Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1878-09-28
TIL FEVER.

Louisville are arriving BY every tram, ana AL
roads give alarming sccounts of the sudden out
break of the yellow fever in that city. Two hun
dred aud thirty cases are reported io the neigh
borhood Of the Louisville 4 Nashville depot, and
some streets in that vicinity are reported TO be al
most entirely deserted BY the fleeing popu'ace.
/ Every vehicle obtainsble is reported rs being
used to remove the terror stricken people, and
hackmeu accused of charging exorbitant
prices when called upon TO do service by Tighten
4 cd inhabitants.
largely popul ted by refugees from the fever dis
tricts, fu Their SOUTH hut the disease is not confu
ell 10 them alone. One lady says she was told to
leave by her physician aud she started at once.
MEMPHIS, September 81. 1t is growing warm
again aud the fever continues to spread. Scarce
ly an hour passes but What some we'll known cit-
zen is reported taken down.
| From yesterday noon until noon to day So
deaths. Twelve were reported this morning.
Twenty four hours ending six O'Clock TO night,
board OF health officially reports % deaths, and of
these 10 we've cololed. It has been quiet day \,
compared with the four previous one-, and the
general feeling prevails among the people thai the
worst Is passed. The large number OF new cases
/, accounted tor 10 the explanation hat fully half
are persons residing outside the coporae limits of
the city who are attended by doctor, Of the How
ard III, deal corps.
Thirty one rny .ici4ns of the Howard medical
corps report M new cases.
New ORLEANS September u. Deaths So
css,s i22. Total deaths 2,703; case. s 462
The deaths Include ~ cuiidien uud,r seven
yea, Old.
AT Bay ST. Louis there has been Is cases to
date aud death, III the lat "A hours.
A depatoh from W,npna reports several new
eases OF lever and asks for doc OBS anu nurses.
AT Mississippi Cry II cases and deaths, one
deaib iu the county.
AT Handsburo one suspicious cases.
There has been IL deaths sine noon, and 100
nj Al IN S,.r ten
bCr "a h.
The grand TO al Of up to date is Ss62.
BATON ROGUE, September 81. Vest rjay
morning CAV. hope the fever was decreasing.
Inis MOI mug, however, the situation was a..n
threatening. Many persons were taken down last
night, aud this u,orning number of caves are
ported AS dangerously i'll.
The Howard books show alb ut one hundred
anu nf' y nurses actively employ ed.
As he epidemic progresse, want and destitution
deveiope.
We cannot give any favorable news e.day
Our teiegtaphers, Flppen aud Young, are DONG
their duty maniu,, and deserve great praise.
At house on Descre street. five cuildren were
Frustrated ny fever and two were laid Out upon =
table. Daring the night the nurse overturned the
lamp near bv, aud the fire spreading, consumed
both bodies. The other SICK children were rescu-
ed, but the cases will probably prove fatal.
New cases 50, no deaths.
GALLIPoLIs. Ohio September %. Consider
able uueasiuess IS tet at the reappesrance Of yell
low fever in the heart Of the city. There have
been thee genuine cases. One died last night.
lie had been = deck hand on the steamer Porter.
The other two are not supposed to have come in
contact with the illfited boat Some families
have left the cIty and others will doubtless soon
follow.
The weather last night cool, and hopes
were entei tained that frost would appear, but
there WAS none.
GUTHRIE, KY, September q. Fever has brok-
en- out acre. Branch, prominent merchant, died
seventy-two hours from the time of its appear
ance. His clerk died Tory eight hours er. The
depot master died yesterday.
New YORK, September q. The Young Mems
Cnrlsuan Association os New Orleans says that 1t
has still = 400 patIents on Its hands, aud solicits
fnither contributions until they are cOnvalescsnt.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, September q. The
destas IRON elbow fever to day wa, four. The
weather is warm aud unfavoraole, but the fever is
not spreading out OF the infected district.
WATER VALLEY, September %. Two deaths,
another expected. -Four new cases.
OCEAN SPRINGS, September y. Three new
cases. one death to-day. Total cases to date 66,
deaths %
HICKMAN, Ky. September q. There were five
destus to-day, AMI seven new cases.
MATIN. Tenn, September p. One new case.
no deaths.
CANTON, Mise, september ~. New cases Is;
no deaths. We think the worst is over.
VIcKsBURG, September q. There is nothing
additional from Greenviile.
Twenty cases are reported at Bovina. special
tram With nurses, ply iciaus and supplies left here
tor Lawrence, Lake and boviua, yesterday.
GRENADA. September q. The Ho#ards will
leave la lew days AS the fever has exhausted it,
self. No more funds or Provisions arc needed.
In earlier despatch noting death for the "a
hours ending at niue O'Clock this morning, it was
for the death occurred yesterday.
Pass CHRISTIAN, Miss, S ptember II. Thirty
five Casts and iuur death, have occut red to date.
Tw, i've ale unier treatment doing well. Tue
fever Is OF u nlid iUrm.
HoLLx SPRINGS. September p. There are
about 4uU people Tor Ill, fever To iced upon, and
q ute rs many III their he'd all the time. Entne
iamI lies numbering from eight to ten down
with the disease. Ii Is among the ply .iciAns and
many are stricken down aad iJur have dIeu.
Water VALLEY, September q. There were
fou new cases ,o-day. The fever is on the IL
crease.
This afternoon fire destroyed three stores and
n jared two other, and their contents. Loss SIS
900. There Wa. con siderable excitement ami AN
increase of new Cases may be looked for