Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-09-01
The Sufferers.
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NEW ORLEANS
NEW ORLEANS. Aug. 3l-2 P M.-Rev. Father
Y. ). Beecher, native of Buffalo, N. Y, died
yesterday of yellow fever. The death list to-
~ includes twenty children under seven ears.
!ne following telegram was received this morn
ing and the nurses leave this afternoon:
Port Gibson Aug. 3I.-President Howard
association. Send ten good nurses, five male
and i've female ESQ cases, forty-eight deaths
All broken down. Great distress. (Signed)
fas m a. Gas s;d Twenty.s'x applications
the Z. M. Q. A.. and thirty for relief. The
thirty seeking relief are heads of families.
aggregating ITO persons. Applications for re-
lief are made out on blanks, specifying the
age, address, number in family, occupation
ana references The blank being filed out,
Is given to member who Institutes a in
curry of reference or makes a persona in
spectlon, the result of which he embraces an
der the head of remarks. If satisfaction,
printed blank of the New Orleans Peabody as
ISOLATION is filled out, signed by the visiting
member and stamped. The blank ia then pre-
sented to the Peabody depot, corner of Masa-
zine and Lafayette streets, and the supplies is
sued. The depot of the Peabody Subsistence
association. corner Magazine and Lafayette
Streets was opened Saturday morning with a
good supply of -four, meat, sugar, tea and
corn meat. As early as $50 applicants made
piled. The Telegraphers' relief association
here has sent 300 to sick photographers at
Grenada.
New ORLEANS Aug. 3l.-From noon to 6 P.
NJ twenty seven deaths were reported. E. w.
Barnes, manager of the w. U. telegraph Office,
twelve days Illness age 50. He leaves wife
and eigh6 children. Henry Hahn, alias Lee,
who shot and voluntarily killed Henry Murphy,
died OF yellow fever to-day in the parish prison.
Ih' Is the first case of fever at the prison this
season. The death-lst includes Edwin Gill.
native OF the Isle of Man, Sam Moses, native
OF Indianapolis, and Dr. j. Byrne. The Pea :
body subsistence association is commencing the
distribution of supplies to-day. They issued
1889 rations to 627 persons. The officers of
the association report contributions coming in
be'ally.
The following explains itself: To the fire
department of the Union and all other kindred
charitable organizatlons: The Firemen S
naritable association, of New Orleans for the
hrst time in its half century of existence, is
compelled to make public appeal for aid
with its twenty-five hundred active exempt
members and their families with go widows,
l75 whole and half orphans. With the in
ability OF the city to pay the de-
partment with an empty treas
ury, and wide spread epidemic
prevailing, it finds itself powerless to properly
relleve the sick and distressed. In the cause of
humanity it therefore appeals to kindred char
liable organizations throughout the country
for such assistance as they send US.
lSlgned) j. E. MARKS, President.
The Police Mutual Benefit association have
assistance They say money members and
their families have yellow fever; that
the funds of their association
are exhausted; that they have received
no pay from the city for two months, and con-
sequently are greatly in need Of assistance.
Contributions may be forwarded to F. N. Bow
Ian, chief of police.
MEMPHIS, Aug 3l.-The weather this morn
ing is bright and warm, but the clouds of woe
over our oity show no sign of breaking Ply
sicians, nurses, visitors. druggists and under
takers are becoming exhausted by constant
working young physician was taken down
this morning. At the health Office up to noon
only seven physicians out of about twenty had
made their reports of new cases. The number
aggregated ~. From this it will be seen that
not more than one-half the cases are reported
and that the epidemic is more appalling than the
o1hclal reports Indicate. At the county
| jail there about 20 cases of fever
McWllllams, under sentence for murder,
died last night, and negro murderer Brizzell,
under sentence OF death, is in a dying condi-
tlon. AT Camp Joe Williams four or five
deaths occur daily. The hospital contains
about twenty-five sick; and worse is feared for
the poor people living in tents. Some have
become frightened and returned to the city.
Alex. Hunneguhon, of the Masonic board Of
relief, is down, aud Joseph Russell, of the Odd
Fellows relief board, is very low. The under
takers report ffIy-fve yellow fever interments
up to noon to-day.
MEMPHIS. Aug 31.-The oiucial records to-
day exhibit l4o new cases for the twenty-four
hours ending at E o. clock this afternoon, and
seventy-seven deaths for the same period.
Volunteer physicians continue arriving. Five
from the Ohio board of health, DR.. Mccormick,
from Indiana, and DR.. E. L. Eseiey, from Lit
tie Rock, arrived to-day. DR.. e. eley was ac-
companied by corps of thirty nurses. Among
the most recent cases of fever are H. s. Lar
dunn, city editor ofthe AuaLdnche; P. R. Athey,
chief of police. r. A. Thompson, postmaster.
is also down, but WE'LL JOS. Russell, superin-
tendent of Odd Fellows nurses, died and
will be buried to-day. Our druggists
are worked down. and there is urgent need Of
prescription clerks of experience, and who have
had fever. Howard Heyman, druggist died
to-day, and J. s. Robins, one of the principal
druggists, closed his establishment to-day and
left tue city to get rest. j. q. Armstrong,
photographer, died of fever to-day at Coving-
ton, Upton county, and two other cases are re-
ported there. Fever continues to spread among
| the negroes, all families being FRUSTRATED. bat
II is hoped with the late additions to the medi-
Cal corps they will henceforth receive attention.
In 1Font OF the commlssary depot of the citi-
zen relief committee fully 1000 negroes as
sembled all day. The committee is laboring
| hard to meet the necessities Of all, and good
Among the new cases reported this evening
are Fathers Livemaro and Richardson, of st.
Patrlcks church. Father Ecasmus, O. s. f.. is
dead. The attention of the health Officer had
been called to Whitemore, in which five deaths
| have occurred. One woman who died at mid
night Friday. still lies in the house. An un-
known man sick in the back room was not
heard from for several days. This evening
physicians visited the house, broke into the
room OF the sick man and found his stiff re-
mains lying 'andoned in bed, dirty sheet
| thrown over and despatched with black vomit.
| The sanitary police have been instructed to
break into houses where they have reason to
oeheve there are unattended sick or dead per-
sons.
order prevails. At a meeting of the Howard
ASSOCIATION to-day A. d. Lln.staff was ele cted
president.
vIKsBURa.
V1oKsB5Ra, Miss, A,.. 31.-Tvo hun
dred and fourteen new cases of yellow fe,el
md ten deaths the past twenty-four hour..
Among the deaths is Major A. A. Busby, Of the