Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-09-06

was taken sick this morning being the third
of the Association in charge of
The dispensary, taken ill.
The attention of the health officers has
been called to the Whittemore house, in
which five deaths have occurred. One wo-
man, who died at midnight on Friday, still
lies in the hOuse.-An unknown man, who
was sick in back room, was not heard
from for several days. Saturday evening
a physician visited the house, broke into
the sick mans room and found his stiff re-
mains lying abandoned in the bed, a dirty
sheet thrown over the face, and the bed
clothes spattered with black vomit. The
sanitary police have been instructed to
break into houses where they have reason
to believe there are unattended sick or
dead persons.
VICKSBURG.
The sexton reports twenty-four deaths,
among them some of our oldest and best
citizens. Acting Mayor Joseph Doll was
struck down this morning worn out, but
not with fever. A. A. Bursley, promi-
neIit merchant, is down with the fever.
DR.. Booth died, and was buried this morn
ing. Thus passed away a good, brave
man, who fell at the post OF honor and du-
ty making this as one of the black days of
of the epidemic Of 1878.
The fever is striking down some of our
Oldest and best citizens until 1t seems that
acclimation, and having had the fever in
former years, is bat a slight defence against
it. T. H. Miller, job printer, was buried
this morning. He has nursed cases of the
fever in past years. James Semple, an old
citizen who has lived through all the cpl
denies from 1S4S to the present time, and
has had the fever before, was numbered
among the dead to-day. The Howard AS
ISOLATION is doing all that is possible to re-
lieve the suffering and starvation of this
city. With the local suspension of bust
ness comes want and starvation to thou
sands here who, in ordinary times, would
be considered prosperous and we'll to do.
These people to-day are applicants for re-
lief to the only source of help, the Howard
Association. 1t is almost impossible to
believe the utter desolatlon which the last
few weeks have brought upon us. 1t ap-
pears to be an error, at least as far as
Jackson is concerned, as to the stoppage
of trains.
GRENADA.
Every house, store, and dwelling istight-
ly barred and locked, except those few
containing the sick and dying. No pen
can paint the dismal look of misery and
sadness which seems to cover all things
here. In each occupied house we passed
some one lying sick, or some one weeping
for those who had preceded them to the
other world. Heaberg carried telegraph
dispatch to Mrs. Marshall. sister to Tom
Marshall, the telegraph operator, who is
now Frustrated. Mrs. Marshall has just
lost by the fatal disease her husband and
three children, She was found silently
weeping for the loved ones, and thanked
ho FOL rrophor fOorc ,yub
down her cheeks, for the dispatch which
contained words of sympathy and love
from distant friends.
On the return to the Office Mr.. Hea berg
said he thought he would sit down on the
pavement, as he felt tired and hot DR..
Fountain said. mo. you'll walk on to the
Office and lie down there" We came to
the telegraph Office, which is over the OK
press Office and only IL few yards from the
chamberlain House. Heaberg said he
would 20 and lie down. Dr. Fountain
said, Eyes, and I'll call you at 4 O'Clock. :"
1t was then about O'Clock. He went to
bed, and at o'clock DIR. Stone had to
send him two nurses. Mr.. Redding, the
chief operator, being sick and Mr.. Hea-
berg now sick, leaves Grenada without =
dent of Telegraphs, Mr. G.. M. DUNCAN.
has been notified, and another will be sent
tomorrow. At least it is hoped one can
be found who will come. tom Flanery,
of Richmond, Va, has since gone and
taken charge.
Yhe following are the names of a few of
the unfortunates: C.M. Coffman and wife;
A. Coffman, wife and daughter; Robert
Young and wife; Mr.. Wilson and family
of seven are all gone; FIVE out of E. Shin
kle's family are dead; Judge Gray wife and
two sons; G.. w. Lake, wife and two
daughters Mrs. Sadler, daughter and
three SONS. Mr.. Bishop has just recoved.
He has buried his wife and three children.
Parson Hall and wife, an aged couple,
eighty and seventy-fve years of age re-
spectively, lay in one bed PROSTATE with
tina fever. In another room their only son
laid, prostrate and dying. Mrs. Collins
two children are down with the fever.
She is also nursing a young man from
Memphis who was Frustrated a few days
ago. Nathan Heber (German), steward
told me he had nursed his wife and two
children through the fever, and had not
taken his clothes off for the past seventeen
days.
Tom Marshall. the telegraph operator,
lives right opposite Heber's, and the latter
did not even know that Marshal had lost
his three children by the scOurge. Mar
shall's wife lay on her bed sick, moaning
piteously over the loss of her children. In
an adjoining room lay her husband and
the only remaining child, burning with
the fever.
The fever has got so bad here that the
post office has been closed for several days.
The Relief Committee ran it for some
days, but now they have become sick and
and have disbanded. There is no mail
delivered. The negroes are so lay that
they will not work, bnt hang around the
commissary rooms, and co not miss the
opportunity to receive every ration they
can, whether they have had their share or
not. The physicians have had actually to
send to New Oyleans for grave diggers
The following sad scenes are authentic:
A Howard Association woman nurse was
standing on the platform last night, wait
ing to telegraph to Memphis for money to
take her home that city, where her little
child was reported dying with fever; but
the telegraph office was locked up and the
operators dying. A woman enters Mr..
COan's office and wants colored woman
nurse to attend a sick and dying patent.
Mr.. Coan answers we have not another
nurse left. A servant enters and says Red
ding, the operator, IS hungry and wants
something to eat. The doctors answers
Don't give him a mouthful.'' Mr..
Codu ot44Co IL III LIE chamberlain House,
where ten patients are quartered, and
their piteous appeals for bread and nour-
ishment 60 right to the heart of the unin-
itated; but the doctors, understanding the
terrible consequences Of giving any of the
patients food, listen to the appeals with
closed ears.
At the courthouse, which has been turn
ed into hospital, containing sixty five
persons, horrible sight was presen ted to
the gaze. Men dying and begging piteous-
ly for food-a single mouthful Of which
administered to them would prove fatal
were seen on all sides, Both operators
pronounced it tie most horrible spectacle
they had ever gazed upon. On one side
were two coffins containing the black-yel-
low remains of two of the latest victims,
while another square box was receiving a
mass of putrefed flesh that few hours
before was known as one of Gods noblest