Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1879-07-24

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MRMpnls, July l0-1l p. M.--Another
gonuino stampede of citizens is in progress
Tho rush for railroad tickets this afternoon
recalls tho sccno of Thursday, u week ngo,
when 5000 people left tho oity. Tho desire
will be jam m on "a all tho 10 trains leaving to-
night. The officers of tho Hebrew Hospital
Association to-day furnished ono hundred
Jowish families With tho necessary funds to
obtain menus Of trasportation to distant cities.
Tho city authorities are also sending NIL
widows and ohildron out of tho city,.
Three now oases wero reported to the Board
Of Health this afternoon; Charles Kcsmodol,
residing OF No 62 Clay street. and his two
number Of new. oascs reported for to-day.
There nre several sick people in tho ncighbor
hood of Clay street whose cnsos aro, to say
tho least, very suspicious.
Business is paralyzed aud many retail
merchants are closing their stores. Fred.
Eckers died this afternoon. Mrs. Robt. Hester
and Chief of Police Atby's son arc both in a
critical condition.
MEMPHIS, July 20-ll p. M.--Ten now
cases wcro reported to the Board Of Health
to-day, as follows: james Whelan Hiram
Athcy. j. q. Blcrman, Ilnrry Ray. Mrs. B.
Il. Miller, Henry Miller, Louis d. Otto, Fred.
Lorcntz. Clara Bothel and William Alexan-
der. The two last arc colored. Four persons
have diod Of tho fevor since last night, viz:
Hiram Athey, Louis Bramond, James Whcr
Ian and Louis d. Otto. There are several
other cases Of fever in tho city, which will be
reported to tho Board Of Health Tomorrow.
The authorities arc sending tho poor people
out of the city, have mado arrangements to
get half fair rates oyor tho Louisville and
Nashville Railroad. Dr.. Dudley D. Sanders.
acting President of tho Board Of Health,
Gays that tho fever is not SO malignant as last
year and yields moro readily to treatment.
Tho citizens continue to leave in large
numbers.
The Memphis correspondent Of the New
York Times writes: "a grave question arises
in the minds Of those who think about tho
evacuation of tho city. What is to become,
in case tho diseaso should develop in epidemic
form. of the poor, whose poverty and
hclplessness prevent them from ilcoing from
tho pesilencc? No sane man expects such
II spontaneous outporing of charity as was
given to tho poor Of the South last year.
Repeated appeals were made to the rich of
this community for contributions TO n general
relief fund, without q response. Yot their
proporty-storos stuffed with goods and
household effeots-is hero ut tho mercy Of
the thousands that may bo driven to tho most
terrible extremes by want and hunger. Tho
police, fro and military departments of the
Ivy VIII Do ucscrteu, unu uot h""u Io'' "
even warn away tho rubble. A few cool
heads and brave hearts Mt through tho
ordeal last year, but few or them survived
tho plague, and they have profitcd by tSat
experience to learn that self preservation is
the first law, and no power on earth could
induce them to undergo those terrible scenes
and privations again. Few of those whose
faces were familiar to the Times correspon-
dent last year will remain during another
epidemic"
MEMPHIS, July 2l.-Fiftccn cascs of
yellow fever have been reported to the
Board of Health this morning. The cxo-
dus of citizens is in full progress, and bust
ness is almost entirely suspended. The
general outlook is anything bu, cheering.
WASHINGTON, July 21.,-Upon request
of Hon. Casey Young, the Secretary of War
will to day forward to Memphis 1900 tents
and rations for 10000 persons for twenty
days.
NEW ORLEANS, July 21.-Fivc suspi-
cous cases of fever having recently 90.
cnrred in creole family near Mississippi
City, tic health authorities to day sent
medical experts by special train TO invcsti.
gate tho matter.
MEMPHIS, July 2l--1l p. M.-Twenty.
ono additional cases were reported to the
Board Of Health this afternoon, which
makes n total Of thirty six reported for to
day, This large increase is the accumu!a.
ton Of several days, as most of tho persons
have been i'll froll three to five days.
New YoRK, July 2l.-Two seamcn from
the American bark Antonio Salu, from Has
vann, were taken to tho quarantine hospital
yesterday suffering from yellow fever. One
died this morning. Four fever patients now
remain in the hospital.