Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1878-08-29
The Plague-Stricken South.

lever ~, deaths 81.
The Howard Association relief district is grad.
ually increasing. New applications are about l25
daily
The Young Mems Christian Association now
have 100 patients.
seven hundred cases of fever have occurred at
Ncksbuig.
A despatch from Brookhaveu, Miss, says not q
case of fever is 10 or around Brookhaven, and we
cannot hear OF a case OF yellow fever between
Canton and New Orleans, over 200 miles.
| Reports from coast towns along the Mobile road
show no fever at any point between New Orleans
and Mobile.
A letter from DIR. Case says there are no new
cases at Ocean Springs. Two cases had occurred
there-one of the sufferers died aud the other re-
| covered
The dea tbs OF the last two days include twelve
children under years, and seven between five
aud ten.
From noon to G P. NJ, only II deaths were re-
ported at tue Office of The Board of Heslth-four
adults and seven chIdIen under years OF age, on
| Enterprise street, between Carandola and st.
| Charles. There being many cases OF yellow fever
IN this vicinity, temporary barIicsde was placed
across the street To avoid the noise oil vehicles
passing over tue curbstones with which the street
| Is paved.
The Louisiana division of the army Of North
Virginia have made an appeal to the ex-conteder-
aies IN other states, for CONT buttons to AID them
10 providing means Of subsistence for mem bers
and iamiIles without means, and depe ndng on the
Association for relief.
| VICKsBURG, August rs. 1t has been cloui by all
day and the thermometer stands al 81. A light
| ram is failing to-nigut There have been l25 new
cases OF lever IN the past "a hours, and ID deaths.
Among the new cases are DIR. . Lesry and act
ing mayo j. l.. Doll.
| CINCINNATI August %. Harris Haskell and
Blanche Ofuer, who came here from Memphis
| last Saturday to escape the plague, died in this
city to-day of yeow fever. Mr.. Ohuer and
child OF a man named Dessaucr, also from Mem
phs, under treatment for fever in the hospital
Three Or four cases previously taken to the hos
pltal are recovering.
LIVERPOOL, August 2s. meeting held in
town tall to-day for the relief OF sufferers by yell
low fever in the gulf States, WAS attended by IN
huental citizens RESOLUTIONS expressing deep
| sympathy with the sufferers and inviting public
| subscription for their relief were unanimously
adopted An influential committee WAS appointed
to carry out the objects of the meeting.
NEW YORK, August 2S The Chamber of Com.
merce Southern IclIei committee to-day received
u, 015 additional subscriptions. The committee
was 81 gsn,z Saturday, and has received to Gate
Sl7 $50.
The committee OF Memphis merchant. in New
| York report subscriptions to date 81 800.
| Dispatches from the South report that Dr.
Cheppsn has net with renal kabe success, ex-
perlmening with ice water treatment, in the
of lzoribund fever patients. This may revolu-
! tiouize the treatme n. at Grenada.
| Foi the first time some of the sick are recover
ing 1 his affords great encouI gemeut.
DR.. Hobsou of Memphis died at Muifresboro
Monday night Of The lever.
A lady OF Grenada, visiting at St. Louis SAYS
only seven he Althy people OF popu alton oil 300
| remain in that town.
Some ply siclaus think the deadly epidemic is
the plague and not yellow fever.
WAsHINGToN, August IS. The Cabinet meet
ing Yesterday authorized the Secretary Of War to
do whatever he could for fever sufferers.
BY reason Of the illness OF Z. Nj. Pease a. NIcks-
bnrg, who sick with fever, the commission to Hin,
his successor is withheld tor the present.
Medical officers declare that there no cases
| OF yellow lever here.
MEMPHIS, August %. Eighty new cases were
reported at noon.
| Indications are that there will be quite in
crease in The death rate.
The negroes this morning became clamorous
for rations About thousand men, wemen and
children surrounded the commissary department,
and 1t was necessary to station guard from
colored militia company to keep back the crowd.
Numbers OF well ones are snll leaving the city,
aided by the citizens committee.
| The towards this morning pened Market street
public school bu ildlng as an infirmsry or Howard
| House Tor the reception OF the pauper OK. Tney
have also established a medical corps OF ten ply
scian..
NEW ORLEANS, August %. A despatch from
Conton, Miss to the Howard association says
Send 10 two nurses Immediately. The fever Is
| increasing.
| A despatch from the IIowards of Fort Gibson
saws the fever is very fatal and there is sbate-
ment. There are 30 cases and 80 deaths to date.
Ice wanted more then anything else. The
nurses are doing well. Our expenses are $50
day.
New York, St. Louis, and Columbus are aid
ing. There sre but one or two convelscent per-
sons :. fan.
Dispatches were received from Charleston ask
! Ing if muses. were wanted III New Orleans. Tue
| Howards reply that they not required.
The Times correspondent al Canon Mss says
arrived here Sunday last. 1t is pretty tough
times. Not single business house is opened ex-
| cept the two drug stores. OF population once
5000 only IS whites are now to be found here.
| The Mayor and family are SICK and the board of
aldermen have He'd. The court house Is locked
up and the officers have gone to some safe place.
| Nothing but hearses with collins are to be
on the streets. There are some 35 or 40 cases of
yellow fever there. Many negroes have died
within the past few days. The few whites there
now scared because not single case of yell
| low fever has been doctored successfully.
An evening despatch says that the condition of
CITY to night surpa.ses the most sombre imagin-
| ing. For the past "a hours ending at Z. NJ,
sixty two deaths occurred, of winch only four
were from other causes than yellow fever. OF
these A. were whites, and III colered The new
cases numbered ll9 during the day.
| Our physicians are so worn GU. in attending
sick calls that to night for self preservation they
are resting. Many are in the country and others
are 10 unknown parts of the city, while the friends
|
tendance. The following report to The Towards
TO day, from DR.. X. w. Mitchell, director of the
medical corps Tenn physicians, employed by the
assoc iatioD, gives some idea OF the condition Of
things:
! need ten more physicians Immediately. | find
scores of people sick aud dying, without having
| been seen by physicians. The scenes of distress
and death to-day and tonight are indescrbsble.
| Members of the relief committee have been
| called to sick persons, and responding to the
calls, found in some cases corpses lying in beds or
| on the floor without even = single watcher. The
members of the Independent order of working
men to day buried five members of the fraternity.
| They have exhausted their means, and call upon
brethren for substantial aid in rcsng for the sick
| and burning the dead.
The Baptist relief committee are also out Of
means. and through their president appeal to the
| Baptsts and other friends throughout the country
| for assistance. Even the smallest amount will be
gratefully accepted. The teegispers of Mem
phis have organized association, the object be
| my to assist those of the profession taken sick
with yellow fever. Their territory embraces all
points north of Canton, Miss. In this territory
already several destitute cases reported. They
appeal to the fraternity for aid.