The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1878-10-23
DEsoLATED BY DEATH
Trip of the National Relief Boat to
the South---vivid Description of
Heartrnndering Scenes by
Chicago Times Re-
porter.

NICKsBuRG, Miss, Oct. 1.-THE
Times commissioner left the relief
boat at Milliken's Bend last evening
in yawl for this point, but made il
too late to get anything through to
Chicago. The following concerning
Greenville is wired on account of the
many persons at the north who have
had no details for weeks. The nat
ional relief boat tied up Wednesday
noon at the deserted town OF Green
vile. Telegraph Operator bennett,
having suffered a relapse, the wires
were unavailable. We
CARRIED A LARGE MAIL,
the first received for three weaks, and
much of il quarantined since Aug.
10. Rev. Stephenson Archer, acting
mayor of the town, president of the
Howard association, chairman of the
citizens relief committee, and the
good angel of Greenville generally,
receipted for the mail as acting post
master. Out of from twenty to
twenty-cight hundred population at
the beginning Of the epidemic,
A CENSUS TAKEN LAST WEEK
shows one thousand and eighty-two
remaining, of whom about three hum
bred and fifty are white. Since Au-
gust 3, the date of the first of the
deaths, there has been upward of
seven hundred cases, and up to noon
OF the 9th, two hundred and twenty
seven deaths from yellow fever.
There are now sixty-three sick, about
1orty of whom are convalesccnt.
A LIVE Town.
JACKSON, Miss, Oct. 11.-Vicks-
burg is the first live town the relief
expedition has found since leaving
Cairo. There are fifty yellow fever
patients still within the city limits
of whom fully two-thirds are conva-
descent. The deaths average only
four or five day. Business is re-
wing. Drays on the streets again,
and reaction from gloom and de-
spondency has set in. To date three
hundred and five bales of cotton
have been received this year against
lhlrty-one hundred and seventy-eight
to the same time last year. This
lalrly illustrates the loss to all branch
Is of business. The relief boat
passed
DOWN TO PORT GIBSON.
ms morning. That point is sup
''ied daily by packet both ways be-
tween Vicksburg and New Orleans.
Inc Vicksburg Towards send 81 900
by the boat. She will return to-
morrow, and probably turn over her
remaining supplies to the Towards.
Regarding the trip TO Port Gibson as
y rather perfunctory performance,
'hc Times commissioner availed him
sen OF an invitation to accompany
A HOWARD SPECIAL RELIEF TRAIN
TO Meridian. There is hardly point
between Vicksburg and Meridian
not afflicted. BY September "a one
family Of twelve, living next TO the
grave yard had all died. OF thirty
persons living around the potter's
held, twenty-seven died witoin a
week. Black vomit appeared with
III twenty-four hours. Up to date
slSiy-six people have died out of the
TWO hundred and fifty population,
una about two hundred and thirty
nihe have had or are now down with
lhe disease.
Quarantine was declared OH the
Rrst outbreak. Lawrence, Forest
Newton and Hickory, all the surroun.
Hlhg settlements, were quarantined
not only did they forbid their own
people and physicians going there
nut surrounded the unfortunate with
GORDON OF SHOT GUNS
10 drive them back to their charneI
houses when they tried to flee. On
ne E4tll of September the Vicksbura
towards 1reighted train with sup,
ples, detailed two physicians and fiji,
zen nurses and telegraphed the au
.lorlties here at jackson for permits
non TO run the train through tn,
own. Forty-eight hours elapsed be,
s sore answer was received, but on the
sV'l, under charge of A. NJ. Searles
VI me Towards, the train reached
ie uod-forsaken spot. talked with
THE MISERABLE SURVIVORS,
ignorant, dull, vacuous faces in tn,
ndln, but CLEAN of intelligenc,
nsnled the dazed eye and walked In,
asuhned brain to momentary activit,
~ l asked what they thought whei
ne train arrived. 'sDoctah, Jesu
Nhrls' IN his shinin' robes wouldn'