Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-08-15
a Gail from Grenada.

| Rice, Silk d Co., Memphis:
| GRENADA, Miss, August 14-Money
| badly needed. Grenada calls loudly for as
sistance. Help us. GEO. w. JONES.
| Grand Junction Quarantines Against
Mea5phis.
Special to the Appeal
GRAND JUNCTION, August l4.-Grand
Junction is in state of quarantine against
| Memphis. EDWARD BECTON, mayor.
The Fever Spreading.
| Special to the Appeal
! NEW ORLEANS, August IA Several cases
of fever have occurred in Mobile, of which
nothing has so far been said, and at Port
| Gibson a panic exists on account of two cases.
Two Cases at Strand Junction.
Special to the Appeal
GRAND JUNCTION, August 14.-Mrs. W.
A. Belew and child of Grenada, Mississippi,
came here and were taken sick with yellow
fever. They are at the Stonewail house, re-
ceiving medical and other attention.
The Disease succumbinG to Treatment
in Grenada.
Special to the Appeal
GRENADA, August 14.-Five deaths to-day
and about fifteen new cases. One half the
white population have left. Sixteen female
nurses and two physicians from New Orleans
arrived this morning. A compact organiza-
ton of the citizens was affected this morning
for the purpose of wrestling with the disease
in systematic manner. The panic is about
over. People begin to realize the situation,
and are preparing themselves to resist the
desolation of the disease. Fumigation and
disinfection has been carried on vigorously
for the past few days, and it is believed by
the physicians that the disease is being some
what subjected to treatment ANDERSON.
Associated Press Dispatches
New Orleans,
NEW ORLEANS, August 14-New cases,
one hundred aud thirty four; deaths, twenty.
The weather is showery and unfavorable for
the sick.
New York Asked for Aid for Grenada.
NEW YORK, August 14.-rhe mayor of
Grenada, Mississippi, has telegraphed Mayor
Ely, asking pecuDiary aid for the relief of
sufferers by the yellow-tever scourge.
Rigid Quarantine at Paducah.
LOUISVILLE, August I4-Mayor Weir, Of
Paducah, telegraphed TO the Associated Press
agent at Louisville that the city of Paducah
has been quaraptined against all steamers
from the south, and also all railroads.
Galveston Quarantines sgainst Mem
phis.
GALVESTON, August 14.-The board Of
health Guaranteed against Memphis to-
night. This city is unusually clean and
healthy, and extraordinary efforts will be
made to keep it so.
little Rock Preparing for the Fever.
LITTLE Rock, August 14.-The board of
health met to-day and passed resolutions
establishing quarantine on all railroads ex-
cept the Little Rock and Fort Smith, and all
steamboats, and stages. No trains from
Memphis, st. Louis, or Shreveport, will here
after DC permitted to enter the city. All will
be stopped at least twelve miles out. The
city is being dislnfected, and every precau-
ton taken to prevent the introduction of
yelow-fever. No passengers or mails are to
be admitted.
The Relief Committee at Grenada.
GRENADA, August 14-Owing to the sick
ness of the mayor and councilmen, the I'M
dersigned have been appointed by the citi-
zens of Grenada, at a general meeting, to
receive and distribute whatever pecuniary aid
can be obtained for those suffering from yell
lowfever In Grenada. The disease is here
IN its most malignant form, and the sick are
so numerous and destitute as to make 1T ut
terry impossible for Grenada, unasslsted, to
relieve or move them. The assistance of the
charitable is respectfully solicited, and the
press Is asked to copy this dispatch generally.
R. S. RINGGoLD, Md,
Health Officer,
THOMAS WALTON.
Extraordinary Increase in New Or
leans.
NEW ORLEANS, August 14.-The extraor-
binary increase of new cases of fever reported
by the board of health, up to noon to-day,
has been the absorbing topic of conversation
this afternoon. The reporters sought In vain
for an explanation. True, the report includes
two days from Charity hospital, but that only
adds seven or eight cases, which should have
been reported yesterday, and leaves one hun
dred and twenty SIX or seven cases that have
occurred during the past twenty four hours.
So far but few cases have occurred in the
third or fifth districts. Of the deaths reported
nine are under twenty years; of these SIX
were natives of New Orleans.
Praise to New Orleans.
GRENADA, August 14.-Sixteen expert.
enced nurses, In charge of Drs. Vaudeville
and Veasie, arrived this morning from New
Orleans. The nurses were quickly assigned
to afflicted families. The type of the disease
is pronounced malignant and is spreading
Ten or twelve new cases since morning, and
nine deaths reported in the last twentY-four
hours. There are fully one hundred and
twenty five cases. The white population is
now reduced to seven hundred. None of the
old cases have recovered. The brave and
seif-sacrifcing doctors of New Orleans, as
sisted by resident physicians, are doing noble
work, and grateful hearts go out to them
and to the generous citizens Of New Orleans
in this hour Of deep affilction.
Deaths and Panic in Grenada.
GRENADA, August IA List of deaths:
Mrs Fields, Mr.. and Mrs. Young, Mrs. Will
son, Mrs. Davidson, Mrs Ingram and son,
T. E. Peacock, w. A. Shankle. Harry Fields,
David Moore, Miss Mary Huntingdon, Mr..
WEIGH and daughter, Miss Mamie Peacock.
I,1Z Tnly ~ ~
well; Alice Johnson, colored; Mr.. and Mrs.
III MILAN, Sallie DeJarnett, Lula Meade and
Lula Hendricks. Sixteen New Orleans nurses
arrived this morllng and two doctors. So
far there Is no organization of citizens. All
are panic stricken. The mayor Is down. The
sheriff and all the city officers, except the
town marshal, have left, the jail thrown open
and the prisoners gone. New cases are de-
veloping all the time; dislnfectants are being
used freely; | shall effect some organization
to-day, | hope. All the stores are closed, ex-
cept drug stores, undertakers' shops and one
or two saloons. Five deaths within the last
twenty-four hours. W. j. SMITH.
SurgeOn-GeneraI WOOdwOrth's Report.
mo. o.
OFFICE SURGEON GENERAL, u. 5. N. h S,
WASHINGTON, August 10, 1873.
Abstract of sanitary reports received during
the past week under the national quarantine
act:
PORT EADS.
Yellow-fever has appeared at Port Eads, at
the mouth of the Mississippi, on the fifth in
slant. Thirteen cases, but no deaths, to noon
yesterday.
NEW ORLEANS.
Since the last report there were two hun
dred and thirty six cases of yellow fever and
slxty-tv deaths, making four hun bred and
thirty one cases and one hundred and eigh-
teen deaths to yesterday noon. At
CINCINNATI,
there have been only two cases OF yellow
fever lone previously reported), both from