The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-08-19
Disease Decreasing at Grenada for
Want Of Victims.
Gradually Spreading in Memphis,
and Frost The Only Check.
Discourasins Reports from Various
Other Points.



tstter. A number are well enough TO sit
up. Among the dead is ]. G. Cairns,
aged SO, ex.Secretary Of the School
Board; also Mrs. Lorique, on Jefferson
street; Henry Decker, brother TO the Pro.
iessor, Alabama street; Mrs. Zlnoni, Jei-
ferson street and others. Mrs. Nelson, In
South Memphis, Is dying, but not Of
fever. 80
The panic is over, and the people re.
manning in the city wear serene faces.
Numbers continue to leave hourly, but
there is no rush or excitement.
The CitiEens' Committee selected 4
camp six miles south Of the city, appoint
ed br. Paul oley, Surgeon, will place
Captain Cameron, OF the Bluff City Greys,
in command and run it'in military style.
The poor are to be tented therein. 1t is
on the Mississippi and Tennessee Rail.
rosd, and il he,lthy place, with good
water and plenty of shade.
Many scenes OF distress have already
occurred. Most Of those remaining are
of the poorer classes, and are unable 10
nav for medical attendance. A few OF
The physicians are doing charity work,
and no lack OF medical attention Of i'm.
portance has yet been heard Of. The
weather j. beautiful, and the air soft and
balmy, with refreshing breeze. 1t does
not appear possible that death and pesti-
lence are abroad in every breath. As
vet no cases have occurred below Jetier.
son street, but the number above that
line isgreater. All early cases are traced
10 the passengers Of the steamer Golden
Crown as the place they originated.
LATER.-A careful revision OF the yel-
low fever situation to-day shows eleven
new cases and eleven deaths, one or two
late this evening not included. The
mortuary report for the week, closing at
noon to.dvy, shows sixty-three deaths in
all, OF which six were yellow fever. To
these may be added four or five for deaths
this evening. The previous weeks re.
ports showed forty-one deaths, an in.
crease this week Of twenty-five, The total
number Of yellow fever cases 20 far is
about one hundred, Of which some twenty.
Eve are convalescing, fifty are yet in
their incipiency, and the rest dead. This
IA reliable count The fever, Ia grad
ually but slowly creeping along the pop.
ular Boulevard, beyond Dunlap street
and the side streets near. 1t is also
working up Brinkley avenue towards
the Charleston Railroad Depot. a case
or two is reported this evening on Madi-
son street, two squares south Of Jefferson.
This is the frat appearance Of the
scourge below Jefferson street. DR.. l..
Morse was taken to-day. His partner,
DR.. Buddeke, is doing fairly. A. Rosen.
strel, 1856 Poplar street, died this evening.
MEMPHIs, August 17,-Theniy-three
new cases and nine deaths are reported
to day. .i,,: :,
Tho weather to day has been clear and
warm. For the twen,y.four hours end.
ing 6 o'clock this evening, eleven new
cases Of fever have been reported. and
eleven deaths; total cases 10 date, about
one hundred, total deaths, twenty SIX.
OF the cases at present, about one-third
are conyalesceut. The Citizens Relief
Committee have selected a point near
Nonconnah Station, about four miles
south Of the city, where a camp is 10 be
formed a. soon as the Government tents
arrive, 10 which poor people from the
infected districts will be removed. In
view Of the fact that the INDECENT poor
will have to be supported, the committee
to-day adopted resolutions requesting
the Associated Press agent TO telegraph
request for contributions from absent
Memphians.
OF the twenty.three cases reported up
to noon to-day, eleven were new and
twelve old cases no! previously re-
ported. ~
PROGRESS IoF THE DISEASE.
Nav YoRK. August 1.-THE accounts
~ ,be contipued rayages Of yellow fever
in cities where Il has prevailed, and its
advane, fnrther north and west, are dis.
trsss,ng.
A. Nav Orleau, for the twenty.iour
honrs ending At shutdown yesterday, there
we're los new cases and 20 deaths, and
among the deaths were 12 children, 10 OF
,Lem beino under FIVE years OF age.
Deaths from noon Yesterday to noon to-
dsy. q; new cases since last report, 7S;
toial number Of cases to date, 975; total
number Of deaths 10 date, ,266. .71'I.If
AtjPort Eads, near New Orleans, there
were six new cases and one death,
Coming mn the river, the pestilence has
made fearful havoc.
A. Granada. Miss, the shops are all
sbnt the streets are deserted, and one
Sess only hearees and burial parties.
Rs;Iroad trains 20 rushing by, refusing
to stop. All the last report i2O persons
were wing pick with the fever, and nine
SisI @ d9risr @ Yesterday.
A. Memphis there were twenty cases
sssidsncs s"S Is % street. are entirely deserted,
srd many oi he stores closed. Merchants
nav nv their fail trade Is ruined, aud that 1t
will be too late to retrieve Losses,
! Louisville Is full Of refugees from the
fever stricken cities, and The Gait House,
he great hotel Of the city, with most
sommendable @ charity, announces merely
nominal rates for these people. nv