The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-08-22
YellOH-EGYer.
STLISE III RS.HEh "a
BACK-RIyER LIGHT,


RAvAGES OF THE TERRIBLE DISEASE IN THE
SOuTu--DESPAIR IN GRENADA-THE DEATH
I.IST-sAD SCENES AMONG THE STRICKEN
COMMUNITIES.
fBy telegraph to the New York Herald.1
GRENADA. Mss. uia WATER VALLEY, Au-
gust Goat this hour 1916 persons are in the
city. or these 133 are proStrated with fever,
so are up and in health, while two OF the
victims who were Frustrated Il few days ago
have sufficiently recovered to walk around.
at 0 O'Clock last night only three lights were
visible in the town. A dense fog covered
the village and the banks Of the Ialobusha
river. Night is the time when the fever is
mos: contagious. Most OF the victims have
contracted the disease By inhalinS the foul
night vaporS while resting their weary and
tired bones in sleep.
TRAINS FLYING FAST.
The passenger trains run through the
town at fifty -mile-an-hour speed. while
the passengers gaze through the closed WIN
dows at the doomed city as they pass, but
witness nothing but desolation. Not soul
is to be seen on the streets. Every one ef
the sixty brave men and true left have work
TO do, all nursing the sick and dying except
one.
THE BRAVE TsLEGAPH-MAN.
That is Bill Rcddng. the telegraph opera
tor. lie is at his post day and night, work
nr like the true hero that he Is. He is
working with Il rag filled with carbolic acid
tied around his neck. Hot, dry weather is
the most favorable for the recovery OF those
afflicted. Cool. damp weather is sure death
to nearly all the sick. To-day the weather
Is hot, clear. and warm.
KILLING THE NEGROES.
Another peculiar phase OF the disease
here is that il kills the full-blooded negroes,
three having Succumbed to the monster.
Old inhabitants say they never saw 1t Kill
the pure Ethiopian before. The patients
present terrible appearance.
GUARANTEES.
One OF The items oi the quarantine in the
little towns on the road is the closing OF the
stores ut ) O'Clock z. NJ. and not allowing
them to open until in the morning. The
idea is that the night air is filed with con-
tagion. and the men who generally congre-
gate in them after dark may communicate
the disease then, when they would be hardly
liable to do so in The daytime, unless there
was raging fever in the town similar to
that now in Grenada. This gives to
the town q dreamy appearance, and
reminds one OF Goldsmitii's deserted
village. Some OF the towns fire cannon to
purify the air, and tar is being burned in
many of them. 1t is hard to get any fruit
or vegetables in the hotels, or even iI the
private houses, as the authorities In those
towns who have adopted quarantine regu.
lations have ordered that neither fruits nor
vegetables shall be brought into the town,
and il any farmer who is ignorant Of this
order arrives in town with these articles OF
food he is seized and his whole lot con-
tscated.
Chickens are in demand, and every meal
finds 4 plate OF chicken the leading dish.
The scarcity OF food leaves but little refuse,
and the hogs look as though they were be-
ing trained for the race-track. Everything
wears the same scared look, and business OF
all kinds is at stand-still. except the rail-
road business. Even out in the country
the farmers are frightened, and in one in
stance to-day they burned a wagon. bridge
over a little river to prevent travel from the
neighborin. towns and cities.
CANTON DESERTED.
Tim Beatty, citizen OF Canton, Miss,
arrived here to-day. He states that the fever
has created panic in that town. and that
every one is fleeing from the place. -Four
persons are Frustrated with the fever there,
while three died yesterday. Their names
are DIR. Nathan MacKay, Miss Lizzie Henry,
and her sister. Over four hundred families
had fled the city up to last night. Canton,
like Grenada, is surrounded by good agri-
cultural country and is the largest cotton.
shipping point on the jackson route. 1t
lies seyenty-nine miles south OF Grenada.
Last year its merchants shipped 10000 bales
OF cotton to the New Orleans market. Every
store in the place is now closed except two
establishments owned by Israeites. The
Inhabitants OF Canton have evidently not
forgotten how the fever used them in 1885,.
That year out OF 300 inhabitants who re-
manned in the city only twenty-five escaped
with their lives.
ONE CAUSE OF DISEASE.
The cause was that the citizens in their
exeftion TO be clearly about their streets
and residences stirred up all accommodations
OF offensive matter, which poisoned the air