The Red Cloud chief., 1878-09-12
the IeAASle ScovRse.
Report. from the Infected Districts.
relief for the Sufferer.

August The Death IL, include. - chlIirrn
under 3 wear, and : ,~,- eru 3 ,ui ~ I Ia
nunu ~ he. cAs.. sefr rr,o ted 10 Mcm,ti.
~ith sn lncrrss" NJ The Heath -, On that
morning The nrgro.. h~'s = ,i.motuV. iur -
tons Abuu, one thous % men, ~ptnrn and
children surrounded The r~ommi-stN depot,
AMI u sas found necessary 4, station a guard
from q cnlprri military COMPANY 'p kr'p ta,k
the crowd MANY sell r.ouir are It'll having
the city. :. ven hundred cs.-. have occurred
al liosshu-g " c,.s " yrilps fever have
occurred between Canton and New Orleans /.
distance u over two hundred mile. Reports
from the coast to~us along the Nphilr rad
.hup be- fever A. AnS point between New or
lean. AMI Mobile ~ Port nil,snu 'hc ~fryrris
very 'aral. and there l. no abatement Their
"rf, ~ ras's and g ir,ihs Wy ~ August -
~ Canton not Il .ing,c business huI-" Wa
open exc 81 ~ drug stores Tie j'p, h,ia
population ~ 3.J'. nu' NV Drly - nhiie per
SONS are IN the city There we're SOME n ~
~ cases, many u.gtu., having He'd Within Tie
last lev i'ys ~ Nrinphl, y! death. occur.
red IA y hours. Tao 4 a'hE from y'iluN e.
ser occurred AZ Cincinnati. Augu.t 9sth. both
- which nrrr lcf.uus Who cam, from Mem.
phis "a rscapc The plague. Four t-ISors pre-.
yiously taken Ia the hospital s,rr recovering
six deaths occurred At Gfruit, ~ the !ith
The work ~ making collections L. -illl Gpiug
on A meeting 10 Liverpool, England, prc.i.
ird over hy the Mayor, appointed . committee
to make collections Chicago collection.
amounted to sSsU The Peoria Board -
r. 49,, 80 .E.. un- 49, - .l.
contributions aggregate ti.,VD In omaha,
Nebraska, over SlsD was collected The Ma
sons u wheeling contributed tlsU The uh-
scrptiuus In - Loui- amounted ~ si.lg,
making "A total IN that citN to dat, 81 about
tlju N The Merchants Exchange On the
same day voted tn donate t2b.Hr from the
regular revenue Of the Exchange. Ouly three
votes az ,ins, the proposition were pullci. \
freight train loaded with supplies Il. I Little
Rock, Ark,
Reports Of August 9th. show An in.
crease in the yellow fever scourgc In the South.
In New Orleans l9t new cases are reported,
and ~ deaths. In Mem his, ny 'o noon. there
were - urw 60 cs aud - deaths. por, Ful,
reports 3 new cases aud one death. Al Nlcks
burg, there we're lis new cases and q heath,
IN twenty four huur~. Ail for IA" sufferers l.
stu going forward The NrW York Chamber
Of Commerce send 81. ps. The Merchants
Exchange, IL ~. Louis, collected n fund rx.
crriiug sG,uU The collection, In Iudianap
oils amount 10 - 400. The Produce Exchange
81 New York, collected sl,.0 Further col.
%lcctiun- were made In Chicago, aGgrcgating
e. - In addition Ia thi. the Washington
lee COMPANY uf Chicago, sent "A ear ioal Office
~ Memphis, and many private individuals seat
none. Secretary Nc'rary ordered rsiions
AID medical stores for two thousand pcopl"
Tor twenty days. A glass firm, ~ Wheeling,
sent stH. The elnpluycs II the llaukcyr II
flee. Burlington, sent $50 A bale " cotton
from Tennessee, AT ~ Louis, sold for sS,Onud
the proceeds were forwarded to Memphis and
Vickshurg Another bale Of cotton, ~ New
York, sold for az, and the proceeds we're for
waricd The Knights Trmpiar, AZ Mradyillr,
Pa, sent t5n. And so the contributions ar.
going on all over the country.
At Memphis, August So,h, the death
rate IN rciscd Up To noon there were III in
,crmcnts. At the Board Of Health office only
- new cases wer, reported for - hours, but
this does no, rxhibit the true state Of the cpi.
demic Tor the day, AS owing "a the rain, sever.
al physicians had failed 10 report. For the
same time the undertakrrs reported 3, yellow
fever interments. At New Orleans there were
ln new cases, and 80 deaths. Weather cloudy
aud showcry. Citizens of Omaha contributed
another 81 600. and the Union Pacific opera
tors raised $500 for the benefit OF Southern
| teiegrsphers. The following additional cor
| tributions have been made Little Rock, over
81, 40; three commentaries Knights Tcmplsrs
" Pittsburg, each 500, the General Relief
Committee OF Pittshurg, 400; Relief Fire Co,
Council Bluffs, t2'0; Columbus, ohio, s2,A';
Chicago, a total through regular SOURCES Of
go, Az; cyhih tion Of Howc's London Circus
AT Milwaukee, for the benefit 81 the sufferers,
over $li,00; Merchants Exchange fever fund
Of 81. Louis, sll,Ub. an entertainment given
In Erie. Pa, 900; Peoria, H., $50; Liver
pool, England, sl,0O, The new cases at
N,ckshurg, for ~ hours were 40, and thirteen
deaths.
Arc. SIN Memphis this morning only
seven physicians outof about twenty had made
their reports of new cases, the number aggre-
eating forty-two, hut not more than half the
cases could have been reported, Al the coun-
" jail there were twenty cases of yellow fever.
One inmate under sentence OF death for muir
der died, ami also another under sentence 10
the penitentiary, Undertaken report 80 in
terments up to noon. At6 o'clock In the even
ing the official records exhibited l+s new cases
and - deaths for ~ hours. The fever contin.
ucs to ~ read among the colorod people, In
some cases the sick and dying have been aban-
doned, and the sanitary police have been in
structed to break into houses where they have
reason to believe there are unattended sick or
dead persons. At New Orleans, to-day, the
death list includes twenty children under sew
en- years. From noon to Il o'clock - deaths
were reported, Henry Hahne, who shot and
killed Henry Murphy u few days ago, was
among the victims, This Is the first case In
the prison. There have been 80 c asses and ~
deaths AT Port Gibson. here was one death
AT Mobile from yellow fev r to-day, Al Nicks-
burg ~ new cases and 10 deaths ar creportcd
g, ~. I,,r. yaIl,ur f,r,r h.s &, nna 49, "a.