The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-08-12
THE FEY ER.
Thirty-four Cases and Seven Deaths
in Memphis.
A Case of Fever Reported in Paducah
Brought from the South.

MEMPHIS, Aug. III, Ii a. MI our HeW e*l7e7'
Wm. Costello and son, Con Mulofahdoh
(white) Hester Jones (colored4.
Ed Cruta. C. S. Crute, J. B. Whitehead and
Konsturtf were sent to jail this morning for
rfoto,1s proceedings at Camp Marks.
G,l. Cameron said In evidence that they
wonld have created riot had he not been on
hand at the beginning,
Rumors are rampant that yellow fever In
Camp Marks is spreading in the adjacent
country. @.
Six returning passengers on the 0uachita
Belle were arrested, to be tried to-day.
Noon-New cases since last report: J. N.
Hastings, Thos. Downey, w. Dolan, white.
Deaths: Rev. J. Fl. Redley, pastor Of the
Collins Chapel, w. B. Erwin the child Of
Caroline jackson, Lizzie Dolan, Robt Hol-
lander.
A petition was made by the authorities this
morning to the United States Senate for $780,
600 for the relief of the sufferers for the next
two months
9p m.-The new cases not previously re-
ported are: Amelia Robson, Luella Mosby,
Charles Green. Elvira Greene, Edward Mays,
colored, Timothy Fennessy, j. Dolan, Lizzie
Andrew Shelton Lorentz Sails, Henry W
johnson, Elmira Wells and Edward Schloss,
whites, making a total OF thirty-four new
cases and seven deaths to-day.
DISTRESSING STORY OF THE FEVER.
A special says that at the cottage of Chas.
Forbes, on the fernando road, Mrs. Forbes
and six children, whose ages range between
seven and sixteen years, are sick, all In one
room Until the mattresses were taken out
IA n M "A
on which to rest their aching limbs. There
Is a small cellar, three feet deep, underneath
the house, which had been used as a prIvy
vault by the family. From this cellar the
the Howards could not remain inside until it
had been deluged with powerful disinfectants.
Charles Forbes aud his son William died Of
fever on the first, and the remaining seven Of
his family We're stricken.
THE NATIONAL BOARD OF HEALTH.
WASHINGTON, Aug. n.-The National Board
of Health received the following to-day:
MEMPHIS, Aug. il, 10 .57 a. m.-Thirty-nine
cases and five deaths since last report. The
board Of health has declared yellow fever to
be epidemic
A CASE OF FEVER REPORTED IN PADTcAH
CAIRO, Aug. ia painful report is in cir
Cuiation that a man named Rollins who re-
Gently visited the South, returned TO his home
in Paducah, KY, day or two since, and is
down with yellow fever.
THE CAIRO QUARANTINE BOAT.
CAIRO, Aug. 1.-THE hospital boat went
down to Island No. yesterday.
At THE NEW YORK QUARANTINE.
NEW YORK, Aug. 11.-No cases of yellow
fever or any other Inalady are reported at the
Quarantine Hospital for the past thlrty-four
hours. DIR. Nanderpool regards the case Of
the young man Frederick King, who died In
Brooklyn Saturday, as likely to have been a
case of yellow fever. He was attacked Just
about five DAYS after he left the bark Wallace,
now in the upper quarantine. This was the
vessel from which, 1t will be remembered, the
stewardess was taken to the Presbyterian
Hospital and died Of the fever, she being
treated for another malady.
ONLY ONE YELLOW FEVER PATIENT IN THE
HOSPITAL.
l.. G. Wells, purser of the steamer Moro
Castle, John Henderson, Of the bark Rabecca
and Carmana, and Edward Esty, OF the
schooner T. Ebbitt, who have recovered from
the yellow fever, were discharged to-day from
Swinburne Island Hospital This leaves only
one fever patient.
THE FEVER SCARE n BROOKLYN.
BROOKLYN, Aug. .11.-The residence in which
Fred. p. King, clerk for Pratt's oil works, at
Williamsburg, died Saturday night, has been
thoroughly disinfected and fumigated. All
the excitement in the neighborhood, which is
cleanly and respectable one, has subsidized,
and the sanitary superintendent says that
there is no danger