The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-09-14
YELLOW FEVER.
Reports from Various Points Of
the South and West.
At Memphis.

At Memphis.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 13-The Post publishes
the foiIowiog:
DR.. Ramsey, who went to Memphis with
nurses has returned. He says that five miles
from Memphis the air was laden with fever
poison, aud az we approached the city the
stencil was sickenng Dr. Pease and myself
went TO the Peabody hotel, the only one open,
and were shown into a room from which dead
body had jast been removed. Vessels with
black vomit were standing about aud the bed
clothes had not been changed. The hotel itself
is perfect pest-house. Sulphur pans are kept
burning in the halls, and the bedding is con-
tinually disinfected, but they cannot get help
enough to do one-half what ought to be done
Commerce has ceased ami business of nearly
every kind ia suspended. Even the saloons are
for the most part closed, and the provision
stores empty. The greatest need seems to be
provisions, clothing, physicians, money, nurses
and medicines, about in the order named. The
best thing is to send plenty of provisions and
clothing. The negroes and many poor whites
from Is miles around have focked in, hearing
that they could get something to eat Humid
reds are going about the streets, especially the
c0l0rsd women, with hardly anything on The
sights are distressing. So far no serious out
break has occurred, but the better classes are
in constant terror of riot, as the city is in the
hands of colored police altogether, and while
they behave very WELL there is still lurking
fear of some additional evil from this source.
MEMPHIS, Sept. 13.-The weather was cool,
but this morning the sun came out warm again
The undertakers report so deaths to noon, and
113 cases since noon yesterday. There is great
difficulty in arriving at the number of new
cases, as the physicians are negligent abont
making reports. The opinion prevails with
physicians that since the late cold weather
there will be fewer new cases aud the attacks
Tbn.o at
| vile, Tenn, and the town is dep0pulated.
AlCanten
| CANTON, Sept 13.-Our worst fears have been
| realized The cold winds and heavy atmos-
phere of the past two days have had most dis
| astrOus effect. New cases for the past "a hours
have been 36 and deaths 4.
At Baton Rouge.
BATON ROUGE, Sept. 1870 go new cases for
| last "a hours were reported this morning and 3
| deaths from fever.
Father Soval. Catholic priest, Philippe
| Machel, Esq, Vice Consul OF France, are sick.
| Weather cold but no frost.
I'm Cairo.
CAIRO, ILL.,, Sept 13.-The excitement over
the second case Of fever has nearly subsidized
| Mulkey died this morning. He was promptly
buried and the premises were thoroughly disin-
| fected.
At New Orleans.
NEW ORLEANS Sept. I3.-The weather is
clear and cool. Mercury last night 81. New
cases 22S. deaths 49,
| The weather is clear and cool. The signal
| service reports that the minimum thermometer
was 81 last night. Private instruments near
the ground indicated g. From noon to p.
| m. % deaths were reported
Shreveport has contributed $4,000, 35 nurses,
physician and minister to the fever suffer-
| ers. The Towards have received the following
from Terry, Miss: We have fever at Dry
Groul closely resembling yellow fever. It can
not be distinguished. Send us doctor imme-
diately. Our doctors are sick.
Sufferers at Holly Springs.
| HOLLY SPRINGS, Sept. 13.-Dr. Segur is
| down with the fever. Instead of the two ply
| sicians asked for send three. The fever is on
the increase and is quite fatal. The cold has
| been severe.
A Day Appointed for Fasting aud
| Prayer.
JACKSON, Sept. 13-Gov Stone has appointed
Thursday, Sept. 30th. day prayer to God that
people of Mississippi, and health and peace be
restored to the mourning households.
A Day Of PRAYER in Cincinnati.
| CINCINNATI, Sept 10 This being the day
set apart for the stricken South, there is no
session of the Chamber Of Commerce. Police
Courts or Board of Pablo Works. Services
are being held in the churches. The rainy
| W66Gnos tn6 past lew Jays uaS naQ a Damaging
effect on fever patients at Raps Hill hospital,
| who were being quite successfully treated until
| the damp atmosphere.
Advices from Gallipolis state careful exam
ination of infected districts below the town
| shows 16 cases of fever and nearly all present
worse symptoms this morning on account of
| cold rain.
H. Remback of New Orleans died today of
the fever.
| A Terrible story from Grenada.
! WASHINGTON, Sept. Is "A letter from Mrs.
Col Baugb, who resides in the vicinity of
Grenada, Miss, gives the following horrible
details of the plague 10 that locality:
MANY citizens left Grenada when the fever
| broke out, without closing their houses and
! with only what apparel they bad on. They
| will return destitute to pnndered homes. The
| sick and dying are now suffering terribly for
citizens after death are rolled up in their bed
| ding just as they died, and dumped into graves
| SO shallow that the horrible stencil rises night
and day to burden the air with its poison. The
living and dead lie often on the same couch till
| an opportunity for buryiDg the latter arrives.
The unfortunate victims have nothing to eat
| only as cooked and sent, having no one to
| attend and prepare what little they can get to
| eat Some families to the very last member
have died within few hours after the first
| attack. The telegraph operator, brave, noble,
| heroic spirit, was co Dpelled to bury his wife
with his own hands, and his footballs about her
grave were the only sounds to break the death
like silence of the place"
A Maine Woman Die. from the Fever in
Chicago.
CHICAGO, Sept 13-Heurietta Tobey died to-
day, from what the ply scians says was yellow
fever, modified by climatic influences. She
was formerly from Maine, but came there from
Memphis where her husband died recently
A Hopeful Report.
nrr r.. i
other well-known ply sicians express an opinion
that after this week there will be gradual de-
cline in the death rate from yellow fever.
A Better Outlook.
GALLIPoLIs, Sept. 13.-The infected district
has now - cases, three being reported conval-
escent. Two cases. VIM. Walker and his son
LOring Walker. are very bad The balance are
improving. No new cases have been reported
in the last two days and no deaths. The rain
continued until midnight and to-day has been
cloudy with the thermometer at 60. The panic
is entirely allayed in the city, not a case of
fever having appeared therein.
The Latest from Memphis
MEMPHIS, Sept 13.-All undertakers but one
report tonight. The total number of deaths
!. porte is SO of which "A are colored persons.
Resident physicians report 20 new cases to
board of health The report of the medical
corps of the Howard association will not be
made up till midnight.
Yesterday the Howard physicians reported
203 cases. The disease is assuming q milder
form and yields more readily to treatment. 1t
is attributed to recent colder weather. Four
more Howard physicians have fever, viz: DR..
Bond, Brownville, DR.. Armstrong of this city,
DR.. McGregor of Upton Co., Tenn, and DR..
Menees of Nashville. Dr. S. r. Clark and
wife are sick; also w. r. Thompson of Wash
ington and Rev. Mr.. Schuyler, an Episcopal
minister from Hoboken, N. J.
Aid tn the SuHerers
New YORK. Sept 13.-The publishers of the
Plumber and Sanitary Engineer of this city,
have notified the chamber of commerce relief
committee that they will give their gross re-
ceipts for September for the relief of the fever
sufferers.
The New York Southern relief com mttee
today received $2240.
Helm fnr he Nardv