The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-10-03
Yellow Fever.


lowing: The breaking out of the yellow
fever at Lagonda plantation, Bayou Teche,
is a circumstance as remarkable as it is I'M
fortunate. This plantation is about six
miles above Morgan City, lying in the very
richest and most salubrious part of the par
ish. TWAS purchased some eight years ago
by the present proprietors, Messrs. Steele &
Clarke, who came from Springfield, o., to
settle in St. Mary, and has ever since been
justly regarded as a model place in every
sense of the word. Under their wise and
energetic management it has been a source
of unfailing revenue, and this season the
owners were making most extensive addi-
tons to their works, putting in vacuum
pans, eentrifugals and a full refining ap-
paratus with a view to going largely into
the central factory business and developing
their neighborhood accordingly. 1t is, no
doubt, owing TO the numerous force of
workmen assembled on the place, and COM
ing from all parts of the Attakapas and La
fourche districts, that the fever has made
its appearance at Lagonda. DIR. Tarleton
telegraphs the Times that there are twenty
three cases, including Messrs. Steele and
the two Clarkes, with four deaths and
twelve conEalescences. 1t is TO be hoped
that the visitation will turn but to be a
mild one, submitting readily to treatment.
The community cannot afford to lose such
citizens or to rave their enterprises para
lyzed-
From New Orleans, September % comes
the following: There was a decidedincrease
in the fever to-day, the number of new
cases swelling to sixty per cent. over the
highest figure of the past week. The in
element weather of the past two days is the
immediate cause. The fear excited, how
ever, is undue, as the activity of the feyeris
I.4 .-l -r.lla-L-l.
The hope that had existed in the breasts
of the living at Memphis that the fever was
abating, was dispelled by the reports Of the
Esd. At the Howard headquarters, there
was one continuous call for nurses, and
the demand has given employment to many
who were on the eve of departing for their
homes, thinking their services were no
longer required. The Board of Health
officially reports sixty.four deaths for the
twenty-four hours ending at six o'clock at
night. OF these, twenty-five were colored.
This is a great increase as compared with
The day previous, when only thirty-tbree
were reported. IF
An american special reports the 2Sd as
the worst day of the seas IN at Hickman,
KY, considering the number ofinhabitants,
six deaths being entered on the books and
seven new cases. The deaths are: s. Lacey,
Miss Anna Muse,two children, A.Sharp and
Dick Yaucey.
At Baton Rouge, the total number of cases
to the 23d was 7S9; deaths, As.
A Washington dispatch of September "a
says: The Secretary of War having re-
ceived information to the effect that the
Howard Association of New Orleans had
some $360,000 on hand, and that they are
not in need of funds there to relieve the
yellow fever sufferers, has ordered an in
vestigation in regard to the matter, and has
also suspended his order of last week to
issue forty thousand additional ratiOns for
the relief Of persons suffering from fever.
September "a, opened cloudy and warm
at Chattanooga, in all respects the very OPP
posite of what was expected. Up to three
o'clock in the morning there were five
deaths, and the few people who still remain
are respondent and gloomy. Among the
deaths are Mrs. Wilkerson, widow of p a.
Wilkerson, formerly Revenue Collector of
the district, and well known throughout
the State, and Mrs. Graham, who refugeed
from Memphis.
Night trains on all roads running into
Chattanooga have been discontinued. All
railroads employees are taken out several
miles in the afternoon and returned in the
morning. People at the depot were startled
by the appearance of a mar looking like
skeleton, bearing a valise, and express
ing a desire to 60 to Nashville. he
was recognized as a yellow fever pa
tient, who had risen from bed in his
delirium. dressed himself and rushed
to the depot to catch the train. He was re-
turned to his bed. Twenty new cases re-
ported that night, among them B.. Frogs
dell, agentof the East Tennessee, Virginia
& Georgia Railroad, andhis wife.
From New Orleans we learn that the
fever is spreading through the country. In
addition to places heretofore reported, it
has appeared at Riochoc Plantations on
Bayou Teche, Terreaux Beetles, st. Bernard
Parish, Statford's Landing, Catahoula
Parish.
: On the 18th of September, the plagS
was reported at a standstill insthe old in.
fected cities, but gathering strength; in the
places lately attacked. sThe' citizens of
Memphis passed a resolution of thanks to
the citizens at large, thanking them for
contributions, and saying that they had
enough. RAJ =
DR.. Woodwork, Chief of the Marine
Hospital Service, left Washington City for
New York, to consult with thu officers of the
American Public Health Association, in re.
latiOn to the organization of a commission
to inves igate the yell w fever epidemic, he
having received assurances which would
warrant him in organizing such commission,