The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-10-03
YELLOW FEVER.
Report from Many Points Show
But Little Change for the n
400 ssttsrW.9VI
The Fever Spreading to an Alarming
Extent in the Country.
Mysterious Conduct Of the New Or
.QIsahs sHo~ards. .GOS
They Refuse Aid to Charitable 0rganiza'
tions Engaged In Distributing Supplies.

MEMPHIS, October 2.-For a hours
ending at 8 O'Clock tonight 42 deaths from
yellow fever were reported, 10 oi which
occurred outside Of the city.
NemOrleans reports 50 deaths and lS6
new jeases.Q lUlV6 ~ .ggk :
At Baton Rouge the fever Is increasing
rapidly, SS new cases yesterday ana o
deaths. Within four or five days there
hUye been over 400 new cases.
From Chattanooga, DR.. Sims, Medical
Director, reports that owing to the warm
weather the fever is spreading more than
usual, but that he has. sufficient force for
all probable emergencies.
Carrollton has ITO cases under treatment
and reports most OF the sick as in destitute
Their wants are supplied
by the Seventh District Relief Association.
At tGretna there are forty destitute tami-
lies. representing two hundred people,
who -are cared for by the Towards; who
report the fever spreading rapidly.4 -
Al Canton the disease seems 20 have re-
ceiyed fresh impulse, and there Is not only
a greater number OF cases but the disease
has de, eloped greater nIalignity. i,
VIcSkRyRG, October 2.-The Howard
Association received an earnest appeal for
aid for the people OF that section from Or.
r. II. Ferry, Of Haynes Bluff, in which
the Doctor details at some length the des-
titute condition 1f the people, and Says;he
asgyer p iFmared caseS 0t teyer, S Snder g
treatment and the epidemic fs steadily in
creasing throughout that section. The
people are terror stricken. The panic Is
worse than that OF routed army. Two
well authenticated cases have occurred
where the parents Of two dying children
them to the mercies OF stran-
gers, and vi hen the children were dead had
to be buried by the kindness Of colored
friends,
President Andrews of the Ticksburg
Howards quotes the above statement in
hisappeals sforafd as d sampieQt many re-
ceired by them in The tGat few days, and
in conclusion, Nays the disease is spread-
ing all through the adjacent counties.
They all look to US for aid and assistance,
and we are doing all in our power 70 re-
leive their necessities.
Delta, La, 3 miles distant, has q cases,
and 5 deaths have occurred in the last q
hours. Have sent physicians, nurses and
by al'steam tug, through
special arrangement The demands are
increasing upon US daily, and God only
knows when they will end.
Presidet HOpdrd association.
WASHINGTON, October .. = The children
of the public schools OF this district have
Sl,047 dollars for the relief
Of the yellow fever sufferers.
Ric6uoR. October2. There atetvO cases
and Sss sisht onsai ssdfht iaif6s dftyln.dayS
Pom HICKEY, October 9.-Thirty:two
cases and seven deaths; no deaths since
the 2Sth.
BAY ST. Lors, October 2.-Eightecn new
cases and two deaths in the last twenty
four hours,
HoLLY SPRINGS. October 2.-No appre-
ciable improvement; seventeen new cases
and eleven deaths in the last twenty-tour
hours.
TAxerronLA, October D. Eight new
cases. aHA eglTlittf9- SO
BnoxI, October q One hundred cases
ani eighteen deaths TO date.
THBApEAux, October Fifteen new
cases and two deaths; fever ola mildtype.
CAxrox, October e.-Three deaths to-
day; the Howards to-day sent nurses to
Biloxi ~ NJ =
SEw( ORLEANS, October Z. The New
Orleans Relief Committee, composed oi
Presidents Of thirty old established char,
table institutions, having been refused aid
by the Howard Association, have again
appealed to the Secretary OF War for "a
lions for the destitute. They state to the
Secretary of War that the reports OF those
who are In positions to kn6wshow that the
Howaris cannot and have not relieved 4
large part Of the destitution in the city.
+ NO FEVER At LIrrLE ROCK.
LITTLE Rock, ARK, October Raining
throughout last night but clear and pleas
ant to-day.
} The Board Of Health to-day reversed its
actionin ninrefusiugtp permit passengers and
ireigt1t 70 Gong this way nom louisville,
on he,aSsurance OF the Mayor and Health
officer OF that city that there was no yellow
fever there.
: Great preparations are making for the
State Fair, which opens in this city on the
2lst.
The yellow fever relief fund in this
city has reached $500.
NEw ORLEANS, October .. Jackson,
Miss, reports one death from yellow fever,
ten other cases and many cases OF malarial
W WVicxs#s6S OctOBes e.;sesen deaths
The TELEGRAPH operitor at neltais-sick. 4
special train for relief OF the sick goes to
Smiths Station tonight.