The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-08-21
THE DEATH LIST.
Vicksburg Attacked by the Scourge-
Suffering Memphis.
FEAR AND FLIGH T.
Sad Scenes Among the Stricken
Communities.

August 20, 1878
1Msy God have mercy upon us, was tho prayer
that went up IRON the sixty persons who. 80 far,
have escaped fever in this city. Your correspond
Ont was In hopes that tho favorable weather
would check spread of the disease, but last night
broke out aresh, and now the prospects Of IL abas
ing are poorer than
ESCAPE FOR ANY.
No one seems 10 escape. Death starss US all In tho
faca. Your readers may ask why do not all foe the
doomed city. The answer Is that tho citizens are
hsmmed In all sides by the quarantine officers
who will not allow victim to DO removed from the
place.
A DOOMED PEOPLE
Tho situation is terrible In the sxtreme. and Il
looks now as though not soul would leave The place
alive General Winfield Smith Is working day and
night directing and aiding tho physicians.
The death rate to-day larger than that OF any OF It's
predecessors, fifteen deaths occurring In the past
twenty -four hours
NAMEs
Tho following are the names OF the victms:-
Thomas Fields. Emma Bristol
John Steel II. b. Shsrman's two chill.
John Thomas dren.
DR. Gage's two children. Henry Morrow.
John Stokes. William Shankle.
DEAD NURSES
There were five last night. or these
three were Of the Howard Association. The
others are Collin Gray Mrs. Thomas MARSHALL, Of
Grenada.
WHOLE FAMILY.
W. G. Chamberlain, the builder Of the Chambsrlaip
House, and his SIX children among the hrst 10 be
the children is dead, while the remainder marre
covessT .,,
Az this hour 1875 persons are in the city. q OF
thsss 133 are Frustrated with fever. 90 are
mp ana In health, while two OF the VIC
tins who Frustrated a fcw days ago
have sufficiently recovered to walk around. Al nine
O'Clock night only three lights were visible in
the town. A dense fog covered the village ana the
bankssof the Yalobusha River. Night the time when
the fever is most contagious Most OF the victims
have the disease by nhaiing the foul night
vapors while resting their weary and tired bones
sleep gcp
TRAINS FLYING PAST. ,tsns
The passenger trains run through the town ~ .
city mile speed, while the passengers gaze
through tho closed windows at the doomed city as
they pass bat witness nothing bus desoatioo. Not
. sonI Is to be the streets. Every
one OF the sixty brave and true left have work TO
do, all nursing the sick and dying except one.
BRAVE TELEGRAPH MAN.
That Ia Bill Redding, the telegraph operator. He 10
at his post day and night, working Ike
the true hero that he is He Is working
with a rag filed with earboiic acid tied
around his neck Hot dry weather is tho most favor
able for the recovery Of those afflicted. Cool. damp
weather is sure death nearly all the sick. To-day
the weather Is hoL clear end warm.
KILLING THB NEGROES.
Another peculiar phase OF the disease bore Is that II
kills tho full blooded negroes, three having succumbcd
10 the monster Old Inhabitants say they never
Il Kill tho pure Ethiopian before. The patients pre-.
sent terrible appearance
SOLID FOOD FATAL
Those past the first stages of the disease beg riti-
fully for something to eat, but this Is denied q
single morsel OF solid food is DEATH Harry Hart
pnce salesman for ST. Louis Wholesale hardware
nrm had recovered, when he suffered relapse
from eating substan tial food. The stomach of tho
patient Is left In the same condition AZ that OF a
month old baby, and will retain nothing but grueis,
and that food is administered only In tablespoon
fus.
IScREAsISG THE AREAS.
At FIRST the Injected district covered only l25 yards
In diameter surrounding the deadly sewer, but to-
day every part of the town Is infected Michael j.
FaIlon, an employee OF the Jackson route. arrived
here to-day He had just come from Grand Junction,
where no had been nursing Mrs Baliou, OF Grsnsda,
who died a. Grand Junction Of the fever
HEARTED PEOPLE.
He stated that AIRS. Balou ha been lying dying In
her house, crying for water, and not soul would
dare venture near TO lend a helping hand.
Fallen complained bitterly Of the treatment
he mad received at the hands Of tho
people OF Grand Junction and says that wretch
named Jackson had threatened to shoot him II he ap
preached his Jackson's) VOL to get winter for the
Aging woman. Fallon welcomed back TO Grenada,
his services az nurse being IN urgent demand
PLEASANT CONTRAST.
The only town on the road where tho citizens arc
not afraid Of the fever Holly Springs her citizens
Offering shelter food all any victims. Thcy
havo also subscribed beraly for the purchase Of pro-
visions and money TO nelp the dying ss Grcnada.
NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS
The utmost precaution Is used 10 prevent the
spread OF the disease tho quarantine station
OF Grenada. Conductors and brakcsmcn give up tho
train to other men, while they return south. Even
sbe streets OF every town all along the road are
cred with chloride of lime and other disinfectants
The quarantine officers arc soaked with assafn tda
ana the smell from that 10 strong enough TO make
we'll man sick.
SRw RAILROAD OFFICIALS.
The auditor Of the Cairo, st. Louis and New Orleans
Railroad, on tho 9Th OF the month. moved his head.
quarters to Water valley leaving nvs or sx clerks,
who we're acclimated In the city OF New Or
leans. Many of the gentlemen who lett 10
20 TO Water Valley say they would
rather have remained In New Orleans. whore, "
TAKEN tney could careful nursing and she bcss
medical attention. Many persons say they would
rather be IN New orleans during the epidemic than
elsewhere In the South, the treatment Of ths dis
ease 10 better Understood, and never saw lot OF
railroad men SO fearless In the discharge Of their
routine Of business II they do ne, 20 into many Of the
towns tis because those sowns wont iss them stop
but compel them pass through
RAPID RAILROAD TRAVELLING.
mayor 81 one Of the towns remarked. - the train
was rushing through his town, ''rhat train 10 going
about eight miles an hour and tho regulations Of the
STATE sss six miles" He did mot snow . knowiedgs