The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1878-09-07

hospital service for The Hsek shdins 81 the
thirtieth, as follows
/ In New Orleans, to date, there has been
total OF 2, SIT cases and 1857 deaths.
AT Vicksburg there are now 800 cases, half
of which have occurred In the last week, and
fifty-nine in tie last twenty-four hours.
In Memphis there were PAL deaths during
Louisiana the deaths Of yellow fever refugees
from Grenada and 6ther points are reported.
AT st. Louis thefe were eight cases OF yellow
fever and two deaths from the fever. At
Quarantine beloW st. Louis there were six
cases and bne death. Besides. twenty doubtful
At Cairo, Ili., one death is officially reported;
at Louisville, four; at Cincinnati, four deaths
and nine cases, two during the last week, all
from infected places.
The total number Of deaths in infected cities
up to the first is as follows: New Orleans,
1,003; Memphis, 500; Vicksburg, 223; Grenada,
149; Port Gibson, La, 49,; total, 1882. This
does not include the deaths Of refugees in
other cities.
There were 0iShty-fhur rev cases and fifty
three deaths in Memphis Oh tie sbS6nd "A
number of colored men assembled befUf6 the
commissary department and made . rush
for the doors. They we're kept back by the
colored guard at the door, but 3 second at
e
wounding one man and dispensing the rest.
Some agitators who were talking to the crowds,
trying to create trouble, were promptly ar
rested. New horrors were discovered in con-
nection with the pesiilence. Several dead
bodies were found, partially eaten by rats, and
others in sickening stage Of decomposition ow-
ing to the inability OF friends TO attend to their
burial. In New Orleans the record Of the day
was 1856 new cases and ~ deaths. OF the
1901 persons who had died up to date 461
were Oh ldren under eleven years of age.
From Fort Gibson, Miss. the following dis
patch WAS received Four hundred cases
and fifty-fve deaths ont of five hundred and
fifty persons remaining in town. About twelve
hundred have fed. The distress is very great,
the sick dying with no one to give them drink
Of water" At Vicksburg, whore all business
had ceased, the suffering was intense A
telegram from W. M. lockwood, president Of
the Howard relief association stated that Of .
population of 10000 remaining in the city
one-third could still take care Of themselves
while the other two-thirds must be provided
for wholly or In part until frost /; that ], 500
persons were sick and from one to every menu
Der of family were down with the fever. The
telegram concluded by stating that two Of the
doctors were dead and eight more sick and that
s'every call Of every kind, whether for box Of
mustard or coffin, for beef tea or permit fer
burial in the Howard lot comes to the associa-
ton. All resources and all supplies will proba-
bly, carry us for, say, fifteen or twenty days at
most and welcome, cheering, ife-giving frost
| may not greet the eyes and gladden. the hearts
of the survivors for more than sixty long and
saddening days. At Baton Rouge, La, there
had been eleven deaths; many were sick, all
business was at standstill, and cry for aid
was sent out to the country from the suffering
people