The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1878-08-29
VOL. XIV Il
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Ghaatly work OF the plague at Grenada.

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Ghastly Work OF the Plague at Grenada.
GRENADA, MIss., viG PARIS, KEN
lucky, August 9.-Last night was the
most gloomy of all the nights ia Grenada
since the yellow. fever broke out. No
one con adequately set fogth the distress
OF the living. About seyenty-fye whites
are fenced up in the place, so tied to it
by aympathy that they cannot le4vs, bs
their longing for life ever go strong.
The whole country fears Grenada and
shuns its infected inhabitants. Yester-
day was the ninth day since the fever
began to rage, and of the eases developed
about 200 in all-+not ono has given q
ooymptom of improving. Ali the patients
have been seized with great audiences !:
each has had medical attendance aud
nursing, and still seYenty-four deaths are
recorded as having occurred up to this
mo.ning. The town is not merely DESC
late-it is place 80 devastated by an
uncomfortable foe that its condition is
one of pitifUl horror. No one is seen in
the streets except the undertakers and
the physicians, going about on their
hopeless and ghastly errands. In every
house, almost, q body is composed for
burial. Not that there is any Ceremony.
A man ia taken with the fever, be lies
down exhausted, falls into a state of col
lapse or delirium, and in g few hours is
wrapped up in the blankets in which he
has died, and Is hurried off to the burial
place. A force Of black men construct
the grave, the undertakera bring in their
coffin, the body is hastened in, and the
hearse is driven off. The burial services
is omitted, for the living have no time 70
think of other services than those to the
sick. The clergy have stood up nobly in
their place, Rev. Mr.. McCracken, of the
Episcopal Church, being constantly on
duty as nurse and counselor Of the
sicE.
Until last night there was no fear
evinced by the nurses, although there
seemed to be reason enough why thew
should be afraid. Twelve deaths oc.
CURED in twenty-four hours, and the
poison seemed to be more virulent in its
action than ever. In the Bristol Hotel
there were twelve inmates; the fever
was among them, seven cases having ap-
peared. Among tho sick was Mayar
Conley, whose family were in the same
house. he was prostrated on Friday
night. Before that he had been one of
the brave men who were determined TO
outtace and fight the pestilence. His
son-in.law, Mr.. Atwood Wiltshire. tele-
graph operator, who came down from
Memphis to assist Mr.. Redding, was with
Mayor Conley when he was taken sick.
In the midst of his labors the Mayor's
nerve gave out suddcnly, and he went up
stairs to hia room, lay down upon the
bed and declared that It was all over foy
him., as the fever was upon him. He
rapidly became worse, and in his deli
rum tore the bed clothes in pieces. He
died early this morning.
The occasion for the panic Yesterday.
besides the general tendency of the dis.
ease to become swifter and more nalie-
nant in striking down its victims, was the
prostration of nursea of the Howard As
sociation of Memphis, and the report
circulated quickly that The blacks were
dJih5, anu that six VINO were sick would
not recover The supposition had been
that the blacks would not take the pest.
They had been reasonably calm about
the matter, but the prostration of one
caused a stampede of all the Others.
The remaining colored people fastened
to pack up few things, load OK wagons
ana other vehicles aud start for the conn.
we WIN SiA uufbeB OOWn With the
fever, the blacks running away, and che
sick likely to die unattended, the situa-
ton becomes more alarming than it has
vel, been. Already deaths have occurred
under nurses who had more than one
patient to attend. They would leave one
to visit another, and find the first patient
dead on returning. The number of
nurses is so small that the sufferers some
times cry piteonsly for water, and. no one
answers them. AS frequent drink in
small quantities is almost essentia! 20 In,
duce perspiration, this deprivation, that
cannot be helped, must continue. It is
fearful fate that stares the three.score
white people Of Grenada in the feco.
and there seems to be no probability that
it will be avoided. DIR. Vaudeville. who
came from Port Eads to devote himself
to the Grenade patients, yesterday de-
clared that the disease yyaa so viruicnt aa
to astonish him. "God knows.o said he.
that this is terrible. have seen the
fever at Brunswick, at New Orleans. of;
Memphis in 1878, and at Shreveport and
l have never seen anything that can for
an instant be compared with this" 5sF