The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1878-08-23
MEMPHIS.
Forty-Nine New Cases and Twelve
Dsaths--The Infection Spread
Ing and Threatening the En-
tire City--A New Encamp-
ment--The Panic Re-
newed.


| MEMPHIS, August 81 AS predicted in nv
| dispatches yesterday, the uniavOrSble change
| Ia the weather has wrought decided increase
\ In the past - hours We have had no rain
| yet, but the cloudy, damp anil very close at
mosphcrc of last night and this morning has
The new eases reported to-day indicate q
disposition on the part OF the disease to spread
southwnrlly, which Is contrary 10 the opin-
| Ions expressed by leading ply slcians 10 your
reporter yesterday Two OF the new cases are
On Linden street, aud possibly may have
| caught the contagi0n In the infected district.
or by contact With persons on ihc street ears,
or In moving people frm the infected district.
All the street ears, which continue IN runs
notwithstanding there Il not an Official of the
road In the city, penetrate the yellow fcvcr
district and hundreds Of wagons pass through
the thornghiares every day loaded with the
du,ls OF those fleeing frIm thai part Of the city
To the southern suburbs, or 10 the cncamp-
menis outside the city limits II the disease
does not spread to all pprts of the city IL will
be a marvel
A new encannpmcnt was established south of
the city, On the line of the raducah and Mem
phis railway, yesterday, and given the name
% Camp Luke Wright, after the Hon. Luke b.
ward alienation of the suGerings of the poor
and needy
Two pretty little girls, aged and years,
were taken In charge to-day by the citizens
relief committee. They say their mother died
Of the fever and their father deserted uDme
when the mother was taken sick, and they
sent downato camp Joe Williams and were
Immediately adopted by the Blum city Grays,
and ''less nlles al compagnie' will be ten
derby cared for
The great increase In the number Of new
cases to-day has renewed the alarm which IL
was hoped had departed with the panic strick-
On refugees, and tonight the streets OF tho
city appear even more desolate than In 1873,
when the death rate was fourfold greater than
now. Even the negro population, who had
reDolced under the Naturalization that tho race
was exempt from the malady, are becoming
alarmed, and as many AS can do so are leaving
the city, and lhose remaining are less bOis-
ferrous aud insulting thay week ago.
The unfavOrable reports OF to-day had also
the effect go drive from the Infected district
many who previously refused to go into camp,
thus lcssonlng the material for fever TO feed
on, Many affecting Incidents are Transporting.
one Of them is indicated In u letter received
by Mr.. Langstafi, OF Towards, to-uay. 4
lady wrote; Husband Is dead Please send
or come down, as am In need, and don't
know how to get my dead husband buried. II
you will help me | could work for you all.
Please don't say you can't telp me-
II IL only necessary to say that such an np-
peal was promptly responded 10 with decent
burial of the corpse, and ample provision for
the comfort of the poor, heart-broken wife.
The board OF health report for to-day gives
forty-nine new cases, among whom are sew
erai negroes, not mulattos, but pure blood,
Twelve deaths are reported.