The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-08-27
Third Edition
THE STRICKEN SOUTH.
Death Deals His Deadly Blows,
And Walls of Woe Come Up from the
Afflicted.

To-DAY's NEW ORLEANS REcoR

nClal statement OF cases OF yellow lever re-
ported in New Orleans is as follows: Deaths
from IL m. yesterday to II m. to-day, 40;
new cases since last report, 1884, total num-
Der of cases to date, 2,34S; total number of
deaths to date, 702.
[Signedl S. CHOPIN MD, President.
B. +. TAYLOR, MD, Secretary.
$1,000 FROM CHICAGO.
CHICAGO, Aug. 27.-The Relief Committee
of Chicago yesterday telegraphed $1,000 to
the Harvard Association at New Orleans.
Murray Nelson, Chairman Of the Committee,
thinks they will raise 0,OOo for the relief
Of Southern sufferers.
SUBSCRIPTION AT BOSTON.
Boston, Aug. N.-Subscriptions since
for the yellow fever sufferers
amount to $11, ,S37.
THE PHILADELPHIA PATIENTS.
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 2.-The yellow fever
patients at the Municipal Hospital were
last night reported out Of danger.
AID FROM NEW YORK.
New YoRK, Aug. 27.-The Relief Com
mittee of the Chamber of Commerce, to
solicit and distribute subscriptions for yell
low fever sufferers, yesterday met and ap-
propriated $4,000 for New Orleans, $1,000
for Memphis, and $500 for Vicksburg.
These amounts were transferred by tele-
graph to the respective cities.
CONTRIBUTIONS YESTERDAY.
NEW YoRK, Aug. 27.-Telcgrams show
$4,000 publicly subscribed yesterday in
different parts of the country for the terror
stricken citizens New York subscribed
S., 400.
THE CONDITION AT MEMPHIS.
NEW York Aug 27.-A Memphis special
says one hundred new cases and twenty
seven deaths were reported yesterday. AS
a general thing the sick are doing well.
The list of cases yesterday shows that the
fever is making no distinction in race, color
or previous condition. 1t now seems the
fever will penetrate all portions of the city
and remain until cold weather sets in. The
large number of new cases has exhausted
actually occur for lack of nursing and
prompt treatment. A number of new
nurses arrived from Mobile, and they were
soon assigned to duty. Helpers themselves
are now needing help, People are still
leaving, one of the railroads passing such
persons as are unable to pay their fare
The expenses of the Howard Association
are now over s., 900 per day.
Doctors and druggists, as well as nurses,
are broken down, and there is a demand for
the services of large number of good ply
sicians as well as nurses. Many are dying
now for want of attention, and our people
are doing all in their power Nearly every
business house is closed, the employers in
most instances leaving the city. The in
fected district is wrapped in gloom. One
man was found last night on the stairway
of the Adams block who had just been
ali ba
could give no information about himself
There is no money in circulation. 1t is
estimated that not over three thousand
white people, men, women and children are
in the city, out of population Of thirty
thousand whites, and the daily reports Of
one hundred new cases will rapidly decrease
that number.
COLUMBUS, KY, SHUTS HERSELF IN
NASHVILLE, Aug. 27.-Columbus, KY
has quarantined against everybody, allow
ing no passengers to stop there.
THE NEW YORK QUARANTINE.
New York, Aug. 27.-There were at
anchor at the upper quarantine yesterday
about twenty vessels from Southern ports,
discharging their cargoes into lighters
About two hundred laborers are engaged
in unloading them. They are boarded and
lodged on two old hulls, and are not al
lowed to go ashore The vessels are thor
oughly fumigated before being allowed to
come up to the city.
STILL VIOLENT AT vIcKsBURG.
V1cKsBURG, Aug. 27.-No abatepent in
the epidemic here. The daily mortality is
without parallel in this city. Deaths in
the last twenty-four hours %; new cases.
143; cases now under treatment 600
The plague is spreading. Much suffering
and destitution. All trains are stopped
Medical men and others on duty are ex-
hausted. The total number of cases to date
is estimated at from eight to nine hundred
Some physicians report the fever assum-
ing mild form, willie others say it varies
according to locality. New physicians and
nurses are working hard.
DR.. Whitehead, President of the Board of
Health went down last evening, but it is
hoped that oyerwork, and not fever, is the
cause 1t looks as if there was certain
death awaiting the unfortunates here, be-
tween pestlence starvation and quar-
antine
GROANING GRENADA.
GRENADA, MISS, Aug. 27.-The situation
yesterday was more encouraging, II whites
and negroes dying during the last "a
hours.
Inc 1eVef eacn day taxes hOlu OF 1reSn
victims, while almost hourly some poor
sufferer finds relief death.
Negroes who were quartered on the out
skirts of town at first escaped the disease,
but the germs finally reached their habita,
tions. Seventy-eight colored persons are
Frustrated.
No pen can describe the terror which took
possession of these dusky citizens when
Yellow Jack appeared in their midst. Many
fled leaving their sick and dying friends
without help, provisions, or even water to
drink.
Those who remained, with a few excep-
tons, refused to lend helping hand, and
stood shaking with fright, while the disease
continued to spread.
Since the first case sixteen negroes have
died and many are pronounced hopeless
Colonel Walton, well-known man. died
Sunday night.
DR.. Warren Stone, of New Orleans ac-
companied by four nurses, will reach here
to-day. Last night people died without an
attendant of any kind.
HOLLY SPRINGS.
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