Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-08-22
YELLOW FEVER.

| CUIf0u III memphis. LII WAS 6St1n1aGeQ
that at that time not more than 500
whites remained IN the city. All the
rest were rapidly removed to camp Joe
| Williams outside the city limits. The
committee was unable to secure pro-
visions and medicines. New York city
announced that 1890 had been raised
in that city for Grenada, and Baltimore
sent 1913. The disease at Grenada was
not making much progress because all
who could leave had fed.
A GLOOMY SABBATH.
A Memphis dispatch of the 10Th saws
yesterday, the first Sabbath since the
stampede which reduced the population
of our city at least one-half, was quiet
and gloomy one. Notwithstanding a
clear sky and warm sun, visitors in the
infected district report the outlook
more encouraging, there being only
nine new cases reported for the
twenty-four hours ending at 5 P.
NJ, although there is slight
increase in the death rate. The
deaths for the same time number thir-
teen. The decrease in the number of
new cases is doubtless owing to the fact
that there is little material left in the
infected districts for the fever to work
on. All who were able have moved
out, and it is expected the work of mov-
ing others to Camp Joe Williams, south
of the city, will commence tomorrow,
one thousand army tents for their &C
commodation having arrived to-day.
DISTRESS AT NEW ORLEANS.
New Orleans advices under date of
Aug. 10Th state that the officers of the
Hebrew Benevolent Association, make
the following appeal. Sickness, dis
tress, and suffering among the poor are
increasing daily. Our funds are nearly
exhausted. In this sad calamity we
deem it our melancholy duty to ap-
peal to the sympathies of our
brethern throughout the United
States for speedy aid" The
Democrat tomorrow will publish
an account of a visit to two tenement
houses near Poydras market, and the
sickening sight there presented. The
houses were principally occupied by
Italian chicken dealers. In one house
sixteen had been carried out dead dur
ing the last two weeks, and in the other
ten. No. 292 Poydras street was almost
deserted, the beds on which the
sick died remaining intact In
the neighborhood over eight have died
during the last forty-eight hours. The
house of the Italians was almost desert
ed, there being in it only one sick man
and the attendants. All the rest who
so far have survived have fled to the
suburbs. The yards of two houses, 300
and 292 where the chicken dealers
lived, presented most terrible appear
ance. The mattresses Of the dead, the
decaying vegetable matter, and the
decomposing refuse offered seeds for
disease.
NEW ORLEANS DISTRESS.
A dispatch from New Orleans of the
18th inst, gives the total cases of yellow
fever to date, 975; new cases for week,
500; total deaths, 260; deaths for week,
40. The Howard Association, in view
of the widespread sickness and distress
which prevails in this city, have deter
mined to extend such measures of relief
as the generosity Of their fellow citizens
will enable them to do. They publish
an appeal to citizens of New Orleans for
means, stating that they have not dol
lar in their treasury.
Luz ldob 16pO1G lIOu1 O1llG TttuS
shows "a cases of yellow fever, 10 con-
valescent. Total deaths, 6.
YELLOW FEVER AT SEA.
A Delaware, Breakwater, dispatch of
the 18th says the schooner Ida Laurence,
Captain Alpheus Barret, from Saqua
LIE Grande, Cuba, for New York, put in
here to-day with the entire crew, nine in
number, either dead or down with
yellow fever. The only passenger,
Isaac III. Warrington, of Camden, n j.,
son of one of the owners, died at sea.
His body is preserved in liquor Yes
terday two of the crew died and were
buried at sea. To-day Captain Barret
died.
HORRORS OF GRENADA.
A Grenada dispatch of the 18th says
the scenes in this plague-stricken town
for the past twenty-four hours beggar
description. The strongest men and
women and helpless children are sick,
dying, or dead. 1t is pitiful
indeed to see entire families
prostrated, and swept away in few
brief hours. The official death list for
the past twenty-four hours is seventeen.
The population is decreased to a little
over two hundred souls. But few new
cases, there being no material to
work on. The deaths are old cases.
Mr.. M. Freedman and wife, from
! New Orleans en- route to New York
were put off the train this morning,
both cases of well-developed yellow
fever.
| THE GRENADA SCOURGE.
A Grenada, Mississippi, special of
the 10th says last night was fearful
one for the yellow fever victims. The
| death rate for the last twenty-fou1
hours was the largest since it's appear
ance. Ten or twelve new cases are re-
ported. There was great excitement
during the day, many flying from the
town. The population is now reduced
to not over 800 whites. Total deaths,
40. The number Of cases down is esti-
mated at 80. The New Orleans ply
sicians pronounce it of the most viru-
lent type. The distress is too fearful to
contemplate.
IT ATTACKS THE CHILDREN.
A dispatch from New Orleans dated
the 10th inst, says: OF deaths re-
ported to-day, were children under 5
years; one was s, one was ii, and
another child, age not given. The Times,
editorially, says some remarkable fea-
lures that characterized the fever in its
incipiency continue to characterize it
now. 1t may be regarded at its matur-
ed and developed form. Fully go per
cent. of the deaths are of foreigners
( and l1nacclimated neon1a and fuIIv -