The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-05
Third Edition
THE LATEST.
YELLOW JACK.
No Stop, No Stay, to the
Saffron Scourge.
Bodies Lying Unburied
at Memphis.
National Associated Press to the Star.
LATEST FROM NEy- ORLEANS

National Associated Press to the Star
LATEST FROM NEW ORLEANS
New ORLEANS, Sept. 5.-The official state
ment of cases of yellow fever reported is as
follows: Deaths from ~ N. yesterday to II
day to II m. to-day pol.
MEMPHIS, Sept 5-3 P. M.-The Howard
Association expenses are now "a, 500 daily,
and those of the Citizens Relief $1,000. 700
nurses are now under pay at S. each per
day. Over 80 men are digging graves. Help
is needed.
VIcKsBURG, Sept. 5.-Bishop Elder died
yesterday. All hope is failing us.
HOLLY SPRINGS, Sept. $40 nurses and 6
physicians needed here.
GREENyILLE, Miss, Sept. 5.-Fever in
creasing. Several doctors and 25 nurses
needed.
THEY TALK OF BURNING THEIR DEAD.
New YoRK, Sept. 5.-The reports from the
cities where the yellow fever is raging are
fragmentary, but the deaths in 8 places
already number over 1900. The number of
cases is very large. In Memphis they think
of burning the dead, because it is so hard
to find men to bury them.
THE DISEASE AT NEW ORLEANS
The progress of the fever since Sunday in
New Orleans is estimated at 1000 cases a
day. The disease is spreading with fearful
rapidity. No one feels safe. Old citizens
who had the fever in childhood are going
down with the most malignant type of the
disease.
The mortality among children is fright
full and all past theories about acclimation
are utterly disproved. The tendency of the
disease to assume a typhoid type on the
third dav is fast increasing, and also the
curious form in which the coagulated blood
from the stomach that ordinarily is dis
charged as black vomit passes off through
the Intestines
In returning from burial yesterday a
reporter met seventeen funeral professions.
IN NEW YORK CITY.
Mrs Joseph Celle the Memphis refugee
who was taken on Sunday last to quaran-
tine with yellow fever, died yesterday. The
steamer S. S. Hutchings arrived last even
ing from Morgan City, La. One death oc-
Cured on the passage supposed to be yell
low fever, and two cases are on board. The
vessel was disintected and quarantined.
SITUATION DESPERATE AT MEMPHIS.
A Memphis special says the deaths have
been greater during the past twenty-four
hours than ever before in that city. Ninety
eight bodies were buried yesterday, and the
undertaken who buries the most of those
who die at the hospital, as well as paupers,
had forty-five more cases yesterday than he
could attend to. 1t is this that makes the
situation so horrible. These decomposed
bodies would cause sickness even in more
I,oal ltl hut tl,N, -
poisoned, as at present, the fact of so many
bodies remaining unburied for a long time
causes the best workers to despair of sue
cessfully fighting the fever Suspension of
ordinary business occasions great demand
for relief. The doctors have been so busy
that only few new cases are reported, six
ty only being reported.
ONLY FIVE WELL WHITE PEOPLE IN GRENADA.
A Grenada special says the mortuary re-
port yesterday was considerably less than
for many days, there being only three
deaths, all negroes Twelve new cases are
reported, all negroes. In fact the whites
are nearly gone, there being, out of a white
population of two thousand, only five well
men in the city. There remain one hun
dred and twenty-five white people. besides
the colored victims. More money for
nurses, stimulants and food is required.
TWENTY-FIVE DEATHS AT vICKsBURG.
A Vicksburg special says there have been
twenty-five deaths since the last report.
Total deaths to date, three hundred.
THE FEVER AT NEW POINTS.
CAIRO, Sept 5.-Dispatches from the
South yesterday report as follows:
Canton-Four deaths and twelve new
cases.
Grenada-Two deaths; no new cases.
Holly Springs deaths and eight new
cases; total cases there to date sixty.
Hickman, Ky.-Five deaths in twenty
four hours, and few new cases.
Blount Springs, North Ala-Six deaths
from yellow fever within the past six days
Union City, Tennis being deserted for
fear of yellow fever from Memphis.
Granville Miss.-Nineteen deaths and
the people in a destitute condition.
Greenville, Miss.-The fever has obtained
a strong foothold here, and the citizens ap-
peal for help.
Brownsville, Tenn.-Ten new cases and
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