The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-08-30
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GRENADA, Miss, August 24.-At nine
o'clock last night lights could be seen NOV
ing in tue fields adjoining this city. Upon
inquiry as to the cause it was asCeTtained
that this was the time when the living
buried the dead. The graveyarGs are not
used, ana now the victims are being buried
in the nearest lot to where they died. The
situation is a horrible one. Death takes
the robust and the delicate, together with
the poor Ethiupians, who until this plague,
were always proof against this disease
Three negroes were found stiff in death
:his morning. A few noble citizens of
Holly Springs have volunteered to come to
Grenada and remove the sick and diving
from this pest hole up to the high bills
which surround Grenada on nearly all sides
There is not quite large enough a number
Of these brave men to make the movement
success. All that is wanted is more help,
Five hundred good and true men can wipe
this scourge from this plague infected city
In less than two weeks. All that is wanted
Is money. Tents can be erected on the
hills and the sick removed at less cost than
to keep them in tie city. Ali that is want
ed to give new life to all is fresh air. This
I they cannot get where they are now. The
atmosphere is SO foul that you may hang
up piece of raw beef in the open air and
in less than one hours time it is black and
putr;d. There are now in this village $50
human beings lying in horrible and un-
+ earthly agony. This in a civilized country
surrounded on all sides by people of in
telligence and culture. Who can look on
the horrible spectacle without lending a
helping hand? Professional nurses are to
be had in New Orleans and Memphis. All
that is wanted is money enough to bring
them tO this point, and in one days time
they can remove the sick to point out of
the reach of this poisonous atmosphere
Hundreds of mon here VOW that it is not
yellow fever, but some horrible plague
which has taken possession of the place
Certainly the yellow fever in It's results was
never so fatal before. Out of three hun
dred stricken up TO this hour not a single
one has recovered, while nearly balf this
number have been conveyed TO their graves
The burial corps has been disbani ied. The
dead are buried il front OF the very houses
in which they have met their deaths. Is it
any wonder that the whole place has been
developed into a yeritable pit of death
Nearly every soul of the original inhabi-
tants who remained in the town are either
PROSTATE or dead, and now the terrible
scourge is taking hold of the newcomers.
Even the nurses, who have battled with
1oAow Jack for years, are succumbing to
the fatal disease. Where will it erd? The
answer comes in death to all. Unless
united action is AZ once taken all will answer
to the call of death. There were thirteen
deaths during last night-eight whites and
five negroes This leaves $50 now PROSTATE
and dying with the fever.
PHILADELPHIA
Three cases OF yellow fever in this CITY
were brought to the notice of the authori-
ties on Saturday night, and DIR. Taylor,
Medical Inspector of the Board of Health
taking charge OF tho matter, they were with
their effects removed to the Municipal Hos
pitaL
On Saturday morning a man named
BOnnelh called az the Pennsylvania Hospi-
tai and inquired if two pay patients could
be admitted. DR.. Mcllvaine inquired what
the disease was, and was told that the sick
men came from NicksbuTg, Mississippi in
the mOIning, and were lying sick at Eighth
and Catharine streets.
The physician refused TO admit the pa
tIents without consulting the Board of
Health, and Immediately notified Chief of
Police Jones and by him the matter was
brought to the intention of DR.. Ford, Pres
ident of the Board of Health Then the
Medical Inspector, Dr. J. Howard TavIor.
was instructed to take the case in hand.
DIR. Taylor relates the circumstances of his
visit and what he found
II visited SO4 South Eighth street, where
the cases were reported, last evening (Sat-
urday) about nine O'clock, and found two
men sick with the yellow fever and early
this morning l made arrangements to have
the entire family, sick and well, sent TO the
Municipal Hospital.
The BOnnelli family is composed of
eight persons; the mother, aged sixty; four
sous ranging from thirty-five years to four.
Teen wives OF the two older sons and a
little child about one year old. They are
Italians and came from Eicksburo yester-
day by train. Before arriving az Cincin-
hati ti'e cars were boarded by a physician,
who declared them in a healthy condition
and allowed them to enter the cltv. where
they remained two hours.
soon after their arrival here one of tho
younger brothers exhibited symptoms of
the fever, and IL was then that lbe eldest
Ofolhcr made application to the PennsyI-
vania Hospital. When | visited the bonse
found that two were sick, lying on sepa-
rate beds, with another, bed in the room.
occupied by brother who was acting as
nurse. They had already been visited bv
inc physician attached To the Italian con
sulate.
ne two sick young men, or rather
ooys' Tor they are only fourteen aud seven
teen years OF age, were euveloped in blank
cts and placed in hacks and driven early
this morning to the Municipal Hospital. an
institution erected beyond the built
PORTION just to meet such emergencies as
the present. The balance of the family
were removed later. Their baggage and
bedding were also taken to the hospital and
placed IN the disinfecting room"
PITTSBURGH.
Il Pittsburgh dispatch of the Goth saws
yesterday the steamer Abner O'Neal ar
rlVed at Inc wharf from Wheeling and as
soon as the boat landed the authorities
we're notified that there was a sick man on
board, and they feared he had been at
tackled With yellow fever. DR.. Cable was
first called and fIom an examination nro-
nounced the case yellow fever. Health
Oihcer cray proceeded to the boa. imme-
Glately, and as the proposed Iazaretto AT
DAVIS island has not yet been established
the man was removed to the smallpox hos
pItal and placed in a room which had meyer |
been used for smallpox patients. Dr.
SnlVely and DR.. Gallagher visited the man
last night and this morning, and they say
that the symptoms are those of yellote
ieVer, outthe case is mild one. The man
gave his name as James Crawford. and
claimed Pittsburgh as his place of residence
although he could not or would not tell .be
physicians where he lived.