The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-08-31

large Increase In the Number of Victims
4 mt Observation-Disclosures Spread of the
i Disease Among ALI Glasses, White and
Black - Burglars at Work I'm the
Stricken City.
NEW YORK, Aug. 30.-A Memphis special
says: The death roll OF yesterday was larger a
than it was any day during the epidemic OF
1873, when there were three times, as many
people in the city. Seventy-tWo deaths and
ninety-nine new cases were reported, with TWO
or three doctors to hear from on new cases.
The fever has attacked nearly all the white
people In the infected district, and is now
taking hold of the negroes This class OF cit
izens generally escape contagion, and the i'm
preston that they will not take it has been
SO general that many Of them came in from
ths country in the hope of getting food with
ouIworking for 1t.
The scouTge is increasing in violence every
4 moment. There is hardly a house in the city
not entirely vacant which does not contain
one or more persons down with the disease,
or dying, dead and awaiting burial.
The increase of the malady among the
negro population Is frightful, while it does
not seem to relinquish its hold upon the white
people. In some localities the colored people
are crowded together in narrow, filthy quar-,
ters and are an easy prey to disease and
death. Hundreds of them have been sick for
davs without medical attention. Every hour
In the day new victims, whites and blacks,
/ are reported and physicians go from house to
house on the run.
The county JAIL which in 1873 was in the
Z heart of the infected district yet was free
from fever, now contains seven cases. The
prisoners, numbering nearly 100, are now
being removed to the Forest prison farm on
Presidents Island, where they will be kept
under strong guard.
The atmosphere is thick with pestilential
poisons and as the number of victims in
crease there is corresponding increase in
alarm among the we'll ones who have thus
far escaped, and large numbers are moving
into the country, some preterrlng even TO take
up their abode in freight cars on the lines Of
railways rather than risk their lives in the
city. .
Ali classes are going down with the fever
+ whites and blacks, old and young, natives and
acclimated like others, although not so gem
orally. Physicians and ministers, with nurses
and other assistants, are falling before the
dreadful disease, and the situation OF affairs
is appalling.
+ A number of deaths from fever are reported
from country places adjacent to Memphis, the
latest being OF A. G. Ryan, a merchant OF this
The Howard Association answer to many
kind offers from physicians and nurses. Says
mated or have had yellow fever experience
would be gladly received, but the association
deems it unwise to encourage any to come
from Northern latitudes, as such persons are
extremely liable to contract the disease.
Thieves add to the trouble, and not day
or night passes that a number OF burglaries
do not occur A very unfortunate affair oc-
Cured yesterday morning. The burglars
had made frequent raids upon the premises
Wednesday night Kennedy took his stand in
his stable hoping to capture the
thief. j. G. Hail. a young man living with
Kennedy, at the solicitation OF the latter's
wife, went out at 2 a. m. to relieve Kennedy,
without Kennedy's knowledge Hall walked
up quietly, and on opening the stable door
Kennedy discharged his gun at who he sup
posed to be the thief, resulting in the instant
death Of Hall. Kennedy was very much dis,
tressed, though he was entirely exonerated
before the magistrate. They were both mem
bers Of the same body OF Masons.