The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-09-12

ton tonight is gloomy, there being no inn
mediate silver lining in the prospect. Pow
cry and disease, hand In hand, are strik-
ing right and left throughout the city, and
the yellow death is holding high carnival.
Among the victims to-day was Very Rev.
Joseph Marie Millet, Vicar General. Mr..
J. McH. Walpole, Fl. D.. Thompson, the
former city editor, and the latter reporter
of the Picdyune, are down. Thompson is
dying.
The Howard, Peabody and Y. NJ. c. A.
buildings were thronged all day long. The
Towards report two hundred and forty
eight applications up to nine p. M, en-
bracing nearly four hundred cases. They
donated $4,000 to the Peabodies this after
noon. These latter have issued 9,26S rations
up to four p. M, the hour of closing. All
the military organizations have Relief Com
mittees in active operation.
The pastors of several colored churches
held a conference to-day, and established a
society for the relief of their countrymen,
many of whom are stricken down.
Many uptown streets are barricaded and
sawdust is layishly used to deaden the rattle
of vehicles. The tolling of church and
curfew bells was discontinued to-day. The
Board of Health is vigorously prosecuting
physicians who do not report their cases.
The Howard list, however, can be taken as
additional to the official report, as their
physicians have no time to register cases at
the Board.
The hum of physicians carriages is now
heard all night through, and many drug
stores are open till two a. m. The epidemic
is fast assuming colossal proportions, but
when or at what figure it will reach its
climax experts are at a loss to conjecture.
The mottuary report just compiled for the
week ending September 1, is as follows:
Yellow fever, All 40 colored); other fevers,
Sc; various diseases, 100 total SOC. Adults,
4OS; children under ten years of age, 1888.
VICKsBURG, September 2.-Weather clear
and warm. Thermometer $40. An appeal
is made to the Israelites throughout the
country for assistance to their sick and
destitute countrymen here. The distress is
very great. Remittances to be made to
Alex. Kuhn, Treasurer Hebrew Relief So.
ciety, Vicksburg, Miss.
The Howard Association estimates be.
tween one thousand five hundred and two
thousand sick, and increasing rapidly
Eight physicians report one hundred and
ten new cases. 1t is estimated there are
over two hundred new cases to-day. Deaths
fourteen white and four blacks, among then
Joseph F. Doll, merchant, recently elected
Mayor; Charles q. Nathan, Jeweler, and ]
w. Jolley.
Thirty cases of fever are reported a
Greenville, Mississippi, and five deaths
The disease is spreading rapidly.
ST. LOUIS, Mo.-Alfred q. Sphinx, a youn,
reporter of this city, who left here threI
weeks ago for that il.starred city, Grenada
Mississippi, as special correspondent TO
the New York Herald, returned to-day. d
brings nothing new, but says the condition
, there, present and past, is simply beyon'
description. There is, and has been nothin
for the last six weeks but misery, desols
ton, and death. Mr.. Sphinx thorough
disinfected himself at Holly Springs, wher
, he burned all his clothing and persona
effects, is quite well, and is regarded here a
! something of a hero.