Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-09-16
Bronze John.


Der of deaths from yellow fever up to the
hour Of going to press as eight, and from
that time up to the hour of going to press
to-day the total number of orders for
burial cases at the several undertaking
establishments number eighteen, and of
that number twelve died from the pre-
vailing fever. We append the names
and residence Of each, as returned to the
undertakers:
Hoist 4 Bro, three-two children from
teething and maiden lady.
Flaherty, Marley & Sullivan, three
James H. Cullen, yellow fever; Willis
Thomas (colored), congestive chills; me-
gro child, name aud disease unknown.
John Walsh, ten-Michael Spellman,
Exchange and Front streets, yellow
fever; MaryAnn Beattie, Front, between
Poplar and Washington, yellow fever;
Maggie Joyce, No. l26 Front street,
yellow fever; VIM. Turner, corner Of
Winchester and Front streets, yellow
fever; Pat Connory, foot of Exchange
street, yellow fever; Mrs. Meehan, No.
SO Front street, corner of Winchester,
yellow fever; Mary Stanley, corner of
Winchester and Front streets, yellow
fever, and her mother down with the
same Winneford Spore, wife of Dan
Spore the fisherman, died on aatboat
at the mouth of Wolf river, yellow fever
Had been nursing the sick in the neigh
borhood for several days)i - Powers,
corner of Market street and the limit of
Happy Hollow, yellow fever; Catherine
Burns, Exchange and Front streets, yell
low fever.
Cooney & Co.-Henry Lewis, Causey
street, malarial fever; child two months
old. cause not stated.
As stated above, this makes the total
mortality from the fever twelve, as GER
titled to by the attending physicians;
and this list we shall continue to pub
lish from day to day, giving the facts,
regardless of the opinions expressed by
few physicians that the publication
will injure the interests of the city; they
meant their own doubtless.
Several of the undertakers are so busily
engaged in burying the dead that they
cannot make daily reports to the Secre-
tary of the Board of Health, and for that
reason the LEDGER yesterday deemed it
best to send a reporter to each to obtain
a correct statement, which we shall pre-
sent daily to our readers.
Quite number of people left the city
to-day on the different railroads, but the
scare or panic has dwindled down to
almost nothing, and to certain extent
business is carried on in all branches of
trade as usual. The fever is yet confined
principally to the locality in which it
first appeared, and but few scattering
cases are reported in other sec
tons. We heard to day OF one
case being removed from Pinch
to Shelby street, and would suggest that
such course be discontinued at once,
or we will be compelled to give the name
of the advising physician. There are
thousands of rumors in circulation here
and elsewhere as to the mortality, which
are fearfully exaggerated, and no reli-
ance should be placed upon them. Yes
terday gentleman from this city stated
at Humboldt that the deaths were from
seventy.6ve to a hundred daily, and no
doubt that was magnifed by the next
narrator to three or four hundred. This
is only one of the ludicrous stories told,
and will be taken by all in or out of the
city with the usual grain of allowance.
1t is reported to-day also that several
physicians who have been working night
and day with the sick are down with If,
but we can trace the rumor to no au-
thentic source.