The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-07-21

Increase of Cases at MemphIs-The Exc
dns Of the People Continues-LoulsViIIt
Takes Precautionary ActI0n-The Out
look Decidedly DIsheartenlng.
MEMPHIS, July l0.-Another genuine
stampede Of citizens is in progress. The
rush for railroad tickets this afternoon re,
calls the scene OF last Thursday week,
when five thousand people left the city.
The desire Of all who can 60 is to go at
once, and there will be a jam on all trains
leaving Memphis tonight.
Officers Of the Hebrew Hospital Asso-
citation to-day furnished hundreds Of Jew.
isll families with the necessary funds to
obtain transportation to distant cities.
The city authorities are also sending all
widows and children out,of the city. y j 3
Three more cases were reported to the
Board OF Health this afternoon, Charles
Kesmodel, residing at No. 50 Clay street,
and his two children. These make seven
as the total number OF new cases reported
for to-day. There are several sick people
in the neighborhood OF Clay street whose
cases are, to say the least, Very suspicious;
Business is paralyzed, and many retail
merchants are closing their stores.
Fred. Eckers died this afternoon. Mrs.
Robert Hester and Chief Of Police Athey's
son are both in critical condition.
Mrs. Robert Hester died to. might at 0
o'clock. The remainder of the family are
progressing favorably.sE S''e Na'7oa'' ''
Nearly aIlthe small towns adjacent have
enforced quarantine against this city.
Ten New Cases Reported Yesterday.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, July 9O.-Ten new
cases were reported to the Board of Health
to-day, which are as follows: James Whe-
Ian, Hiram Athey, ]. @, Bierman, Harry
Ray, Mrs. 3. F. Miller, Henry Miller,
Louis Dotto, Fred. Lorentz, Clara Bethel
and Wm. Alexander The two last are
colored, = - - ~ - ~ ~
Four persons have died Of the fever since
last evening, to.wit: Hiram Athey, Louis
Brainand, James Whelan and Louis Dotto.
There are several other cases OF fever in
the city, which will be reported 10 the
Board Of Health tomorrow.
The city authorities are sending poor peo-
pie out Of the city, having made arrange
ments to get half fare rates over the Louis
vile and Nashville road.
DR.. Dudley D. Sanders, Acting Presi-
dent Of the Board OF Health, states that
the lever isnot so malignant rs lastsyear,
and yields:more rapidlyto treatment !
The citizens continue to leave in large
numbers. The Memphis and Paducah
Railroad ceased running to-day.
The Avalanche, appeal and Ledger will
from date issue only half sheets.
Precautions at Louisville.
LOUISVILLE, KY, July 10.-Ata meeting
OF the Board Of Health this afternoon the
rules and regulations Of the Sanitary
Council OF the Mississippi Valley were
adopted. The rules relate to the inspec-
ton OF steamboats, carrying passengers
and freight from river and gulf ports to
the interior, and to the more effective
quarantining Of railroads. .'
The regulations touching railroads re-
quire extreme sanitary care Of depots,
stations, round.houses, car shop grounds,
water-closets and privies, which must be
daily inspected by the local railroad agent
or official, who is to use disinfecung ma.
terial every week where 1t is necessary.
The points relating to quarantine are
important, and are as follows: when
ever arailroad train departs from an In
fected station, no person with fever shall
be allowed 10 take passage on such train.
The baggage from such INFECTED station
shall be thoroughly diseniected before
leaving such railroad station. Alta point
not less than fifty not more than seventy.
five IL lies from the point OF departure
from an infected place there shall be an
entire transfer Of passengers and baggage
to another train OF cars, which train shall
never enter an infected district. This
transfer shall be made under the super.
vision OF a medical officer. No person with
fever shall be allowed to proceed on thit
train, but shall return 10 the point Of de
parture or be treated in q hos
pital at the place OF transfer. The
cars which carry freight without
breaking bulk may pass without
transfer, II the freight cars are ventilated
in such a way that constant current o.
air passes through the whole length OF the
car ca during transit. Way freight shall BE-
transferred at appoint not exceeding fifty
miles from the point Of departure, AMI
the cars from which such freight has beer
transferred shall not proceed further OF
the road, but shall be returned to thu
point Of departure. During the existence
Of an epidemic Of yellow fever the freigh
cars, after unloading, shall be throughlS
cleansed by serubbing and disinfeCted ami
These regulations were fully discussed
before adoption. They embody very ei
fectiye preventive against the transporta
ton OF disease and impose comparativel
little trouble upon the railway companies
4 Gloomy Outlook. = ~ .
WAsHlSGToG, July l0.-Dispatches tc
day from Memphis have made Congress
man Casey Young il melancholy man. II
fears the whole Mississippi and perhap
Ohio Valley will be scourged with yello,
fever thiA nsason,44F H .isss o.. a..
The Boards OF Health Of Cairo, ILL.,, an
. vicksburg, Mississippi, and tho Stat
. Board OF New. Jersey, have adopted th
, Frles and regulations oil the Nations
Board Of Health, and are therefore ept
! tied to assistance trom, the fund appr9prr
} ated for the use oil tie, Nahonal Board! y
DR.. Mitchell, o, member et tho Nationl
Board, residing at Memphis, reports 81
] new cases, and the fever spreading.
/ Several persons, representing the inte
ests Of New Orleans, called upon Actin
j Secretary ol the Treasurer French to-da
) TO see ifShe could not afford some relief
, the business interests OF Ney Orleans Q
/ account OF the course pursued by Ga