The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1878-09-14
YELLOW FEVER.
ReportS from the Standard. |

Reports from the Standard.
Thihalcaux. Sept. IT, Reports from
Labaduvilic announce 80 cases; n"
deaths and only one dangerous. A
Sister in Monnt Carmel coov"nt, IN
the suburbs Of Thihm!raux has just
died. Three Sisters more led in
tits convent within fifteen days {;
two from yellow fever. All the eases
in town have OF Sinatrd in that build
ing the victims having been visiting
therein. The two cases outside are
getting WE'LL The wife of Sheriff l..
A. Weber was taken last night, but
is doing well. Case reported on
Loris' plantation, two miles above
here. A Howard Association was
formed here yesterday. Citizens are
fnmigating the town by burning sui
phur every nj ght in front of tn" hons-
Is and pine tar in various places.
Cincinnati, September 5.-Some
twenty or thirty cases of malarial te
yer are reported at Newport, n.y., on
the South bank of the Ohio, opposite
Cincinnati, which resembles yellow
fever very much. The physician in
attendance, DR.. Phythian, says he be-
lieves it mild type Of the scourge
which is now depopulating Memphis,
New Orleans and tho South. He pre-
diets that all the Northern cities will
be visited by tho plague in forms
more or less violent. There have
been no deaths from the disease de-
veloprl in Newport, and it is hoped
it may not prove of very alarming
nature. There are occasional deaths
in Cincinnati from yellow fever, but
it has been thus far confined to refu-
gees. There was one death yester-
! day, a Miss Davis, of New Orleans.
Memphis, September 1.-THE city
at present is one vast charnel house.
Undertakers report ninety six inter-
meuts for the twenty. four hours end
ing at six p. NJ. OF these ninety
three were caused by yellow fever ;
seventy. six were white; twenty col
orcd. \ visit to the County Under
takers establishment tonight, dis.
covered the fact that at uighttall
! there were aho1t sixty mole reported
dead but still unbur1,ed. Question
of disposing Of the dead is becoming
serious one. The Citizens Relief
! Committee has employed burial
corps of thirty negroes to assist the
county undertakers and their men,
and it has even been suggested to
burn the dead, if they cannot be hu'
ried moro promptly. CorpscS arc
known to have laid unbnried fol
forty-eisht hours, filling the air with
foul odors and becoming SO revolving
that people have fed the neighbor'
hood, aud it is with difficulty thai
men can be hired to haul them t
the Potters field. A. F. c. Cook,
Howard visitor, was taken down
Mayor F'ippin being sick with fever
d.. D. F. Goodyear, president OF the
Common Council, is acting mayor.
An appeal to the Civilized World, from
the Finance Committee of the Citizens
Relief Association, Memphis:
We ask your aid, that we may bt
enabled to feed and cIotbe our desti
tute, and furnish necessary materia
for burying our dead. The appeal il
only made a. the last extremity, an(
in view of the fact that another w+el
will exhaust the means already giver
by a generous people. Death ha
laid his heavy hand upon US; tb'
destitute cry for bread and the sIcl
for such care as can only be given b.
open handed generosity. Those de
sirous of giving aid can address
James d. Prestleye, No. 9 Unio'
, street: w. y. Thacher, Of the FRS
!, National Bank S. K. Clarke, of tn
Pheuix Insurance Company. TIL
, Relief Committee of the Independent
, Order of Odd Fellows also appeal t.
, members of the order.
,, New Orleans, September 5.-The situa
= ton is growing worse. Three of tn
asylums are infected. Two Sisters hav
inst died in the Convent of Mercy. Tho
c. Wilkinson, an attache OF the CIT
Item, died last night. Among the ne'
: cases are Maor G. Starke, son of Gene
4 raj Starke, of the Confoderacy; Ale
I Dalshenler, a prominent lawyer Maj'
MAJ Burbank Of the Pjcayunc. Ere
> Moxon, a telegraph operator, who relays
q ed, had tho black vomit all night. a
this hour of writing, 10 a. m. he is
!, his death agonies. The figures represen
i ed by the Board of Health are far b.
. meath the actual sick list, as many do
n tors have not time to report their case
8 The Towards and Young Mems Chrl
tan Association are working nobly I'll
INCREASINGLY to relieve the sick, Will
the Peabody Association takes care
- the famished and convalescent. The la
ter Association is now feeding nine bu
bred persons.
Father Dufo, the only priest in Shrev
I port who survived the epidemic thel
j. goes to Vicksburg this evening to ASST
9 Bishop Elder. Mrs Matte Norvell, wi
- of the late e. P. Norvell, Of the Dem
r crat, died to-day. Her husband al
>. their only child died last week.
9 Canton, Miss, Sept, 4
. To the Associated Press:
We have about one hundred cases
+, yellow fever under treatment. Sixte
d new cases and four deaths preceding
o'clock a. m. to-day. We are in grt
It. need of money and colored nurses. A
- ono desiring to contribute money to
- lieve our wants will please send by
NJ " press to W. J. Mosby, treasurer of
~ Howard Association.
u [Signed.] GEO. w. THOMAS,
|. President Howard Association
"a Grenada, Sept. 4.-Siuce last nigh
te report there has been twelve new ca
in and eight dea ths-one negro and sev
whites. Dr.. Gillespie and mother, NJ
es Morrison, Mrs. Hughes, Aleck Refols|
L. Ike Williams and man name unknoy
+. D. H. Holt died last night. No aba
~ ment of the fever.
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