THE YELLOW FEVER.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume VI, Issue 287, 1 November 1878, Page 5

THE YELLOW FEVER.

♦ A correspondent of the Sun, writing from Grenada, Mississippi, on the 19th August, after giving a vivid description of the terrible condition of that plague-stricken town, says : — I cannot omit mentioning the heroism of the Sisters of Charity. Their ministrations are tireless : their temper is never ruffled in the least by sleepless nights, spare diet, and constantly attending to the pettish demands of the sick and witnessing the agonies of the dying. Where they sleep or eat I could not divine. I saw the same faces around day and night, and again at dawn. They carry medicines about with them, work like bees in disinfecting houses, and have a magical faculty of raking up clean linen and bedclothes in out-of-the-way places. I also saw several clergymen who were behaving in a very disinterested way, one of whom had not removed his clothes for three consecutive nights. It is not possible to describe the harrowing incidents of the fatal pestilence at Grenada. It is a blighted, forsaken, and doomed town. " Among the deaths are Sister Loreto McKenzie and Sister Mary Keenan, at the Charity Hospital. Both have been unremitting attendants on yellow fever patients. The Very Rev. Joseph Millet, Vicar General of the diocese of New Orleans, is dangerously ill with the fever." " Fathers Bokel and Meagher fat Memphis) are dying. Two Fathers,and two Brothers at the Franciscan monastery are down. Father Walsh, of St. Bridget's, and Father McGarvey, of St. Peter's (Memphis), are dead." '' Among the new cases to-day (at Memphis) is the Mother Superior of La Salotte. Father Martin is dead." Such are the sad but glorious tidings that daily come to us over the telegraphic wires from the stricken South. There is no need to speak of the nationality as well as the religion of these noble priests and Sisters. Their names tell the story : McKenzie, Keenan, Bokel. Meagher, Walsh, McGarvey, Martin — we all know who they were. For the love of God and of souls they have laid down their lives. • — May their souls rest in peace / A partial and imperfect list of the prie&ts and Sisters who have either been prostrated by the yellow fever in the discharge of their sacred duties, or who have died from that terrible disease during the past week only '{rives the following names : — Attacked : Rev. Father J. Millet, Viear-Gcneral of New Orleans ; Father McNamara, Father Itiordan, Father Hunter, Father Oberfelt, Two Franciscan Fathers, Two Franciscan Brothers, Mother Superior of La Salctte, Sister Dominica, Sister Veronica. Dead : Father McGarvey, Father Bokel, Father Walsh, Father lUaitin, Father Meagher, Father Erasmus. It is to be feared that some of those who are in the first list have since died. But, for the living and the dead atjkejlet us pray. — Catholic lie view.