The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1891-10-08

ftNrI. GOOD thls gave "a upuvrl alarm and every
body nls frightened. and had "a right 40 De. Well
tlp German doctor -tHli WIIB mp aN night, and
have Ilrl douht but that Doe saved my llic. The
n'Ai ueF, moon, he said lnF cvcr was ali gone, Hno
y tHUH .III wHr tuu. bul 4 Hm -'lll rprC.
AHu a4i, whore thp Iryer came from. j DO not
know IHl iii- do know. Ihr tu-lum-house OH
Ger IHH Hn office q lrW doors nom ml place, aud
the ~Nert tomWi--luucr Was In Il~ office very
OfIeU iu8 NHs ALSO. HUd hg received a oi what NHs
tcImrd llIp transient pAcksIy- aud DO not claimed
wi.hi" 70 long @ Time Hna he could not hnd an
OWNER ihr packages would bc opened aud cA
lm nod allu sposed az hy ihc direction ui q com.
mission Wril often when this WAS be done, this
pficrT Iu charge would invite mu lu 90 see iho
pacsnlr- opened, which were of an sizes and d.
nrusluu-s nuuy boxes and trunks of clothing
WCIe often among them. u three got The yellow
fCKrl. lud i hr. Blackburn -Dut li there II uudcT-
HihHd hr s dead hope DIS soul has gone 20 where
tle
rHE TrNWERATURE DOES NOT VARY But
VERY LITTLE.
All t'is may not he conclusive but the cvl-
dencc runs together pretty well. and J haven't
thr lcasl doubt but that The fever came into
New B.mo through infected clothing, ana That
the infected clothing was sent there by Dr.
Blackburn and his friends. Orderlles aud
Others ai Headquarters generally looked smart
and ngtty and naturally were after thechances
Tor gnn clothes, aud these sent there not d.
recipl tO known persons disposed ol ty "a COM
mis- uu would naturally go 10 men on detached
service iu the city.
White the fever was disastrous 90 ihc troops,
81 killed many CItl1 u-. clerks TO quarter
mHsill- and Others, .ud also many natives Of
The place some 81 whom. looking for speedy
termination Of the war; had returned TO tho
Cit
There was published in New Borne in 1863
by G,0 Mills JOY, pamphlet -oi 3s pages
cal % The Grost Epidemic in New berUc and
vicinity September aud October 1864, BY one
who Ir-sed through ID ~. ~ Benjamin Al
though This gives some facts j. Is a very un-
satisfactory piece OF work, and 4 don't see
what t was done fgr when "a much better ac-
c0uHi couid have been made. However ] VIII
give some extracts from ID that viii help 10
convey au idea Of the yirulencc OF the epidemic
Tbs following are from IL:
d. proportion 10 Che population ol our city, and
tRka..l ia consideration the ruUhcr O those who,
Tor pcr-.HaI safety visited tIo lteu states tie
elHlenIo oi September and October lsVl, stands
uAparIauu
rs TITS FEARFUL FATALITY.
when tlIe disease first made ls appearance ia
our mil-t. 800 alarm va- manifested by our citzrns,
% UH- hrllryUd 10 hr one d. simply an ordinary
bilious character aua termed iu every day parinuco
mhiiEn-Ht Nil"u- lever.
Tie u4.ty average of deaths about this time was
nom -lA Iu yiEt, thC mortality rapidly increasing,
49, llBi 10 oue week frol. tle detth Of lIc above
persons lLu utermeuts g,ga d1y reached ilc mum
ber of frum 21 90 -, aud general flight oi The
ciuEeu- commenced. lly ihC lt.h oi October the
cts was nigh yacatedi nearly al. places oI business
Ear.s Ga October the l5lh Conn was relieved
nom provost duty by oo.orcd troops.
A Dist Of &C. is given as having died from the
15t Conn. aud a ist OF 61 cilizuns, "a majority
of tllm natives, is given as having been in
tCrd ly Ait 0sgoUd, "a local undertaken.
The total number oi deaths as published in
the North Carolina Times in l1O5r is given at
about J au0
My own recollections OF The epidemic may be
ofiutgru-t. Myregiment ihc23i Mass. started
for homo that s those that had not rc.cnl istedj
on the steamer Thorn lhc g7lh of September
aud was mustered ont at p a. M on the 2-th
of September l-6L I bad been Chief Clerk
with Capt. w. J.. Palmer, lommssary of Sub
6isteucr since The middle %. june although an
enlisted man, aud ] now kept right on in the
same position, only nUw gas somebody, aud
got SlHJ Uar month, while before ] WASH sure
that ] Hts anybody aud j pot only SIG per
month hut j did thc same work in both cases.
When Doe regiment got 10 Fort Monroe they
were u in quarantine iur some days in fact
everything was quaranuncd that came from
Now Bcrne
Ia oul quarters, Grows Nest" on George
street were a half dozen or more men detached
into }lIo Subsistence Department The FIRST 10
be taken sick was Nelson CumcT Of tho 9th r.
J. ic bad said several times, after ID got 10 be
known that il was yellow fever troubling us,
that d he took il he should surely die. lc
was taken sick anu died Oct. 3, the very day
that
BITS THREE WARS WE'RE UP.
He was 3e5irious the night before be died when
] was sitting uH his bed assisting the doctor in
q burE.cai operation for bis be icf Hc died
carly n ile morning before breakfast We
notified tuc QuarteTmaster. The team that
brought bis coffin bad two Others IN h.; the
driver waa 10 carry those tW0 farther up town.
aBG when be came back be would take CTamers
body. The collins were simply pine boxes
Oailed together,
80 PAIST Or LINING.
bis body was taken up just rs il was, clothes
on and iu The sheet and put into tho box.
There was no funeral uo CINE for funerals; no
Ole t0 % t0 them, except the corpse. BE WAS
carried ot aud put into a grave somewhere,
Buu Dos remains are DOW Iu the National Gene
tory ai NeN Borne. Another man iu our house
Mills of thC 9Th Mas, bad the fever twice on
had j. once and relapse, aud he was badly
Baiiyaici, as they called ID. Mater ran from
his mouth and made the receptacle all white.
Ward %. .hc 81 n. r. Art. sleI, ai the slaughter
house at tle railroad wharf on the Ncusc River,
coming 90 The quarters Tor bis meals. Hc was
not aflirtrd with thc disease al AN, although
Dr. Hand lays the trouble largely TO the coudi-
ti0n uf bee river beds.
A. thc Pooplcthiuued ont by Sight and death,
d POT io bC quite lonesome iu town. White
people U.re scarce. The pOstoilicc was deserted,
and no one lcit lO 90 tho business. ] rumem-
bcT Oi going iH several times aud helping SCOOP
everything into bag, letters aud papers iHdis-
criminaieIv. How they went of j dom know,
but pro. alIy via Beaufort and M0ranead City
j remember the steamer John IarOu tie
Hga4H 4H.liaTE boat. Capt Holden ordered Acr
North aHa tuen went BOD her with his clerks
hhe 'as ordered into quarantine az For. Mon
roc. aut g0t out Ht once and went North She
was taIuE, the last boat that lcfl New Borne
during tac fever.
used % take q walk around the town some
tmcs oi au evening % drive Off thc blues or
To- constitutional I'll was an easy walk Of
b. hDuf or 20 o. encompass the whole ioHn.
One nI1hf wcl into October ] started or IA
was iUn me. no white people about: the
Ruar.s black everything was Ouica /
went along al. right until D got % East Front
street ulu Broad. when locking behind mo I
saw HHl.n or more dogs following mC-dogg
81 ali zes aud shapes. j didn't know what tg
do. nas "a iitte scared aud discontinued nv
Walk os tEe outskirts aud made quick time fgr
quarters j suppose the dogs were lonesome as
Meii a myaclli but ] dllL't stop thgn tU argue
uluu a.
Dr Hands idea that the burning or f,agc
buildings would allay lHe fever always seemed
curious i0 me. Br Says theTc were dcrp ga,i-
hes ualer them lled Wlth sIimv water. .Itr d
wa lni - Ihc buildings were only ono and
haii stories hipH HHd -Ut on tga grauBd
Whom tHlF were burned , was .l.udina oi "a
ilfe' tory brick building ueNl f0 them. and Id
Mas Hp dangerous hffHp .lrufserr IDf.. gf-fB.
streets 'gcIy night gra4t plies OF 4iuc wood
were .ufnHli and also during The dav. WAS
~ lhe ""ai Que evening when Some s0Iliurs