The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-09-25
ALARMING AT EDWARDS.
The Death Rate is Low. But the Fevel
Makes Rapid Increase.-Help Needed

Makes Rapid Increase.-Help Needed
Jackson, Miss, Sept. 24.-The State
Board of Health tonight issued the fol
lowing bulletin:
"The Board is already receiving re-
quests from parties from the North fol
permission to return to their homes, and
mas decided not to allow them to dc
so for the present. After the Board is
certain that the fever is confined to
Edwards and immediate vicinity, quar-
antine will probably be raised on rail
roads not connected with any infected
point"
A special train left Vicksburg this
evening for the vicinity of Edwards with
| four colored female nurses and such sup
plies as were needed. Efforts are be-
ing made to obtain white female nurses,
and it is likely that some may be secured
| tomorrow.
DIR. Guiteras is at Vicksburg. He
leaves for Delhi, in northern Louisiana
tomorrow.
The following is the official report
from Edwards since p. IN. last night:
New cases: Whites-Mrs Ella
| Goole, Leroy Ratliff, Miss Marie Lewis
A. j. Lewis, ST., Miss Willie Ross. Mrs
X. F. Birdsong, r. w. Elliott, Mrs. r.
W. Elliott, e. X. Nobin, Mrs I. p.
Martin, ]. b. Howitschild, Mrs. Z. B.
Walter, ST., Kathleen Lowry, Mrs. j
+. Galloway, Mrs. p. II. Montgomery
+. l.. Powling, Miss Sallie Donovan
Miss Winnie Donovan and Miss Bette
Wagner.
"Colored-A. J. Jones, Mary Jones
Nancy Smith, Henry Gray, Carrie Ste
| vens, James Buchanan, Mary Brown
Sallie Jenkins, Ella Scott, Bessie Henry
Y "Tetal cases to date, 133
Total deaths to-day, none tota
deaths to date, f.. $50 .-~-..zs
"Convalescent, A; now under treat
| ment, S5. es..
Frank Rossman had black .vomit al
night, and to-day is not~-expected to
| live.
No eases are reported discharged to-
day. Cases under treatment having
increased to 50, we are very short OF
physicians, having but four Their en-
ergies are soreiy taxed
Our people as a rule are adverse to
appealing to the outside world for as
slstance, except for nurses and doctors,
but the disease is spreading so rapidly,
and many of the poorer class are in
cluded in the list who are unable TO
bear any part of their burden and
there is no denying the fact that we will,
in the early future, have to accept the
help that has so generously been offered
from various quarters.
Mrs. Greaves, who has been critical
ly i'll, is improving. She is yet ignorant
of the death of her daughter, Mrs. Hen
ry, and it is feared this intelligence,
when broken to her. will cause re-
lapse.
DIR. John Birchett, and DIR. Dunn are
expected here tonight We have wired
the Howard Association of Vicksburg
for additional nurses
DEATH OF FATHER MURRAY.
Mobile, Ala, Sept. 24-There have
been three deaths and three new cases
since the report handed out yesterday
at o'clock. Three patients were dis
charged. The deaths were:
John G. Bourne, reported last night
Rev. Daniel Murray. of ST. Vincent s
Parish.
Estls Mcdonald. of Savannah, aged
Il years, a new case.
In addition, Frank Stewart, found yes
terday afternoon dying in a negro cook s
house, on Water Street, near Church
street. He had been on a spree for the
past ten days, and was not supposed last
night to have the fever. When he died,
however, he turned yellow and thus came
under the definition of yellow fever
death.
Father Murray was thirty years Of
age, and a native of Middleton, county
Cork, Ireland. After studying at the
Jesuits at Limerick, he finished theology
In the American college of Rome. He
arrived in Mobile in 1893. From here
he was transferred to Birmingham, Ala,
and Bessemer, Ala, and in January last
ne was transferred to Montgomery, Ala.
Hearing that an assistant was needed
here he offered to come and reached
Mobile September Sth. The fever broke
out few days after his arrival. He
preached at st. Vincent's last Sunday.
telling the congregation to prepare for
the hnal summons. That afternoon he
was attacked with his fatal illness.
The bulletin to-day says Al cases, six
deaths, 10 discharged and 16 under
treatment. With one or two exceptions.
the sick are doing WELL
Dr. george n. AeIcnum, president of
the Board of Health, notes that the pa
tients all sleep on the ground floor. He
infers that the poison moves along the
ground and attacks those first in reach.
The steady effort to get the stringency
of quarantine against Mobile modified
is meeting with partial success. The
river boats, the carriers for the Alabama
river and the Hard Cash, for the Tom
bigbee, left tonight on the first trips for
weeks. They will go up these rivers
about 200 miles, carrying heavy cargoes
of all kinds of supplies, but no passen-
gers. The railroads also are daily doing
more work and bringing in cotton and
general merchandise. They brought in
1000 bales Of cotton to-day and seven
cars of grain.
TEXAS SASSES NEW ORLEANS.
San Antonio, Texas, Sept PA tele-
gram was received here to-day from
President Olliphant, of the New Or