The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-10-09
THE FEVER.
Threo Deaths at Harrison Station Physi.
clans and Nurses Needed.

| MEMPHIS. Oct s--Tha following telegram
was received day III noon:
| HARRISON STATION, October 8. 1879.
| To A. -. I,an.atRff. President Howard Assoeia-
tion. NJ mphis.
| Three Of ono family ore dead and nnothe,
sicl with yellow fever symptoms Send q
| Howard physician and nnlara immediately.
a. w. RICE, Mayor.
Harrison Station ID seventy miles south ol
Railroad. thirty miles this side OF Grenada.
nj eH. The llrwarda aln making arrange
inents to send physiciana and nutsos by Il
special train.
THE RTInKTrn CASE AT wETHF DEPOT.
MEMrHts, Oct \ Dr. EsR. who went Oh Il
epecial train To Investigates tho report of yell
low fever Mt Wsthe Depot. returned last
night ut Il o'clock. I'he alckIy person - W.
II. Stewart. " school trlrnar, who was taken
iii yesterday, Ills symptoms arc very sua-
pielous. Two deaths from fover occurred
IN tho sano ho,isn lust year, one Of them dy-
ing on n feather bed. ON which Mr.. Stewart
now lies ILL., Dr. VIM. with nurse. re-
oamonts Of the case.
MH. WILLlAMsuN DOWN AGAIN.
j. NJ. Williamson, who was supposed to
have mad tho fever last July Ia down again
with severe attack. Ills physicians now
say the previous illnss was not yellow iover
He lately returned from tho North.
ANOTHER NEW CASE.
One now case reported, that or Charles Me-
Aree. w. Il. Boyle dicd enrly this morning
Weather clear and cool.
Noon.-No more nNw eases have been re-
ported. Tho undertalters report four in'ar-
mnnts since last night: Mrs. mary u. Key,
Miss Maggie Key, Willis McUnssey and
Adolph Waldracht.
TEN NEW GASES AND NO DEATHS.
colored-wnro reported To the board Of health
to-day; among the number were Mrs. Har-
riet Schreyer, Joseph Mullins, Laura Lewis,
Anne Nurhrnly. ,jaa. Mcbride and Mrs Alice
Stone. M additional deaths have occurred.
DR.. w. j. Wnn returned from Wythc De-
pot this afternoon. he reports VIM. j.. Stew
arts illneas yellow fever; thc symptoms fully
developed to-day. Tho announcement os the
case being yellow fever caused several fami-
liea to remove into tha country.
Doctors lIss aud Collins, IN company with
President LangstaH and two NURSES, LETT On d
special train ut o'clock this afternoon for
Harrison Station Miss. i'll response to an ap-
peal for assistance.
Donations u the Towards to-day aggre-
gated $la4.
THE QUARANTINE QUESTION.
Frank Bannon, arrested Monday for viola
tian uf quarantine laws was discharged to
day by tslullo Galloway.
Argument of counsel before Judge EldrIdge,
on a motion to dissolve the injunction lately
granted by Special Judge u. y. Galloway
against tho State board Of health, will be
continued tomorrow.
A RIGID QUARANTINE.
MEMPHIS. Oct. =, 10 III. Tho special train
which conveyed physicians and nurses for
HARRISON Miss, returned tonight MT IL
o'clock. The train WAS stopped at tho Mtssis-
sirpi line. sixteen miles south of Memphis and
not permitted To proceed furtnor. Tho presi-
dent OF the board of health Of De Soto county
peremptorily refused to let the engine ruu
through the county. and the party were COM
PEELED to return to Memphis
J. NJ Wil,iamson's condition tonight Is
critical; he will hardly survive Till morning.