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Fearful Work in New Orleans
Over q Hundred Deaths Yesterday.

.tI'JbilSi ttNIiEN wv WI u ZlEllfN sNtlttle
envy, Is In a dying condition. George Crook,
n prominent Odd Fellow. Is dead.
Fearful Work in New OrIcans---
Over n Hundred Deaths Yesterday.
NEW ORLEANS, September 5.-New cases
Nl, deaths Sc.
NEW ORLEANS, September s. 10 P. NJ
Since foregoing dispatch. up to 9 p. NJ, Is
deaths and 81 new cases are reported.
DIR. VI Edwin Schlater. sanitary inspector
Of the First District, has recovered and Is on
duty.
The death list to-day includes thirty-thrcc
minors, twenty-five being children under
seven years Of age. Adolph EyrIck, aged
and for the last two years pastor Of the I,u.
thcran Trinity Church OF Algiers. has died
Of yellow fever. Mrs. LabOrdcant and Mrs.
Kelley. tho nurses who so faithfully dis
charged their duty ut Port Eads and through
out this city. leave for Holly Springs this
evening. in response to appeals from that
city. Fifteen nurses and one physician were
sent to Holly Springs. Yesterday, by the How
ards. T.. !. Webster. Mrs. G.. w. Barnes and
three children have fever.
Yesterday the Howard association reported
l72 applications for relief. The Young Mems
Christian Association report 81 new cases on
their list. The Peabody Relief Association
has issued over III ,On rntions.
The Towards have sent Or. CARVER, Mr..
Hammond, a cnmpoSitor, and eight nurses to
Holly Springs this evening by the Jackson
Railroad. and will send twelve men and eight
female nurses to Greenville tomorrow. No
conveyance to-day.
No House in Grenada Exempt.
GRENADA, MISS, September s. Noon.-
The situation here Is hcartrending. There
son. widow Of Col. Anderson, was stricken
with fever ut fernando. There no longer re-
mains q house In Grenada that has not. been
visited by the destroyer. Ten deathsi In the last
fp.or ~ fcnr ,nt,r M III oDn In a fFoirc
Hummel Is quite sick.
Killing the Negroes in Canton.
CANTON, Sertrmber5.-Sixteen new cases
and six deaths for the twenty-four hours pre-
codIng9 o'clock a. NJ. to-day. rs IL possible
to send me any colorcd nurses? The suffer-
Ing among tho blacks Is terrible. and we need
colorcd nurses or nurses willing to nurse
negroes. Send five white nurses. Over one
hundrcd cases now under treatment.
G. w. THOMAS.
President Howard Association.
FIcKsnrRG. September - Midnight. -
down. The Right Rev. Bishop W. N. Elder.
after q most noble and glorious service. fell
to-day. WIN. ROCKWELL,
President Howard Association.
NEW ORLEANS. September 5.-The follow
ing dispatches have been received by the
"GREENv1LLE, MISS. September 4. = Get
the Howard Association to send via Vicks-
burg ut least three doctors and twenty nurses.
They must meet at Grand Tower. leaving
thence from Vicksburg here. Don't fail. they
are needed. W. P. KRETSrHMAR."
Holly SPRINGS. September S. James
Fort. r. P. Oliver. Mrs. Jas. Mctall and Rob.
ert Mclean died last night. There arc five
or six new cases. seventy cases altogether.
The physiciansare broken down, and three of
them are sick.
HOLLY SPRINGS. September s. To DR..
meppina: We are In great need Of physicians
and nurses. You can held us. Send physl-
clans md twenty nurses ut once.
J. w. GRAY. NJ. n. Health Board.
HOLLY SPRINGS. MISS. September 4.-Cnn
yon send IFS physicians. also nurses? Malig-
nant fever has broken out here. and there
have been three deaths and sixty cnses.
Answer. ]. w. GLEN, ". n,
Secretary Health Board.