The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-09-26

six O'Clock p. m, shows death list of
sixty-two, of which twenty-five are colored.
The medical corps of the Board of Health
report one hundred and thirty new cases.
From Decatur, Alabama, September 20:
The people of Decatur stampeded to-day on
account of yellow fever, it having been
given out that the malignant malariaI fever
which the doctors pronounced was none
other than yellow fever. Not more than
two hundred ont of population of one
thousand five hundred remain, and even
this number will be reduced to one hun
dred by tomorrow. Things look gloomy
Business houses, and dwellings too,
tor that matter, have clused. TIE sick
are receiving but little attention, and
with them death seems inevitable. Mayor
George D. Meritz has gone to Nashville with
train load of refugees. F. Ludwig died
of the fever to-day. j. P. Mcnamara, ex.
Mayor Austin, Nat. Tisda e, and Miss
Crunk sre good as doomed. Austin was
stricken last night.
/ At the Board of Health, New Orleans,
Friday morning, September 20, the reports
indicated a decrease of the fever in the
central port on of the city anu an increase
in the extreme upper and lower limits. 1t
is stated that of every twenty-one persons
attacked by fever in the Second District, in
the vicinity of the French market, ten
have died. DR.. John Canter, an old
ahd successful practitioner Of the
Fourth District, reports that the
fever is spreading in the Fourth and
Sixth Districts, above Jackson-street.
Total deaths to date, 2,26S. Among the
| the ST. Joseph Asylum. The Young Mems
Christian Association report new cases t :
| day sixty-one; Howard Association, 466,
| including many cases not previously
entered up. The Peabody Association
filled 4,2e2 requisitions, equal to 30,044
| ratiops.
Total deaths in New Orleans from yellow
! fever up to Saturday, 2,4S0.
The Committee appointed at the meeting
in Nashville September 20 have issued cir
cular appealing to the Bar Association of
the United States for donations to a fund
for the support and education of the orphan
children of the late Butler P. Anderson, of
the Memphis Howard Association, who
fell martyr to the cause of humanity at
Grenada.
W. H. Williams, of Youngstown, Ohio,
and volunteer nurse, who went to
Memphis some time since, falling ill,
| started for Chattanooga for a season OF rest,
| but was put off the cars at Stevenson,
where he died of the dread malady The
| citizens treated the brave man shamefully,
even refusing him leave to occupy a deserted
| warehouse. He received no medical or
| other attention only that given him by a
| hotel clerk and telegraph operator, who
succeeded in procuring a box-car, which
was run out tsome distance from town and
| side-tracked, and in which he remained
until death.
Jerome Park, President of the Relief
| Committee at Grand Junction, Tenn writes
on September %: 7. E Jones, President
of the Howard Association, has just been
taken down. Only three white men are on
/ their feet Three new cases and three
deaths to-day. There are forty cases on
hand. One of our New Orleans nurses is
down. One doctor has just been captured
of. the down train. We are sadly in need
of blankets and other necessaries.
The fever was reported as abating in lew
| Orleans on the 22d.
Governor Houston, of Alabama, has is.
sued proclamati anf making October 5 a
day OF fasting and prayer, that the pesti-
| lence may abate.