The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-10-31

rial abatement of the disease in the smaller
towns. The situation at Brownsville, Tenn,
was very discouraging. There had been over
500 cases and $50 deaths to date, and 100 cases
were then under treatment. The deaths with
in the preceding forty-cight hours numbered
ten.
Lieut.. Benner, of the relief boat
Chaaabessy diad A few miles below Yiciksburx,
on the morning Of the 18th. The announce
ment of his death cast cloud of sadness
oyer the entire city, and caused deep feeling
OF sorrow ut Washington and elsewhere
throughout the country. He voluntarily &C.
companfed the steamer on dts mission of
mercy into the infected district, and had ex-
pressed the belief that, by his long service in
the South during the war, he had become &C.
climated. He caught the disease by having
given up his stateroom to a lady from
the infected district, who was at the
time herself suffering from the disease,
though she may have been unaware Of
the fact. Lieut.. Benner served through
out the war in the Eighteenth Illinois
Volunteers. In 1867 he was appointed Second
Lieutenant of the Eighteenth Infantry (regu-
lars), and was promoted to First Lieutenant
in 1875. 1t was reported from Washington,
on the 18th, that Gov. Shepherd had, with the
approval of the Secretary OF War, telcgraphed
to Lieut.. Hall to return with the steamer to
st. Louis and there put it in quarantine.
A New York special of the Goth
gives the number of deaths Of ministers in the
South, by yellow fever, down to that date II
fifty six. OF these, twenty-four were Catho-
Oh
rabbi.
Among the foreign contributions for
the relief of the ycllow-fcvcr sufferers at the
South. it was reported, on the 10th. that
Minister NOycs, ut Paris, had forwarded
$1,000, and the Emperor William, of Gcrma-
nv, had contributed 5000 reichmarks (about
$1OO.)
There were frosts in many sections
of the South on the nights Of the 18th and
and 18th, and ice formed in some localities.
There were seven deaths in Memphis, on the
10Th. and four on the 2Oth-six of whom were
whites end five colored; six deaths were re-
ported outside the city limits on the Goth. Dur
ing the twenty-four hours ending at noon on the
10th, there were forty-four cases and twenty
seven deaths in New Orleans. 1t was thought,
on the 10th, in localities where frost had ap-
peared, that a change for the better would
take place in few days, by diminution in
the number of new cases.
The weather was warmer ut the
South, on the 2lst, and fears were enter
tanned that returning refugees in the cities
would add new fuel to the scourge. There
were eighteen deaths In the city and suburbs
of Memphis, and tweDty-three new cases. At
New Orleans the new cases numbered thirty
one; deaths, forty-four; total cases to date,
12,3l2; deaths, 1888. There were two deaths
at Cairo, but no new cases. Two more deaths
had occurred at Gallipolis, Ohio, and there
were six cases convalcsccnt. The Memphis
X Charleston Railroad resumed operations on
the 2lst. Notification was made at Memphis
that no more rations to able-bodicd citizens
would be issued after the 25th. The fever
was still prevailing with fatal effect in most
OF the interior infected towns.