The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-08-27
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New YORK, Aug. Dispatches show the
yellow fever continues to increase in the
Mississippi valley. In New Orleans the total
number OF cases to date are over 1000, and In
the deaths 61o. At Memphis there were 81
new cases and Is deaths. Nurses are urgently
needed in Grenada. In Philadelphia two
cases of yellow fever have been discovered,
and prompt measures have been taken to
prevent contagion. jackson, Miss, is vir-
tually under martial law as q precautionary
measure.
Public subscriptions in different cities
on Saturday amounted to $25,oO0, including
$1,000 in New York City.
A Grenada. Miss, special says there were
ten deaths and three new cases yesterday,
The resident physicians and the postmaster
are down, Appeals for help are Intellectual
At least five families were down last night
without attention Of any description. The
scene Is frightful. and can be better Imagined
than described So long as the living and
dying. sick and well, remain in the city,
where the disease is so violent, SO long will
tho dying die and the living get sick, for an
atmosphere which is SO thoroughly impreg-
mated with millions of fever germs will con
tnue to hold possession OF the place until the
arrival of frost All that can be done Is to
remove the entire community from the pest
hole to the hills. All that is needed to accoul-
plish so noble q charity is to purchase about
900 tents and send them freight free to Gre
NADIA at once. Nurses are getting terribly
alarmed. Three OF their number left tor New
Orleans on Sunday night. Whole families are
stricken down by the terrible scOurge, and
not nurse or servant to lend o helping hand,
The situation yesterday was more hopeless
and heart-rending than ever. John L: Heabey,
telegraph operator from Winona, volunteered
his services yesterday to come help Bill Red
ding. who Is nearly worn out from having
worked since the breaking out OF the plague
from eighteen to twenty hours day. He, In
company with Redding, made the rounds OF
the town. In the courthouse, which has
been turned into hospital, containing sixty
five persons, they witnessed horrible sights
Men dying and begging piteously for food, a
single mouthful Of which administered to them
would prove fatal, were seen on all sides
Both operators pronounced 1t the most horrt-
bic spectacle they had ever seem, On one side
were collins containing the black and yellow
remains OF two of the latest victims, while
another square box was receiving q mass OF
putrefied flesh that q few hours before was
known as one OF Gods nobest creatures.
Holly Springs evinces no alarm, and SO far
there Is no fever among her own citizens. She
has her invitations to all refugees to come
still standing open.
At Winona, twenty-five miles south Of
Grenada, the mayor refused to allow train
boy to sell Memphis or other papers
Water Valley responded to the call Of help
very literally.
From Canton encouraging reports come
Only one death has occurred since last report
The fever is abating, and many OF those pros
trated are recovering. No new cases have
occurred. At the Chamberlain House, one OF
the most popular hotels in the city, another
sad scene was exhibited The voices of twelve
sick and dying patients filled the air will
groans and piteolls appeals to God and maj
TO have mercy upon them. At the Walthau
House a similar scene was presented. This
spot is looked upon as the most deadly and
contagious in the village, owing to many o
the dead being buried in u lot adjoining this
building.
Plucky Holly Springs has had three deaths
from yellow fever, but each case was i'm
ported either from Grenada or Memphis