Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-08-19
SOUTHERN sCOURGE.
SITUATION IN THE PLAGUE
STRICKEN DISTRICTS.
Grenada Almost Depopulated, Not Enough
Persons Being Left to Care for the Sick
Terrible Scenes Witnessed by an Inquir-
ing New Orleans Reporter-Steady Spread
of the Disease at Acknowledgements
From Other Points.
NEW ORLE Fans.
Especial TELEGRAM to the Glob,

NEW ORLEANS.
Special Telegram to the Globe
NEW ORLEANS, Aug. l8.-The fever will un-
doubtedly soon be declared epidemic. The
disease has not spread large over the city. No
cases have occurred in Algiers OF Gretna across
the river, although they are in constant COM
munication with the city. Carrollton, the
extreme upper portion of the city, has also es-
capped. There are very few cases in the Third
district, the extreme lower portion of the city,
and in the Second district from Canal street to
Esplanade. Nearly all cases are on Custom
House street and streets near that These two
districts comprise the French portion of the
city, and are comparatively clean. In the
Sixth district, up town, all cases are confined
to the neighborhood of filthy dairy cowsheds.
New ORLEANS, La, Aug. 1S.-New cases, 15;
deaths, At.
Western Associated Press.
AN APPEAL.
Rev. j. K. Gutheim, Edwin |. Kursherdt and
other officers of the Hebrew Benevolent asso-
citation, make the following appeal: 'Sick-
ness, distress and suffering among our people
are increasing daily. Our funds are nearly ex-
hausted. In this sad calamity we deem it our
melancholy duty to appeal to the sympathies
OF our brethren throughout the United States
for special aid"
New ORLEANS, Aug. ia nine days prayer
is ordered in all the Catholic churches of this
city for the cessation of the scourge. Bishop
Elder, of Natchez, directs the recital of a daily
prayer for the aversion of mortal sickness
The Democrat tomorrow will publish an &C
count of reporters visit to two tenement
houses near Paydras market and the sickening
sight there presented. The houses were rrin-
cipally occupied by Italian chicken dealers. In
one house sixteen had been carried out dead
during the last two weeks and in the other ten.
No. 2Oo Paydras street was almost deserted, the
beds IN which the sick died remaining l.
tact. In the neighborhood over eight have died
during the last forty-eight hours. The house
or the Italians was almost disolated, there be-
ing IN 1t only one sick man and attendants, all
the rest who so far have survived have fled to
the suburbs. The yards of two houses, Nos $50
and 292, where the chicken dealers lived, pre-
sented most terrible appearance, mattresses
OF the dead, reeking vegetable matter and de-
composir G refuse offered seeds for disease The
board of health allotted to The several members
the respective duties in which each was to
work.
Especial Telegram to the Globe
GRENADA, Miss, Aug. 18.-rhs town of 200
inhabitants is reduced in one short week to 200.
with only thirty to forty well ones, aud the
situation is before you. But few days more
and the ange! of health will have vanished an
the demon of plague will stalk the streets as
victor. More nurses and help of any dcscrip.
ton has been telegraphed for. The fear O.
death has undoubtedly promoted the fatality
of the disease. The stricken people seem t.,
lose all hope.
MEMPHIS, Aug. ia special to the Aua
lanche from Grenada tonight says: Sixty-fve
deaths to date 100 sick at present. New cases
yesterday, fifteen. Twenty-Five people diving
to-day without attendants Relief is greatly
needed.
Especial Telegram to the Globe.l
CAIRO, Ill, Aug. l8.-No more freight of any
description will be allowed to pass through the
city from the South. James Clark vice presi-
dent, and Col. Brien, of the Chicago, st. Louis
& New Orleans, aud representatives of the
Iron Mountain railroads. yesterday tried to in
duce the board of health to allow through
freights, such as molasses sugar, rice and coffee
to go by, but the board refused 1t was also
ordered that nothing but mails, and they only
after thorough disinfection, be allowed to come
into the city. In consequence of these orders
passengers and all other trains, except local
freights, will be discontinued on the roads
above referred to-
SURGEON GENE AL BARNES.
Especial Telegram to the Globe.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 1S.-Surgeon General
Barnes of the army says that he does not think
tha vel low -,
cities if proper quarantine regulations are OBJ
served. Neither does he think there is any
danger of it reaching Washington. He thinks
that the disease will be confined to the Missis.
sippi valley. He has seen no indication of it
at Savannah, and thinks, therefore, that the
eastern section will escape. He has not heard
OF any cases among the soldiers yet. He has
given the postmaster general directions how
the mails can be safely disinfected. Some ex-
cltement has been created by vessel with
fever at the Delaware break-water 1t is the
first case that has occurred in northern lati-
tude.
NEW YORK.
Especial Telegram to the Globe.
New YORK, Aug. lS.-William Reilly, suffer
ing from an attack of yellow fever caught in
New Orleans, was taken down to-day in the
health officers steam yacht to Hospital island
at quarantine. There are thirty-fve cases of
genuine yellow fever at quarantine. all brought
from Havana and South American ports. One
new case broke out in the hospital yesterday
MEMPHIS.
Especial Telegram to the Globe.1
MEMPHIS, Tenn, Aug. 1S.-The fever situa-
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sidered that nothing will stop its ravages until
frost. There is want of system in collecting
daily reports and accuracy is difficult to give.
There are now as many as 100 cases in all.
Some few better. A number are well
enough to sit up. Among the dead are G.
Cairus, aged 50 years, ex-secretary of the school
board. Also Mrs. Lairgue on Jeffers on street,
Henry Decker, Alabama street; Mrs. Farone, of
Jefferson street, and others. Mrs. Nelson, in
South Memphis, is dying, but not of fever.
The panic is over and people remaining in the
city wear serene faces. Numbers continue to
leave hourly, but there is no rush or excite
ment. The fever is gradually but surely
creeping along Poplar boulevard beyond Dun
lap st eet and side streets. It is also working
up Bunkley avenue to near the Charleston
railroad depot.
Western Associated Press
MEMPHIS, Aug. l5.-To-day, the first Sab
bath since the stampede which reduced the pop
ulation of our city at least one-half, was quiet
and gloomy one, Notwithstanding clear sky
and warm sun. Visitors to the infected dis
trict report the outlook more encouraging, there
being only nine new cases reported for the
tWenty-fOur hours ending at 5 p. M althOnph
there is a slight increase in the death-rate.
The deaths for the same time number thirteen.
The decrease in the number of new cases is
doubtless owing to the fact that there is little
material left in the infected district for the
fever to work on. All who were able have