Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-10-05
Martin. TRnn.

| Nashville american, October Sd: DR.. Ju-
Illus Wise, of Memphis, who arrived In the city on
Tuesday night from Martin will return to that place
/ by this mornings train, having been summoned by
| the following telegram: o.,o -
Dr. julius Wise, care T. o. Summers, 1r, Nashville
Tennessee:
DR.. Dbbrell was taken down with the fever yesteT-
| day noon. My daughter was taken at midnight.
MuTphy's case was pronounced hopeless this morn
| Ing Hope you Will return soon c,,,,eo>, -.
reporter of the american interviewed DR.. Wise
a. the Maxwell house, last night, and In answer TO
questions he gave the following account of the fever
| at Martin:
| and upon becoming convalescent concludes TO go
| to Cincinnati TO recuperate, being very weak.
over one day. then went to cincinnati, where E.
ma ned but two o. three days, when was sent for TO
! there and found Jos. LebOlt. refugee from Holly
Springs, Mississippi dying, returned to Nj mphtS
Mr.. Mitchell, superintendent of the medical CORPS
/ OF tie Memphis Howard association, proceeded
to Martin with nurses last = wednesday, and re-
manned tuere until yesterday (Iuesday) noon, when
| l came to Nashville. Upon my arrival at Martin
zie, mad reached there The day before and found
everything IN confusion. We Immediately or
ganize1 a relief association, CO. sisting of B.
| 6. Bowden, 7. Shelton and JEFF, Olive. Be
sides the ten nurses brought by me. there
were number from the surrounding towns, and
| supplies came in abundance from Nashville and
a board of health was Organized with Dr.. j. w. Dbl
bre presidents Dr.. A. Hall, secretary DR.. j. Y.
Dr. A. P Waterleld, Of 3fKenzie, DR., j. winston.
of Dresden, and myself, a5 consulting members. |
left thirty cases of yelo8fever at MARTINI only eight
| OF which required medical attendance and several
new cases, all under the charge of Dr.. Waterleld.
AIKenzie for nights rest aid upon arriving there
l was taken down with the yeLoW-feyer. came to
| ments from Dr. Thomas o. Summers, jr and in
tended to return to Memphis, but the dispatch calls
! the president of Mckenzie college, and Methodist
minister, and although in bad health, he promptly
/ went to Martin to visit the afflicted
AS 10 the origin of the fever at Martin, DR.. Wise
SAID; oo...,o ., o..,,,
hotel ara was Mrs. W. e. Martin, the pFOprietresS
All the cases at the start people who lived in
/ western depot. Within d few hundred feet of the
hotel is mill, and the five years accumulation OF
| sawdust few inches it Is found in a decompoSed
| state. Near by it also a large quantity OF refuse
| hotel Is built almost over pond and there are a
| number Of stagnant ponds throughout the town.
There are no pavementS in the place. and al walks
are made OF sawdust, which is in dec0mpo sei
state All the surrounding conditions are favorable
to the full development or yeloWfever or ans Other
epidemic disease Ii is notable fact that every
telegraph operator that has come TO the place has
| DR. Wise furnished the following list of deaths
| which have occurred at Martin since the breaking
out of the disease: Thomas Harvey, William Martin
a leading citizen OF the place and in whose honol
the town was namedi Mr. Atkinson, owner OF the
| mill; James Fields Mrs; M Martin, Thomas Estep
| Mrs L. A. Blake, Miss Forest Dibbrell, daughter o
| Dr. Dibbrell Lewis Ulmar Misses MoIIie and Minnie
| W. =.
| Gardner, Benjamin Murphy, Harrison Vowel anC
| cOlcred infant Misses MOllie and Minnie HOLLAND
l and Forest DibbTeli we're young ladies of the plac
| who nursed Mrs. Martini contracted the lever, anC
| oie1.
From Dr.. julius Wise, who, last night, returnet
| TO Memphis from Martin, reporter received tn
| following information alter the above was put il
| type: Mr. W. II. Miller, EOt Mrs. Martin, was tn
first person to be taken with the fever, and it wa
| while moving Mss Millsr that the two Misses Hol
| land and Misses Dibbreu contracted the disease
In addition to the above death list the names of
| ]. Murphy depot agent, and Thomas Akers are t
be added When DR.. Wise left Martin there were onl
three or four cases that demanded special atten
tion-all the others being either eonvalescent or
a very mild type. DR.. Dibbrell was taken down tw
days ago. is doing very WE'LL and DR.. Hall is convt
descent. DR.. Crawford, who is mentioned as havin
the fever, only suffering from prostration, an
! | is on his feet again."
The doctor Informed our reporter that Dr. Water
field, of M'Kenzte, is especially worthy Of mentio
tor his disinteTested and unremitting attention
the suffering of Martin, and that all the physician
save one had stood nObly at their posts.