The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-09-06

AySlClSIS 1dlIeQ 10 report. I OF lnO
same time the undertakes report 81 vel
low fever interments Physicians re-
port that the fever is prevailing to an
alarming extent among the colored poo
pie, many of whom have had no medical
attention for days. The wet, cool wealth
er prevailing has undoubtedly created
many new cases of fever
At New Orleans, new cases, 1863;
deaths, 50. Twenty-Five deaths are re-
ported from noon to G p. m.-eleven
adults, and eleven children.
Vicksburg reports one hundred and
sixty new cases for the past twenty-four
hours, thirteen deaths from yellow fever
Contributions have been received from
Philadelphia, New York, Boston, and
other points. Liverpool also sends ST.
900.
A Grenada dispatch says: The wealth
er is unfavorable There has been
slight increase in the death rate, but no
material spreading of the fever.
Relief contributions we note as fol
lows: GAINESVILLE, Wis, $1,000; Ottawa,
ILL.,, 5000; Fort Wayne, Indiana, 5000 /;
Denver, $1,000; Omaha, $4,000; Mil
waukee, $500; San Francisco, 5000;
Peoria, ILL.,, $3.50; Warsaw, Ind, 81 900;
Council Bluffs, Iowa, $1,000. Smaller
sums are subscribed from many other
points. Additional subscriptions at
Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago and St.
Louis are reported. st. Louis subscrip-
tions aggregate $4,000 to day.
MEMPHIS, Sept. New cases reported
to-day, 1O4; deaths from yellow fever, 81.
The undertakes are pressed to bury the
dead, and at Elmwood Cemetery today
dozens of coffined dead were lying on
| top of the ground, waiting for interment,
it being difficult matter to procure even
colored grave-diggers.
Information from camp 10 Williams
is to the effect that six deaths have occur
red there of persons recently received.
The camp contains about fifteen sick
Reports from along the line of. the
Memphis and Louisville railway state
there have been three deaths at Browns
vile, and there are seventeen cases there.
At Milan, twenty cases and four deaths.
At Withee one case, and at Mason one
death
At New Orleans, new cases, 260; deaths
80. The weather was cloudy and warm
to-day, with slight shower this after
noon. Two hundred and fifty-three APP
plicatiOns for relief were made to the
Towards. Numerous appeals for aid
from various organizations are issued
Grenada dispatches say there are about
twelve new cases to-day, whites and
blacks, and three deaths. The best ma
tive physician in the place, DR.. E. w.
Hughes, is dead.
The weather is favorable to a spread.
Thermometer SO deg; situation about the
same. The doctors have worked hard,
and the nurses are getting but little sleep.
Many houses are closed-alI dead. In
every other house there is one or more
sick. The dead are not in the house
more than three hours, and are often in
the graveyard within one hour. No time
to shave, wash or dress. Many are bur
led without collins. The Northern cit
les are responding literally to cries for
aid.
AT Vicksburg, eight physicians report
SO new cases and % interments to-day.
Further kilograms confirm the reports
about yellow fever at Greenville, Miss.
Twenty cases are reported.
Two cases of yellow fever are reported
in New York
Andy Armstrong, late mate of the John
Porter, the Ohio river steamer, arrived
at Louisville today. He is the only sur
vivor left of the entire crew who remained
on board, and the picture he paints of the
terrible fate of the Porter is horrible in
the extreme.
Sixty-five wounded soldiers from the
Soldiers Home, Washington, have vol
unteered to go into the yellow fever dis
tricts to serve as nurses, watchmen, or in
any other capacity, without other COM
pensatiOn than their expenses.
SEPTEMBER "A Baton Rouge, La,
dispatch says: Eleven deaths from vel.
low fever have occurred here, four in
the lost twenty-four hous. Many are
down sick, and all business is stopped
Our financial resources are insufficient
to relieve the distress, and we are com
PEELED to ask the country to aid us. OuI
people are meeting the situation with
great firmness.
Port Gibson reports four hundred and
fifty cases, and fifty-fve deaths, out OF
five hundred and fifty persons remain
ing in town. About twelve hundred
have fed. The distress is very great
The sick are dying with no one to give
them drink of water. Some nurses are
on the way from New Orleans and
Chicago. Help and funds are needed.
At New Orleans deaths to-day, eighty
eight; new cases, two hundred and nine
The deaths yesterday include twenty
children under seven years of age, and
today nineteen.
The weather was cloudy this afternoon
and threatening rain. From noon to
O'Clock this evening twenty deaths were
reported to the board of health. Tota
uOdIuS TSpOTtcu up u udlS HUH lCNCA
1901, including 461 children under
eleven years of age. A request fol
rations has been forwarded to the secre
tary of war.
The Memphis report is as follows
To-day opened clear and warm, and witt
the little force of workers nearly ex
hausted. The fever continues withou
any abatement. Undertakers repor
forty-eight fever interments up to noon
and indications are that the death lis
will be as large as yesterday. A largC
number of negroes, some of them drunk
assembled before the commissary depart
ment this morning, and becoming riot
Gus made a rush for the door. They
we've kept back by the colored military
on guard. But a second attempt being
made, the guards fired, seriously wound
ing one negro. The door was closed
and general Luke E. Wright spoke Il
the crowd and quiet was restored for thu
} time being. The committee is doing al
: in its power TO supply the people will