The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-09-04

relief Is necessary. Contributions thus lar are
Inadequate. GEORGE L. SMITH,
Collector of Customs;
A. s. BADGER,
Post Master;
NJ. MARKS,
Collector OF Internal Revenues;
b. II. FLANDEss,
Assistant Treasurer.
NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 2, 1878.
To the Hon. George McCrary, Secretary Of
War, Washington:
We respectfully request that you will author
ize the subsistence department, OF the army
here to issue rations sufficient to relieve pres
emit distress.
The Howards report large increase of
fever cases among the negroes. One mem
Der of the visiting committee reports on hs
list nine negroes in one house on Constance
street and six in one house
on Theresa street. The Towards re-
port 24S applications for relief to-day.
The Peabody relief association is getting well
under way They to-day filled 1900 requis'
ltions for rations. The Young Mems Chris
tan association relief committee are doing
noble work. To date they have attended to
the wants of 5000 tever patients, and to-day
in response to the Peabody association, is
sued 90 reouisitiOns for rations, the MEM
bers visiting the homes of the applicants and
satisfying themselves of their wants. The
weekly mortuary report, ending Sunday at
6p m. shows 500 deaths, All from yellow
and 20 colored.
AT PORT GIBSON.
TIE following dispatch has Just been re-
ceIved Port Gibson, Miss, Sept 2-Four
hundred cases and 30 deaths out of $50 per-
sons remaining in town. About ], 200 have
fed. The distress very great. The sick are
dying with no one to give them drink of
water. Some nurses are on the way from
New Orleans and Chicago. Help and funds
re needed
The weather was cloudy this afternoon
and threatening rain. From noon to p. M
20 deaths were reported to the board of
health. Total deaths from fever to date,
1901, including 461 children under IL years
OF age. The new cases include Willis X.
Woolf and Robert Parson, of the telegraph
Office, and ]. NJ. Wslpole, formerly of the
Picayune. The Very Reverend Joseph Mil
let, vicar general OF the arch diocese of New
Orleans, died of yellow fever at o'clock
this evening, after six days illness.
AT MEMPHIS.
MEMPHIS, Sept. 2-To-day opened clear
and warm, and with the little force OF work
ers nearly exhausted. The feyen continues
without any abatement. IL is impossible 10
obtain new cases to noon, for the reason that
physicians are not required to report
before p. m. The undertakes report
fsrty-eight yellow fever interments
up to noon, aud the indications are
that the death list will be as large as yester-
day. A number of negroes, some of them
drunk, assembled before the commissary
department this morning, and, becoming
rIOtous. made a rush for the door They
were kept back by the colored military on
guars, but & second attempt being made the
guard fired, killing one negro. The doors
were closed and General Luke Wright spoke
10 the crowd and quiet was restored for the
time being. The commission is doing all
within its power to supply the people with
food, but soAe of the negroes are dissatisfied
with the manner in which the rations are
issued. Further trouble is feared
The board of health records show 81 new
cases and 53 deaths for the "a hours ending
at p. m.
ALT Watson, the negro shot by the guard
at the commissary depot and reported killed
is not dead bat badly wounded. Fears OF
trouble are allayed to night. Some negro
agitators have been talking to the colored
people and attempting 70 create trouble. but
by the prompt action of Major William viii
lis and other members of the citizens relief
committee. they were arrestedthis afternoon
and put in the station house, and no fears OF
further trouble is felt.
Great difficulty is being experienced in
getting carpenters to make cofins for the
pauPer dead and TO dig graves, but so far all
the dead have beensbu1ed promptly. except
in caces where persons have died unattended
in sickness and the corpses only dscoye red
through the efforts of the health officer and
assistants, as has been the case in several in.
stances N. ID. Menken died this evening.
Information has been received from
Grenada that Butler p. Anderson, of the
Memphis Howard association, who went
there at tb6 5utbresk of the fever, is in dy-
ing condition Adolph Thumel, teller OF
the German national bank, died this even
ing
AT GRENADA.
NEW ORLE ANS, Sept DIR. Stone this az
ternoon telegaphed the Towards from
Grenada. saying: Butler p Anderson is
dying" DR.. Stone appealed to the Towards
to send telegraph operator. Their wishes
being made known TO Mr.. J. W. Hunsacker.
he al once consented to 60 to Grenada. and
left On the evening train on few minutes
notice. greatly obljging the Towards
Six deaths, three white and three colored.
and eight new cases to-day. The whites
were Coz. Luther p. Anderson, of the Mem
phis HoEards, Postmaster Cole and young
man name unknown. Anderson's remains
will leave here at midnight on a special
train for Memphis. Like nearly all
the other cases, he was getting along NICE
ly until a very short time before his death.
AT ST. LOUIS.
ST. LOUIS, Sept. 2.-ks additional precau-
tionary measure, and to guard against posi-
bic Infection from refugees from the afflicted
cities, Health Commissioner G. w. Francis
has stationed prompt and reliable physi-
clan at each OF the police stations In the
city, whose duty it will be to visit all cases
of sickness of whatever kind reported by DO
lice officers or others, and IL the person sici