The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-08-31
No Abatement of the Scourge.
Unprecedented Fatality Among tbe
Nurses and Physicians.
A Claim that the Disease is Not
Yellow Fever.
Large Collections for the Sufferers,
and Yet there is Not Enough.
Calls from the Howard and Relief
Associations.
One Hundred and Sixty New Cases In
vicksburg.

ATNEw ORLEANS.
NEw ORLEANS, August 80, l:30 p. NJ
New cases l69; deaths 80. The weather
IL cloudy and stormy.
Among the deaths are Sister I.orettC
Mckenzie and Sister Mary Keenan,, q
Charity Hospital. Both have been unre
mitting attendants on yellow fever pa
tients.
Very Rev. Joseph AIillett, Vicar Gen
eral OF the Archdiocese OF New Orleans
il dangerously III with the fever.
James Linton, DR.. Chappin's patient al
Charity Hospital, who was treated by the
cold water process, died ut half.past one
this morning.
DR.. W. X. Vaudeville; who has been
dangerously i'll with the fever, is reported
slightly better.
AT NENPIIts.
MEMPHIS, August S0.-Wet and cool
weather has prevailed since 9 r. N. ycster.
day, and has created many new cases of
fever, but how many 1t Is impossible to
state, owing to the fact but two physicians
had reported to the Board OF Health up
to noon to-day. Some arc indifferent as
TO the importance Of reporting, Others are
too busy attending to sick calls, while one
at least Is known to be in open defiance Of
the Board OF Health; has never reported
case, and claims the prevailing disease Is
not yellow fever. The death rate, how
ever, will equal, II not exceed that OF yes
terday, when IS interments were re-
ported. Up to noon to-day the undertakers
.s.a.. an ,,aIla,,, fapas iptarmanta Ea.
thers Bokcl and Meagher are dead Two
Fathers and two others at Francis Mones-
terry arc down, also Rev. DR.. Thomas,
Pastor OF Free German Protestant Church.
Physicians report that the fever is prevail
ing to an alarming extent among the col.
ored people, many OF whom have had no
medical at tention for days. A large In
crease in the mortuary report may reasan.
ably be expected. The Er1ing Herald
suspended to-day. A special to the Letigr
from Brownsville, Tenn, reports a case OF
yellow fever there, Miss Sallie Sullivan, a
refugee from Memphis.
THE DUTIES OF TIE ASSOCIATIONS.
NEW ORLEANS, August 30, The Peabody
Subsistence Association make statement
that the object Of their Association is to
supply subsistency to the destitute, and in
no way conflicts with the operations OF the
Howard Association. The Towards con-
fine their attention mainly TO providing
physicians, nurses and medicines for those
suffering with fever, and the necessary
nourishment to c0nvalescents. Here the
duties of the Howards end and the work
Of the Peabody Association begins. -'-
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A dispatch to the Associated Press to-
day shows that there is no fever at any OF
the towns on the Jackson Railroad south
OF Canton. The case reported yesterday at
Ponchatonla proved not to be yellow fever.
The patient Is now convalescent.
NOTIFIED TO QUIT.
GALVESTON, August 80. The Board Of
Health to-day notified the Postmaster at
St. Louis that II he didn't cease forward
ing mail matter from infected places to
Texas, quarantine would be declared
against st. Louis.
rEyER CONTRIBUTIONS.
OMAHA, August 30.-The contributions
TO the yellow fever sufferers aggregate
5000. Mayor Wilbur this morning sent
one thousand dollars to Memphis. About
FIVE hundred dollars has been raised by the
Union Pacific operators for the benefit oi
the Southern telegraphers.
prrrsBuRdn, August 30. Active relief
measures for the yellow feyersuderen con-
tinue in this city. The merchants have
organized and expect to begin shipping
consignments of -four, groceries and pro-
duce.
FREE OF CHARGE.
To the Southern cities, tonight the Pan
Handle Railroad authorities will carry all
such consignments free Of charge.
At Joint meeting of the three Com
manderies OF knights Templars, compos-
ing Division No. 9, held astnight at Pitts
burh, Allegheny and Tancre Command
cries each unanimously agreed to forward
one hundred dollars to the suffering frat
ernity in the South. Tonight an immense
concert, vocal and instrumental, under
the auspices OF the Frohsinn Society and
other musical organizations, willbe given,
the proceeds to be devoted TO the sufferers
by the plague. Seven hundred dollars
was telcgraphed to the fever stricken cities
by the General Relief Committee to-day.
CLEVELAND, August 20. Total contribu-
tions for relief OF yellow fever sufferers
$, 800. w. 'lt
CmcAoo, August 20, The citizens com.
mittee have received to date for yellow
fever fund, Sl4,242. From other sources,
s., 600. Total through regular sources,
$20,9O0-
MILWAUKEE, August 2O.-Howe's Lon.
don Circus gave show hcrc this morning
for the benefit Of the South. The tickets
were sold by the police and fire depart
ment employees. under the direction oi
Mayor Black. The amount realized wa:
over 81 800.
CMRo, August 3o.-A telegram from
Grenada to-day reports Tom Marshall, tele
graph operator, down with the fever, and
that the body Of his little son, who died
three days ago, remains UNMARRIED for wan,
OF money. Jacobs and Kent, operation
for the Mississippi Central and Illinoii
Central railroads here, collected twenty
dollars for Marshall, which goes to Grenada
tonight. 't..s0 a.n1 if
$1,000 PROM DENVER. 51-i
DESvER, coL, August 'So.4Tkere hay,
been raised here for the yellow fever SUI
iercrs one thousand dollars. The sub
scription Is rapidly swelling, and vii
probably reach two thousand by Monday
RUNNING ouT OF PROVISIONS.
MEMPHIS, August So-Thc weather to
day. has been damp aud dlsagreeablo, am
favorable to the spread OF the fever. A
the Board OF Health Office only seventy
two new cases arc reported for the q hour
enlling ut Or. ". This, however, docs no
exhibit tho true state OF the epidemic 70
THE day, rs several physicians failed to re
port For tho same time the undertaken
report tifty.seyen yellow fever intefments
DR.. Greenville Dowell, an experience,
physician from Galveston, Texas, arrive,