Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-09-28
WHOLE NO. 2,257.

a stranger, invited me into his
house to see his wife and three chill.
dren who were recovering from the
fever. Said Mr.. Heber: "LOOk at
my wife and little ones. They are
: alive, you see, and God willing will
, soon be well again. / have nursed
J them night and day for the past
seventeen days. In that time /
have never taken off my clothing
|, or gone to Sleep" Mr. Heber was
surprised at hearing of the death of
his neighbor's children, and said
that he did not know anything
about
THE TERRIBLE HAVOC
which the plague had committed i'm
all points surrounding him. So
taken up are all with their own
troubles that they find no time to
inquire into their neighbors' misery.
Meeting Mr.. ID. Nj. Bishop, an es-
timable citizen of Granada, In re-
sponse to an inqriry, "What good
news ?' he answered, emo good
news to-day" Then breaking
down, and tears filling his eyes he
said: 81 am all BlOne In the world
now. In six days the terrible
scourge has deprived me Of my wife
aud three children" In a house
next to Mr.. Bishops lay an aged
couple, both i'm one bed, sick with
the fever, while in an adjoining room
was stretched their son, also pros
trated. Whole families have been
wiped out Of existence by the ter
rible epidemic. On our return 20
the depot Heaberg complained of
being sick, and said: ~ think L
am going to be taken with the fever,
and l guess 1 will sit down and
rest" Said DIR. Fountain, "DOn't
sit down here, but go TO the hotel
and lie down, and you'll soon feel
all right" This was at , O'Clock.
At 4 O'Clock DIR. Warren Stone
visited Heaberg and pronounced it
A CASE OF FEVER.
This was the only telegrapher i'm
the town, and as he was prostrated,
the town was left without an opera
tor. The pOstOiiice was already
closed, so that the ill-fated town
was shut off from all communion
tion with the outer world until
Sunday morning, when David
Flannery Assistant superintendent
of the Western Union Telegraph
Company at New Orleans, arrived,
at once taking charge of the tele-
graph Office with a will ami de-
termination TO see it through TO the
end. On Sunday morning w. NJ.
Redding and Tom Marshall died.
Both men had worked hard night
and day, until, fAtigued i'm both
body and mind, they fell easy
victims to the dread disease.
Far up in town is a store where
provisions are distributed 20 all,
rich and poor, black and white.
The negroes never fail toshow up for
their rations, but cannot be found
when grave is to be dug or
corpse to be removed. They will
not move unless paid
A FIvE-DOLLAR BILL
for each errand. The relief COM
mittee at Grenada have disbanded,
owing to some of the members
having left the town, while the bal
ance are PROSTATE with the fever.
There are only three of the original
inhabitants now left i'm the place
who are not PROSTATE. They are
+. J. Armstead, the Southern l1x-
press agent, Samuel Heber and
boy waiter in the Chamberlain
House.
DIR. Warren Stone seemed terribly
with the negroes, and
said that they ought to have
company of United States infantry
on hand to make them move livelier
and help the sick. Redding, the
plucky telegrapher, and Tom Mar
shall, were in a very low condition
on Friday, and on Sunday morning
breathed their last. The news of
the death of Redding was received
with grief at all points on the road,
and the telegraphers on the Jackson
route are determined that
A MONUMENT SHALL MARK THE
GRAVE
where lies the boy who only stop
ped in Grenada To serve God and
he sick and the dying.