Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-10-24
Suffering Shreveport.

The fever is not abating any as yet, but
for the material it has TO work on, it is as
! bad or worse than it has been yet. 1t is
now among the negroes, and working out
in the suburbs of the city, and is in equally
as malignant form as at first, except
with the blacks it is not so fatal The
interments yesterday, were nineteen, three
of which were negroes.
The distress is still perfectly terrible,
not only with the poorer classes, but with
many who have plenty of property, or
! could give any kind of security; but they
cannot borrow money at any sacrifice
| ii is not here, and, even if it was, the pro-
! visions are not here to purchase. We are
| closely quarantined from every point of
the compass, and, in consequence of that,
and fear of the disease, no country people
come to town. The result is, you cannot
| get chicken, eggs, butter, or anything
from the country that the convalCscing
| need. The mutton is exhausted, and
nothing but poor beef, and very little of
that, is in market. OF course all Texan
beeves have been turned from this
market, and no one will drive here as
long as the epidemic lasts All that the
Howard Association" receive is distri-
buted at once among the poor and desti.
tute.
Every business-house in the city is clos.
ed, and the proprietors are either in their
graves OF gone to the country. Among
! the leading firms that have died are
Mundy s. Collins, Hoss 81 Noel, Souther-
land & Page, p. F. L. Frank, L. Beer,
Dreyfuse Brothers, Sale & Murphy, II. l..
Lee q Co, and many others that cannot
now call to mind. These are whole firms
that have been swept away. Then there
| ~ NUl nr txun of 10
firm have died. There is hardly a bust
ness house in the whole city that has not
lost some member of the firm or clerks.
Oh! | am satisfied there never was such
an epidemic before known on the Ameri-
can Continent. 'Twould be worse than
futile to even attempt to describe the terri.
BILE suffering and distress of this poor
afflicted community When the disease
was first proclaimed "yellow fever" by
the physicians, every one who could get
away from the city, by any and every
possible means, left, and of the few
remaining, between five and six
hundred souls have passed to theiI
final account. Nearly 10 per cent
of the remaining population have died
within the short space of thirty-fouI
days, and the end is not yet, and where il
will stop God above only knows. Many
|
had been on the streets for eight or ten
days, have suddenly taken a relapse and
died within few hours SO you see it is
impossible to tell when one is safe and
out of danger. Many, many immediate
friends have been buried before | have
heard they were sick. | know of whole
families that have been swept away in the
short space of one week, and not child
left to bear the name.
There are not actually well ones enough
left to nurse the sick and bury the dead
notwithstanding New Orleans has done
all she could in sending US nurses anC
physicians. Their physicians have me
with no better success than our own. Tht
disease is ofa different type from wha
they have had in New Orleans.
At the present time it is estimated tha
there are between 800 and 900 down will
the disease. So far, over twenty five pei
cent. of those who have taken the diseas,
have died, and many who left here have
died in the country. The exact number
of deaths, or who they were, will neve
be known, for, soon after the sexton wa.
taken down, they were buried promiscu
ouSly, and, in many instances, nj
record made of the interments. In many
very man cases, the corpses have had t
lay on the ground for twelve or eighteeI
hours, awaiting their turn for interment
Now as for business, that is one of tn,
things of the past. No one thinks of do
ing anything but the drug-stores, three o.
four little retail groceries, and one or twt
bakeries. These constitute the business
Of Shreveport, excepting the "HowarC
Association, which God bless them) hav,
done yeoman's service; and as for the out
side world, had they not responded so no
blv to our relief, Heaven only know
whether there would have been one left +,
tell our woes.
AS for the citizens of Shreveport, d.
not know, at this time, one solitary sou
that has not gone forth to battle with tn,
enemy and render every assistance in hi
power to alleviate the sufferings of tn
sick and distressed, watch over the sicl
and dying, wash, dress, and bury the dead
| know of no one who has shirked duty
but all have come forward fearless of til
result, as if of one family-and l regre
to say, very many sacrificed thei1 lives
martyrs to the cause,-ShreUeport Cor 81
Louis Globe,