The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-07-22
MISERABLE MEMPHIS.
SOrely Stricken With the Saffron
ScOurge.
THE FEVER STILL SPREADING.
Seven New Cases and Seven Deaths
To-day.
Special to the Star.

ported in bulk. Three of the cases reported
this morning will die. The disease assumes
a very malignant form. PICKETT.
SIX NEW CASES AND SEVEN DEATHS.
Special to the Star.
MEMPHIS, July 22-NooN.-Six new cases
Of yellow fever and seven deaths are re-
ported this morning. Thomas Il. Kinnan,
Local Passenger Agent of the Memphis &
Charleston Railroad, died at 8 o'clock this
morning. Harry Ray, son of Judge Ray
died at later hour.
The office of the Southern Newspaper
Union is moving to Atlanta, Ga, to-day.
Many people leaving the city by dirt roads
are falling with fever by the way The
negroes are collecting in knots all about
the city, 1t is estimated that twenty
thousand whites have left. A few negroes
only have left so far. PICKETT.
GUARANTEES ESTABLISHED.
National Associated Press to the Star.
MADISON, IND, July 22-The Board of
Health of this city met yesterday afternoon
and pronounced Madison quarantined
against Memphis and all points in the
South infected with the yellow fever.
CAIRO, ILL, July 22-The City Council
yesterday authorized the appointment of
as many men as might be necessary TO
make the quarantine effective, and to ex-
pend all money needed to secure protection
and good health. The city is now healthy.
The steamer st. Genevieve arrived about
noon with over three hundred passengers
from Memphis, but she was not allowed to
land, and proceeded to ST. Louis
THIS MORNING AT MEMPHIS.
MEMPHIS, July 22-9 A. Mt is too
early in the day for reports but there is
evidently no lifting OF the dark cloud that
hovers over Memphis. The population is
much thinned out, and those that remain
are most despondent looking set. The
| weather this morning is close and sultry;
with indications OF rain. DIR. Collins, of the
Board OF Health, says he believes the dis
ease will be checked within thirty days as
suddenly as it came, as there will be no ma
terial for it to work on. Raleigh, in this
county, is full of refugees and has quaran'
tined against Memphis.
The thirty-six new cases and three deaths
with which the report closed last night is
all that can be officially reported at this
hour, although the air is full of rumors.
ONE CASE AT UNION, TENN.
UNION, TENN, July 22-This community
is greatly excited over yellow fever reports.
Another case is reported in Martin, and
the place is about deserted.
AN IMPORTED CASE AT LOUISVILLE.
LOUISVILLE, July 22.-Frank Paradise, a
gentleman from Memphis, is sick at the
yellow fever hospital, the doctors having
pronounced his disease Yellow Jack.
NEW CASES IN NEW YORK.
NEW York, July %. - Steward John
Schwen, OF the steamship Niagara, who was
sick in the yellow fever hospital has recov
cred, and was discharged Yesterday. Colby
and Sollsfen, of the American bark Antonio
Sala, which arrived from Hala ana Sunday
were sent to the Swinburne Hospital sick
with fever. Colby died Sunday night and
was buried yesterday.
STRICKEN CREW.
The Captain of the brig Munson, from Car.
denas, which arrived in New York last
night, reports that July 18th, in latitude
27o, longitude 79o 5O' he saw brig flying
signals of distress, and found her to be the
| brig Akbar, from Havana, bound for New
| York, with the officer in charge and three
men sick with the yellow fever. One sailor
had died the day previous, and the Captain
had died in Havana The brig required q
navigator and the mate Of the Munson was
put on board.
A case of supposed yellow fever in this
city has come to the notice of the Board oi
Health. James Burns, sailor, arrived al
this port from Havana on Thursday last or
the schooner Charles Noonan. On Saturday
last he became very sick He was visited
Yesterday by several doctors attached tc
the Health Department, who appeared
after careful examination, to think that
it was case Of yellow fever.
| THE MISSISSIPPI CITY CASES.
| NEW ORLEANS, July 22.-Drs. White an6
Smvthe, who went to Mississippi City tc
investigate the fever there, report that it is
not yellow fever, but q severe type of ma
larial fever This report has allayed the
excitement which prevailed here during
yesterday.
| THE NATIONAL BOARD OF HEALTH.
| WASHINGTON, July %. - The National
Board of Health have no official connection
with the Sanitary Society of the Mississippi
| Valley, therefC re State and local Boards de
string assistance from the National Board
should send all communications direct to
| Was ington, as per memoranda published
in these dispatches day before yesterday.
Cincinnati.
| The understanding between DR.. Minol
and the.Memphis and New Orleans Packet
Companies is that no more boats will be
sent South antil the quarantine is raised
DR.. Minor last evening gave emphatic or
ders to the sleeping-car company at Louis
willie that no sleepers from points below
Louisville would be allowed to enter or pas
through this city.
The Fire Department will flush dirty
alleys and cutters tonight
The Lick .;un Hospital has been fitted uI
and is now ready to receive patients affiict
ed with contagious diseases
The'Virgie Lee, running between here
and Evansville, was the first boat stopped
by the Sanitary officers. She came up the
river Yesterday afternoonl about o'clock
She was tagged, and the officers boarded he
in md-stream. Everything was found in {
good sanitary condition. and she wa!
allowed to go on her way.
The Telephone connection was completed
this morning between the Health Office ant
the Delhi Quarantine Station.
Now that a dollar day extra compensa
ton is to be allowed the Sanitary Police TO
services at the Quarantine stations all o
the force are anxious to get a berth alon
the river bank.
The following was received by DR.. Mino
this forenoon
MEMPHIS, July 22-937 A. NJ.
Twenty-three cases since 0 a. m. yester
day. Five deaths [Signedl
r. w. MITCHELL.
THE PARKER's RAGS.