Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1878-09-03
Yellow Fever.


and warm, with the little force of workers
nearly exhausted The fever continues with.
on: statement.
\ numbers Of negroes some Of them drunk
|-assemb!ed before the conmissary depot yes.
terday morning, aud, becoming riooua, made
a rush for the door. They we're kept back BY
the cologai militia On guard, but, e second
attcup. being made, the guards fred, killing
one negro The doors were then closed and
Gen. Luke f. Wright spoke to the crowd,
restoring quiet for tho time being The com.
mitsee is doing all in its power 10 supply the
people With food, but some Of the negroes are
dissatisfied with the manner 10 which the ra-
lions arc issued and further trouble is feared
The board OF health records show eighty
lour new cases and fifty three deaths for the
twenty four hours ending yesterday at p. n.
ALT Wat:oc, the negro who was shot by
guard st tue commissary depot and reported
Killed, is not dead but badly wounded. Some
negro aptatora have been talking to coIored
people and attempting to create trouble, but by
the prompt action of Maj. YIN. Willis and
other members Of the citizens relief committee,
J they were arrested and put in The station
house, and 90 fears Of further trouble are telt.
Great difficulty is being experienced ~ get.
ting carpenters to make collins for the pauper
dead and dig graves, but go far all the dead have
J been promptly buried, except in cases where
, persons have died unattended il Sickness and
corp:es only discovered through the efforts, OF
the health officer aud the assistants, as has
been the case 10 several Instances. y. u.
hlenken died last evening.
! loI
, day include twenty children under sven years
Z of age, and yesterday bIretcen.
. From ncon yesterday to siX =. ID twenty
/ deaths we're reported to the board Ct health.
G Total deaths from fever to date, Loci, loclod'
c Ing 4tl children under eleven years OF age.
t The new casca incl1de Willis K. Woo!f and
s R,bsrt Pzr=on, Ct the telegraph otdce, and ).
e II. WaIpole, fornar!y OF the Plcayune. Very
r Rev. Joseph Mil!et, Vicar General Of tie arch
jiocases OF New orleans, died ct yellow ts7er
! at Eve = clock yesterday evening after Elz days
6 illness. Dr. Stone has telegraphed the How
ards from Grenada saying Butler 7. Anderson
? is d5iog. Dr. Store appealed to The HoRards
c to seuL telegraph operator, aud thslr Wshe=
b barg made known TO MI J. W. HansakeC, be
( st once consented to 20 to Grenada, and left Oh
c the evening train.
5 At Port Gibson, Miss, 400 cases and So
:, deaths CUT Of $50 persons who remained 10
Il towo About POO have f:d. The dlstres;
Q Is very great. -,
J A dispatch from Baton Rouge says: EieVe1
: deaths from yellow fever have occurred here
3 four 10 the last twenty four hours. Many are
d down sick. and al! business is stopped.
y VIcEsBCRG, Sept. 3.-Eiaht physicians re
K port 10 new cases last night.
: The deaths arc fourteen whites and tour
!. blacks, among them Joseph T. Dali, merchant
c recently elected mayor; Charles II. Nathan
3 jaHcIcr, and J. W. Joley. DR.. Whitehead :
Z condition is very critical, but hopes are eoter
= talncd Of bis recovery. Thirty eases OF lever
j we're reported at Greenve, Miss, aud tive
t deaths. The disease is spres1og rapidly.
d The population here TO- day may be estimated
0 at 10000. Every foundry, machine shop
d ssH, planirg and oil mill has stopped work
:. ADD nine tenths of the stores are closed, thu:
e cu.tiug off the usual Income of the poorer
4 classes aud extending to those who have more
G comfortable liviOg. Al! railroad trains have
: ceased to run, aud steamers likewise Ibis
Il throws out of employment and the mcans Of
c earning livelihood niue teentbs OF the clerks
s ADD every mechanic aud laborer in the city
i There are 800 sick and under treatment;
l. down with fever. There is scarce q hous, *
d empt, and the disease is rapidly increaslbg.-
3 The resources Of the we'll are taxed to the Ut
It most limit 10 caring for the sick.
LOUISVILLE Sept. 3.-There are nine cas::
q Of imported yellow fever 10 the hospital here
|. Doe death occurred to night.
GRENADA. Miss, Sept. 2.-Dt. Geo. w
'r Voolfolk, of Paducah, KY, arrived here yes
10 terday attended by negro nurse to help us
As he had never seen case Of yellow fever
We told him to leave the nurse, but for him
It self TO reluro at once. lie said mo, be hat
r come to be Ct what little use he could. and hi
e was going to stay" We brought him int
town, and he is now 10 charge OF hosplta
J, where he can observe better than 10 any other
i way The disease and it's treatment tron lts
4 dawn to its night He comes with the tul
knowledge OF his liability to attack, but he tee
i it to be hia duty, and big wife said: go, anc
+ If you never come back, | will mourn for yor
3 Is hoy heroic husband who served his God BY
sarviag his cfeatures." He is the democratic
y candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Ken
5 lucky, aud has 10 opponent. Mrs. DR.. Huge
died Yesterday morning. Her husband dlet
Saturday, DR.. L. W. Hughes was tho mos
7. prominent physician in Grenada, and IN fact
o Of all north Of Mississippi. His last word
is were 10 bis attendant physician, DR.. ". +
# Beatty, of Mobile, Ala: "Pleaso have hi
buried ike gentleman and physician. -
DR.. Beatty saw that it was done, laying bin
u Il out and dressing his body with his own goo(
i. old bands, and be followed the corpse to it
b last resting place. This Is not often done be
It caus, there is no ono to do it and 90 time t
t. spare
= NEW ORLEANS, Sept. AT midnight las
. night the Howard Association reported larg
!. increase Of yellow foyer cases among the nc
a groee. One member of the visiting COMMITTEES
reports on his list nine negroes 10 one house OF
= Constance street. and six 10 ona house OF
= Theresa.
!. The same association reports 248 application
~ =, for relief to-day.
!. The Peabody relief association are gottlnl
!. we'll under way. They flied 800 reqnistlon
= for rations to day.
= The Young Mems Christian Association re
o lief committee arc doing noble Wolk. TO dat
8 they have attended to the wants OF sol teve
; | natinDts and to.dav in resDonse TO request 9