Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-10-02

in the situation on the 25th, though the
fever was still raging. A New Orleans
dispatch of that date says the total
deaths in that city up to date were
2,6OS.
THE SAFFRON sTEED.
New Orleans advices of the 25th saw
the deaths for the day are IS and new
cases reported, 139; total cases, Sill;
total deaths, 1872. 1t was officially
announced at the Office of the board of
health, Tuesday afternoon, that DR..
Kibbe, inventor Of the fever cot, died
at the Hotel Diem at II o'clock Monday
night. DR.. Morler, yellow fever special
list, is said to be quite low with fever.
Reports during the morning indicate
that the fever continues to spread in tie
direction of Carrollton and the rear of
the Sd districts. The death list includes
10 under years,
A SAD CASE.
An evening paper says of DR.. Kibbe
that his attending physician, DR.. Shap-
pin, reported last evening his patient
was improving. 1t seems, however,
that DIR. Kibbe's temperature gradually
fell to SO degrees by O clock yesterday
evening. and from that time it was al
most an impossibility to take
his temperature. rs he wouldn't
allow the thermometer to be
placed in his mouth. Thence forward
to the time of his death his temperature
rose, and when last taken registered 104
degrees. Attempts were made to adj
minister stimulants, but the patients
stomach would not retain them, and he
finally, in state Of utter prostra ton,
died. The case is lamentable one.
The doctor came hither on mission of
mercy, having full faith in his fever cot
and hydropathic treatment. In his
own case they have been tested, but
though successful in other instances,
they failed in his, and he is now num-
bered with the host that have fallen be-
fore the tramp of the saffron steed. His
memory will long be cherished among
those on whose behalf he risked his life
and died.
AT GREENvILLE.
Advices of the 25th say DR.. Samuel
Walker is sick. Over 800 cases to date,
and 21O deaths. No decrease. The
fever is spreading in the country, The
mayor and marshal are dead. Very
few left. Great trouble in burying the
dead; terrible indeed.
(Signed) J. H. NELSON,
Relief Committee.
GREENvILLE.
The following dispatches were re-
ceived at Milwaukee on Sept. 23rd:
GREENvII.LE. Miss, Sept. Ito A.
p. Huntington, Milwaukee:-Need all
the assistance we can get; expenses very
heavy, and pestilence yet raging.
(Signed) A. B. TRIGG.
New York, Sept. 23.-To A. P.
Huntington, Milwaukee-We are very
short Of help at Vicksburg Flippen
has been alone two weeks; but the prin-
cipal difficulty in the way of doing the
Greenville business has been the bad
condition Of the line; it will not work
not let the repairer 60 through to re-
pair the line.
(Signed) JOHN VAN HORN.
Greenville is located on the Mississip-
pi river, $50 miles from New Orleans,
and can only be relieved from that city
10y special boat 1t is without railroad
communication, and boats will not land
at the infected towns. Although isolat-
ed and unable to make its wants known,
it is to be hoped Greenville will receive
Sufficient aid to warrant the Howard as
sociation of New Orleans in sending
another boat this week to Greenviile
with an additional supply of nurses and
hospital stores. The majority of the
inhabitants Of Greenville, to the num-
Der of several thousand, are in the i'm
mediate neighborhood of the town,
and it is greatly to be feared that the
pestilence has spread into the surround
ing country, which is dependent upon
the town for doctors, nurses, medicine,
ice, and other assistance. Aid for the
town of Greenville should be sent to
the Howard association of New Or
leans with instruction that it is for the
relief Of Greenville.