Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-08-23
TELEGRAPHIC.,
YELLOW FEVER RECORD.
Reliable News of Fresh Outbreak
Of Fever at New Orleans.
Two Cases Reported and the Isolas
tion Process Being Pursued.
That it is Spreading Rapidly
Denied, However.
Only Two New Cases, But Ten
Deaths in Memphis.
Arkansas Guarding Against Mem
phis with Armed Police.
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YELLOW FEVER.

MEMPHIS, August 22.-Two new
cases were reported to the Board Of
Health this morning. Ten deaths
have occurred since last night, as
follows: A. Fl. Speers, Samuel
Gross, Mrs. Dena Goldcamp, Hiram
Hilscher, James K. Murray, Emma
Moore, Phil. j. Ryan, Mrs. s. W.
Phillips, Samuel Rhodes, A. L.
Rhodes. Four, last night, died
beyond the city limits.
The daily mail service over the
Louisville and Nashville railroad
was resumed this morning.
New YORK, Aug. 22.-A Mem
phis special says that the Sheriff of
Crittendon county, Ark, opposite
Memphis, has issued an order
threatening the arrest and punish
ment of Memphians if caught in
the act Of crossing to that side OF
the river. The entire river front oi
that county is closely policed by a
mounted and armed force. The
order was promulgated by authority
of the Governor Of Arkansas.
kilograms received this morning
from the very highest authority say
ahe yellow fever is spending in New
Orleans.
Special to the Cincinnati Gazette.
Is MEMPHIS, TENN, Aug. 20.-The
plague exhibits an upward tendency
again, to-day's official reports to
the Board of Health furnishing
twenty-seyen new cases, the follow
ing whites being among the mum
ber: J. B. Thierdauf, twenty-five
years, 2O5 Elliott street; Thomas
n. Cooke, thirty-fve, 223 Second
Willie Gardner, thirty-one, City
Hospital; Morris Pearl, twenty
four, City Hospital; Herman
Hitcher, forty-fve, 1853 Auction /;
Herman Hilcher, ten, 1853 Auction ;
John Skofington, forty-three, IS
Union street; George Doyle, nine
teen, 81 fernando street; John
McDermott, twenty-five, SO Beale
street; John T. Miller, seven, 81
Main street; Maggie Outlaw,
swenty-seyen, 81 Main street; G. P.
Baldwin, forty-fivs, 72 Commerce
street; total whites, IL; colored, Is.
AT the Howard rooms the follow
ing additional new cases were re-
ported, all whites Mrs. Sarat
Hendrix, thirty FIVE years, 100 Eli
OFT street; Mollie O'Brien, ter
years, Is Jackson street; Angelins
Wolf, forty-six years, $50 Main
street; VIM. GUNNER. twenty-four
years, 4S Popolar street; Mrs. Min.
ME Wilkie, corner Fifth and Jackson
streets; Lizzie Rhoades..
Sam. Rhoades and small boy oi
the Rhoades family, recently re.
turned from Camp Father Mathew,
and temporarily located on upper
Main street, were also reported te
the Howsrds, to whom nurses were
furnished.
Undertakers report ten inter
ments, five of which were from vel,
low fever, three being white persons
as follows: George Varbrick, 80
80 Dunlap; Ernest P. Leake, 23
156 Causey; Rosa Deries, 26, IA
Beale. t ~.
The burial Of Maj. w. W. GU
occurred at 9 o'clock this morning
but being from outside the city
limits his name does not appear ii
the official report.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 9th,
National Board of Health. hal
received a telegram from DIR. Croft
OF New Orleans, stating that tn,
location of the new case of yellow
fever reported is at 233 Dumain,
street. It is probably the result o
tue infection from the first cases OF
Constance street. Another case j
reported this morning at AIT Con
stance street in the infected region
The patient was taken sick Angus
18th. Isolation and disinfectiol
have been enforced. a
The National Board Of Health il
also in receipt of the following tele
gram from Havana : iE'The bark
lack Prince, for New Orleans, AM
Fl. Glenn, for Baltimore, hat
me- cases of yellow fever OF
oard while here.
New ORLEANS, La, Aug. 22.-
in answer to O statement made 30