| Show tse THE below R FOA several daya pa past pat t tire telegraphic dispatches have contained accounts of the ravages of the yellow jellow fever in portions of the south southa 4 three ril ris hlee or four days since there was aSt mst est adment ement to the effect that trains 7 cacti shreveport la were crowal with nith tho the fear stricken fleeing to wake healthful quarters this morning A news from the jallow ll 11 ow fever district js s more alarm alarin fu diug than thau ever the d distiso dis etso eise ilso oiso IS is raging 9 with terrible at liro a 4 small blit but hitherto town in red bed river in louisiana the population is said to tv be about koor and there amii now 0 w about nive five hundred dowd with yellow fever the death rate b being ilg from thirty to forty per day A thriving trade is usually carried on between this place and new orleans tm and other river ports but now strad is paralyzed the town quarantined an an tined and suffering and death are hol hoi holding dirig ill iii high li carnival within its limits tile the doctors and nurses af pf the tile place have far more patients than they ey can 1 I attend 6 nd to and several of them t 1 i m aba cba have havo v been b cen con prostrated by their labors tho the howard association of IN ew orleans has sent gent a large number of botito both to the assistance of the afflicted but still more help heip la Is called for an appeal for aid sa Is never made in vain to the american public and the wail wall for succor from the fever faver stricken districts of the sunny south is already meeting with a response in the metropolis and subscriptions are being rec received elved by mayor havemeyer haven Haver of lew rew now wow york city and it is gratifying to believe that all that means and human sympathy and assistance can do will be done for the sufferers on the banks of red bed biver river shreveport is not the thel only place afflicted but the dread disease has also made its appearance at memphis and some newspaper correspondents pon dents say that in portions of louisiana within twenty miles of shreveport negroes are falling vic vie tims tints by hundreds to the maddy malady it may be that rumor and alarm combined have led to considerable exaggerations respecting the disease bo be this as it may several towns have been quarantined and tile the health authorities in various localities are thoroughly aroused andare and aro are adopting measures costay to stay the tho spread of the plague fortu bately the season is now far advanced and with the advent of cooler weather which may be expected in a short time t here there is eveny every reason to hope that thedis the disease sewill ea will be checked and its ravages terminated |
