The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-20
THE SCOURGE SPREADS.
Tightening the Quarantine Grip
at Memphis.
Seventeen New Cases Reported
To-day.
Special to the Star.

Special to the Star.
MEMPHIS, Aug. 2o-lO A. Might new
cases were reported this morning: Hiram
Hillcher, Herman Hillcher, Thomas H.
Cooke, Willie Gardner and Merris Pearl,
white. Ben. Hardin, Solomon Hawkins
and Horace Brown, colored. Major W. W.
Guy, member of the Legislative Council,
Boards of Police and Fire Commioners and
member OF the firm of Guy, Mcclellan g.
Co., was buried this morning PICKETT.
MEMPHIS, Aug. 20.-Noon.-The city is
being catacombed with quarantines, main
tanned by pickets from the colored guards.
No one is allowed to pass them without q
permit from the Board of Health. Several
parties were arrested for breaking the quar-
antine law this morning. The weather is
fair and pleasant. -Four additional cases,
John Skeffington, white and three colored
females, reported since my last dispatch; /;
one death, that Of NJ. Tally, colored.
PICKETT.
MEMPHIS Aug 2O--3:30 P. M.-New cases
| since last dispatch: Mrs. George Doyle Jno-
McDermott, white, and three colored.
Deaths: George Varbrinck, Rosa Devries,
and Earnest p Leake, white. PICKETT.
THIS MORNING AT MEMPHIS.
National Associated Press to the Star
MEMPHIS, Aug 2O-9 A. M.-The weather
| this morning has the same autumnal tinge
of the last few days The nights remain
cool and the sun during the day shines with
biliousy heat. Everything appears de-
pressing, and there is little to cheer or give
hope in any OF our surroundings. Between
the mob, shotgun, National, State and local
quarantine we are pretty closely hemmed
in. Mrs Anderson and daughter who have
the fever on Poplar boulevard, had not
been in the city for thirty days. They are
doing well. Two persons at Camp Marks
are sick with the fever. They had been in
the city on spree the night before they
were taken. Eleven new cases were report
ed after our last dispatch yesterday, the
official report closing with thirtyone new
cases and four deaths.
| ONE LOCAL CASE AT NEW ORLEANS.
| NEW OkLEANo, aug. AO.-I HcTc ID OHc
case of yellow fever in the city-a sanitary
policeman, who was taken last Wednesday.
The doctors all concur that it is we'll
defined caae, but say that the man will get
well, and with the present cool weather the
disease can not spread.
| THE INFECTED SHIP AT GALVESTON. a
GALVESTON, TEX, Aug. 20.-The Board Of
Health has decided to admit the ship Col
orado said to be infected with yellow fever
germs. Governor Roberts has written a
strong disapproval of such course, saying
that no risks should be taken. Houston
has stationed Deputy Sheriffs on the rail
road to stop trains from Galveston as soon
as the Colorado begins to unload.
| SUSPICIOUS CASES AT NEW YORK.
| New YORK, Aug. 20.-No new cases of
yellow fever have been reported to the
Quarantine Hospital for the past twenty
four hours. The symptoms in two cases
under treatment, that of Camilla, waiter
on board the steamship Saratoga, and
Burke OF the steamship City of Vera Cruz,
continue favorable. A report has reached
the Board of Health that the Grace Brad
ley is lying in the bay with disease be-
lieved to be yellow fever on board.
| She arrived on the 14th from Savannah,
having been disabled on her passage, and
was taken in tow on the 10Th at Body
Island by the steamship Saratoga and
brought here. The Saratoga, it will be re-
membered, had one case of sickness on
board on her arrival, which proved fatal
one, OF yellow fever, and one of her men is
now down with the disease at the Quaran-
| tine Hospital. Whether the Grace Bradley
was long enough in the tow of the Saratoga
to become infected is matter which will
be promptly investigated.
ON A PHILADELPHIA BRIG.
PHILADELPHIA Aug 20-The brig John
| Welsh Jr., from Havana, loaded with sugar.
arrived off quarantine and reported yester-
day that on August 1st D. G. Lake West.
colt, the steward, died of yellow fever, sick
IL days, and July 31st, Fritz Kruze sea-
man, died of yellow fever, sick days.
Both died in Havana. Others of the crew
were sick in Havana, but recovered before
the brig left on August I'd on voyage here.
On August 10Th George Mckenzie, seaman,
was lost overheard. All we'll on board to-
day.