The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-09-12

OuliuinBs duJOADlHS tue Mempnl
theater. Following the cours,
of a sickening stencil he opened
the door of room on the second floor
on which lay the dead body of maj
so far decomposed as to defy identifi
cation-could not tell whether whit
or black. Persons living in the build
ing say they saw q white man go iRtt
that room drunk several DAYS ago. bu
had not seen him since.
The fever has broken out in a dry
healthy camp six miles northeast o
the city, one of the cleanest and health
lest localities In the vicinity Of Mem.
phis. A number of cases are also re
ported from Fort Pickering, the south
ern suburb, which has been exemp
from epidemics of any character sine,
1857, when II was almost depopulatec
by yellow fever. 1t is spreading rapid
ly IN Chelsea, the northern suburb
and in the southeastern part of towI
new cases are quite numerous. The
whole city is at last infected by tn,
poison which Is waited by hot wind!
full of moisture in all directions Owe
the country.
The deaths at Vicksburg are forty t.
fifty per diem. OF those who died
Saturday are ]. F. Ferguson, painter
Dave P. Kennedy, George Berry,
Thomas Guise, Alice V. and Robert
Hundermark, and Mrs. West and chill
dren, John Bodine, w. V. North, NJ.
McManus, Mrs. Annie Davis, Miss
Annie Barnett, Annie and Hugh
McKenna, Gustav Harlan, r. Walsh,
jacob Zimmerman, John r. Roach,
John Kearney, SIX years old, Miss Mary
f. Moore, r. Langsford, Mary Estel,
and sixteen colored. On the sick list
are j. j. Hayes, Charles HosIe and
Charles Fisher.
Pitlable are stories of suffering and
death told of the wretched people OF
Memphis. Many are sick, suffer fear
fully and die, whose names do not ap
pear in the list. Among those not re-
ported are Rev. George Harris, dean OF
st. Mary's Episcopal Cathedral. DR..
William, Hodges, also stricken down, is
similar case. A negro woman called
at DR.. Hcdges's residence to get him to
visit case at her house, and on open
ing the door found the Doctor lying on
the floor senseless. His family being
absent he was there alone ana would
have died without attention, but for
the alarm given by the woman. He Is
now very low.
Frightful incidents narrated by vel
low fever nurses In Memphis are COM
mon. Mrs. Sanoner llYei on Jefferson
street. The doctor who attended her
didn't let her family know that it was
the yellow fever until just before she
died. Then he told :hem, and tie five
children, ranging from ten to twenty
years old, came co say good-by. She
had the black vomlt, and they were
told they had better not kiss her, but
they did, and as they came up one after
the other and gave her the last kiss on
earth their lips were stained with that
horrible stream of death. And, what
is almost miraculous, none of them
have caught the fever yet.
A nurse says: 'I'll never forget one
place on Jefferson street. The whole
family-father, mother and seven chill
dren-all were in one room. The
father was dead, and his body hung
across the bed with his head hanging
down and the black vomit spattered
all over the bed and the room. The
mother was dying, and that horrible
black vomIt = it looks like coffee
grounds - was running out of her
mouth into the face and breast of one
of the children that lay on the floor by
the bed. Ughl~is makes me sick to
think otH. All the children but one
were down with the fever, and they
rolled around on the IL DOT and screamed
and groaned So, 1t seemed as if hell
had been moved up on The earth"
Private adVices say the fever is still
spreading in Vicksburg. Rev. NJ. Gal
loway and Dr.. Whitehead are still
alive. Mr.. Galloway's condition is
slightly improved, though still critical.
No hopes are entertained for DR..
Whitehead's recovery. Rev. Mr.. Price,
of the Christian Church, Is GONZALES.
cent. Among the new cases to-day is
Bishop Elder, of the Catholic Church,
and Mr.. J. w. Avis, of the Western
Uaion Telegraph Office. John G
Roach, reported dead yesterday, is
still alive, but his condition gives no
hopes of recovery. Six Sisters of |
Mercy are sick with fever. Among the |
deaths to-day is A. B. Manlo7e, son of |
a well known merchant, G. A. Man.
love, and ]. F. Tenney, of the signal |
corps.
Mr.. Thompson, the late postmaster
1T Memphis, was an Irishman by birth.
He came from Schenectady, New York,
.oMemphis in1S65and was first the local
reporter and afterwards commercial |
editor of the defunct old Wing news
paper, the Bulletin. When the Bulletin
was abandoned wreck by Admiral
Raphael Semmes, Thompson became
commercial reporter for the -Acalanche,
Ind afterwards a co-proprietor with A.
J. Kellar and D. A. Brewer. He sue
,eeded, as postmaster, Josiah Deloach
who saved Grants life by warning
him of the approach of guerrillas
hear Memphis when Grant was moving
owards Holly Springs. De Loach
hus held the Memphis postoffice
through Grants two terms Mr.. HAYES,
seeming to believe that "Uncle JOSIAH
lad been sufficiently rewarded for
pairing the existence of the Texas
}reenbackers' and Northern bondhold-
rs next candidate for the presidency,
Thompson for the savior Of
he country's savior so-called. Thomp-
on was q painstaking, careful, labo-
ious gatherer of newspaper facts.
lie was a thorough master of every in
ident of trade and commerce affecting
Memphis. He was eminently fair and
truthful and most cautious and Just.
The Chamber of Commerce lost its
trongest journalistic support when
Thompson fell.
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