1849-07-08 Letter to Bishop Jean-Baptiste Bouvier

Description:	Mother Theodore describes the spread of the cholera epidemic in America and how the Sisters are taking care of the afflicted. She attributes the spread of the disease to steamboat traffic on the rivers bringing the disease to Indiana cities. She details the collision of the Empire with a merchant vessel sinking both and drowning many passengers; she also talks about a massive fire in St. Louis that destroyed the wharves and many buildings, as well as a conflagration in Fort Wayne that she witnessed. Mother Theodore also notes that the school established by the Congregation are flourishing with 600 students and that there would be double that number if there were more Sisters to serve as teachers. Dated July 8, 1849.
Origin:	1849-07-08
Created By:	Guérin, Theodore, Saint, 1798-1856
Contributor(s):	Bouvier, J. B. (Jean Baptiste), 1783-1854
Source:	http://indianamemory.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16066coll61/id/1566
Collection:	Letters and Journals of Saint Mother Theodore Guerin
Rights:	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Subjects:	Guérin, Theodore, Saint, 1798-1856 -- Correspondence Bouvier, J. B. (Jean Baptiste), 1783-1854 Cholera -- United States -- 1840-1850 Empire (Steamboat) Fort Wayne (Ind.) -- Fire, 1849 Saint Louis (Mo.) -- Fire 1849 Catholic schools -- Indiana -- 1840-1850

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