The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-07-31
YELLOW JACK
MEMPHIS STILL SUFFERING.
Cases Reported at st. Louis, New Orleans, Louis.
Vile and New York.

Memphis, July 2S.-Three new cases were re-
ported to the Board Of Health this morning. and
ten additional cases this afternoon, SIX Of whom
are cOlored Two deaths from yellow fever oc-
cured, one, however, beyond the city limits
The special policeman engaged taking the CEN
sus OF the city completed their task to-day. Re.
suits show the population OF Memphis to be 49,
Ito. Whites 42S3 colored, II, 1,S27; adults, 10,551
children, $3.50. OF the whole, 8743 have had the
fever, leaving 1887 susceptible to the disease
Failing to secure transportation to the Site select
ed for the establishment Of camp on the Padu
cab railroad, this afternoon at O'Clock, Colonel
John +. Cameron, with detail Of 10 Colored SOL
diers, took passage on train furnished by the
Superintendent, Mike Burke, of the Mississippi &
Tennessee railroad, and established q camp FIVE
miles south Of the city, oBe'half mile below
where the camp Joe Williams was established
last year. Tents were taken along, and by TO-
morrow morning the detail will have so tents for
| occupation. The Secretary Of War telegraphs D.
T. Porter Chief Executive Of the city that ra.
tions will be furnished only to those sick with
yellow fever or in camps. A. D. Langstah, Pres.
ident, and General W. ]. Smith, Vice President
Of the Howard Association have been added to
the Executive Committee on the Committee Of
Safety
Chicago, July 2S.-Tt is reported that refugee
from Memphis arrived here this morning with
genuine case ofyellow fever.
Nashville, Tenn, July 2S.-on and after Thurs.
day next, the Louisville and Nashville railroad
having determined to discontinue Its trains be.
tween Mackenzie and Memphis which connect
with those Of the Nashville, Chattanooga and st.
Louis railroad, trains on the latter road will not
go any further than Mackenzie. Nashville will
then be without any direct rail connections with
| Memphis The trains on the Louisville and
Nashville railroad stopping at Milan, one hun
| dred miles distant, and those Of the Memphis and
| Charleston at Moscow, 40 miles distant from
Memphis, mails will be sent forward on locomo-
| tives This action will make an absolute quar-
antne against Memphis.
New Orleans July 2S.-Nincenzia Spans, a ma.
tive of Italy, aged so years, one o'clock this morn.
ing died Of yellow fever. One more case of fever
was reported to the Board of Health this evening,
and there is liable information that four more
will be reported Tuesday morning Considera-
| BILE excitement prevails, and trains for the North
left the city packed. All the cases are In the
same neighborhood, the Garden District of the
CITY, the same where the fatal case occurred of
| the girl Spano This is the same district where
the fever was in 1858, 1857 and 1878.
st. Louis, July 2S.-There is dispute among
the physicians here as to whether any Of three or
four cases ofillness among the Memphis refugees
In this city can be construed into yellow fever
The one case thought to be yellow fever and sent
to the City Hospital proved not to be that dis
ease.
Louisville, July 2S.-Mrs Pomeroy, who recent.
ly arrived from Memphis, and on the following
day was removed from Preston street to the Hos.
pital died last night but her child also suffering
from yellow fever, is doing we'll and will proba
bly, recover This is the third fatal case in Lou.
isville, but all three deaths are refugees from
Memphis. Not single local case has occurred.
New York. July 2S-When yellow fever was
discovered among the refugees from Memphis
who had quartered in the city the health author
tiles hurried them off to quarantine To day a
second Of them, Fitzgibbons, died Of the disease.
John HennesSeY also died of black vomit He
had assisted In unloading the afflicted steamer
City of Merida, and must have contracted the
disease on her. A, F, Rett, barber of the steamer
Saratoga, and E. B, Esty, steward of the schooner
| Freddie G. Ebbitt, from Port-au. Prince and the
Haytien ports, were admitted to the hospital to-
day sick with fever.