Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1878-08-29
The Fever at Grenada, MISS.

LOUISVILLE, August 17.-No one
perhaps can bettor describe tho scenes in
end around Grenada than the refugees from
that unfortunate town. Several prominent
gentlemen with their families, arc here,
having come up from Grenada on Tuesday
night. The stories told by these refugees
convey an appalling impression of tho panic
caused by the rapid development Of tho
postienoe. On Sunday this excitement
became general, only the physicians and
few persons who had seen md braYcd yell
low fever before remaining. These gentlo-
men who have como to this city shy they
would not have come at all if it lad not
been for tho udvico Of tho Howard Associa.
ton, Of Memphis, who counseled everybody
to leave who could not fight and wanted to
avoid it. The apprehension Of the women
| added to their own fears, and thon little
children, unaware of the dagger around
|thcm, appealed to them to be taken to a
place of safety. On Sunday, when the
disease vas pronounced yellow fever without
doubt, aud the deaths wcre numerous, the
hoarses became busy. The two underta-
kcrs Of tho town wcro kept busy. The
hearses passed the doors of those who had
not felt tho infection, terrifying them with
the reminder that they might soon follow
in the sumo ghastly fashion, unattended by
carriages or friends. The terror was equally
great with rich or poor. Both classes had
been carried off, and the disease did not
appear to respect persons in the elightcst
degree. When the houses of the refugees
wore abandoned, they were left witl,outlools.
ing the doors, and with only word of ad-
monition to the negro servants who remained
to tako good cnrc Of everything until the
owners returned. One Of tho party, when
safely out of the plocc, where he could
breath freely declared that he would not
endure the horror and anxiety he had felt
for threo days for tho title to every acre in
Grenada, and that $40 900 would not induce
him to return to town until the fever was
over. On Tuesday night only the nurses
from Memphis and New Orleans and tho
physicians of Grenada and New Orleaus,
together with tho families in which there
was fever, remained to occupy the place.
The chops had beon shut ainoo Saturday
night, and few persons vontured on tho
street except whom necessity compelled them
to do 80! Since "Wednesday no one has
arrived here from Grenada. Tho trains
would not stop, and watched at the stations
above to SEQ that no ono from Grenada was
allowed to got off. The persons who went
into tho country near Grenada, it is feared
in somc cases took the infection with thom.
In oasc tho disease developed after leaving
they have Jared badly as they wero probably
far from medical attendance and the care Of
nurses Of experience.
GRENADA, MISS, August 18.--A CORES.
pondont reached Grenada this afternoon,
via the Chicago, st. Louis and New Or
leans Railroad, otherwise known as tho
jackson route. A peculiar phase of tho
disease in Grenada is that all GASES 80 far
have proved fatal. Nota single one Of those
prostrated up to date have recovered. Old
and experienced mon say that people wero
mover SO terribly alarmed bystho plague