Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-08-14
YELLOW-FEVER.
40 New Cases in Vicksburg-Inerease
of Cases at Port Eads and New Or
Ieans-AppaIiIng Distress in
Grenada-Surses and Medi-
cines Needed.
Several Cases on the steamer John ID.
Porter on her Way to Cincinnati
st. Louis "A Little Frightened
Grand junction and Little
Rock Quarantine
Grand Junction Quarantlnes.

Grand junction Quarantines.
Special to the Appeal
GRAND JUNCTION, August 13-Grand
Junction is in a state of quarantine against
New Orleans, Vicksburg, Water Valley and
Grenada, Mississippi.
EDWARD BECTON, Mayor.
Associated Press Dispatches.I
New Orleans.
New ORLEANS, August 13.-Forty-
new cases; twenty-One deaths.
at Port Eads.
PORT EADs, August 13-Three new cases,
including the telegraph operator. One death.
no New Cases In Vicksburg.
VICKsBURG, August 13.-The health officer
reports that no new cases of yellow fever had
appeared up to noon to-day.
Excitement in Little Rock.
LITTLE Rock, August I3.-Considerable
excitement prevails here over yellow-fever
reports from Memphis and Grenada, and a
strict quarantine has been enforced.
MaIariaI, Not YeIIOw-Fever.
ST. LOUIS, August I3-The physicians
who attended Captain Nelson, whose death
was announced at noon to-day, stated that
he died of malarial fever, and that the case
presented no symptoms of yellow-fever.
Several Cases on the john ID. Porter.
LOUISVILLE, August 13.-The John D.
Porter landed here .ast night with several
cases of yellow-tever on board. The health
officers visited the craft to-day, which moved
on up the river toward Cincinnati No dam
ger is felt here.
Help for Port Eads and Grenada.
NEW ORLEANS, August ia dispatch
from DR.. Stone, at Port Eads, reports six new
cases since yesterday and two deaths.
A dispatch from Butler P. Anderson, vice
president of the MemQhis Howard associa-
ton, dated at Grenada, Mississippi, to-day,
to the Howard association of this city, says:
''Send orange leaves and nurses. The situa-
ton Is fearful-worse than in 1873 in Mem
phis." DR.. Vaudeville and four nurses, sent
by the Howard association, have arrived at
Grenada. Seven more nurses left here for
that point to-day.
Appalling Distress ia Grenada.
GRENADA, August 13.-Seven fever deaths
and eight new cases IN the last twenty-four
hours. At least one hundred are down with
the fever. The weather is cloudy, with
threatening rains; the indications are bad for
the patients. -Four cases of black vomit are
reported by DR.. Hughes, which, he says, cam
not recover. Business is entirely suspended,
and the trains pass by without noticing the
place. The distress Is truly appalling.
NEW ORLEANS, August 13.-A special to
the Times from Grenada says that only about
seven hundred white citizens remain in Gre
NADIA; of these about one hundred and TWEEN
ty-fve have the fever. Twenty-six deaths
have occurred.
The Disease in St Louis.
ST. LOUIS, August 13.-Captain VIM. S.
Nelson, who arrived at his home here from
Port Eads on Saturday last, died this morn
ing from a disease said to be modified type
of yellow-fever. Two or three other persons
recently from the same place are now sick
here. but of what malady the doctors have
not fully determined. Captain Nelson was
mechanical engineer and commander of the
dredgeboat at the jetties. He was also a
member of the old firm of Eads & Nelson,
wreckers; also superintendent of the gun
boat bulding-yards during the war and
builders Of the caissons for the st. LOUIS
bridge, and has led a life of unusual industry
and usefulness.