The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-09-09
The Howards received the following

!. The Howaris received the following
}. kilograms to-day, dated the 9TH:
Q PoRr GIRsoS.-Please send us Eve good
colored female nurses by rail 10 vicksburt
!. and Grand Gull, with all despatch. Le
d them be good ones. There Is great suffer
s ing, especially among the colored people
Seyenty.nine deaths TO date Thanks fol
e the shipments OF Ice, ten anu crackers
Please send live caseso ice by each packet
(Slgned) JAMES A. GAGR,
Il PnsL IiOndrd association.
yIcHssuR1. : The Right Rev. Bishop FL
!, der is reported dying. He received the
!, last Sacrament tonight. Inform the Arch
s bishop Of your city. i
(signed) w. n, RocKwooD,
80 Pm't. Ho.rqrd association.
Tho now cases OF fever reported are %;
total cases to dates
: TheSociety st. Vincent do Paul makes
u second appeal to their friends to forward
any contributions, either in money, food
or clothing, intended for distribution to
the, scOlrge stricken poor looking to the
Society for help to L. Donming, M. d.,
President. ,91 lI'
PLAQugMISE PARISH OF lBERvlLLE,
us September Z. I
!, To tie .Agen. ef aie associated Pas:
. We arc in tho midst OF raging pesti-
lence. OF our two physicians only one is
on duty, DR.. P. s. Pos,ell, who reports to.
tiay over 100 cases OF fever under his OBJ.
seryation, all within the limits OF our small
town. Up TO date q deaths. DR., o. d.
| SchWins Is down with fever. The fever
Is on the increase. Business Is suspended,
and our financial circumstances are INSULT.
cient to relief the distress. We arc sadly
lin want. Will mot the people Of the coun-
try send us help. Our people are strug-
Cling nobly against the scourge.
CHARLES o. LAuYER, Mayor.
New ORLEANS, September s-The How
ards report 472 new cases, including sick
and destitute. The store OF Wung Cung,
| No. 1T6 Canal street, took fire to-day. Mrs.
Brown resided up stairs. Her husband
and four children are sick with the fever,
who escaped by going over to Topez's
next door. Damage OF $ 900 to stock and
house. Joe Chez and John Lee, two
clerks, were arrested charged from in
formation received with setting fire to the
store.
MEMPHIS, September s.-Another sad
day has passed and hundred fresh
mounds are added to our cemeteries and
the Potter's Field. The number OF in
terments reported upto o P.M. arc u, with
one firm OF undertakers to hear from,
which will make the deaths up to this date
in the neighborhood OF one hundred.
Only partial reports OF new cases have
been made to-day. Physicians aro so
pressed for time thata q majority prefer to
violate the ordinance requiring them to
report to neglecting the sick. Six resident
physicians report 96 new cases, and it is
safe to assert that the number Of new cases
to-day were 200.
Among the deaths are w. L.. Powell,
late editor and publisher OF the Southern
Catholic. AIaj.J @. Thrall is dying.
A meeting OF prominent members OF
the Howard Association and the Citizens
Relief Committee was held this morning,
at which It was determined, as means of
forcing many people to leave the city, that
no more rations would be issued in the city
to those not sick, but that camps would be
established ut various points remote from
the city, and that those removing thither
would be supplied with food. A commit
tee consisting OF Gen. Luke Z. Wright,
Mai. ]. s. Prestidge, G. G. Fisher. A. d.
Longstatf, ex-May0r John Johnson and
DR.. W. Z. Rogers, was appointed to carry
out this measure. NJ
TERRIBLE BEYOND DESCRIPTION.
New ORLEANS, ,septembers. a. F. Cook,
OF the Howard Association, died tonight.
This makes four OF membership OF TWEEN:
ty-one who have died in the past week, and
four more are sick. Miss Emma lteeder,
OF Cincinnati, volunteer nurse, was taken
sick tonight.
The following telegram, sent by DR..
Mitchell, with the approval OF \. ID. Long
staff, President Of the Howard Association,
explains the situation tonight; ii
Chairman Reli5 (dnmitlee, Mem York:
The situation is terrible beyond dcscrip-
tion. Three thousand cases OF fever here.
OF forty physicians eight have died. Those
from the North sicken in few days and
die. Not provision house is open in the
city, and only one hotel, the Peabody, to
feed the doctors aud nurses. We want
everything that pestilence stricken, lam
ishing and impoverished people need:
K. W. MITCHELL, NJ. d.,
-.--- Medical Director.
Only two drug stores are open. In the
morning the Towards will open the drug
stores that have been closed by the pro-
prietors and place prescription clerks in
charge.
The Howard physiciuns report over 800
new cases to-day. These arc in addition
| TO the new cases reported to the Board OF
Health. DR.. McRim, OF st. Louis, died
this evening.
AT CINCINNATI. sii
.Cfxc1Sxarl, September S.-Wm. Blitz,
four days from Memphis, was taken to the
hospitalto-day sick with the yellow fever.
MEMPHIS, September s.-Rev. DR.. Dali
zell, OF Shreveport, arrived here yesterday,
and has gone to work in place OF the
stricken clergy OF the Episcopal Church,
and he desires to say to his brethren Of
tho Church that the suffering and destitu-
ton are frightiul, and that he shall be
glad to act as their almoner in providing
for the poor and needy. .
GRIESvILLE, Miss, September s.-Five
deaths and 20 new cases during the last
"a hours. Total deaths, 42; total cases,
100.
New ORLEANS, Sept. s.-A dispatch from
\ Grenada, Miss, says: The following new
cases are reported since my last special:
Mrs. DR.. Ringgold. widow Of DR.. Ringgold;
Miss Mary Russell, a sister OF f. r. Rus.
sell, OF Senatoba, Miss; r. Arnlstead, ex-
press agent. and five colored women.
The death list is rs follows: DR.. Ring.
gold, Mr.. Mcdonald. S. O. B. Rollins and
Henry Crockett iIt- 5N1Stl D
A number OF patients in the Chamber
lain House arc convalescing rapidly.
We arc almost without communication
otherwise than telegraphic. The mails
are irregular and our Postmaster dead.
The Mayor died a week ago, and many
messages are received addressed to him at
the telegraph office. The illness of the
Express agent will prove great calamity
unless his place Is supplied speedily.
RELIEF FUND.