The New York herald., 1879-09-01
SUMMARY OF ITS RAvAGES.
Startling Experience Of a Herald
Correspondent.
THE TROUBLE AT HOUSTON.
A United States Marshal Sick with the
Fever at Quarantine.
IBY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD

BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.
MEMPHIS. Tenn. August 81. 1879.
Sabbath stiffness has pervaded tho city all OF
to-day. Late this afternoon the colored military
companies had dress parade. which drew con-
of about three thousand of their color.
Otherwise no incident occurred worthy or men,
ton. Twenty were reported to the Board
of Health to-day. thirteen of whom were colored.
The following are the names Of the whites:-
Mrs. Donohue, aged sixty-six years. No. $50 Main
street.
Mrs. Mary L. CRATER. aged thirty-four years. No.
IA Manassas street.
Walter Il. Lucas. aged two years. No. 174 Carroll
avenue.
Sarah McMahon. aged two years, No. lO2 Com
merce street.
t. Dahl, aged twenty-five years. corner of Beale
and Main streets
Sidney Fontane. aged six years. No. 20 Tale street.
W. Berlin. aged forty years. corner of Court and
Dunlap streets.
DEATH LIST.
The death list Of whites is as follows:-
NELLIE FAzzI. aged thirty-two years. No. lit
Market street.
JOS. W. PIMM. aged twenty-four years. No. 21s
Vance street.
The list of colored victims is as follows:-
LULA BRADFORD. aged fifteen years. No. 2S6
Linden street.
HENRIETTA BLACKBURN. aged nineteen years.
No. IS Turley street.
JOS. LOwERY. aged twenty-one years. No. a.
Fourth street.
ADDITIONAL cAsKs AND DEATHS
In addition to the cases reported officially
the Howards sent nurses to the following per-
sons:-william simms. Mrs. Mittie Dean. the Dan
gis family. Alkaline Frsyser and daughter. Lewis
Smith. Frank Dahl. zack Wright. B. Easton. Ellen
Kallaher. Sarah Conway and Mrs. Mary Ryan.
Two additional deaths have been reported since
nightfall-Lous Kirkland and Miss Ada Heist Lewis.
Kirkland left in charge Of voegeLs shoe store.
and last Sunday played q game Of baseball at Gen.
tral PARK with some companions He died this A.
ternoon at five o'clock.
THE PROMINENT SICK.
| OF the prominent sick W. ]. Berlin is reported
very i'll tonight his temperature having risen to
| lO4. General John 8. Skifangton is slowly i'm
proving. Mrs. Dr.. Collins has been pronounced
out of danger.
A CORRESPONDENTS EXPERIENCE.
The experience Of your correspondent during the
present epidemic has been varied. On three differ
ent occasions he has been compelled to change his
location account of cases of fever developing in
! dwellings, whore he had sought refuge. His last
! and most startling adventure was last night.
| Weary with tho labors Of yesterday he
| sought his room, where with q companion
| he was soon lost in dreamland. About
| one o'clock this morning, his roommate awakened
him. complaining Of not feeling well. Nothing par
ticuar thought Of this. and your correspondent
again dropped of to sleep. On awakening this
| ing at nine o'clock. he found the friend who was
sharing his bed suffering with q raging fever A
doctor at once brought who pronounced his
illness a most malignant type of yellow fever. This
has caused your correspondent, who has had
tho fever, to again on, and he is now located
ut the Peabody Hotel. whore not q case has yet de-
| veloped this year.
CALL FOR HELP.
The following telegram was received to- night
GERMANrowS. Tenn. August 81. 1879.
J. W. EDMoNDsoS. superintendent Howard Nurses.
Send nurses and consulting physician to Mr. Ju-
lian Bedford. at Haley Station. Tenn Immediately
| w. ID. SOMERS.
| son OF Julian Bedford sickened and died with
the fever ut his fathers house about two weeks ago.
1t is supposed the present illness of Mr.. Bedford
| was caused from rhe infection of the room wherein
! his son died. The Howards sent physician and
nurse in response to the aspeal
NUMBER OF CASES DEATHS.
Up to date S73 cases of fever have officially been
reported to the Board of Health-453 white and 400
| colored. The total number of deaths foot up 233-
whites. 1888; colored so. The per centum of deaths
| among tho whites compared with tho colored is
startling-whiie but u per Of the blacks have
| died 40 per cent of the whites have paid the
death penalty. Some physicians in the beginning of
the epidemic OF tho opinion that the present
| type of fever not malignant as that
of last yoar. The figures above will not justify
such conclusions. When il is taken into considera
ton that spread OF fever has been gradual this
and that all the benevolent associations have
| been better prepared TO nurse the sick and give
them proper attention tho death rate is alarming.
There also another noticeable feature connected
| with the present epidemic Many who passed un-
scathed through the dreadful scenes of 1874 have
been prostrsted. and again instances are numerous
of persons who have been stricken in previous years
suffering an attack of the fever. Tho weather has
been sultry all day. Tonight ct eight O'Clock
| steady rain began falling.
STATEMENT OF THE SANITARY AUXILIARY Asso-
cATIoN AT NEW ORLEANS.
| NEW ORLEANS. August 81. 1879.
Papers signed by c. b. White. Sanitary Director.
and Edward Fenner, Vice President of tho Sanitary
Auxiliary Association. and approved by DIR. 3. M.
Bemiss, OF the National Board of Health. say
| That correct information may take the place Of
idle aud extrsvagant rumors we give the following
list of all OF yellow that have occurred.
| beginning with the first one landed here.
Here follows q list of the names and dates, here
tofore telcgraphed. showing that seventeen cases
have occurred. OF these have recovered. six
have died and four under treatment Tho first
on July ~ and the last-Edith Hood-on
| August 20. Fifteen OF these occurred
in eleven houses in paralicogram OF three blocks
by SIX Ono of tho other two cases. the genuineness
of which after examination doubted by very
high medical authority lived in the outskirts of the
city in close proximity to the swamps. The other
was an imported case from Morgan city. After re-