Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-10-17
YELLOW FEVER.
FAREWELL TO HOPE.

u Special LTUu MtuIpIIIo On ln6
18th says: Another day Of gloom and
despair is closing about US. The rain
has fallen without intermisslon since
yesterday morning, and lowering clouds
still obscure the sun. The indications.
as published by the signal service office
prOgnosticates warmer weather. If
these predictions are true. then farewell
to every hope. Another spell of warm
weather will but aggravate the spread
ing of the disease, and the sufferings of
the people in the interior towns will in
deed be lamentable.
THE FEVER TRAIN.
A Memphis dispatch of Oct. 10th SAYS:
1t has rained continuously since yester-
day noon with no immediate prospects
of clearing up. The special train which
left here yesterday morning in charge
of President Langstaff of the Howard
association arrived at Erin, Tenn, at
midnight and will return to Memphis
tonight. Similar trains leave on the
Charleston railroad tomorrow morning
and will go as far east as Huntsville,
Ala. The fever has appeared at every
station on the Louisville road between
Memphis and Paris, excepting Stanton
and Bellies station. AT New Orleans
the weather was cloudy. Deaths 4S;
cases reported 112. Total deaths 1851 !;
total cases 11,042.
THE SAME OLD STORY.
At Memphis on the 9th inst. it rained
and the epidemic was spreading stin
further and faster in the country. The
Howard association had made arrange
ments with the Louisville and Nash
vile railroad to run a special train for
the benefit Of the people in the sur
rounding country. Nurses, physicians,
and supplies will be sent out from
Memphis to relieve the want along the
line. The total number of deaths in
New Orleans up to date were 3.303.
Reports from all parts of the country
continued bad.
SUNDAYS RECORD.
At Memphis on the 18th there were
fifteen deaths. At New Orleans the
weather was clear and pleasant Deaths
fifty. Total deaths in New Orleans to
date 3,490; total cases, IL, ,537. There
were fifteen deaths at Chattanooga. Only
one death at Vicksburg though the
disease was spreading rapidly in the
country. A more hopeful report was
sent from the extreme southern region
of the fever.
NEW ORLEANS RECOVERING.
4 New Orleans dispatch of the 18th
says the weather is clear and cool all
day. Good prospect for light frost to-
night. Few new cases reported in the
city to-day; all of them refugees who
have been driven back from the coun-
try. -Four deaths to-day. The city is
gradually assuming its regular appear
ance. Business houses are nearly all
open. Some cotton coming in by wa
CONS and some by railroad
AT MEMPHIS.
Advices of the 18th say the board of
health officially reports 10 deaths from
yellow fever during the past "a hours
ending at 6 o'clock tonight. Under
takers report seven additional deaths
in the suburbs.
Hon. Casey Young has just returned
from visit to all the towns IN his dis
trict where the fever has made its ap-
pearance, whittier he went by special
train some days ago to ascertain the
condition and wants of the sick. He
reports the epidemic as abating at
some of the places whele it first broke
out, but mainly for want of new vic
TINS. The disease is spreading from
towns to the country, and unless frost
comes within a short time it is feared
that it will ravage all the region sur
rounding Memphis.
The thermometer dropped to 46 this
morning at o'clock, and frost would
have fallen had not the wind been blow
ing.
AT BATON ROUGE.
A dispatch under date of Oct. 18th
says fifty-seven new cases, with one
physician to hear from, and two deaths
reported for last a hours. lis evident
that unless cold weather comes the dis
ease will pursue its march. As each
day rolls by the situation becomes
worse. We want bedding for the nu-
merous poor who are found lying three
and four together on the same cover.
The number ofsick is so great and con-
stantly increasing that most active eff
forts have to be made to furnish the
necessary attention. Our physicians,
aided by good nursing, are accomplish
ing the very best results toward dlmin-
ishing the death rate.