San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-11-02
IELIOU FETER NEWS.

Grctna, Louisiana, says the Howard anu ] Dung
Mems Christian Associations visiting commit
tee report the total number Of destitute sick
2So. TO attend to these they had but three
physicians, who have ninety-three patients
each to visit, besides their regular practices
The disease is spreading with frightful rapid
ty, attacking both black and white alike An
Episcopal minister, Catholic priest anu on'
brother and two Sisters of Mercy are down
with the fever.
la:l5 r. M.-Dcaths ~ new cases 2U3; total
cases l0,2lS; total deaths 5000. a. w. Dennett'
telegraph operator at Vicksburg, and Ia A.
Pennington, telegraph train dispatcher az
Water Valley, died this morning OF yellow
fever. The telegraphers aid committee, at
this point, by request of Superintendent Johh
Van Horne, of New York, will assist oil SICK
tclegraphers outside of Memphis. This becomes
necessary owing to the illness of remaining
members of the Memphis committee. Appli-
cations should be made to G. r. Chase, chair
man, or to A. d. Babbitt, secretary. Reports
at the board of health show the fever increas-
ing in the lower portion of the third district,
near the United States barracks, slaughter
houses, and along the line of the st. Bernard
parish. The fever has also penetrated every
portion of the second district from the river TO
the woods In addition to yellow fever, an ex-
trcmely severe type of malarial fever prevails
in the parish of st. Martin. A severe type of
fever prevails among children.
A special dispatch from Crystal Springs,
Mississippi, reports the deaths of General Is,
L. Griffith, United States army, and his daush-
ter, at Cayuga, Kinds county Mississippi, of
the prevailing epidemic. The fever is spread
ing there.
1870 p. MA telegram from Franklin, La,
says the fever is on Daniel Thompsons Calu-
met plantation Four whites and twenty blacks
have it. In some cas.s it is malignant, but
among the blacks it is general mild, readily
yielding to treatment.
An Ocean Springs telegram says they only
have one serious case on hand
Bay st. Louis reports IS new cases and three
deaths.
Port Gibson reports the fever spreading in
the country, and says: We are treating over
one hundred cases out of town.
Frank A. Richardson, Isaac n. Marks, and
Augustus Richards, subcommittee Of the Or
leans relief committee, make an appeal to the
people Of the United States for means to sup
ply the destitute with food. The committee
staterth they represent thirty organizations
that have for years devoted themselves to do
-: ell
have united in common effort in behalf of the
destitute and will be pleased to receive and dis
tribute ali contributions. The appeal sets forth
that there are two hundred thousand people in
New Orleans, among them many Thousand des-
titute The fear of contagion has caused the
outside world to close its doors against us as
against lepers Our avenues of trade are closed.
Strong men whowould willingly work ure COM
PEELED to remain idle The appeal concludes:
''You who have already nobly responded to the
calls of others for relief know only that the
city is filed with the plague smitten and dying,
but another affection, scarcely less to be Gread-
ed, follows disease into many homes and s1lites
the strong and well. Hunger and want claim
many whom the fever spares To the sick is
given medicine, to the dead burial, and we ap-'
peal to the humane Of our country to save from
starvation those who are well"
Morgan City, La>--New cases of fever siaSe
September 2Sth, III; total cases, 800; under
treatment, 40; deaths, 80. Many of our best
families are down; also the president of our re-
lief committee. sfis wife and children are
down with the feven
Bayou Sara, La-Flease send by first boat
and two male nurses. DR.. Harrison
was taken sick last night. No physicians arc
within reach.
Thibadeaux La.--Seventeen new cases, three
deaths: two blacks and one white.
tSigned) Vaudeville, M. ID.
Thibadeaux, LATHE fever is rapidly ir-
creasing in this parish. Please forward at once
to Napoleonville twelve nurses, and more il
possible.
tSigned) II. B. FOLEY
President Howard Association, Assumption.
Tangipoha-GreSt Distress here. Try AMI
send doctor OR the first train.
(Signed) L. L. TAYLOR, Mayor.
MEMPHIS, Octtiier 4.-The weather is turn
ing warm again. No decrease of new cases re
ported The Howard association warns refu-
gees from returning before the epidemic is osd-
cially declared over. The volunteer medical
corps of Howard physicians organized last
night under the name of Howard medical socie
ty of Memphis, and elected the following eli
GERS: President, Greenville Dowell, of Calves
ton, Texas; first vice-president, NJ. T. Keat-
ing. second vice-president, Easton Young, of
Savannah: recording secretary, A. G. Wendell,
Of Minneapolis, Minnesota; corresponding sec
Rotary, L. Miles Willett, of Memphis. The OBJ
ject of the organization is the discussion Of the
introduction Of the yellow fever irto Meraphls
its cause, etc.
BATON RorsE, October deaths :; new