The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1878-09-26
Yellow Fever Notes.
MONDAY.

| IHeIS Is dlmOSI dUSOluJely DeTelG Ol
its senses, and that the Geographic
accounts do not approximate a de
scription of the fearful situation.
At Decatur all the five original
cases died. They were johnson,
Ludwig, Miss Crunk, Mayor
Austin and McNamara. Three of
the number were railroad employees.
Sundays report said Charles G.
Austin, food and Mrs. Crunk are
the only persons now afflicted with
the fever
DR.. L. 0. Summers, jr., returned
to Nashville from Memphis on Sun
day, where he had made an autop
sis of the disease under a Govern
ment commission. He said to an
American reporter; The fever at
Memphis is leaving the city and
spreading into the country. 1t now
occupies a radius of fifteen miles
outside of the corporation. The
How0rd physicians are to be sent
out to the adjoining towns and dis
tricts where they are now most
needed. All the little towns along
the railroad are in commotion. 1t
is greatly to be feareA that the peo-
pie of Memphis will return too rap
idly, and thus cause a fresh out
break of the epidemic.
At Cairo everybody connected
with the Bulletin office died, and
nobody else took it, This was a
little alarming to timid newspaper
folks who feared that the poison
might have been carried there in an
infected exchange; and any other
explanation will be hailed by them
gladly. A special to the Cincinnati
Commercial gives this grain of com
fort. 1t says: DIR. Rauch, of the
State Roard of Health, went home
20 Chicago yesterday, and took with
him a jug full of the water of the
cistern at the Bulletin office, to ana
lyze it TO see if it contains poisons
that would account for the breaking
out of the yellow fever among its
employees, and missing rybody
else. 1t is claimed by some that
the cistern leaked, and that the
ground is saturated with the con-
tents of vault that has been in ex
istence since the war. This is only
one OF the theories held concerning
it, however, and all will have an
airing by and by.
Memphis Appeal: Nothing that
we have yet published better tells
the story of the violence of the epi
demlc than the list OF the dead and
sick physicians who were in the
employ of the Howard Association,
and which we give in another col
umn. Thirty-One have gone down
before the storm they sought to
still. OF this number sixteen have
died, two OF them being of this city,
and fifteen are sick, three of them
belonging to the faculty of Mem
phis. In the long roll we find the
names of heroes from every section
of the country.
There were several cases at Chat |
tanooga, but there is not much fear
of its spreading.
At Grand Junction there are only |
three white men on their feet and |
L
situation is truly frightful.
Brownsville had II new cases !
Sunday, and the outlook is not IA |
vorable.
At Martin, Tenn, thirty cases are
under treatment. At Hickman the |
fatality is not so great, but still !
very bad. At Grenada there is no |
material left and it is starving out.
At New Orleans the death rate is
diminishing. Only 40 deaths Sun
day and 1875 new cases. Greene
vile, Canton, Water Valley and |
nearly all other towns in the Mis-
sisslppi bottoms and upon its mar
gin are still suffering.
TUESDAY.
Chattanooga reports one death |
and six new cases, with a divided |
opinion among physicians. Browns
uille ten new cases and five deaths, |
with no cheering prospect ahead.
Decatur is completely deserted, and |
a pail of silence and gloom and +,
death hangs over it, though only |
one additional death is reuorted-i
Mrs. Crunk, and no new cases. |
There are not over 100 people in the
town Water Valley, Miss, has
twenty five cases and seven deaths.
Memphis reports large increase in
deaths. Ga, and the disease spre adj
ing more rapidly, caused by the
rainy, warm weather New Orleans
reports "A deaths and 1874 cases.
At Holly Springs the disease is most
malignant and stubborn. Another
hero went down yesterday. Hon.
Kinlock Falconer, the hero spoken
of yesterday as having taken the
place of Col. Walter is dead, and
the town is In tears. He was truly
a nobleman. Poor Holly Springs
Her Affections are truly great.
Thirty-two new cases and 8 deaths.
God help them. Yicksburg reports
Il great falling Off deaths and 20
new cases. Greenville, Miss, has
been cut of altogether from commu3
nication with the outer world. She
is terribly scourged, but help has
gone both from Memphis and New
Orleans.
WEDNESDAY.
Chattanooga reports the fever ,
rapidly spreading. There were five
deaths Monday night. The doctors
now agree that 1t is yellow fever.
New cases about twenty. a depop- =;
llation is advised by the board of
health. '
There was a perfect hegira at ]
Milan, West Tennessee, Tuesday,
IN account of two deaths. Four
ifths of the families left Those
Who remained are burning bon
Tres and firing anvil guns to test the
theory.
From Brownsville we have the
,ame sad story. Twelve new cases
nd ] deaths.
At Decatur all is well. No new
ases and 40 deaths The sick are
.etting well. There were only "a
persons, men, women and children
II town Tuesday night. The worst
$ over there We hope.
A pail of death and gloom still
amos over MemDhis DesDatches