Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1878-10-26
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A Fragment Sron Dr.. Reslly's Yellow
Fever Narrative.

A Fragment . Dr.. ResiIy's Yellow
Fever Narrative.
Correspondence Chicago Times.
Greenviile, whore " tied up II noon Of
the 9Th, y one Of the prettiest little town.
on the Mississippi between Vicksburg and
Memphis. Back from the business portion
VI The the wide residence streets are
shaded with the characteristic southern
boskage. The blocks or squares contain
usually only four houses rarely nix, sur
rounded BY gardens. in which roses, cape
jas Zine, honeysuckle, Grape mystic. cypress
vine, and tecoma or trumPe.-6ower are still
10 bloom. The solemn stiffness Of its de-
serted streets is here and there sharply &C.
cented by the swift passage Of q Doctors
buggy. This rapid driving Of the doctors
already noticed in Memphis, soon ceases to
attract attention. But, at first, it had an
appalling Significance. Little effort Of the
Imagination was r. quired to convert them
IN o isolated guns OF . battery hastily sum-
moned from point to point Of the ield Of
battle where the fight waged most deadly
ano their services were most urgently need
ed.
Driving through the town with . local
physician, his comments ran thus: "ln that
|VuoS Vue CuAAuS . yeAte olus ~ Tue 6ITSAvoE
Of = family of ten" This il Mr. Eillo,ts
house. Mrs. Weatherbee, his daughter, is
dying. Her husband died last Monday
week. Her daughter died about two week.
before. Her si,ter aud brother in.law and
their children, and her father and mothe,
have all died since Sept. IL. Mr.. Mitchell
now in Washington, the wife of Car
Schurz' private .ecre,ary, /. the only one O
three generations who we're alive aud we'll 81
days ago" "In that block there were twenty
two cases and fifteen deaths. Just around
the corner three died out Of one house. and
seven more next door. There (poin,inu
with his whip) was a whole family of five
those three houses there we're fifteen deaths
big and little, inside Of two weeks. Ih'
Perry brothers lived here in these two ad
wife, and three children are dead, and Jim
The other brother, died, and his wife an,
Two children. He lett TWO little ones tina
the Towards have taken charge Of. In tn
block where the Perrys lived there hav
been twenty seven deaths since s~eptembe
5" The horrible monotony ceases 10 hav
any significance. l beg my companion, ia
Gods sake, to stop-to talk of some,hin
by on a mule. ask him who that is. "Ot
chats Fleischer; keeps a store down there
Buried his boy, Adolphe, last week. He
a Jew. Most all Of EN- skipped out earl,
About forty Of 'em stayed aud there's thirty
eight Of 'em up there in the Hebrew GENE
terry"
The houses We pass are, with rare exec,
ton, closed and deserted. Tall grass an
weeds overtop fence and wall, run riot in ii
gravel-walks, choke out shrub and howe
Here and there bedding and clothing huu
on fence aud line. doors and windows open,
wide, and smoking tar-barrel and linn
.trewed grounds tell where the yellow fer
has bllle.ed himself and, departing, left b
hind some sorrowing and solitary eurviv
on the desolated hearth.