The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-07-23
Fleeing From Fever
The Streets of Stricken Mem
phis Almost Deserted.
Nineteen New Cases and Five
Deaths To-day.
ColOred People Coming in for
Their RatiOns.
The Disease Breaks Out at yicksburg

Special to the Star.
MEMPHIS, TENN, July 23-2 P. M
-Four new cases and one death
reported since noon. rumor exists that
the steamers Coahoma and Hard Cash were
discovered to have fever on board at some
point above and was turned back.
PICKETT.
MEMPHIS July 23-Noon.-Fifteen new
cases of yellow fever and four deaths were
reported this morning. A committee is
out on the Mississippi & Tennessee Road
this morning selecting site for refugee
camp. 1t will probably be about eight
miles from the city.
The announcement that no rations will
be issued creates intense excitement among
the negroes, who threaten to sack the town
if they are not supplied. The police force
is well organized, and all have had the fever
but four
Well-founded rumors are in the city that
the yellow fever is in Vicksburg, Miss
PICKETT
THIS MORNING AT MEMPHIS.
MEMPHIS, July 23-9 A. NJ The weather
this morning is partly cloudy and warm.
The city is very quiet and the people are
still leaving as fast as they can get away.
Over thousand left last night and this
morning, and now it is estimated that there
are less than five thousand people here liza
BILE to the fever. This number will be
greatly reduced by the end of the week,
and would be reduced much faster but for
the illiberal course of many railroads that
refuse any terms but the regular fare. Four
cases were mentioned last night, but not
included in yesterday report. These were
Thomas W. O'Donnell, Mill street; G. w.
Naill, light case; H. N. Burford, master
mechanic of Charleston Railroad, and Miss
Maggie Ashe, Adams street.
These will probably be reported during
the day. Not over half dozen stores in
the whole length of Main street are open,
and many on First street are closed for the
summer.
The regular report closed last night with
the seven new cases and seven deaths, men
toned in our dispatches yesterday, al
though other cases mentioned above are
known to have occurred, and will no doubt
be officially reported this morning.
National Associated Press to the Star.
ONE DEATH AND NEW CASES IN NEW YORK.
New YORK, July 23.-Dennis Manning a
fireman on board of the steamer City of
Merida, from Havana, died of yellow fever
yesterday in Brooklyn, opposite the Gov
ernor's Island quarantine. A stevedore
and two seamen. of the schooner Timothy
Field, were admitted to the Quarantine
Hospital suffering from yellow fever.
The Brooklyn Health authorities ordered
away from that city the brig from Havana
which Health Officer Vanderpool had per-
mitted to come up for repairs under care
full restrictions.
A man from Memphis was found at the
Hoboken Ferry steps suffering from yellow
fever, and was sent to the Pest-house at
Snake Hill.
ETARKsvILLE STILL SAFE.
STARKsvILLE, Miss, July 23.-No fever
here, but there is great anxiety, and most
rigid quarantine is kept up.
BOWLING GREEN, KY.
BOWLING GREEN, July % The report of
fever here is incorrect. There is not a case.
TWO NEW IMPORTED CASES AT LOUISVILLE.
LOUISVILLE, July 23-There is excite
ment here over the storage of baggage near
the Louisville & Nashville depot, the in
fected district of last year. A. G. Paradore
is doing well, and two new imported cases
are reported, Miss Essing and Mrs. Nero,
from Memphis.
WAITING FOR FREE RATIoNs.
New YORK, July pa Memphis special
says there is great influx of vasabond ne
groes into that city. They have abandoned
plantations where they ought to be at
work. Ten thousand coored men are wait
ing for free rations.
ST. LOUIS, July 23.-The Memphis Ledger
says in reference to the free distribution of
supplies: 1--WE hope these supplies will not
be allowed to come into Memphis, but be
distributed as they were last year, to those
in a camp somewhere in the vicinity.
Hundreds of negroes have already deserted
the plantations, where they ought to be at
work, and started for Memphis to draw
free rations, as they suppose. What sup
plies we have to distribute should
be given only to Memphis people, and then
on condition that they go into camp in
some safe and healthy place beyond the
reach of yellow fever entirely.
"The strongest and most worthless appli- |
cants are often the most successful in draw
ing heavy rations. The weak and sick are
crowded back
'There is much indignation at the greed
of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad, that
company having refused to extend any as
sistance in removing the poor to places of
safety"
WASHINGTON, July 23-1o:3O A. M.-The
National Board of Health have received
no later information from the fever districts |
of the South than was contained in the |
dispatches last night.
FEVER AT TAMPco.
A telegram from Brownsville, Texas re-
ceived this morning, says the Tampco
Health Council reports yellow fever there
on the 18th inst.
Cincinnati.
The steamer Hattie Nowland, from Mem
phis, arrived at the Delhi Quarantine last |
night about quarter past II o'clock. She |
anchored out in the middle of the river and |
the sanitary officers boarded her Every