Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-10-02
YELLOW FEVER.
PANIC Az LOUISVILLE.

There was but little improvement in
any Of the fever stricken sections on
Sept. Goth. The only particular new
feature was the excitement in Louis
vile. which amounted almost to q
panic. A Cincinnati dispatch of
that date says: Refugees from
Louisville arrive here by every train
on all roads, and give alarming accounts
of the sudden outbreak of the yellow
fever in that city. Two hundred and
fifty cases are reported in the neighbor-
hood of Louisville and the Nashville
depot, and some streets IN that
vicinity are reported as almost
entirely deserted by fleeing people.
Every vehicle obtainable is reported as
being used to remove the terror strlck-
en- people, and hackmen are accused of
charging exorbitant prices when called
into service by the frightened in
habitants. The locality of the
outbreak is said to have been
largely populated by refugees from the
fever districts further south, but disease
is not confined to them alone. One lady
says she was told to leave by her ply
sician, and she started alone.
AN IMPROVEMENT.
There seemed to be an improvement
in the situation on the 25th, though the
fever was still raging. A New Orleans
dispatch of that date says the total
deaths in that city up to date were
2,60S.
THE SAFFRON STEED.
New Orleans advices of the 25th say
the deaths for the day are IS and new
cases reported, 1879; total cases, s, Ill;
total deaths, 1872. 1t was officially
announced at the office Of the board of
health, Tuesday afternoon, that DIR.
Kibbe. inventor of the fever cot, died
at the Hotel Diem at II o'clock Monday
night. DR.. Morler, yellow fever special
list, is said to be quite low with fever.
Reports during the morning indicate
that the fever continues to spread IN tie
direction of Carrollton and the rear of
the Sd districts. The death list includes
10 under years.
A SAD CASE.
An evening paper says Of DR.. klbbe
that his attending physician, DR.. Shap-
pin. reported last evening his patient
was improving. It seems, however,
that DR.. Kibbe's temperature gradually
fell to 90 degrees by 6 o'clock yesterday
evening. and from that time it was al
most an impossibility to take
his temperature, as he wouldn't
allow the thermometer to be
placed in his mouth. Thence forward
to the time of his death his temperature
rose, and when last taken registered l04
degrees. Attempts were made to adj
minister stimulants, but the patients
stomach would not retain them, and he
finally, in state of utter prOstra ton,
died. The case is q lamentable one.
The doctor came hither on a mission of
mercy, having full faith in his fever cot
and hydropathic treatment In his
own case they have been tested, but
though successful in other instances,
they failed in his, and be is now num-
bered with the host that have fallen be-
fore the tramp of the saffron steed. His
memory will long be cherished among
those on whose behalf he risked his life
and died.
AT GREENvILL.E,
Advices Of the 25th say DR.. Samuel
Walker is sick. Over 800 cases to date,
and 30 deaths. No decrease. The
fever is spreading in the country, The
mayor and marshal are dead. Very
few left. Great trouble in burying the
dead; terrible indeed.
(Signed) J. II. NELSON,
Relief Committee
GREENyILLE.
The following dispatches were re-
ceived at Milwaukee on Sept 23rd:
GREENvILLE. Miss, Sept. Ito A.
P. Huntington, Milwaukee:-Need all
the assistance we can get; expenses very
heavy, and pestilence yet raging.
(Signed) A. 3. TRIGG.
NEW YORK, Sept. 23.-To A. P.
Huntington, Milwaukee:-We are very
short of help at Vicksburg. Flippen
has been alone two weeks; but the prin-
cipal difficulty in the way Of doing the
Greenville business has been the bad
condition of the line; it will not work
through, and the country people will
not let the repairer go through to re-
pair the line.
(Signed) JOHN VAN HORN.
Greenville is located on the MISSISSIPPI
pi river, $50 miles from New Orleans,
and can only be relieved from that city
by special boat It is without railroad
communication, and boats will not land
at the infected towns. Although isolat-
ed and unable to make its wants known,
it is to be hoped Greenville will receive
Sufficient aid to warrant the Howard as
ISOLATION of New Orleans in sending
another boat this week to Greenville
with an additional supply Of nurses and
hospital stores. The majority Of the
inhabitants Of Greenville, to the num-
Der of several thousand. are in the i'm
mediate neighborhood of the town,
and it is greatly to be feared that the
pestilence has spread into the surround
ing country, which is dependent upon
the town for doctors, nurses, medicine,
ice, and other assistance Aid for the
town of Greenville should be sent to
the Howard association Of New Or
leans with instruction that 1t is for the