Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1875-1878, 1878-08-28
THE YELLOW DEATH.
A Stricken ITamlet--4:ranada stf,l m
the Unre1entinS Grasp OF the Fes14
ful ScourSe--Panir CompIet ing

THE YELLOW DEATH.
A Stricken HamIet--t:rnnadas stf,l m
the Unre1entinS Grasp OF the Fesl.
fal scourse--Panic CompIet in,:
4 What tine 4 erribIe MaIady Leaves
UndOne--The Situation Monday.
n. Y. Special Telegram Minneapolis Tribune.
ATimes special from Grenada saws tha.
yesterday was the ninth day since The ie.
. yer began to rage, and, of the cases t,eycl.
oped-about 200 in ail-hot one has given
a symptom of improving All the patients
have been seized with great suduenness
Each has had medical attendance and
nursing, and stll a deaths are recorded
as having occurred up TO this. morning.
Tie town is not merely desolate. II is SO
devastated that its condition is one of
eiT1FUL HORROR
No one is seen in the streets excent fhe
underiakers, physicians and nurses goi1,.
on their hopeless and ghastly crraIds In
| every house almost, a body is waitinm
for buriai-not that there isany ceremony.
4 man is taken with t!i. fever. lie, d,,wn
exhausted, falls into state of coIl,rsc ~
.de1irium. and in few hours is wrapped
in the blankets in which he died and hur.
| ried 20 the burial-pacc. The burial.scr.
vice is omitted, for the living have notime
10 think OF other services than thosc 10 TN.
sick
THE CLEFG7
have stood nobly in tlIclr places. the Rev
Mr. McCracken, of the Episcopal church.
being constantly on duly as nr,rs; and
counsellor Of the sick. Until las, night
there was no fear evinccd by The nurses.
Twelve deaths occurred in "a hours. and
the poison seemed more virUent in lis ac.
~. fG..,,, al.
were twelve inmates. HE tcvcr. was a,uorp
them. seven cases having appeared. Among
the sick was Mayor Ccni,.y. whose t;.mily.
were IN the same house. lie was prcstra-
ted Friday night. Before that he had been
ONE OF THE BR..vE MEN.
determined TO outiace the rcstiicEcr. His
son-in-law. Atwood Wiltshire u telegraph
operator, who came TO assist Mr. Rctldine.
was with Mayor Conley wien he was tax
en- sick. TIE mayors nerve gave out sud-
denly Hc went 90 his room lay down,
and declared il WIS all over for him. az
the fever was upon him. He rapidly i+-
came worse, ard in his dcI:riun tore the
bed clothes 10 pieces. He died early this
morning. His daughter. Mrs. Wiltshire,
wife Of th telegraph operator, and leriwo
lovely little children were in the house.
but had not taken the infection, and Mrs.
Wiltshire was not less brave about il than
her husband
SHE DID NOT KNOW OF HER F.THrR's
.a DEATH.
or of that Of her brother, Don Con!cv. ten
years old. who died last night Mr.. vii
shire left the place this morning with his
wife and ;'So children. He took them to-
Holly Springs. That place is still health:
n Fort, f,.fI-
been made welcome asylum to Grcu;,-
dians. Wiltshire declared this norniur
that he would return TO Grenada in the a.:
iernoOn. as he MUST he near his mOthrf
and sister, who are both sick. and will
probably die.
THE EEi-IS At THE BRISTOI. HOUSE
last night were five. being Mayor Conlev.
l,i: son, Miss Kate Clark. Miss Bristol. and
a Mrs Moore from the country. Dr. Gil
cSpie. a faithful physician. died this NOR
ming. He was SICK about fifteen hours. 1t
is bcl:vcd he could have resisted thc disease
but his system had been so pros
rated bv hard work tha. his nerves were
urstrun9. He was at the telegraph uiiicc
rc. tc1day. when hi male several attempts
70 write IA dispatch 10 inform some one of
Ills d2alh. He spoiled Il number of blanks
before h" succeeded. and then went away;
having told Nr. Wiltshire tha, he was afraid
had fastened the disease upon him
The NEXT THING
heard OF him was his death. Only one case
has been so sudden is to PROSTATE its
;!ctlm-Nr. RcvarS-in the streets. The
occasion fora panic yCs!crdhv-bcSldcs the
general tendency OF The diseas. 10 become
more lnalign;;nl--waS the pros
ration of ftlIe nurses ottEc Howard Associa.
ion OF Memphis. and the report circulated
quickly that the blacks were dvirc. end
hat six vino were sick would not recover.
The remaining colorcd pcopI. hnstcned TO
>ick few things, lead oX-wagons and
,;hcr vehicles. ana started for The country
With six nurses down with the fever, the
,ick likely to die unattended. the situation
becomes
MORE ibAI!HiNG
han it has been. Already deaths have oc.
'uricd Under nurses who had more than
me patient to:ttcnd. They would leave one
o visit another, and find the first patient
lead on returning. The nrmber Of nurses
: so small that sufferers sometimes cry
,itcOusly for wafer and no one answers
hem. As frequent drink in small quantities
5 almost essential TO induce pcrspiration.
his deprivation must continue II is 4
eartill fate that stare: the threc-ScOre of
White penplc of Grenada in The face. and
here seems 10 be no probability that it
will be avoided. DR.. Mcudovil!c. who came
rom Port Eafs to devote himself to the
ircnada patients, said the disease was
SO v1RULENT AS TO AsrJS!sH HIM.
'GOI;knOws." said he. THAT this is ter
blc. I have seen the fever at Brunswick,
It New Orleans. at Memphis in 1873. at
shreveport, and | have never seen anything
hat can for an instant be compared with
his