Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-09-11
PITILESS PLAGUE.
GAINING NEW Roadway EACH sUC-
CEEDING Day.
Mortality List at Memphis, New
Orleans, yicksburg and Other Points,
Increased Activity Everywhere Outside
the Fever-Stricken Communities In Rails
ing and Forwarding Aid--Noble Work
of the Howard Association. Volunteer
Physicians and Nurses.


Physicians and Nurses.
THE scoURGE.
MEMPHIS.
MEMPHIS Sept. 10-At an early hour this
morning rain commenced falling and has kept
up necessarily to noon. Fifty-nine deaths
have been reported up to noon making lis
| since yesterday nom. Among the number are
Mrs. Fannie Matthews, Gen. G. w. Adams, j.
B. Fair. W. Chandler, John O Cornell, telegraph
operator, Geo. Lane, an employe of the South
ern Express company, Fred. 8. Schafer, city
tax collector, the father of O. n. Piper, Mrs.
NJ. j. Gleason, Mrs. 8. NJ. Gates, S. NJ. Kernard,
G. NJ. Smith, printer. Among those in criti-
cal condition is J. ]. Sullivan, OFlaherty and
OSullivan.
MEMPHIS, Sept. 10.-Thc following is the
| report of DR.. ID. w. Mitchell for to-day: A. ID.
Langstaff. president Howard Association: New
cases since last report 157. My appeal for
covered vehicles for our volunteer medical
corps has not met with
single response. have supplied
them with rubber coats to protect them from
the storm that continued to-day. 1t was the
best could do. Few calls for help have had
to 20 UNDECIDED to-day. am distressed to re-
port of our medical corps stricken down with
fever, Drs. Mccormick Green, Hunter. Harlan,
INITIAL, Dawson, Baukson, McGregor and Bry-
ant At this rate it will not be long till all the
living will be converted into burial corps.
(Signed) Il. W. MITCHELL,
Medical Director.
A. Dunies. druggist died tonight. Father
VIM. Walsh. reported dead, is alive and doing
| good service.
Rain continued up to 2p. NJ, since which
time the weather has been cool. Increasing
! fatality. County undertakers HoltZ Bros, and
| Flaherty & Sullivan report ninety mine deaths
for co., hc,1ro ID NJ nm
| dertaker failed to report ninety-nine deaths,
thirty were colored. There continues to be
difficulty in getting the dead buried. At Elm
wood for single interments, trenches have
been dug and collins placed in rows close to.
gether. the in the Potter's Field.
Among today's dead are DIR. Venable, Ben.
Coleman and j. j. Sullivan, of Flaherty & Sui
| Ivan. undertakes. Hugh Lawrence, an old
citizen and possessed of considerable property,
died to-day and owing to the alb
sence of friends was about to be
| buried in the ] = t>lrong the paupers,
| when membs , -, t!.e Ids interfered and
| had him inferred in Eimwooi. 1t was difficult
to arrive at the number of new cases, Us few
| physicians have time to report. Among those
| taken down, however, are Isaac w. Page, n. N.
| Semmes and e. w. Foster. members of the How
! ard association; B. w. Aren't. J. Specht and Gen.
| L. l.. Wright. Major VIM. Willis, of the citi-
| zens' relief committee, is FRUSTRATED from over
work, but he has not got the fever. Five ply
| sicians of the Howard medical corps were also
taken down, DIR. Bascom, DR.. Mccormick, of
Terre Haute, DIR. Green, of Shelby county,
Tenn, DR.. Harlan, Little Rock, DR.. Hunter.
I CANTON.
CANTON, Miss, Sept. lO.-Total number of
cases to date 249 deaths 38. New cases in tho
last twenty-four hours thirty-fve, deaths one.
The number of cases is increasing daily Our
physicians are on the go all the time. night and
day. DR.. j. j. Lyons, OF New Orleans, is still
with us and affording valuable assistance. No
one who has not been through the epidemic
can appreciate our situation. 1t is horrible.
We need nurses badly.
(Signed) ROBERT POWELL, Mayor.
| PEST STEAMER.
CINCINNATI, Sept lO.-Wellington Blazer, of
Gallipo.is, Ohio, died last night of yellow fever
contracted from the steamer Porter. There
are dozen people sick with fever in the
neighborh'od where the steamer Porter is
moored. Nearly all of them came in contact
with the crew, either while they were on shore
or on the boat. The physicians disagree as to
whether it is the type of fever that on the
boat or malignant type of bilious fever. The
board Of health Of Gallipolis have notified the
owners of the steamer that they will not be re-
sponsible for the safety Of the boat.
vICKsBURG.
VIcKsBuRe, Miss, Sept. 10.-Weather clear
and warm; thermometer 81 degrees. Indica.
tions are that the fever is decreasing in now
cases, but the mortality is fearful. The deaths
Yesterday 46: to-day "a. Among the DEATH to-
day are Col. Martin Keary, county treasurer
an+ j. w. Avis, of Chattanooga, telegraph OPP
orator. who came here two weeks ago. Bishop
Elders condition is more favorable to-day
Drs. Robbins and Balfour out again. Dr.
O'Leary is sitting up.
GRENADA.
GRENADA, Sept. lO.-The fever has broken
ont at Senatobia, Miss. Over thirty cases M
to date and the alarm among citizens is re
ported very great. They are preparing to aban
don he city. Nevada and California sent
$1,000 to the relief OF Grenada. Two deaths
and eight new cases are reported in the last
twenty-four hours.
GRENADA Sept. 10.-The citizens of Grenad,
assembled in meeting yesterday and re
: solved that inasmuch as the relief committee
: of Grenada. whose names are John Powell ant
3 | Robert Mullen, have for weeks past abscondet
themselves from Grenada and utterly neglected
| to attend the sick or bury the dead
.. or provide for our destitute ant
suffering people. and have resisted all appeal
to return to the city and perform their duties
it is the sense of this meeting that the necea
, sites of our city demand the appointment o
a sub-relief committee whose duties 1t shal
y be to solicit and receive contributions of none
: and provisions Of all kinds of the sympatheti
, the same for the benefit Of those VIII
: are suffering from the epidemic. The con
: mittee appointed by the citizens meeting
composed of the following well-known gentle
\ men: Rev. VIM. McCracken. chairman; J.
: Campbell and A. swiegert. Our friend
/ | all over the land are requisite
! to send such subscriptions b
9 express to Rev. McCracken, chairman ofsrb-r'
4 lief committee. The fever has carried off for
0 of our citizens in the past twenty-four hour
+ and during the same period seven new case
q were announced.
d CAIRO, Sept. lo.-One member of Tho
IS Porter's family above the city, died last nigh
! The Knights of the Mystic Krew donated 8;
e for burial. Two physicians expressed IL
e opinion that the disease was yellow fever an
l. two that it was bilious fever. The neighbo
hood of Porter's has been known for years
e extremely unhealthy in the fall and residen
a seldom escape bilious disorder. No yello
e fever reported in the city. Weather cool
r MOBILE, Sept. l0.-Reports of ono deal
= from yellow fever, fugitive. The can't-ge
away club continues sending nurses physician
and money to Memphis and elsewhere
NEW ORLEANS.
NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 1O.-Weather clear, me
curry 800. The death list includes thirty-fo
J, minors, nineteen being under years. Amol
70 tho deaths is Miss Harriet Barnes, aged
e daughter of the late E. w. Barnes, of the WEI
a ern Union telegraph company. New cases. L
. Cullen, Justin NJ. Holland, convalescing. Maj
y Nat. Burbank, of the Picayune, Paul Lelou
= teIegrapher.
A tow boat. Harry Wright, left here Il
evening for Pilot Town with one doctor al
four nurses. Seven cases Of fever have occl
:. red there and FIVE deaths.