, now
in Chicago, sends $l25, collected IN
about an hour, he says, from the IRE IN
suranos agents Of that city for the How
ards. He Is sure they will give more u
called upon. He adds; l am sure Il
the Association makes an appeal Tor
help, Chicago viii respond at once.
Enoch Taylor telegrsphs from Chiefs
natl to James NJ. Carver, agent here;