Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1878-08-29

appearance has taken possession Of thcwholo
place, and tho faces of thoso persons re.
nalning in the village present sad and
torlorn appearance. Whole families have
been swept away by the terrible scourgc.
Tho fever is considered to be of local ori-
gin and was caused by tho opening Of an
old sewer whioh had been closed for years.
At first it was thought that it had been
brought hero by nu express package sent
from New Orleans to an old lady named
Fields, sinoo dead, but parties cognizant of
the facts deny this.
10 illustrate the citcat of tho scourgo it
is only necessary to give the figures. Two
weeks ago the town contained 2,200 inhab.
itants, the majority colored people. 90
night only two hundred souls are left. Of
these l26 arc sick aud dying. Twenty-Five
are nurses belonging to tho Howard Asso-
citation of Now Orleans, who orc under tho
directions Of Drs. Vcazlo and Vaudeville,
together with General Winfield j. Scott
an cid war officer. The remaining City arc
mostly negroes; who are considered plague
proof. Those oitizons who are nlivo here st
this writing are urging each other to leave
they have from death is flight The low
ard Association men advise all to leave, as
they arc capable of taking caro- Of al tho
elek. But tho fathers aud mothers refuse
to leave their children, while children stand
by their parents. The situation is Acart
rendng, and it looks now az if the Howard
nurses would bc tho only ones to leave the
CITY alivo. ". NJ. Rcdding, tho telegraph
operator at this point deserves special
mention. Ho has stood at his post ever
since the fever broke out, working
nineteen or twenty hours day. All trains
run through Grenada at twenty fiyo on
| hour rate.
| From Monday last until to-day Grenada
has boon place in which no hour passed
without funeral. From nearly every
house still occupied by familics, bodies hayo
been taken forth without ceremony or
without service, carried by tho undertaken
up tho slight hill aud into tho Odd Fellows
burial ground In this cemetery pumbcr
of negroes lave boen constantly employed
digging graves, aud the two undcrtakors
have filled tho graves as fast as made with
bodies. Tho situation in which the few
persons who remain in tho town are placed
is dreadful to contemplate. No ono daros
now to leave it, and no one will onter it, for
the country people hero watch carefully to
see that no one brings tho fever to their
homes. Not q person will Talk With the
Grenada people FROM the truins that no
through occasionally. Tho cars run through
at the rate of thirty miles an hour; every
window and door is carefully closed, and
when tho trains have passed, oarbo!ic acid
is plentitully usod upon tho seats and floors
of the cars
The most distressing thing about the
pestilence at Grenada ia the faot that many
of those who have fallen with tho fever
wcro compelled to remain in the place
because one or two members of the family
were taken ILL., They remained, hoping
thero would bo favorable change, and
have, ono by one, suocumbcd to tho disease
and in three days time have filled tho
graves on the hill. The disease has not
developed rapidly enough to kill it's victims
on tho streets. All who have had it hayo
known what their fate was to be. They
hayo felt i'll at night when they lay down,
pains shot through their boncs, and their
heads ached in the morning.
WASHINGTON, August 17.-Thc alarm.
ing increase of yellow fever in the South
and at towns and cities along the Mississip.
pi River has produced great CONSERVATION
among residents at Washington. If Nor.
folk becomes infected tho fcvcr is almost
cortain to be brought here and the number
of arrivals at tho hotels OF people from New
Orleans and other infected cities causes no
little alarm. Supervising Surgeon General
Wcodworth says he shall recommend to
Health Officer Townsend that the baggage
Of persons arriving here from places where
yellow fover exists be disinfected, and that
tho passengers Themselves be kept under
inspection Tor at least sevon days alter their
departure from the infected port Tcle-
grams arc received at the Surgeon Generals
Office almost hourly concerning the progress
of the fever. a despatch from Surgeon
Wyman this morning announced tho breuk
ing out Of the fever in St. Louis. General
Woodwork says it is impossible to predict
what tho extent of tho fever in the South
and West will be. Tho weather is most
favorable for spreading tho disease, and
ovor month will probably elapso before
thoro is a frost. At tho War Department.
this morning Mr.. Crosby, the chief oIcrls,
said that the Secrotory had ordered 1000
canvas tents to be sent TO Memphis from
Philadelphia and Port Jefferson, as ro--
qucsted by tho Memphis authorities This
draft entirely oxhausts the supply of canvas
tents at tho disposal Of the department.
There arc, however, at tho supply stations
about 1000 linen tents or shelters which
aro not wator proof, A draft on the War
Department for rations to feed the poor
fever patients Of tho South is expootod, and
30 far as lies in the Scoretary's power he
will issue supplies to the sufferers.
| GRENADA Aup,,at 21.--Tha fevar hoa