Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-07-25
WORK OF THE FEVER.
NO ABATEMENT OF ITS RAVAGES.
Eighteen New Cases in Memphis Yester-
day-DifficuIty in Establishing Camps
The Negroes Protest Against
Being Removed from
the City.

MEMPHIS, July 24.-Fourteen new
cases were reported to the Board OF
Health. Among the number are Chas.
A. Starry and Alex. Kepler. Two car
loads of tents, furnished by the Govern
ment, have arrived, and tomorrow the
CITY authorities will establish camp at
a point seven miles north OF the city, on
the Paducah railway. The Howard As
sociation yesterday placed a few nurses
on duty, and this morning the street in
front of their rooms was crowded with
negroes, all anxious to be assigned to
duty. They were dispersed and in
formed that no more nurses were re-
quired. Four deaths from yellow fever
have occurred since last night, Mrs. B..
f. HOllander, John Lockard, Mrs. F. +.
Miller and Henrietta Taylor.
MEMPHIS, July 24.-Four additional
cases were reported to the board OF
health this afternoon, and one death,
Willie Taylor, at the corner OF Her
nando and South streets. The authorl-
ties experience great trouble in flndlng
the means of transportation TO the site
which has been selected for the erection
OF camps. Superintendent Monsarrat,
of the Paducah railroad, refuses to
furnish cars, fearing that indignant
citizens will destroy the tracks. There
is also a disposition on behalf OF the
majority OF the colOred people against
being forced out of the city or removed
TO camps. At a meeting held by them
last night resolutions protesting against
the scheme were adopted. About 500
people left the city to-day, 80 OF whom
took passage on the Ouachitta Belle Tor
st. Louis. The Howard Association
have about fifteen nurses on duty.
MEMPHIS, July 24.-Nrs. Ray, widow
of the late Judge J. f. Ray, died sud-
denly tonight at the city hospital.
The Cases in Louisville.
LOUISVILLE, July 24.-NIiss Essing, a
refugee from Memphis, who has been
i'm the city for nearly week, died of
yellow fever at the house OF her friends
on Portland avenue this morning. Hers
was one OF the three imported cases dis
covered in Louisville Monday, and she
was the second to die. The third is that OF
Mr.. Paradise, who is doing well at the
quarantine hospital. No other cases
than those mentioned have existed
here. The State Board of Health met
at ten o'clock this morning AT
the office of Gov. McCreary.
In raSnopSa IN his call tine
Board adopted a resolution agreeing to
act in harmony with the National Board
Of Health, and as far as possible to be
subservient to the rules and regulations
heretofore adopted by that Board. The
Board adopted resolution authoriz-
ing the appointment OF competent ply
sicians to 90 Immediately to Guthrie
and act in conjunction with the local
authorities of that city, in preventing
the yellow fever from coming into the
State. The local boards in the counties
on the border next to Tennessee,
are recommended to establish quaran-
tine regulations.
A Death in Cincinnati.
CINCINNATI, July 24.-Joseph Hook, a
Memphis refugee who arrived here Sat
urday, died of yellow fever to-day.
Mississippi City.
New ORLEANS, July 24.-Dr. kilpat-
rick, sanitary inspector OF the National
Board of Health, telegraphed this after
noon from Mississippi City that the
cases in the Creel family We're yellow
fever. One has died.