The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-08-21
THE SOUTHERN SCOURGE,
A Horrible State of Affairs at Grenada.
REPORTS FROM OTHER POINTS.
National Associated Press to the Star.

National Associated Press to the Star.
New YORK, Aug. 21.-A Grenada, Miss,
special to-day says: MAY God have mercy
on as" is the prayer from the sixty persons
who so far have escaped the fever in this
city. No one seems to escape. Death
stairs us all in the face. The citizens are
hemmed in on all sides by quarantine
officers, who will not allow the victims to
be removed from the place.
The situation is terrible in the extreme,
and it looks now as though not soul would
leave the place alive. Gen. Winfield Smith
and aiding the physicians. The death rate
yesterday was larger than that of any of its
predecessors fifteen deaths occurring in
twenty-four hours.
Passenger trains run through town at q
speed of fifty miles an hour, while the pas
sengers gaze through closed windows at the
doomed city as they pass, but witness
nothing but desolation. Not soul is to be
seen on the streets. Every one of the sixty
brave men and true left have work to do.
All are nursing the sick and dying, except
one. Bill Reding, the telegraph operator,
is at his post day and night, working like
the true hero that he is.
He is working with rag filled with car
bolic acid tied around his neck.
Another peculiar phase Of the disease
here is that it kills full-blooded African ne
groes, three having succumbed to the mon
ster. Old inhabitants say they never saw it
kill the pure Ethiopian before. The pa
tients present terrible appearance.
This appalling state of things can not
last long, however, and the gathering of the
ca on crop, which is almost ready, will
of tbo o1o md ~
iety to be forgotten. Holly Springs is
crowded with strangers as the place is ex.
ceedingly healthy but Canton is being de.
serted owing to several deaths already from
yellow fever.
MEMPHIS, Aug. 81. - Six deaths and
eighteen new cases of fever yesterday
There are a great many applications foI
aid. The Secretary of War has agreed tC
furnish rations for two thousand people fol-
twenty days, provided contributions from
other quarters are not adequate to the
wants.
VIcKsBURG, MISS, Aug. 21.-It is impos
sible to give the exact number of cases OF
fever here. Two hundred would be mod
crate estimate. The Board reports twelve
deaths during the past twenty-four hours,
and twenty-seven up to date The type
developed is malignant and spreading with
| frightful rapidity. Every one who is able
to leave, has left already or is leaving
The doctors are overworked and two OF
them are down. Help is sadly needed. II
is the opinion that this will be the worst
and most widely diffused epidemic of vel
low fever on record. Already it has spread
to Natchez, Miss, where twenty cases are
reported. Pert Gibson, thirty miles from
here reports sixty cases, and the end is no
| yet.
GALVESTON, TEX. Aug. 21.-The strictest
quarantine is maintained here. Another
buoy has been anchored considerable dis
tance between the old quarantine buoy
and all vessels are compelled to occupy the
anchorage between the two. No commune
cation is allowed with the city from the
quarantine station except the butchers
boat. There are at present eight vessels in
quarantine containing persons who have
visited the infected parts. Past exper
ience has redoubled caution, and the az
rangements to keep the disease from being
imported here were never so complete.
RICHMOND, Va, Aug. 21.-The health Of
this city is remarkably good and there are
no apprehensions that the fever will appear
here.
SalhO, Lily aug AL lllc ply olClhliE
of this city deny that yellow fever has
reached here, as reports have gone out
| Quarantine regulations are strictly enforced
and there is not case in the city.
New YORK, Aug. 21.-Dispatches show
the yellow fever spreading at Vicksburg
and the disease is reported at other point:
in the State.
BROOKLYN, n Y, Aug. 21.-The repor
circulated by seamen that the yellow fever
is OH board the brig Leena is declared to bt
untrue.
New YORK, Aug. 21.-For the past foul
days there have been an unusual number
of arrivals of vessels from Southern ports
Satisfactory precautions are taken against
yellow fever.
One death from yellow fever on the
steamer Hudson, of the Cromwell line
which arrived from New Orleans yesterday
is reported.
New ORLEANS, Aug. 21.-The official state
ment of the cases of yellow fever is as fol
lows, viz: Deaths from ~ m yesterday tC
II NJ. to-day 4O new cases from II IN. yes
terday to u m to-day, l07.
JACKSON, Miss, Aug. 21.-Feyer is re
ported at Byram and Terry. All towns are
nearly deserted. Nine cases and three
deaths at Canton.
| PORT EADs, Aug. 21-Five new cases, but
no deaths since yesterday.
PORT GIBSON Miss, Aug 21-Seventy
| five cases and four deaths here.
GRENADA, MISS, Aug. 21.-Seven deaths
The negroes are dropping down like sheep