The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1878-08-17
THE SOUTHERN SCOURGE.
TIIIRTY-THREE NEW CASES AND SIX
DEATHS AT MEMPHIS.

THE INHABITANTS PANIC STRICKEN AND
LEAVING By THOUSANDS. NINETY EIGHT
NEW CASES AND SEVEN DEATHS AT NEW
ORLEANS. TERRIBLE SITUATION OF
AFFAIRS AT GRENADA. THE DISEASE
SPREADING AND THE DEATH RATE IN
CREAsING. APPEALS FOR AID--ALL SOUTH
ERN CITIES GUARANTEED.
MEMPHIS Tenn, Aug. lj--Thirty-thr
new cases Of fever and six deaths reported
by the board Of health from nine o'clock
last night to same hour tonight All these
cases are in the district where the disease
made its appearance few days ago. The
thorough understanding between physicians,
committees Of benevolent societies and ex-
perienced nurses, it is believed, will pre-
vent the rapid spread of the disease and
cause comparatively light death rate.
Thousands ofpeople have left the city, and
the board of health are contemplating the
removal Of those in the infected district
who have no place TO 90. They will
BE- furnished tents few miles from the
city.
The fever seems to be abating slightly at
Grenada, probably because there are but
few PEOPLE there now to have it,
MEMPHIS, Aug. l5.-The following tele-
gram was sent this morning:
To Hon W. y. McCrcary, Secretary of War, Wash.
ingion, ID. &.
Death is Shaking rapid strides through our
streets. Towns have quarantined against
US. Can YOU not order one thousand tents
into which to remove the poor:
Signed r. f. PATTERSON,
Collector Internal Revenue.
Il. A. THOMPSON. Postmaster.
Since the above was sent Postmaster
Thompson sent another telegram asking for
rations with view of supplying and get
ting all the poor people out Of town.
Thirty-threc new cases of fever and six
deaths reported from o'clock last night to
8 O'Clock tonight. The Memphis and Gren-
ada and Memphis and Little Rock railroads
have stopped running their trains. Nearly
all the towns in all directions are quarantin-
ed against Us. Several Of the largest bust.
ness houses in the city will close tomorrow
and remain closed until after the frost.
Gastons and the Commercial hotel closed
to-day. The Towards have organized and
sent out twenty nurses, and the Odd Eel
lows have gone to work andare doing much
good, Considerable excitement prevails.
Thousands have left the city, and every
train is loaded down. Nothing reliable
from Grenada tonight.
FAVORABLE RESPONSE.
WASHINGTON, Aug l5.--The secretary
of war has made a favorable response to
the petition from Memphis for Il supply Of
tents to shelter poor people in the country,
although, as he states, there is no law for
such proceeding other than the law Of hu-
mainly. The telegram of Postmaster
Thompson Of Memphis gives great satistac-
ton.
NEW ORLEANS.
New ORLEANS. August 1j-New cases
of yellow fever reported to-day, IS; deaths,
II. OF the deaths. seven We're children UNI
der years old; one was s, one was H. and
another child whose age was not given
The Times editorally says; Some remark
able features that characterized the fever in
its incipiency continue to characterize it
now, in what may be regarded as its ma
turcd and developed form. Fully 60 per
cent Of the deaths are Of foreigners or UNI
acclimated people, and fully - per cent
of the remainder are OF children. 1t svcry
rarely that we notice the death Of an adult
born here or who had lived here any length
of time and of whom it can be said that
he or she received even moderate attcn-
ton. Instances of this sort constitute ex-
ceptions to a very marked general rule. In
deed, leaving ont strangers and those per-
sons whose habits of life render them cs-
pccially liable to malarial influences, the
sickness SENS to he devoting itself cspeci-
ally to children, and the fact that rs time
goes on this feature becomes more conspic-
uous justifcs the theory that the fever may
be looked upon as having declared itself.
1t is true that great many native adults
have been Effected, but the attack in nearly
every instance has been light and manage.
able, and but for the scare would hardly
have excited comment. So far It is dis.
tnctly tho childrcn's year,