New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-09-02
NO ABATEMENT AT MEMPHIS.


ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-EIGHT DEATHS
MEMPHIS, Sept. lon Saturday 14S new cases
of yellow fever and seyenty-seven deaths were re,
ported for the twenty-four hours ending
at 6. p. m. To-day 104 new cases and
eighty-One deaths were reported. Among
the dead are Captain j. H. Miller, w. w. White,
clerk at the Peabody HOTEL Z. ]. MOrsfOrd of
the Howard Association; George H. Hoist, under
taker; Sergeant William II. McElrOy, Signal Ser
vice officer; Sister Boonahia. N. i. Holt, G. II.
Plischke Paul CicOlla, and the wife of the Hon. A.
T.. Lacey. Among the new cases are Dr.
William r. Hodges and DR.. r. L. Laski
n. D. Menken is cOnyalescing. The under
takers are pressed to bury the dead, and at Elm
wood Lot to-day 1ozens of cofined dead were lying
on top of the ground waiting for nteIment, it being
difficult matter to procure even colored grave
diggers
information from Camp Joe Williams" is to the
effect that six deaths occurred there of persons
Gently received into til camp hospital which con-
tains about fifteen patients.
SEVERAL OTHER TENNESSEE TOWNS AFFLICTED.
Reports from along the line of the Memphis and
louisville Railroad, state that there have been
three deaths at Brownsville, Tenn. and there are
still seventeen cases there. At Milan, Tenn, there
have been four deaths and twenty cases. At Withe
Tenn, there has been one case, and at Mason, Tenn
ole death.
DRUGGISTS NEEDED.
Volunteer physicians continue to arrive. Five
from the Ohio Board of Health, DIR. Mccormick
from Indiana and Dr. i. T. Easley from Little Rock
arrived Saturday DR.. Easley was accompanied by
a corps of thirty nurses Our druggists are worked
down, and there is urgent need of prescription
clerks Of experience, who have had the fever. How
ard Heymau. a druggist, died yesterday J. S. Rob
inson, one Of the principal druggists closed his es
nd 10,
The fever continues to spread among the negroes
whole families beng Frustrated, but It'll hoped that
with the late additions to the medical corps they
win henceforth receive better attention Fuly one
thousand negroes assembled yesterday in front of
the commssary depot of the Citizens Relief Com
mission. The committee slaboring hard to meet the
necessities of all, and good order prevails. At a
meeting Of the Howard Association yesterday, A.
D. Langstaff was elected president,
Among the recent cases of fever are IL. s. Lam
drum, city editor of The AraldRehe p r. Athy Chief
of Police. DR.. Wise. active young physician, and
Fathers Mcnamara and Riordan Of st. Patricks
Church. Postmaster ThompsOd is down. but IS do
ing we'll. Father Erasmus, o. s. F., and Joseph Rus
sell, superintendent OF the Odd Fellows nurses, are
dead.
called to the WhittemOre House. in which FIVE
deaths have occurred. One woman, who died at
midnight on Friday, still lies in the house. An I'M
Known man VINO was SICK III n DaCk iOOul was HOJ
heard from for several days. Last evening a ply
eieian visited the house. broke into the sick mans
room, and found his stiff remains lylRg abandoned
in the bed with dirty sheet thrown the face,
and the bedcOthes spattered with black yomit.
The sanitary police have been instructed to break
into houses where they have reason 70 believe there
are unattended sick or dead persons.
TWO OR THREE CASES AT CONVICTION, TENN.
s. Armstrong, a photographer died of fever, Sat-
nrday at COvington, Upton County, and two other
eases are reported there.