Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-09-13

and the number is constantly increasing. Much
as the committee dislikes 70 ask aid from the
charitable abroad, who have 30 generously
responded 10 former calls necessity and hu-
manity compel them to request further and
cases and thirteen deaths we're reported.
AWAshington dispatch gives the official re-
port Of the surgeon-generI OF the marine
hospital service for the week ending on the
thiTtie.h, as follows:
In New Orleans, to date, there has been 3
total OF 81 77 cases and S67 deaths.
At Vicksburg there are now 800 cases, half
Of which have occurred in the last week and
tifty-nine in the last twenty-four hours.
In Memphis there were 241 deaths during
the week. At many places in Mississippi and
Louisiana the deaths OF yellow fever refugees
from Grenada and other points are reported.
At st. Louis there were eight cases Of yellow
fever and two deaths from the fever. At
quarantine below st. Louis there were six
cases and one death, besides twenty doubtful
patients admitted during the forty-eight hours
ended lest evening.
At Cairo, ILL.,, one death is officially reported;
at Louisville, four; at Cincinnati, four deaths
and nine cases, two during the last week, all
| from infected places.
The total number Of deaths in infected cities
up to the first is as follows: New Orleans,
| 1908; Memphis, 500; Yicksburg, 223 Grenada,
l49; Port Gibson, La, 4S; total, 1882. This
does not include the deaths Of refugees in
other cities.
There we're eighty-four new cases and fifty
three deaths in Memphis on the second. A
number Of colored men assembled before the
commissary department and made a rush
for the doors. They were kept back by the
colored guard at the door, but second at
| tempt being made the guards fred badly
woundng one man and dispensing the rest
Some agitators who were talking to the crowds,
trying to create trouble, were promptly ar
rested. New horrors were discovered in con-
nection with the pestilence. Several dead
bodies were found, partially eaten by rats, and
others in sickening stage of decomposition,
| owing to the inability of friends to attend to
| their burial In New Orleans the record of the
day was 1856 new cases and n deaths. OF the
| 1901 persons who had died up to date 461
| we're schildren under eleven years of age.
From Fort Gibson, Miss, the following dis
patch was received: Four hundred cases
and fifty-ive deaths out of five hundred and
| fifty persons remaining in town. About twelve
| hundred have fled. The distress is very great.
the sick dying with no one to give them drink
of water At Vicksburg, where all business
had ceased, the suffering was intense. A
| telegram from W. M. lockwood, president of
the Howard relief association stated that of a
population of 10000 remaining in the city one
| third could still take care of themselves while
the other two-thirds must be provided for
wholly or in part until frost that $500 per-
sons were sick and from one to every member
Of family were down with the fever. The
telegram concluded by stating that two Of the
| doctors were dead, and eight more sick and that
every call Of every kind, whether for box OF
mustard or coffin, for beef tea or permit for
| burial in the Howard lot, comes to the associ-
alton. All resources and all supplies will proba.
bly, carry us for, say, fifteen or twenty days al
most and welcome, cheering, ife-giviDg frost
may not greet the.eyes and gladden. the hearts
of the survivors for more than sixty long and
saddening days. At Baton Rouge, La, there
had been eleven deaths; many were sick, all
business was at standstill, and cry for aid
was sent out to the country from the suffering
people.
On the third there was large increase of
cases in New Orleans and the situation there
was very bad. The new cases reported were
327 deaths, eighty-three. Destitution an6
distress stalked hand in hand with the fever
and fresh appeals for aid were made by the
population. The secretary of war ordered thai
1000 rations be issued for twenty days to the
| suffering poor of the city, and the various
charitable associations Of the place were doing
all in their power to help the helpless. The
colored population of Louisiana also issued al
appeal for aid to their brethren Throughout
their country. From Memphis came the fol
lowing dispatch The condition Of our city
to-day beggars description. While the list Of
new cases reported gives only about 60, the
deaths have amounted to Sc, only two being
from other causes than yellow fever. Bodice
sgere discovered to-day in out Of the way
places which had the appearance of having
been dead for several days. One peculiarit,
manifested among many Of the sick is a desire
to.exclude themselves, and among the poor Their
Is an unreasonable fear of being sent to the hos
pital orin6rmary. This is probably the origin O.
the discoveries Of to-day" A cry for hell
was sent out by Father Welsh, Of st. Patrick
Church, who appealed to all Catholic churche
for aid, and by the Colored Preachers Aid So
ciety. At Holly Springs, Miss, there wer
about sixty cases of fever, and thespeople, be
coming panic-stricken, left in large numbers
At Vicksburg and Grenada new cases were re
ported hourly and the death list was CONSTANT,
increasing.
Memphis dispatch Of the fourth says
"The mortality last night and this morning
was fearful. Two undertakers reported thirt,
interments, while County Undertaken Welsl
reported 100 interments of paupers, three
fourths of whom were colored. Our city a
present is one vast charnel-house. The un
dertakers report ninty-six interments for tn
twenty-four hours ending six o'clock thi
evening. OF these ninety-six deaths wer
caused by yellow fever, seventy-six of tn
nterments were white people, and twent
takers establishment to- day brought out tn
fact that at night-fall there were abou
sixty more reported dead and still unburied
The question of disposing Of the dead i
becoming a serious one. The Citizens
Relief Committee has employed a buris
corps of thirty colored men to assist the count
undertaken and his men, and it has even beef
suggested to burn the dead if they cannot b
buried more promptly, as corpses are known t
have lain unburied for forty eight hours bur
dening the air with odors and becoming 80 re
voting that people have fed the neighborhood
1t is with difficulty that men can be hired t.
haul them to the Potters Field" at New Or
leans there were 100 deaths and 262 new cases
Reports from other towns revealed continu
ance of the prevailing frighiful condition o
affairs. A dispatch from Holly Springs, Miss.
said that "gloom, despair and death rule tn
hour. The situation is simply appalling. TIL
outside world is appealed to for help. TIL
| atorea are all closed and naopla who ran pe