Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-08-21

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the following has been received here
f.om Grenada, Miss:
GRENADA, MISS, Aug. 14.-Mayor Of
U-Im;naton: Help US to pay nurses and
hnrv the dead our town Is q graveyard:
we need help; the Mayor is dying, and
is the only officer left.
fS;gnedl ED. MALLON.
CITY Marshall and Acting Mayor.
Immediately upon the receipt of the
above telegram, the board Of aldermen
Of this city convened in session and
made an appropriation for the Grenda
sufferers, and appointed committee OF
seven to solicit contributions from citi-
zens. til thought that liberal sum
will be raised.
AT MEMPHIS. .
The following was received by the as
scciated press on the the 10th from
Memphis:
To Hon. G. ". McCfary, secretary OF
,oar, Washington, d. C:-Death is max
ing rapid strides through our streets.
Towns have quarantined against us.
Can you not order l 900 tents, into which
10 remove the poor.
(Siened) X. F. PATTERSON,
Collector of Internal Revenue.
r. A. THOMPSON,
Postmaster.
Since the above was sent, Postmaster
Thompson sent another telegram, ask
ing for ratiOns, with a view Of supply
ing all and getting all the poor people
out Of town.
Twenty-seven new cases and six
deaths are reported in the last twenty
four hours. H
THE SITUATION ON THE 14TH INST.
GRENADA, Miss, Aug. 14.-Sixteen
experienced nurses, in charge of Doc
tors Mandville and Vail. arrived this
morning from New Orleans. The nurs-
es were quickly assigned o'the afflicted
families. The type of the disease is
pronounced malignant, and is spread
ing. There are ten or eleven new cases
since morni ng. Nine deaths are re-
ported in the last twenty-four
hours, and fully 125 new cases.
while the population is now reduced to
700. None of the old cases have as yet
recovered Brave and self-sacrifcing
doctors of New Orleans, assisted by res
ident physicians, are doing the best Of
work, and grateful hearts 90 out to them
and to the generous citizens of New
Orleans in this hour of deep affection.
MEMPHIS, Aug. 14.-The following has
been received by the associated press
here:
.e GRENADA, Miss, Aug. IA.
Owing to the sickness Of the mayor
and councilmen, the undersigned have
been appointed by the citizens of Gren-
ada, at recent meeting to
receive and distribute whatever pecu
mary aid can be obtained for those
suffering from yellow fever in Grenada.
The disease is here in its most malig-
nant form, and the sick are so numer-
Gus and destitute as to make it utterly
impossible for Grenada unassisted to
relieve or move them. The assistance
of the charitable is respectfully solicit
ed, and the press are asked to copy this
dispatch generally.
Signed, RoBT. MULLEN,
r. S. RINGALD, NJ. d.,
Health Officers.
THOs. WALTON.
New ORLEANS, Aug. 1.-THE extraor-
binary increase of new cases of yellow
fever reported by the board of health
up to noon has been the all-absorbing
topic of conversation this afternoon.
Reporters sought IN vain for an expla-
nation, and find that the report includes
two days from the Charity hospital, but
that only adds 7 or cases, which should
have been reported yesterday, leaving
l26 or 127 cases that haye occurred
during the past "a hours. -
MEMPHIS, Aug. 14.-The fever seems
to be gaining ground. The origin has
been traced to parties who came from
below on the steamer Gold Cro,cn, and
ran the quarantine blockade two weeks
ago to-day. One person that came up
on the boat has died and several more
are down with the fever. Geo. Berg
loan, prominent tobacconist was taken
first and will probably not live. The
lever seems to be well spread north of
Jefferson street, its former locality, as
near as can be learned at the present
ume. There has been five deaths and
seventeen cases reported in the last 4S
hours: There is probably forty or fifty
cases in the city. The weather is favor
able for spreading the disease. it being
cold, damp and foggy.
AWFUL SOURCE.
A New Orleans dispatch of the 18th
states that the vice president of the
Memphis Howard association, dated
Grenada, Miss, to-day, to the Howard
association, &c