West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1878-09-14

The fever has spread all over Chelsea, tho
northern suburbs, Fort Pickering, en-
southern part OF the city, also in the Estral
Park neighborhOod and il Is sweeping
victims into the grave with a swift velocity.
IL ~ getting TO be n question whether
mere VIII be people euough TO bury the
dead
The fever has broken out AZ Brownsville
nifty miles up the Louisville road, and a
stampede of people followed
NEW ORLEANS, September 1.-The situa.
ton tonight is gloomy, there being no i'm.
mediate silver lining in the prospect. Pow.
erty and disease, hand in hand, are striking
right and left throughout the city, and the
yellow death is holding high carnival
Among the victims to-day was Very Rev.
Joseph Marie Millet, Vicar General. Mr.
j. Nell. Walpole, III. ID. Thompson. the
former city editor, and the latter reporter
Of the P,cdyune, are down. THOMPSON is
dying.
The Howard, Peabody and Y. NJ. C.. A.
buildings were thronged all day long. The
Towards report two hundred and forty.
elght applications up to nine D. M. EN-.
bracing nearly four hundred cases. They
donated $4,000 to the Peabodies this after.
noon. These latter have issued 9, 26S rations
upto four p. M, the hour for closing. All
the military organizations have Relief Com.
mlttees in active operation.
The pastors of several cOlOred churches
held conference to-day, and established a
society Tor the relief OF their countrymen.
many OF whom are stricken
Many uptown streets are barricaded and
sawdust is lavishly used to deaden the
rattle of vehicles. The tolling of church
aud curtew bells was discontinued today
The Board of Health is vigorous'y prose.
cutting physicians who do not report their
cases. The Howard list, however, can he
taken as additional to the official report, as
I N VGl ha,s AZ.
cases at the Board.
The hum OF physicians carriages is now
heard all night through, and many drug
stores are open till two q. m. The epidemic
rs last assuming colossal proportions. but
when or at what figure il will reach its eli
max experts are alta loss to conjecture The
mortuary report Just compiled for the week
ending September /, is as follows: Yellow
lever, All GO colOred); other fevers. So .
various diseases 100 total 500. Adults 4OS .
children under ten years of age, 1SS.
NICKsBURG, September 2.-Weather clear
and warm. Thermometer 94o An appeal is
made To the lsraelites throupbout tho
country for assistance to their sick and des.
titute countrymen here. The distress is
very great. Remittances to be made Ia
Alex. Kuhn, Treasurer Hebrew Relief So
ciety, Vicksburg, Miss.
The Howard Association estimates he.
tween one thousand five hundred and two
v.
Eight physicians report one hundred and
ten new cases IL is estimated there are
over two hundred new cases TO day. Deaths,
fourteen whites and four blacks, among
them joseph. +. Doll, merchant, recently
elected Mayor; Charles II. Nathan jeweler.
and j. w. Jolley.
Thirty cases of fever are reported at
SGreenville, Mississippi, and FIVE deaths.
me disease is spreading rapidly.
ST. LOUIS, MO.-Alfred H. Spink. a younp
reporter of this city, who lett here three
weeks ago for that i'll starred city, Grenada,
Mississippi, as special correspondent for
the New York Hera'd, returned to-day. lie
brings nothing new, but says the con dition
there, present and past, is simply beyond
description. There is, and has been m othinp
Tor the last six weeks but misery, desola.
ton, and death. Mr.. Sphinx thoroughly
disinfected himself at Holly Springs, where
he buried all his clothing and personal
effects, is quite well, and is regarded here as
something of hero.