The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-09-25
THE YELLOW PLAGUE.
No Decided Abatement of the Disease
The Death Roll for Yesterday.
AT NEW ORLEANS,


New ORLEANS. Sept 19.-Deaths, 50; cases
reported, 1876; prior to the 10th inst, 1876. f.
G. Jacobs, with A. Thompson & Co., died
this morning. The Young Mems Christian
association has received dispatch from La
gonda Plankton asking for six male nurses,
saying the fever is very bad. The nurses will
go by next train. Sister Therasy, of ST. Vim
cent orphan asylum, died last night. sister
Estelle is very low. The death list includes
IA children under seven. The Picayune re-
ports the death at Donaldsonville yesterday
of Henry Loeb, a prominent merchant,
and Carl B0scO. 1.-The prestidigitator."
Superintendent Robinson, of the New Or
leans and Mobile railroad having arranged
with the Mobile and Jackson county author
lilies, all mails will pass through as heretofore.
Weather cooler, cloudy and threatening
rain. Deaths reported from noon to 6 p. m,
%; new cases Sc, of which Al were prior to
the 10th. Among the new cases are George
Rootes, with Brown IL Jones, and James Ma
loney, telegrapher.
The board of health had no quorum. DR..
Loeber and Colonel Hardee, members. are
sick with the fever. The former is improv
ing. DR.. Jones has a very sick child, and
Messrs Mott and Boyd were also absent Dr.
Kibber. inventor of the fever cot, was taken
sick to day on Canal street. DIR. Chopin,
whom he met, advised him to go TO the hotel
Dieu, which he did at once. DR.. Chopin
thinks, as he has been up with patient
since Saturday, that he is only Frustrated
from overwork. The fever is reported on
Karnigan plantation.
Total deaths to-date, 2,299.
Howard association: new cases. 27S. DIR.
Chopin has ordered % of Kibbee's fever
cots When they arrive he will fit an extra
ward at the charity hospital for the treat
ment of yellow fever patients. DIR. j. L.
Taylor returned to-day from Oyka. He re-
ports bilious remittent fever prevailing
there, but no yellow fever. He goes to-mOr-
row to Lagonda plantation in response to the
call for physicians. The steamer Porter
leaves tomorrow for .Greenville with nurses,
money and supplies.
The Young Mems Christian association:
New cases, 90.
AT GRAND JUNCTION.
NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 19-The Towards
have received the following:
GRAND JUNCTION, Sept. l9-Four new cases
yesterday and three deaths twenty-eight cases
on hand. Six new cases and two deaths to-day,
and two dying.
(Signed) G. W. BALL, NJ. ID.
AT MEMPHIS.
MEMPHIS. Sept. 19.-Since yesterday there
have been 81 deaths reported. There is the
usual activity noticeable at the Howard as
ISOLATION headquarters. Ex-Mayor John
johnson, Superintendent OF the Howard
nurses, reports full supply. No more are
needed from abroad. Among the new cases
reported this morning are DR.. I. H. Force,
of Hot Springs, Ark; DIR. Luppo, of Los
Angeles, Cal, and George ID. Laudrum,
youngest son OF the Rev. s. Lsndrum, who
returned from Georgia few days ago TO the
bedside of his sick father and mother. c. b.
Galloway, proprietor of the Peabody hotel,
is classed among the convalescent. DIR. Hiram
= Pearce. of Cincinnati, Ohio, died last even
ing. Chief of Police Aldy was seen on the
l. =.
his illness. Attorney General Wright, who
had been convalescent for several days, took
a relapse yesterday, and is quite i'll to-day.
There is no doubt of the abatement
of the disease in this city, but il is
for the want of material The official re-
port of the board of health for the past "a
hours ending at 8 o'clock p. m. shows a
death list of 62, Of which % are colored. The
medical corps of the board of health report
40 new cases. Among the deaths to day
were the Rev. Father Scannell and Father
Van Frostendorg. two Catholic priests from
Kentucky, who bad come as volunteers
DIR. &c. Forbes, volunteer physician from
Round Rock. Texas, was taken down this
afternoon. The wife of J. G. Londsdale, ST.,
treasurer of the Howard association, is re-
ported dying. G. V. S. Monnier, a we'll
known druggist, died this afternoon. Dr.
r. w. Mitchell medical director of the
Howard association, reports the spreading of
the disease in the outskirts of the city, ex-
tending as far as a radius of eight miles
There are daily applications made for physi-
clans and supplies from the small towns
along the lines of the railroads running into
Memphis which are in every instance filled.
To-day physicians were sent to Lagrange and
Bartlett. Tenn, at which points the fever
had made its appearance. Holt * T -, IN
deTtakers, closed their doors 20 day
as George Sutton, the foreman, th-n last
representative, was stricken dOwl. The
dead body of a colored woman was found by
the police TO day at No 81 Madison street.
She had been dead for several days, and III
rats had partly eaten her. p ID. Carroll. Sec
rotary of the Italian relief committee, made
the following appeal this afternoon:
We call upon all Italian organizations in the
United states to as ist US In taking care Of our
Italian sufferers in Memphis, there are
many IN hees ana many 70 rro t
graph 20 A b. Vaocaro, treasurer
AT CANTON.
Canton, Miss, Sept 19-In justice to our
many friends, too numerous to mention, all
over our beloved land, we issue this our cir
cular to notify them that we are no longer
in need OF provisions or money. Some weeks
since our beautiful little city was visited by
that dreadful enemy to our southern cline,
yellow fever. Without money provisions,
we formed among the few We had left a
Howard association, and atNonce appealed TO
the public for aid The clicking Of the tcle-
bidPoiC uhChiuCiJ IA O'ti cAhSS hoAN A''"
scarcely ceased to vibrate from the sending
OF our dispatches before a thousand gen.
erous hears responded to our cry from the
north, east, west and south. Money and
provisions flowed in, and from this boun-
tiful supply We ere enabled to say TO you all
that our every want is supplied. To our
brethren of the norb, east and west the city
OF Canton to-day extends to you TIE hand Of
brotherly love and sriendship. She will
never be able to repay You but she can pray
Almighty God to shield yeu from the pangs
we have suffered. She can say to the man