The Morning herald., 1878-09-13
THE scouRGE.
CITIES BEING DEpoPuLATED-DEATH AM
DEvAsT ALTON.

CITIES BEING DEPoPULATED-DEATH AMI
DEvAsTATIoN.
NEW ORLEANS, Sept. II, 1878.
The number Of new cases of yellow fevel
reported during the past "a hours by the
Board Of Health is 25S, by the Towards 2S5
by the Young Mems Christian Association
1S5-makipg q total Of 62S new cases against
s54 yesterday, decrease Of 81
NASHVILLE, Tenn, Sept, II, 1878.
A Brownsville special says:-"Eleven
new cases were reported to>day. The
change Of weather may do good in the fu-
tnre, but as yet nothing seems favorable.
The plague has spread to the country, put
we have had to establish hospital to-day
for the stricken people of the town VINO
have no homes and the employees OF tne
railroad who live along the line and nave
no ether refuge. The railroad can barely
keep o corps Of men on duty, and we Will
see the boys out. Fifty cots and mattresses
are on the way, and when they arrive we
can give poor fellow . place to conyal
esce on, and in some sort Of decency. Our
best and bravest are dying. Our poor are
suffering, all are out of employment and
all business is suspended. We are omar.
antined frsm the face of the earth, outside
our corporate limits, except when some
Hickman, (Ky.) unfortunate calls for help,
and we always respond. One Of the How
ards has just died.
CINCINNATI, Sept. II, 1878.
x,a11nrxy
fever at Gallipolis, Ohio, yesterday-that OF
Joseph Martin, who was q watchman on
he steamer Porter. He was taken sick on
Saturday. His body was not permitted to
be removed from the house, and the neigh
bors would not allow his wife to leave her
home. Physicians will bury him to day.
There is . general scare in that region.
Three new cases are reported. All the
public schools were closed yesterday, and
fires of cosl-tar have been burning the last
"a hours at the terminus of every street
opening on the river. Many citizens are
leaving, and business and travel are almost
suspended.
MEMPHIS, Sep. II, 1878.
The weather has been cool to-day, which
was unfavorable to the sick. The official
VI tuC oOhlu VI 1CdlIu 6uOWb lVf
deaths, of which nineteen were colored
There were sixty-fve new cases. The corps
of the Howard Association report 2l2 new
case>. To guard against any mishap to the
county undertaken and expedite the burial
of the psuper dead, President Langstaff, of
the Howard Association to-day ordered 900
cofins, which will be brought to the ci y
and used as occasion demands. The action
OF Mr.. W. j. Chase in assuming charge of
the Post Office was approved by Messrs. A.
s. Nichols and G. G.. Fisher, the bondsmen
Of the late R. A. Thompson.
Among the dead are D. Dsvots, Mrs. De-
gray, Bennett M. Eyke. Isaac Leopold and
F. W. Royster, Sr., Herbert L. Landrum,
city editor of the Avalanche, is reported
dying. His mother is down with the fever.
John G. Lonsdale is down, and R. B. Clark
has been appointed in his stead as treasurer
of the Citizens Relief Committee.
We have at this date $500 sick to provide
for, and 10000 well people to feed. We
have on hand about 5000, enough for
five days. Contributions are coming in at
the rate of 81, 500 per day, which may de-
crease at any moment. We also need 1875
mattresses, blankets, sheets and pillows
every day to replace those destroyed daily
by order of the Board of Health. and on
l which persons have died.
We need the money to pay for physicians
l nurses, medicines and medical supplies for
1 the convalescents.