Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-09-11
THE FEVER IN MEMPHIS.

There is no abatement of the yellow fever
in Memphis, and as past experience proves,
the most trying month of the season-Septem-
ber-is yet to 60 through. During last week
there were 43 deaths, 33 whites and 10 blacks.
For the week there were 172 new cases
7S whites and "a colored. The total number
of cases to date is 1905, of which 272 were
fatal This statement proves that the dis
ease is assuming greater proportions than
many would be led to suppose by the weekly
reports heretofore made. To add to this ca
lamity, is the further fact that the funds ofthe
charitable and benevolent associations of the
city are exhausted, and an appeal is made to
the country for assistance The Howard Asso-
citation has appealed to the charitable in the
following address
'sThe Howard Association, of Memphis, af-
ter having battled for the past two months with
the dread destroyer in their midst, find every
dollar in their treasury exhausted. Several
hundred sick and convalescent are to be provi-
ded for and large number of nurses are to be
paid We were hopeful in the beginning that
with the fund then on hand at the outbreak of
the epidemic, we would be able to provide and
care for the sick that would be thrown on our
hands but the fever has continued to spread,
and with two long months yet before us, no
alternative is left but to apply to the charity
of the nation for substantial aid. The gener-
Gus people throughout the Union will not fail
to respond to this call for help. We feel that
we are performing sacred duty to the impov-
erished and distressed people among whom our
lot is cast. The bounty of the common peo-
pie was showered upon us in 1878, and to those
same willing givers we appeal. If help is not
speedily furnished, we will be compelled to
abandon the work we have been engaged i'll,
leaving hundreds to suffer and die for want OF
a Howard's helping hand.
w. J. SMITH,
Acting President of the Howard Association. "
The Odd Fellows Special Relief Commit
tee of Memphis, now in Columbia, Tenn,
have also made an appeal to the members of
that order in which they say:
All of the available funds of five lodges and
two encampments have been expended in send
ing many of their brethren and families to
places of safety, in nursing and providing for
the sick and burying the dead-business is sus-
pended, wages are stopped, and sickness and
death are making sad havoc in their midst.
This appeal is made with the greatest reluc-
tance in view of the generous Outpouring OF
substantial aid which met similar appeals in
1873 and 1878; but with sickness and distress
upon every hand, with walls of distress and
cries for help coming up continually, their treas
ury exhausted and the sad prospect of a con-
tinuance of the dreaded scOurge of yellow fe-
ver for a period of at least two months to
come, their only resource is an appeal for help
from our more fortunate brethren who are
spared such dire calamity as now scourges
their stricken city. All contributions shoul's
be sent to Marcus Jones, Grand Patriarch OF
the State and President of the Special Relief
Committee, l. o. o. F., Memphis, Tennessee
Of course the appeal for charity will not
be permitted to 60 unheeded. During the
present epidemic, the people Of Memphis
have acted nobly and selfsacri6cing, and
not until dire necessity compelled have they
asked a cent of contribution for relief; and
now that assistance is asked, the more favor
ed sections of the country, we feel assured,
will respond with that liberality and prompt
ness that so distinguished every section of
the Union during the visitation of the disease
last year. Already, Jay Gould, the banker
of New York, has authorized the Howards
to draw on him for $4,000, and more if it
should be necessary.
Twenty-Five new cases were reported on
Monday-15 white and 10 colored. There
were also on the same day II deaths The
weather was reported clear and pleasant.