Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-09-19
The Aurkpille Gmql1irer.
YORKVILLE. S. c.:
THURSDAY MORNING, SEPT. 10, 1878

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THURSDAY MORNING, SEPT. 10, 1878.
THE FEVER SCOURGE.
A Memphis dispatch says the weather has
taken change, it is feared for the worse.
The nights are cool and the days are warm,
so that the number of new cases may reasona'
bly, be expected to continue large. Forty
six deaths are reported to noon, and ninety
one for the twenty-four hours ending at noon,
Sunday.
Death is taking many ofthe best citizens.
Col. S. Knowlton, Acting postmaster, died
that morning; also, j. G. Ward, Eugene D.
White, son of Rev. Geo. White, Earnest
Cleaves, j. J. Sears, Rip Gates, Miss M. B.
Page, Phillip Erbe, Rev. j. T. Early, A. +.
Thompson and Mrs. Holste, mother of the
Holste Brothers. Horace H. Briggs is very
low. Tonight reports show an increase in the
death rate. One hundred and twenty.seven
deaths are reported, of which, however, ten
should have been reported last evening,
leaving to-day's mortality one hundred and
seventeen, of which forty are colored. Among
the deaths are Henry Steinkuhl, John Walsh,
P. B. Stewart, John G. Gee, A. Jesche, Dr. Nu-
gent, of St. Louis; DR.. Harlan, of Hot
Springs NJ. Jarvis, drug clerk, from Nash
Vile None of the resident physicians have
made reports of new cases to the Board of
Health this evening. DR.. Saunders, Presi'
dent of the Board of Health, j. Harvey
Mathes, of the Ledger, and Hon. John
Lougue and wife, are reported convalescent.
About noon foul stencil was discovered in
the neighborhood of Mosby & Hunts block,
on Front street. A negro policeman, detail.
ed for the purpose, made an examination of
the premises, and in one of the rooms dis
covered the dead and decomposed body of
H. L. Waring, cotton buyer, who evidently
died several days ago:
Sundays reports from New Orleans, give
300 new cases and SO deaths.
A dispatch from Robert Powell, Mayor of
Canton, Miss, says: "The total number OF
cases to date are 1858; deaths, 81. New cases
in the last twenty.four hours, "a; deaths T..
DR.. Cage, one of our four physicians, was
taken down this morning. A hospital has
been established. We are managing the fever
the best we can, with the limited number OF
physicians and nurses. Thanks to friends
everywhere for liberal aid"
Grenada reports that Dr. Voolfolk, of Pa.
ducah, died there on Saturday afternoon, at:
ter an illness of one week. There were 6 deaths
on Sunday and 2 new cases were reported.
Only two physicians are on duty at Grenada,
and they are kept busy night and day. A
slight frost fell at Grenada Saturday night,
which, it is hoped, will have the effect to check
the disease.
At Baton Rouge, the official statement of
cases reported for the twenty-four hours, end
ing 9 o'clock Sunday morning, is: deaths, l !;
new cases, A. total deaths, q; total cases,
433.
No new cases have been reported from
Cairo, III. A heavy frost occurred in the
low bottom lands around the city on Satur-
day night.
A Brownsville (Tenn) dispatcbRf Satur-
day says terrible calamity occuNed there
on the night previous, to add horror and
gloom to the situation. Carl Grove, yellow
fever patient, on Hatchie avenue, in the
Herndon residence, was burned to death un-
der circumstances peculiarly sad and dis
tressing. He had so far recovered as to be
pronounced convalescent, and had been dis
charged by his physician, DR.. John Hay
wood, as not needing further special attention.
Late Friday: afternoon he became, from
some cause, little deranged. His brother,
on being informed of the fact, went to the
house and found him dressed to 60 out, and
by force put him back in bed. He became
quiet about 9 o'clock at night, and was left
in charge of his nurse, with instructions that
if he became noisy again to 60 for help. A
little before 1 o'clock the nurse had to 60 for
help, and in his absence the building caught
fire and with its unfortunate inmate was en-
tirely destroyed.
The Washington Star, of Friday, publishes
an interview with DR.. Pease, of that city, a
physician who went to Memphis, but was re-
turned by the Howard Association because
he had never had the fever. DR.. Pease states
that the horrors of the pestilence are beyond
description. The wealthy have almost en-
tirely fed from Memphis, leaving the poor to
shift as they may for themselves, and to the
horrors of the plague are added those of
a condition approaching to famine. The pro
vision stores are all closed, and the only way
to obtain supplies from them is to break them
open, which is sometimes done. Even the
drug stores are all closed except three, and it
is difficult to get medicine, even when medi'
cal attendance has been had and prescriptions
written. The banks are open but one hour
day. The commissary depots established by
the Howard Association are besieged by
throngs of negroes, many of whom come in
from the surrounding country, risking the
pestilence in order to get free provisions. No
vehicles are seen on the streets except the
dead carts and the doctors buggies, with an
occasional hearse conveying the remains of
some weather. victim. At night the streets
are here and there lit up with the baleful
pleam of the death fires that burn in front of
each house that contains corpse. Not Of
each house either, for many victim dies