Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1878-09-05
THE SAFFRON DEMON.
80
TIE RAYAGES OF EHE YELLOW FE-
YER STILL CONTINUING.
The Sufferers
NEW ORLEANS.


s$sS The Sssferers..
B. ~: NEW oR1RAss.
NEW ORLEANS. Aug. SIP z. M.-Rev. Father
G. j. Beecher, a native 81 Buffalo, N. L, died
yesterday of yellow fever. The death list to-
d ~ includes twenty children under seven years.
The following telegram was received this morn
ing and the nurses feave this afternoon:
Port Gibson. Aug sl:-President Howard
and five female. $50 cases, forty-eight deaths.
Ali broken down. Great distress. 9signed}
Jas. A. Gage."z %Twentysix; applications
for medical aid was made on Saturday to
the Y. M. 9. A.. and thirty for relief The
thirty seeking relief are heads of families
aggregating 40 persons. Applications for re-
age, address, number in family, occupation
and references. The blank being filled out,
is given to member who institutes an in
quiry. of reference or: makes q personal in
spection, the result, of which he embraces I'M
der the head of remarks. If satisfactory, q
ISOLATION is filled out, signed by the visiting
member and stamped. Hhet blank ia then pre-
scented to the Peabody depot corner of Maya
zine and Lafayette Streets and the supplies is
sued. The depot of the Peabody Subsistence
association, corner Magazine and Lafayette
good supply Of -four, meat, sugar, tea and
corn meat. As early as $50 applicants made
their appearance, and their wants were sup
piled. The Telegraphers' relief association
here has sent 800 to sick telegraphers, at
Grenada. {
NJ. twenty-seven deaths were reported. II: W:
Barnes, manager Of the W. O. telegraph office,
of this city, died to-day Of yellow fever after
twelve days illness, age 80. He leaves wife
and eight children. Henry Hahn, alias Lee,
who shot and voluntarily killed Henry Murphy,
This is the first case of fever at the prison this
season. The death-list includes Edwin Gill,
a native Of the Isle of Man, Sam Moses, a;natiye
of Indianapolis, and DR.. J. Byrne. The Pea :
body subsistence association is commencing the
distribution of supplies to-day, They issued
4, 1889 rations to 627 persons: The officers OF
the association report contributions coming in
literally. $780,
The following explains itself: To the fire
department of the Union and all other kindred
charitable organizations: The Firemen' $
| Charitable association, of New Orleans, for the
first time in it's half century of existence, is
compelled to make a public appeal for aid
| members and their families, with 27O widows,
It's whole and half orphans. With the in
ability Of :, the city to pay the de-
partment -, with an empty treas
ury, -. and wide spread epidemic
relieve the sick and distressed, In the cause of
humanity it therefore appeals to kindred char
| table organizations throughout the country
for such assistance as they can send US.
I (Signed) J. F. MARKS, President.
The Police Mutual Benefit association have
appealed to similar associations elsewhere for
T assistance. They say money members and
| their families have yellow fever; that
| the funds of their association
| are exhausted; that they have received
no pay from the city for two months, and con-
sequently are greatly in need Of assistance.
| Contributions may be forwarded to F. N. Boy
| Ian, chief of police.
Eoyyi MEMPHIS.
MEMPHIS, Aug. 31.-The weather this morn
ing is bright and warm, but the clouds Of woe
over our city show no sign Of breaking. Ply
| sicians, nurses visitors, druggists and under
| takers are becoming exhausted by constant
| working. A young physician was taken down
| this morning. At the health office up to noon
| only seven physicians out of about twenty had
| made their reports of new cases. The number
| aggregated AZ. From this it will be seen that
| not more than one-half the cases are reported
| and that the epidemic is more appalling than the
official reports indicate. At the county
| Jail there are about 20 cases of fever.
| McWilliams, under sentence for murder,
| died last night, and negro murderer, Brizzell,
under sentence of death, is in dying condi-
ton. At Camp Joe Williams four or five
deaths occur daily. The hospital contains
about twenty-five sick; and worse is feared for
the poor people living in tents. Some have
become frightened and returned to the city:
Alex. Hunneguhon of the Masonic board of
relief, is down, and Joseph Russell, of the Odd
Fellows relief board, is very low. The under
takers report ffty-fve yellow fever interments
up to noon to-day.
MEMPHIS, Aug. sl.-The official records to-
! ~
hours ending at o'clock this afternoon, and
seyenty-seven deaths for the same period.
Volunteer physicians continue arriving. Five
from the Ohio board of health, DR.. Mccormick,
from Indiana, and DR.. E. T. Eseley, from Lit
tie Rock, arrived to-day. DR.. Eseley was &C
companied by corps of thirty nurses: Among
the most recent cases of fever 81. s. Lar
dunn, city editor of the Apalanche; P. R. Athey,
chief Of police. R. A. Thompson, postmaster,
is also down, but we'll. Jos. Russell. superin-
tendent of Odd Fellows nurses, died, and
will be u buried to-day. Our druggists
are worked down, and there is urgent need Of
prescription clerks OF experience and who have
had fever. Howard Heyman, druggist, died
to-day, and j. s. Robins, one of the principal
druggists, closed his establishment to-day and
left the city to get rest. j. G. Armstrong,
photographer, died Of fever to-day at Coving-
ton, Upton county, and two other cases are re-
ported there. Fever continues to spread amor G
the negroes, all families being FRUSTRATED, but
it is hoped with the late additions to the medi-
cal corps they will henceforth receive attention.
In front of the commissary depot of the citi-
zens relief committee fully 1000 negroes as
sembled all day. The committee is laboring
hard to meet the necessities of all, and good
Among the new cases reported this evening
are Fathers Livemaro and Richardson, of St.
Patrick's church. Fathet Erasmus, o. s. F., is
dead. The attention Of the health officer had
been called to Whitemore, in which five deaths
have occurred. One woman who died at mid
night Friday, still lies in the house. An un-
known man sick in the back room was not
heard from for several days. This evening
physicians visited the house, broke into the
! room of the sick man and found his stiff re-
mains lying abandoned in bed, a dirty sheet
thrown over and despatched with black vomit.
The sanitary police have been instructed to
break into houses where they have reason to
believe there are unattended sick or dead per-
sons.
order prevails. At a meeting of the Howard
| association to-day A. D. Langstaf was elected
president.
V1oKsBURa Miss, Aug. 31.-Two hun
dred and fourteen new cases of yellow fever
| and ten deaths the past twenty-four hours.
Among the deaths is Major A. A. Busby, Of the
frm of Rice & Co. Among the new cases are
G. @. Carroll, superintendent of the elevator;
Fathers Heiber and Oberfel, and Signal OBJ
server Tenny.., Yellow fever has appeared at
Greenville, Miss. Two deaths are reported
| The people. are panic stricken and flying from
town. Typographical union Is appeals to sister
unions for assistance. Remit to Michael F.
Battle, secretary.
GRENADA.
LoU1sv11e Aug. 31.-The following dis.
| patch exp--as itself: ~.
GRENADA, Miss, Aug. 31-To Edward Mad.
den, COURIER Journal, Louisville: Please wire
the following to all Associated Press agents and
publish the same at once in your home papers
Grenada is without relief committee and is
solely in the hands Of the Howard association
to whom all supplies and money should be
sent. We need no more doctors, but we want
more nurses. Send allsupplies and moneys by
express to the Howard association at Grenada
We can't use checks, drafts or post-ofice orders
We need supplies more than we do money.
! (signed) VIII. BEATTY, N. D.
MOBILE, Ala, Aug. 3l.--One death from vel.
low fever this morning.
I JACKSON. I: !fss,1 9"5..
JACKSON, Miss, Aug. 3l.-7One death from
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