New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-09-05
MEMPHIS ALMOST IN DESPAIR.

NOT MEN ENOUGH TO BURY THE DRAD-AN APPAL-
ING SITUATION FOR THOSE DOOMED To STAY IN
THE CITY.
MEMPHIS. Sept. 4.-The mortality last night and
tbis morning was fearful Two undertakers re-
norted thirty interments, while County Undertaken
Welsh rcported 100 lnterments of paupers, three
fourths of whom were negroes. Dr. W. H. HOugeS
and Postmaster Thompson died this morning at /
O'clock. Mayor Fpper, .IR. Droescher, sergeant
alarms of the General Council, and City laA-COi
lector Schafer, are down with the fever.
Later-Our city at present is one vast charnel-
house. The undertakers report ninety-sx inter
ments for the twenty-four hours ending at
O'clock this evening Of these Rinety-three deaths
were caused by yellow feverj seventy-slx OF the IN
terments were of white people, and twenty OF col
ored A visit to the county undertaker's establish
ment to-day brought out the fact that at nlght-
fall there were about sixty more reported dead
and still unbured. The question of dlspOsng
of the dead is becoming serious one Inc
Citizens Relief Committee has employed burial
CORPS of thirty negroes to assist the county under
taker and his men, and it has even been suggested
10 burn the dead if they cannot be buried more
promptly, as corpses are know to have lain I'M
hurried for fortyecht hours burdening the air with
odors and becoming SO revolving that people have
fed the neighborhoOd. It is with difficulty that
men can be hired to haul them to the Potters Field
A.F.C. Cook, a Howard visitor, was taken down
with the fever this afternoon.
Mayor Fhppin, being sick with the fever, DIR. ID.
i. Goodyear president of the Common Council, is
Acting Mayor.
A false report has gone North that all the banks
ore about to close. They all open, however, and
will remain so.
In answer to many inquiries from abroad as to
what kind of provisions arc needed, Major VIII
liam Willis, of the Citizens Committee, states
that salt meats and -four are the ones. The drain
upon the various relief organizations is very great
for in addition to attending to sick and destitute,
there were several calls for relief from the adjacent
towns winch have been promptly responded to.
panic was caused at Collersvile in this county yes
terday by the death of two citizens supposed to
have been cansed by yellow fever The town has
been almost depobulated. The following appeals
represent somewhat the condition of affairs:
An Appeal TO he CirR-,d World from he Finance Com
4aitse Of ne Citizens Keller Association Of Memphis
We ask your aid that may be enabled 10 feed and
cOthe destitute furnish necessary material Tor our
sick and diving, and give means for buryng our dead
This appeal is only made rs last extremity, and in
OF the fact that another week VIII exhaust me
means already given by q generous people Death has
laid his heavy hand upon us. The destitute cry for bread
aud the sick for such only he given by open
handed generosity. Those DESTROYS OF giving aid can
address Jas g. Prestige, No. UnOn-sr; W. W. Thacher
First National Bank; s. r. Clarke, PhGnix Insurance
Company
TO the Independent order Of old FeO'os wheresoecer dis
DerSed
BROTHRRs A relief committee OF the six lodges OF
4he CITY OF Memphis 10 members OF our beloved
order in America IN answer 10 many inquiries, both by
letter and kilograms that IN the midst OF q
most fearful epidemic, the end OF which no one
con fcresee. More than hundred Of members
including their families, have sckened and died. We
need your sympathy, aud God alone knows bow soon
your aid II view the he drain upon our resources
we have concluded TO accept all donations that our
brethren may in their generosity send 10 us BY order
Of the committee MARCUS JONES, PRESIDENT
L. S. BURR Secretary.
III
10 N, Brothers Of he A. o. o. ".
Iestilence and death stalk abroad fair city.
Our brothers and their families are in great distress
ferng. Many have died. leaving helpless orphans.
Many now arc sick and but few Of our brothers
are left 20 wait them, and those few,
noble and daring they arc, cannot stand much
longer. Our means very limited. Our officers are
on gone. sEa appeal be IN vain Brothers, 10 the
rescue Some few have responded freely. Thanks TO
the generous Brotherhood Relief Committee is now
organized. G. MUNDNGER, President.
s. A. TAYLOR, Treasurer.
g. T. TATE, Secretary.
ID. f. GOODYEAR, ID. g. NJ. W.
WASHINGTON, Sept. Information has been re-
celye at the Post Office Department from Mem
plis of the death of X. A. Thompson, postmas-
Ter at that place. The department has tolegraphed
10 NJ ThOnpsOn's suretles to take charge of the
lice until a successor can be appointed.