The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-09-15
The Fever in Memphis
Vicksburg and Other
Southern Towns.

Southern Towns.
Saturday, Sept z -95 deaths to- day. Among
| the dead are W. T. Powell. late editor of the
Sosthern Catholic, DR.. Williams, q volontsel
G. Parsons. Rector of Grace Episcopal Church.
There is pressing need for experienced nursee;
| ten dollars per day have been offered for nurses
and many of the sick lay in their rooms with
| ont proper attention owing to the inability of
| the relief associations to supply the many calls
for nurses. Although there ara many negroes
in the city. few of them can be pressed TO wait
| upon or even approach sick person, while the
| majority of those who do hire ss nurses for the
| big pay offered are inexperienced.
A. d. Langstaf, President of the Howard
Association, statee most emphatioslly that no
more unaccimat physicians or nurses from
the North will be accepted Their presence
| here is only adding fuel to the flames. It is a
matter OF few days only ere they are taken
are striving to tramp oct the plague. The
number of sick is hourly increasing. The
Howards tonight have HOO nurses on duty.
300 of whom pethaps, have had no food for
twenty four hours, owing TO the inability of
the HoWasda TO take or send them foSd. The
situation 10 6scomirg dssperate.-~ Thousands
OF negroes are still in the city, kept here by
free rations. A meeting of few prominent
citizens will be bad to-morrow morning. ct
whieh probably q committee Of safety will be
formed to take charge of the city and adopt
of the city by force who cannot be induced to
go by consideration for their personal safety.
Very Rev. n. Rordsn, v. G of St. Patrick's
Church, is conYaleseeat.-
Sunday, Sept S-Abcut 100 deaths.
meeting of prominent members of the
Howard Association and Citizens Relief Com
nittee ~as held this morning, at which it wss
determined as q means of forcing mauy people
to leave the city. that no more rations would
be issued in the city to those not sick, but that
camps would be established at various points
renct, from the cit ., and that those rem owing
thither would be supplied with food.
Rev. l. 8 Schuyler, of Holy Inuooents
Church, Hobokep, N. j., has arrived TO supply
the Place OF the late Rev. G. G. Persons, Rec
Bsll, Ct Shreveport, has also arrived to take
the place of the sick E Eoiscopal clergymeu.
Monday, Sept 9-112 deaths, inc uding 25
j G. Thrall, Thos. Hood, q volunt ter telegraph
operator from Philadelphia, Rev. d. r Rosen-
berry, of Bartlett Circuit, IL. E. Church; N.
of St Mary (EpiscopSD
Tuesday, Sept. 10 80 deaths. including 80
colored people.
There continues to be great difficulty in get |
ting the dead buried at Elmwood for single |
in tsrments. Trenches have had ID be dug and |
ccfhns have bad TO be placed in rows close to- |
Rether The came is done at Pottersheld.
Among the dead TO day are DR.. VenRble, Ben |
Coleman and j Solivsn, of Flaherty g.
Sullivan, undertakers. Hugh Terrence, an old
citiEsn, and possessed Of consider able property,
friends, was sb mt to be buried in Pottersfield
among paupers, when g member of the How
srds iDterfered and had him inferred in Elm
wook.
Father William Walsh, reported dead, is
slIve and doing good service.
The folio owing telegram, sent by DR.. Mitchell,
lent of the Howard Association !" The situs.
ion is horrible beyond description. Three
,boussnd csses OF fever and have only forty
'hyscians. eight Of whom have died. Those
hn 0irEon In fou @n~ =
IOt . provision house open in the oity; only
me hotel to feed doctors and nurses. Want /
verythipg that pestilenoe-strickeD famish-
nR and impoverished people need"
Only two drug stores open. In the morning
he Howards will open drug stores that have I
'een CLOSED bv the proprietorO, and place pre-.
sport over three hundred now Gases to- dsy
'hese are in addition to new cases reported to .
he Board OF Health DR.. McKim, Of st. Louis,
led this evening. I
VedneSday Sept. 1I-Dsaths 1OA, including q
9 cOIOred Many bodies left unburied. More
uIses have arrived from Mobile aod Norfolk. 9
1hur;dGy. Sept S l2eDeatbS 1o4, ipolgding
iscan Convent. THERE are over $500 sick TO
rovide for and 10 900 we'll people TO feed. No
igns of abStemeRt of the fever though the
re being sayed at Father Mathews camp. b
0ther VIM. Walsh appeals to his fEiends Of =
be Catholic Unions TO send immediately blsn- Q
Friday, Sept. 1888 deaths, including A. II
olorsd persons; 262 new cases. &
vICKsBURd. =
Saturday, Sept. DE this, 81 whites 10 9
lacks. ~ is ostimated that $500 persoss are {
own Rick-
Sept Sd asths 46
Sept 10 -Dsatbs a, among them Col. Mar
IN Kesry. County Treasurer, and J W. b
.lvis, Of Chs..ancIga. q telegraph oPsrGsor 3
'lder's condition 10 more favorable. DR.. 1
l'Issayy 4 altirg %,