Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1878-09-19
Morrors of the situation.

Horrors of the situation.
A Business Mans Description Of What
He ,Sa,o on Trip from Cincinnati to
Ne,o Orleans and Return.
"A prominent Cincinnati busincs man,
who has just returned from trip to Now
Orleans, describes tho situation as sorrowful
in the extreme.
The trip down was made by boat. At
Arkansas City the boat was not allowed to
coal or land Men stood on the bank with
guns in their hands and Dried out: "Damn
you, don't you land hero.' At Memphis,
which was reached ct that lonely hour
when the shades Of night come on, when
i the gloomy shadows seom a foreboding of
danger, most depressing soene was pre-.
ssented. Not dog, not mule, not a
negro, could be soen. Tho houses didn't
/. seem Inhabited; from no chimney did the
homelike smoke ascend, indicative of tho
pleasant housewife cares within; every place
was deserted; all was still. Vicksburg was
almost as bad as Memphis. Terror reigns
along the Mississippi. If the boat had
4 Orleans. The inhabitants would ory out:
lt'Take it on, we'll pay storage and extra
freight" At New Orleans things looked
much better. Men wero at work on tho
leyee, business houses were opened, but
transaoting little or no business. During
the day that Captain A. was there, it rained
continuously. Even in the We, on Caual
street, thirty or forty women trudged along.
New Orleans does not wear tho gloom Of
: Memphis. A stranger can come 10 and not
recognize at first, the presence of tho disease
Z not until he questions some one or secs the
funerals.
The return trip was mado by rail.
About eight started from Now Orleans,
which number rapidly increased as tho
train came North. At Grenada not white
man or woman was visiblo-only twenty
negroes. Surrounded by hills, lying in a
broken and ridgod valley, person would
think the town protected; but alas! this is
mistaken idea. At Holly Springs about
two hundred got on. Yellow fever had
broken out the night before and eight out
of twelve cases had died. At Humboldt a
good many got on. At Greonvlle, town
of about four thousand inhabitants, the fever
broke out. The first day six died, on tho
,Socond sixty. People worc leaving it In large
numbers. The scenes at the depots wero
heartrending. Wives, mothers, aud sisters
leaving husbands, sons and brothers, kis-
sing them perhaps for the last time, bid
ding theni farewell perhaps forever. Some
mon will not leave, they will fight it out
or die. AT ono place mother with three
children got in tho train; her husband had
died half hour ago, and before death had
mado her promise to leave on the next
train. Oh bitter trial! 10 savo her lifo
and that of her children she left an uncof-
fined and unburied husband; dear to her as
life ITSELF
GRAPHIC STORY OF a MEMPAIs REFUGEE.
"rhrough the summon there bad been, as
there always is, a good deal of talk about
yellow fever, but, as it got along into
August without any cases, good many
people began to think wo would pull
through. There were others--and thouy.
ands of them, too-that were ell ready,
packed and with all preparations made, to
step out ON the first indication Of tho fever,
1t had been at work in Now Orleans for
come time, and as tho warm season advanced
it began to mako headway up tho riyor.
Then Grenada caught it, and, with tho
memory Of its ravages in 1873, the
people generally became nervous and OK.
3oited.
"About the 18th of August NO had our
tirst case, supposed to have boen brought
up from Now Orleans on tho stoamor
Golden Groom. There wero two of them,
and they stopped with Pat Winters, who
used to be Recorder. Both of them died,
at his house The first death, though,
was that of Mrs. BIonda, an Italian woman
.The first news We had of her was in
the morning, and in tho afternoon she was
dead. Did you ever sec panic2 Well, if
you didn't, you can't form any idea of it.
Nearly everybody was wild. You could
lsee 1T in their eyes. Why, they oamo
Ming into the stores to buy things, and
S. obey they went for the railroad ticket
befayas something ! had never seen
draysN The streets were crowded with
one Of eyagona Of all kinds, and oyory
ing bags Ngas fill of trunks and travel
railroad staNrniture, on tho way to the
or anything q You couldn't got hack
or money. Mat run on wheels for love
81 movement theron all the hustle and
4 Y seemed 80 terribly &aomething else that
ct the time Of the ffNe. felt as did
hero then, and I had HGbicago I was
Ii seemed as If tho placsSa Of sensations.
can't tell how or why, butS doomed. I
&ing for some awful crash thAA like wait.
blot out things forever going to
8 l,n the Arss rush about iftet
S. people loft town, great mN end
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