Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1878-08-29
BATTLING WITH THE scouRuE.
YELLOW FEVER STILL vICroRr'
Gus IN THE SOUTH.

WI ~ Nv -. 49,
Them -Pisesus Appeals ferA id-
No Hsps OF Permanent Keller
Until Winter.
New 0nLrASs. August 2s.-Nsw cases
900, deaths 81.
MEMPHIS. August 2s.-Eishty new
cases were reported up to noon to-day.
while the Indications are that there will
be quite an increase in the death rate.
The negroes this morning became clam.
orous for rations. About n thousand
men. women and children surrounded
the commissary department. and 1t was
found necessary to station . guard from
. oolorsd military company TO keep back
the crowd. Numbers OF the well ones
are still leaving the city. aided by the
Relief Committee. The Howard Asso-
citation this morning opened the Market
street public school building a. an in
Urinary. or Howard Home. for tho re-
csption Of the sick. They have also re-
established q medical corps Of ten ply
s%iciaus, under the direction OF DR.. 4. W.
Mitchell.
NEW ORLEANS. August 2s.-Ths How
ard Association relief list Is gradually
increasing. New applications. about
l25 daily. The Young Mems Christian
Association now have 100 patients on
their relief list. Seven hundred cases
Of fever have occurred at V~icksburg.
A dispatch to the Pieuyux from Col.
Dsnnet, dated Brookhavsn. Mississippi.
says: "Thsrs Is not q case OF yellow
fever in or around Brookhavsn. I can
not hear OF q case Of yellow fever In
any town between Canton and New Or.
l~eans-over 200 miles. Reports from
coast towns along the Mobile road show
there il no fever at any point between
New Orleans and Mobile"
New ORLEANS, August pa dispatch
from Canton. Mississippi. TO the How.
ard Association. says: 1.-THE fever Ia
increasing" A dispatch from the How
ards Of Port Gibson says: 1.-THE fs-
YER 10 very fatal and NO abatement. Two
hundred and thirty cases and twenty-five
deaths to date. Ice Is wanted more than
anything else. The nurses are doing
we'll. Our expenses are $3.50 per day.
New York, st. Louis, Jackson, and Co.
lumbus are aiding. There arc but one
or two convalescsnt persons so far"
The above was in answer to u dispatch
asking II further assistance was 70.
quired.
DISPATCHES have been received from
Charleston asking II nurses are wanted
in Now Orleans. Tbs Towards reply
that they are not required.
A Times correspondent at Caution. Mis-
sissippi, under date Of the 9Th says
81 arrived here last Sunday. Not q
single business house 10 open except two
drug stores. Once Q population OF 5000
but 10 only ssvsnty-fiye whites are 70
be- found here. The Mayor and his
family are sick and the Board OF Alder
men have fed. The courthouse 10
locked up and the ofncsrs have gone to
some safe place. Nothing but hearsss
and collins are TO Be had. Not q single
case Of yellow fever has been success
fully doctored /; NO person attacked has
recovered"
CHIcAao, August 2s.-Ths collections
to-day for yellow fever sufferers up to
noon were $4,000.
CncAoo, August 28.-Specisls from
the Southern States paint the picture oil
dssolation there much more darby than
the matter-of.fact statistical reports OF
the Associated Press. Scores OF fami.
lies in the afflicted cities are lying IN.
buried, uucarsd for. and alone. The
endemic Is Of frightful power and ra-
pidity in Its work, and battles what have
been deemed the most skillful physi.
clans. The following extracts from spe.'
Gals will give q better idea OF the terri
BILE state Of affairs and the utter power.
lessness OF the natives:
A Tribune Memphis special says: Wis
itor Mansiord, OF the Howsrds, snooun'
tered "a scene Of horror upon entering 9
house on Commerce street. Upon . bed
Law the living and the dead-a husband
cola aud stiff aud q wife In the agony oil
dissolutiou. On the floor. tossing IN
delirium, were two children OF this pair.
and beside them their cousins, two little
Girls. themselves sick. To complete ths
sadness OF the scene and give II q touch
of disgusting horror q drunken man and
q drunken weman. parents OF the httis
fsyer.baksd girls, were resling and ours.
ING and stumbling over the dying and
the dead. Two hundred poor people
were given transportation from the CITY
to-day. II il hard. sad work-hsrdsr
still for the lack Of any color Of hope 10
the dark cloud above rs. The Post.
master Of Grenada cries for help. saying
ali his associates have died around him
The force at the Memphis ONCE 10 TOO
short for help to be found there.
A Times New Orleans special says
Startling cases Of d~sstitution are being
developed every day. This morning the
| Office Of the Howard Association wAs 20
dsnsely packed BY applicants for relief
tbat Il was almost impossible to gain
admission. Several we'll authenticated
cases will indicate the extreme misery
somo have reached The driver OF q
charity wagon while passing No. 200
Poydrns street heard . shrek Of Agony
within, and entering the premises quick
ly assembled q flight Of ricksty stairs
leading to q side alley. He hurried into
into q back bedroom and Wal startled 70
behold the yellow corpse OF aohild lying
upon . filthy bed. Seated in . rocking
chair, clutching q palmetto fan In one
hand and resting heavily upon the bed,
sat q woman, whom upon closer inspsc-
ton, he was shocked to see was stark
and stiff. The cries continued. and be
hurried to the front apartment, into
which the room opened. There upon
the floor. lay q mother and . daughter.
dead. The older woman had evidently
thrown herself on the floor In q frenzy
Of dslirium. Upon the only bed In the
room, writhing with fever. lay the man
whose call attracted attention, and .
child eighteen months old. That driver
has hauled twenty corpses from the
same house since the fever commenced
Al No. l5I Bienvills street, . long mar
row alley-so narrow that one can pen
citrate Il only with dificulty-lsads back
to q building onos occupied a. q stabl:
but now = pest-houss. In the ioit Of