The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1878-09-04
The RaVageS Of The PgtilGnce in
Southern Cities Still Continues.
THE WORST DAY AT MEMPHIS.
DEATHS At ORLEANS.
Distressing Condition of AT
fairS-Government
Rations Issued.

MEMPHIS, Tenn, August 81
The number Of new cases reported up
to noon to-day was 81; deaths, 33.
The westber is cloudy and threaten.
ing rain, in the event of which an
increase in mortality may be expect
cd. OF the new cases occurring now
& large portion are colored, among
whom the mortality will doubles he
very great.
AFFAIRS AT yICKsBuRG
WASHINGTON, August 2T.-Tbe
following despatch has been received
at the Treasury Department from
the Deputy Collector Of Customs at
Vicksburg, Miss.
VIcKsBURG, August 26.
To Or. John u. Woodrorth, Super
rising Surgeon General, Washing-
ton, d. C.
Twenty-three deaths yesterday.
Six hundred cases under treatment,
and the plague spreading with fear
full rapidity. Great suffering and
destitui0n among the poorer class
cs, See the United States authori-
ties, and urge tie imperative necessi-
ty fof Government aid. RGtions re-
quired Immediately. Weather pa
favorable. Booth improving. Post
master Pease and children attacked.
G. L. BENT, Deputy Collector.
YIcXsBURG, August 2T.-Heasy
showers last night aud this morning.
One hundred and eighteen new cases
of fever in the past twenty-four
hours, and t~wenty-four deaths, among
them Dr.. ID. w. Booth, DR.. Harris
and Mrs. Graham, from Galveston,
arrived to-day.
THE DEATH ROLL At NEW ORLEANS.
NEW ORLEANS, August 27.-To-
days yellow fever reports show 1911
new cases and 40 deaths.
The death list to day Includes
eight children undcr seven years.
A despatch from Port Eads reports
one death aud three new cases there.
One Of the two Howard nurses left
there By DR.. Stone is reported sick.
Collector Smith has been authorized
By the Treasury Department to pur-
chase q hundred gallons of carbOlic
acid to disinfect the Custom House.
EATIoNs AND SUPPLIES o n SICK,
WASHINGTON, August 21.-Col.
McCerdle, accompanied by Captain
j. w. Lake, Of Jackson, Miss, to-
day had an interview with Secretary
McCragy ia behalf of the Vicksburg
sufferers. The Secretary promptly
responded to their appeals and order
ed rations and medical stores for two
thousand people for twenty days,
provided a train can be obtained to
run through from Chicago to Vicks-
burg. kilograms have been sen to
the railroad officials, and donations
solicited from the people of Chicago,
81. Louis and other cities.
DISEASE AT PORT GIBSON.
PORT GBs August 1.-Two
hundred and twenty cases Of yellow
fever to date and twenty-five deaths.
REPORT FROM vIcKsBURG
VicKsBURG, August 2S.-It has
been cloudy oil day, and the Their
mometer %. A light rein is falling
to night. Oae hundred aud twenty
1--WE new eases Of fever have bven
reported during the past twentg-four
hours. There were fifteen new
cases. Among the new cases are
DR.. O'Leary and Acting Mayor
Doll.
REIGN OF TERROR IN MEMPHIS.
MEMPHIS, August 2S-Eighty
Lew eases were reported up to noon
to-day, while the indications are
that there will be quite al Increase in
the death rate. A. X. Gillen, on the
Citizens Relief Committee, died this
morning. \ private telegram an-
nounces the death of Dr.. II. Il.
IIobson, Of yellow fever, at Muir
freesboro'. DR.. Ilobson left here at
the outbreak OF the fever. The ne
groes this morning became clamor-
u for rations. About one thous-
and men, women and children sur
rounded the commissary depot, and
1t was necessary to station o guard
from a colored military company to
keep back the crowd. Numbers of
the well ores are still leaving the
city aided by the Citizsns' Com
mittee.
TERRIBLE SCENES.
MEMPHIS, August 2S.-The con-
dillon of our city tonight surpasses
the most somber imagining of mis-
cry. For the past twenty-four hours.
ending at I p. ", sixty-two deaths
have occurred, of which only four
were from other causes than yellow
fever. Ofthese forty were white
and eleven colored. Tue Bew cases
number one hundred and ni.e,een.
During the day our physicians were
so worn out in attending the sick
calls that tonight, for selfpreserva-
ton, they are resting, many in the
country and others in unknown parts
Of the city, while friends of the sick
are searching in vain for medical
attendance. The following report to
the Howards to-day, from DR.. L. w.
Mitchell, Director of the Medical
of ten physicians employed by
the association, gives some idea of
the condition of things: ! need ten
more physicians Immediately, | fad
scores Of people sick and dying with
out having been G by physicians.
The scenes Of death and distress to-
lay and tonight are indescribable.
Of relief committees have
called TO see sick persons, respond
'ng to calls found in some cases
lying In beds or on floors
without even a single watcher.
Members Of the Independent Order
Workingmen to-day buried 1--WE
members cf the fraternity. They {
ave exhausted their means, and call ,
lpon their brethren for substantial 3,