St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-08-30

nurses and provisions for the SICK are
needed. The negroes are all gettlhg
the fever. Six whites and four colored
patients died Saturday night for want
nroper nourishment and domestic at
teption. The disease is so malignant
that some people declare that it is not
yellow fever. No mails reach the town
from any point.
A Grenada dispatch of Saturday night
says that the atmosphere is so foul that
beef rots in less than one hour on ex-
posure to the air, that $50 people are
now lying there in unearthly agony,
and that what is needed is good nurs-
ing, which can be had for money. The
dead are no longer buried in grave
yards, as the burial corps is disbanded.
The victims are now buried in adjacent
fields and in some cases in front of the
houses in which they die. Several
nurses have been attacked with the dis
ease. The whole place is a veritable
pit of death. The suffering in Grenada
has not been all physical, nor has the
physical exceeded the mental. Imag
inc. if YOU can, sick son and brother
urging his mother and sisters to leave
him to his fate and to flee for their
lives. Imagine a wife urging the same
thing to her husband. Picture In your
mind homes of culture and refinement
turned into pest-houses, with every
thing forgotten but the one all-pervad-
ing, heart-rending question, "Oh, my
loved one, what can do for you 2" and
throughout the whole town nothing to
be seen but faces blanched with fear
and strong forms bowed with anguish
Neac York Herald Dispatch.
VICKsBURG.
Vicksburg, Miss, reports so new
cases and % deaths yesterday, among
the latter George F. Brown, son of
Judge George F. Brown. G. P. Allen,
city editor of the Herald, is down with
the fever, also his wife and son. His
daughter died last evening. -Four ply
sicans are down with the disease. The
trains on the Vicksburg and Meridian
railroad have ceased running to the
Uuarantines, and threats are made to
fire into the trains and wreck them.
Vicksburg is cut off from all commune
cations with the rest of the world ex =
cept by the Mississippi river. Chair
man Fairchild of the Howard assOcia-
ton asks further aid. Physicians and
nurses from New Orleans reached the
town last night. The fever is spread
ing among those who fled to the cOun-
try from Vicksburg.
MEMPHIS.
The number of new cases of yellow
fever at Memphis on Saturday, was LOG,
or double that of the previous day, and
the deaths were Is. The new cases
yesterday, numbered only 81, but the
death list was the largest of any day
since the fever appeared, the under
takers reporting 26 interments. There
is a scarcity of nurses, particularly wo-
men, and the Towards and other relief
organizations have telegraphed to Mo-
bile and other points for them. The
distress during the epidemic of 1873
scarcely eQualled that now prevailing.
Yesterday whole families were prOstra-
ted within a few hours, their misery
being increased by delay in receiving
proper attention. While one cause ol
the great mortality in the infected parts
of the South is the fact that famiie;
cling together, the well ones refusing
to leave the sick to the doctors and
nurses and flee fol- their lives, a few in.
stances are reported at Memphis OF
people deserving friends and relative!
in their distress. Parents have aban
doned their children and children thei
parents. The wife and children of 4;
prominent citizen were taken with tn,
fever during his absence, and he wa
telegraphed for by the Towards, bu
replied: ''Fake care of my family.
His wife is dead, and yesterday hi
children were conveyed to the city hos
pital, where one has since died.
YELLOW FEVER NOTES.
Col. Thomas Walton, one of the mos
popular men in the south, has just die
of the fever mt Grenada Miss, after do
ing very efficient work for the sick
He served with distinction during til,
war as Lieutenant Colonel on Long
streets staff. Although only forty year
of age he had led very active ant
prominent life. Last year he was tin
Republican candidate for Congress.
Like all panics, the yellow fever i
developing instances of heroism ant
meanness, both of which were combin
ed in an Atlanta, (Ga.) case. A Mem
phis stone cutter named Brand had beer
taken sick on the passage from Chat
tanOoga, and was thrust off the train a
Atlanta depot. After lying there in
helpless condition for some time, DR..
G. Westmoreland was called to tn
young mans relief, and he proved to b
good Samaritan in very deed. HI
hired a room for his patient at the no
tel, but in the morning the bOarder
threatened to leave unless the dreade
, yellow fever victim was removed, com
polling the landlady to turn him out
Then the doctor hunted the town ovel
vainly pleading for shelter, and he wa
, even refused entrance to a vacant ROOF
on an unoccupied floor which he ha
hired, when it was learned that he de
signed to put his patient there. Dr.
Westmoreland fitted up Il bed in tn
F.. rear of his Office, and when some of til
' more panic-stricken proposed to tur
the sick man out of there, the brav
old doctor cOwed them with the assul
. ance that the patient should not leav
there till cured or dead, unless over hi
g dead body. 1t adds to the unselfishnes
F of this devotion that the sick stone-cu
ter, who has since died, had but a fe
dollars in his pocket.
y A supposed case of yellow fever W;
!, reported at Weeling, w. Va, yesterda,
The sufferer had been boating on til
lower river.
A man arrived at Washington frOl
New Orleans sick with yellow feve
e Monday.
8 Several cases of yellow fever hay
o developed at Cincinnati among peop
who fled from the south with the germ
of the disease in their systems.
e The citizens of Holly Springs prOpOs