Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-07-31
A RAY OF HOPE
DAwSS UPON STRICKEN MEMPHIS,
Twelve New Cases but no 0aaths from Vel
low Fever, Ies,erday-Ihe Weather
Clear and Pleasant-SeVeralC Cases
Outside the City Limits.
Memphis.

memphis
MKNPHrs, July SO.-FOur new cases
were reported to the Board OF Health
this morning: Rose Hendricks, John
Creeden, c. III. Smith and Maggie Towns
No deaths have been reported up tC
noon.
W. w. COrcOran, banker at Washing
ton, ID. c., has sent a check for $1,000
to be used for the removal OF the poor
and destitute from the city.
OF the sick, Brooks Wilson, S. A
Hatcher, Miles Owen and Michael Athey
are reported to be in critical condition,
The weather has settled.
MEMPHIS, July 30-Eight more cases
were reported TO the Board vi Health
this afternoon, five of whom wer9
colored. No deaths from yellow lever
have occurred for the past ~ hours,
ending at 8 O'Clock. Several cases OF
fever are reported outside the corporate
limits of the city, which are not in
cluded i'm the official report OF the
BOarl of Health. The HOwarIls have
forty five nurses on duty distributed
among fifty-siN sick people. ;. Hatcher
ami Brooks Wilson, telegraph opera
tors, were reported dying tonight. A
daughter of Chief of Police Athey.
sick with the fever at Raleigh, Tenn, is
i'm critical condition. There is about
2OD people at Camp Marks. The
weather is clear and pleasant.
Samuel A. Hatcher died tonight ut 5
o'clock. James Hester, the last mem
Der Of a family of seven, was pros
trated with the fever this afternoon.
MEMPHIS, July 30.-John b. Easton,
eldest son OF DR.. ThOs. B. EastOn, was
stricken with the lever tonight. This
case. together with his wife and two
daughters, includes the entire family
who are DOW prOstrated with the dis
ease.
New Orleans.
NEw ORLEANS, July 30-Two suspi-
ciOus cases were reported 10 the Board
of Health to-day, making total OF five
under observation. No deaths.
NEW ORLEANS, July 30.-John krOOp,
the NOrwegiOn, is much better. Ills
case, together with that Of Fitzpatrick,
was reported To the Board OF Health as
genuine yellow fever. DIR. Chappln,
who has been absent several days, re-
turned to-day and visited Fitzpatrick,
who is setting up. DIR. Chappin eX-
presses the belief that Fitzpatrick has
not the yellow fever. The other pa
tients are doing well, and 1t is believed
they will all recover.
Report Denied.
nashville, July 30.-Dr. j. ID. Plum
kett, president Of the Sanitary Council
of the Mississippi Valley, to-day re-
eeiyed the following dispatch from
the Mayor Of Centre Point, Iowa:
The report sent abroad OF our having
cnDlera at this point is entirely false.
We have a number of cases OF dysen-
terry, proving fatal only among children
in their first and second summers.
st. Louis
ST. LOUIS, July 30.--A cOlOred servant
OF Capt. Lee, OF the steamer COahama,
known by the name Of Henry, died last
evening at 7:l2 O'Clock on Washington
street. To-day post mOrtem Was made
by several physicians, and while 1t Is
not officially reported that his death
was caused by yellow fever there II little
doubt that such was the case. The
premises have been thoroughly dlsln-
iected. DIR. Brown, OF Memphis, who
also came up on the COahama, treated
the case.
New York.
New YORK, July 30-Stewart Wells,
of the steamer Niagara, plying between
this port and Havana, died IN the latter
port, Yesterday, of yellow fever.
All Memphis refugees sent to quaran-
tine have been discharged.
Prof. Chandler, of the Health Board,
saws scarlet fever caused more
deaths i'm New York State last year than
the yellow fever did in the South, and
vet il has failed TO excite public appre-
hension or 10 make the people Ordinari-
ly careful 10 prevent injection.
4. +. Ruth, a white barber on the
steamer Saratoga, while IN dellrium at
the quarantine, sprang up in bel, and,
seizing the long side whiSsers OF VIII
liams, a hospital steward and nurse,
tore out great handful by the roots.
Williams was recently left fortune
of $4,000 in England, but he refuses To
abandon the work OF nursing the yellow
fever patients in the quarantine hos
pital, which he has taken upon himself.
New YoRK, July 80. 4 woman
named Maggie Cregan, patient at the
Presbyterian hospital, died Tuesday, 1t
is sand with all the symptoms OF yellow
fever. She arrived here on July md
on the vessel Wallace, which was de
tainel at quarantine for few days.