The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-13
Third Edition
THE LATEST
FATAL FEW Err.
Death, in His Yellow Mask,
Stealthily Strikes the South.
Death, in His Yellow Mask,
Stealthily Strikes the South.
National Associated Press to the Star.

National Associated Press TO the Star.
LATEST FROM NEW ORLEANS.
New ORLEANS, Sept. 13-1 P. M.-The Off
cial statement of cases of yellow fever is as
follows, viz: Deaths from II m. yes erday
to u nj. to-day, tiftyeight; new cases in
same time, one hundred and twenty.
The officers here of the st. Louis & New
Orleans Barge Line received telegram
from the officers Of the Company at ST..
Louis, stating that at meeting of the
Board OF Health of st. Louis yesterday, a
resolution was passed forbidding the deliv-
cry at that port, of freight from any of the
infected cities of the South
To insure its delivery now, shippers of
Southern freights will be required to fur
nish certificate that it is not sent from
Mississippi, Tennessee or Louisiana. This
is the only route or means by which freight
could be shipped to or from st. Louis, all
boats having been stopped weeks since, and
must result seriously if the fever lasts long
here, as the stock of provisions and bread
stuffs here is not large.
DR.. Warren Stone arrived last night from
Grenada. He says that the epidemic in
Grenada was about the worst he has ever
observed in his experience; that the popu-
lation, and principally the negroes, were
SO overcome with the dread of the disease
that it was found very difficult to get any
thing done.
ONE DEATH AT TUsCUMBIA, ALA.
TUscUMBIA, Sept. 13.-Charley Williams,
of this city, who was taken with the yellow
fever lasi Sunday, Id ed gasteetlay morning
at o'clock. Weather cloudy and cold.
DEATH OF A CAIRO EDITOR.
CHICAGO, Sept 13.-It is learned here that
one of the editors of the Cairo Bulletin died
yesterday of yellow fever.
ONLY EIGHT HUNDRED PEOPLE IN HOLLY
SPRINGS.
HOLLY SPRINGS, MISS, Sept 13.-Some
eight hundred persons are now here; whites
three hundred colored five hundred. Hun
dreds are in the country, who have fled
their homes without anything. Many are
falling victims to the gladiator with the
yellow mask, whose appetite for our best
and truest seems Unsuitable. The appeals
they send US would melt heart of stone.
| might tell of some of these, bat the
crowded state of the wires forbids. The
requiem to the dead and dying is sung by
the honest watchdog whose master or
mistress is being borne away to the silent
city of the dead. The friends of Holly
Springs throughout the country have
poured in their offers of aid and given COM
fort Tell them of our gratitude.
ONLY HANDFUL LEFT AT CANTON.
CANTON, Miss, Sept. 13.-The carnival of
pestilence and death in our little city and
vicinity still continues, encouraged by the
north wind and murky sky. 10 new cases
and deaths were reported yesterday.
There is only handful of US to nurse the
sick, bury the dead and provide for the des-
titute remaining
46 CASES AT LAKE.
LAKE, MISS, Sept. 13.-4 deaths occurred
from yellow fever Wednesday. The physi-
cians however, have it under control and a
ma jority of the sick are convalescing. 46
cases is the total and IL the total deaths.
new cases.
HOW THE HowARDs ARE BEsIEGED.
New ORLEANS, Sept 13.-All day around
the doors of the Howard Association was
crowd of all sexes and colors, some seeking
positions as nurses, and others asking for
medical aid. All day the throns kept up,
and even members of the Association had,
at times, hard work to secure an entrance
to the building. Thirteen additional ply
sicians have rendered their services to the
Howards, and have been on duty to-day.
Hundreds of fires are burning in the Third
District of the city, coal, tar, pitch, etc, be-
ing used. The HowardS have the following
from Pilot Town: ''tThe sickness is princi-
pally among children. Nothing new in the
way of fresh cases. The last death was on
the evening of the 9Th"
Over four thousand rations were issued
yesterday by the Con mittee in charge.
The rations are delivered at the place of
abode of applicants, and each wagon load
is accompanied by a representative of the
Committee, who personally investigates the
condition of the beneficiary before turning
over the provisions. Out of acquisitions
for eight or ten thousand rations received
to date, but seventy-fye have been re-
turned by the Committees to the Offices,
and in several cases the return was made
because the parties for whom they were in
tended refused to receive declining to be
considered or treated as objects of charity,
TRIBUTE TO NOBLE MAN.
New ORLEANS, Sept. 13.-Among the first
to respond to the call of the Young Mems
Christian Association and to battle with the
fever for charity and the destitute was DR.,
C. H. G. Herndon, of Lexington, KY, who
for several years past has been practicing in
this CITY,
He died last night, and was buried this
morning by the Y. M. G. Association.
In his attentions to the sick the Doctor
contracted the disease which first mani
tested itself on Sunday, yet on that day at
noon he arose and visited eighty cases, re-
at his self-imposed post of duty,
until exhausted nature compelled him to
succumb.
RATIoNs RUNNING SHORT
New ORLEANS, Sept. 13.-At daylight yes