Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-08-30
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NsVeF Bei9Fe hAa This eaHnsFF lAheTed
iPsm ths effeeIa Of ihs FellaT fever eFia
demlp "a II has aaFIRg the PAsl taaF weeks,
and there seems M present premise 9 !
Ia abatement, but, iastead, fPiF pFa'peet Q
laF q uteAdy increase until frost u IL
utterly impasslhls IA describe the Immense
amount At suffering and deathi HeFetafoFe
II waa confined la ths whltes, but tAls lime
II has taken all-whiie and black, rich and
poop in YickSbqra lNst week negroes fell
dead In the streets like sheep something
never before known children, too, are dy,
Ing by the sopFe, which ia very unuaual,
New Orleans, Grenada, ,YipkshnFg, Mems
phls and several other sauthsVn cities
appear thus fap to be the principal sufferers
People have left their hamsu-and In a
number OF instances papenta have fed from
their children, without giving them even
last drink OF water, and vice ycraG=-as
best they could, on cara, boat, carriage and
horseback, and many ran into The country
In all directions not knowing where they
would atop, Many who have withSlona
| the disease before arc now compelled w
Ruooumb to its terrible power. In num-,
Der Of Osses, those who rempin will not
lend assistance and stand trembling with
fright in the midst of the daily increase OF
mortality Several cities along the Mis-
sissippi closed their entrances and would
allow no one to take refuge within their
corporate limits. Memphis pointed a
twelve pound Parrot gun "crorS tho river
and threatened the destruction of any
steamboat that would attempt to make a
landing Some Of these, forgetting their
inhumnn conduct, are now begging for
assistance. Physicians and nurses are 10
great demand. and many persons die sim
| ply for the lack OF personal attention.
But the people are responding ncbly.
| Subscriptions were received last Monday
TO the amount of about S25 900 from
churches and other charitable institutions,
and liberal contributions continue to be
sent in daily. Several physcians from
New York aud other cities have volun-
teered their services.
Those who have escaped the ravages OF
the "yellow jack" and reached the North
| in safety, may well and do consider them
selves fortunate and while safe, they can
not but sympathize with their living friends
who were obliged TO remain within the
very grasp, as it were, OF the fatal disease
and weep DER the death of those who could
not survive its effects. The ravages of the
Men, women aud children fall in the streets
and die within six hours after Grenada,
! Miss, for example, had a population Of
near $500 and two days after the disease
was pronounced an epidemic there were
only about 700 inhabitants remaining. OF
these, there are about 200 now in the place
the other 900, some have fed, but the
greatest portion have been stricken down.
Concerning this place the Cincinnati
Gazette says:
"No man can saw what will become of
Grenada, and no heart is in the right place
but will bleed at the thought of the sorrow
that will remain after the dread pestilence
has relented, and the remnants of families
look despairingly around for their kith
and kim"
The scourge commenced very early this
year, the earliest since IS53-September
being tho usual time of its breaking out
There is no danger Of the disease entering
the cities this faS North, that il, to any
great extent there may be few imported
cases. The farthest progress has been to
New York, Cincinnati and Pittsburg, these
having had respectively one, two aud four
fatal cases, all imported. No mails are
taken out of New Orleans and several other
cities where the epidemic prevails, ami all
mail matter leaving any Southern city is
now fumigated. Being thus deprived of
the use of the mails, the Southern people
are compelled to resort chiefly to kilograms
and newspaper reports.
There were 900 new cases reported at
New Orleans yesterday, and 30 deaths.
At Memphis % new cases and 20 deaths.