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“GRIM JACK’’
OF YELLOW TINGE, INVADES
FLORIDA, CAUSING A PANIC.
PEOPLE STAMPEDE FROM JACKSONVILLE —
MACON,GA., INVITES THE REFUGEES AND
THEN QUARANTINES AGAINST THEM.
Surgeon General Hamilton, Dr. Sim
mons, of Charleston, Mayor Lester, of |
Savannah, and Capt. R. G. Fleming, to
gether with a number of health officers
and railroad officials, met in conference
at Waycross, Ga., on Sunday, to discuss
the situation in reference to the present
► scourge at Jacksonville, and to devise
ways and means for succoring the people! i
and otherwise aiding them. It was de- i
cided that it was mecessary to speedily
deplete the city of Jacksonville that the!
disease might be more quickly stamped
out. In order to do this a place of refuge
was necessary. It was decided that a
camp of refugees be established, and that
Boulogne, on the line of the Savannah,
Florida & Western Railroad, thirty-six
miles from Jacksonville,in Nassau county, |
be selected. To this end Surgeon-Gen
eral Hamilton will have government tents
shipped immediately to the ground, and
the camp ground will be inaugurated at
once. No sick person will be retained, !
but sent back to the city.
The mails will be fumigated at Way
cross, Dupont and Chattahoochee, as j
well as Gainesville. The transfer of
passengers and baggage takes place at j
the 99 mile post, three miles south of! ;
Waycross. All passengers not properly 1
certificated are placed in the rough cars, ;
and not allowed to leave the coaches at ;
the station, The strictest patrol is keptj I
up by the inspectors from Brunswick, |
Savannah and Thomasville. The trains!
are passing there crowded and it is pit
eous to see the wo-be-gone expressions of!
the faces of women and the wonder
ing gaze of the children flying to escape I
the terrors that are pictured behind i
them; caring nothing for baggage or
worldly belongings—going—going any- ;
where only to be going. As the trains, I
with locked doors slow up at the depot
the heads are poked out at the windows;
■ as if in mute appeal, only to be directed!
to a place of safety. There is no fear at
Waycross.
Being asked if he would express an
opinion on the probability of the yellow
fever sweeping Jacksonville, Dr. Hamil
ton replied indirectly, saying, however,
that he would advise everybody to leavq
the city. “Just now the disease appears;
to be of a mild type,” he continued.!
“Until we have further data it is unsafe,
to express a positive opinion one way ori
another. All who can possibly leave
should do so. Fugitives not only save
their own lives in nine cases out of ten,
but save the lives of others by robbing
the pestilence of so much material which
it would feed upon. No disease is so
susceptible by quarantine than yellow
fever. In 1876 when Savannah had it so i
bad, Charleston, which is but little more I
than one hundred miles off, kept it out I
effectually by a strict quarantine. There I
is no reason why any of Jacksonville’s ■
neighbors should contract the fever if !
they keep the refugees out. It did not’
originate in Jacksonville this Summer,
but was imported. Plant City was not
free from fever at any time during the
past Winter.” Quarantine Officers Webb
and B.iughn were at work on all the north
bound trains on the East Tennessee, Vir- j
ginia and Georgia and Central railway
trains coming into Macon, Ga., Officer
Baughn being stationed at Fort Valley
and Webb at Chauncy. As each train
arrives, they board it and come on to
Macon, en route finding out all parties
from the infected districts and informs
them they will not be allowed to stop, but
continue on their journey. Most of them
go on through. One or two have raised
r, protest, but when they learned that
they were liable to be arrested if they
stopped, they continued on their way.
The officers accompany each train some
distance beyond the city to see that no
. one jumps off and comes back.
EK A special to Jacksonville, received
fc Sunday, reports three new cases aud one
as the day’s record in that city one
suspicious case has developed at Pablo
Beach, where Capt. Tuttle, of the Louis
ville and Nashville Railroad, died. Three
suspicious cases have developed at St.
Augustine, and a stampede from that
city has begun.
The quarantine lines below Brunswick
and all points in Florida is now' fully
established and thoroughly guarded at
all points. Inspectors are stationed at
Jesup, Waycres-. St. Mary’s, Owens Ferry
and Burnt Fort, while the steamer Mis
chief, is paneling the mouth of
the harbor, off Jekyl river.
The Brusnwick Ga. board of
health his taken every precaution neces
sary to establish perfect confidence and
a fee ing of security in the city. All is
quiet now, and there is no longer a feel
ing of uneasiness as to the continued
good health of Brunswick.
SAVANNAH, GA.. SATURDAY. AUGUST 18, 1888.
An authority on yellow fever in At
lanta on being questioned about the ad
visability of permitting refugees from
Florida to enter Atlanta said: “I think
it gives a change for the spread of the
disease and Ido not believe it is good
policy to take any chances with such a
dreadful disease as yellow' fever. Take
the experience of Huntsville, Ala., and
other townis along the Memphis &
Charleston Railroad, in the epidemic of
1878. Huntsville is every bit r s health
fully situated as Atlanta. A resort for
delicate persons and young children from
all parts of the South; in a high rolling
country, with good water and air. The
idea of yellow' fever coming there was
ridiculed aud treated as a hobby of a few’
medical cranks. The local physicians
and others said yellow fever germs
couldn’t live there. Yellow’ fever did
gain a foothold there, and a large part
of the population died from the disease.
The governor of Georgia should establish
a strict quarantine along the Florida
border, and every person coming from
Florida should be detained in quarantine
eight or ten days, if necessary, before be
ing allowed to proceed, or until all dan
ger from contagion had passed. If some
such action is not taken the people of
Atlanta at least should not allow' them
selves to remain inactive, but should
take stringent measures to prevent this
disease from gaining a foothold in the
city.”
While numbers of cities in the state
are quarantined against Jacksonville and
other points in Florida, Gainesville, Ga.,
the paradise of the health and pleasure
seeker, opens wide her gates and invites
the unfortunate citizens to come and
partake of her sparkling water, cool and
refreshing breezes and w’holesome diet.
The atmosphere is too pure there for any
euidemic to take up its abode, and the
city extends a cordial welcome to al!
those wffio are fleeing from the awful
scourge.
Chattanooga on Sunday established a
quarantine against Jacksonville and all
yellow fever infected points. A car load
of Jacksonville refugees who were en
route to Cnat.anooga were met at the
depot by the mayor and board of health,
and were not permitted to remain over.
They went North. A penalty of SI,OOO
fine or imprisonment twelve months on
the chaingang, will be imposed on any
conductor who allows a sleeping car from
a yellow fever infected district to stop
within the city limits of Macon, Ga.
Hie Citizens’ Auxilliary association to
Duval county board of health was in ses
sion in Jacksonville on Monday all the
morning, various matters being under
discussion. The police force has been
increased, aud six mounted police now
patrol the streets night and day. No
case of yellow fever lias yet occurred
among the negro population. Business
is completely paralyzed, and colored men
out of work gather in knots in the streets,
and it is feared will soon begin to plun
der and pillage the hundreds of unoccu
pied houses in the city. Lime, sulphur
and tar have been ordered in large quan
tities, and several hundred fires
will be kindled in every block, in order
to kill the fever germs if possible. At
night the concussion theory of killing
germs was given particular test and
Wilson’s battery, with five pieces of ar
tillery, began firing continuously from
seven o’clock for several hours bn Mon
day. Nearly every hotel, boarding
house and restaurant in the city has been
closed. Hundreds of stores arc closed
and the proprietors have fled. All oth
ers close at sp. m. and open at 9 a. m.
in order to avoid contact with the night
air. Many dining clubs are forming in
private houses wholly. All mails are
fumigated by order of the postoffice de
partment. The Western Union telegraph
office is seriously embarrassed, as only
about one third of its operatives remain.
The situation at 7 p. m. on Monday was
as follows: Only two new cases of yel
low fever are reported in the city as oc
curring in the past twenty-four hours—
B. F. Dillon, superintendent of the
Western Union Telegraph company, and
Mr. Sheppard, residing on Church street.
Dr. Mitchell, president of the board of
health, does not think Mr. Gelder died
of yellow fever. No other deaths arc
reported. Deaths 1; recovered 1; under
treatment, 19; whole number of cases so
far, 25; total deaths, 4. Provisions
it is feared, will be short. Vegetables
are becoming scarce, as there seems to be
no way to bring them in. Undoubtedly
omong the poor there will be great suffer
ing if assistance is not rendered. Im
mense fires were kept up in all parts of
the city, coal tar being freely burned.
Over 1,000 Floridians have located in
Atlanta, Ga.
COTTON REPORT.
Advices from New York state that the
total visible supply of cotton for the
world is 1,050,823 bales, of which 605,-
I 223 are American, against 1,344,490 and
respectively last year. The re
. ceipts of cotton fur the week at ail inte
! nor towns 6,424. Receipts from plauta
-1 tiuns6,6ls. Crop in sight 6,917,900.
THE SOUTH.
CONDENSED FACTS, ARRANGE!
IN READABLE SHAPE.
lightning plays havoc everywhere—
COTTON STATISTICS—SUICIDES—RAIL
ROAD CASUALTIES, ETC.
Alabama.
Samuel Noble, the most prominent citi
zen of Anniston, died on Monday.
The Henderson Steel Works will re
sume operations at once. The plant will
be enlarged to fifteen tons daily capac
ity, and will turn out the finest grade of
steel. °
A freight train with twenty cars loaded
with iron ore was wrecked near
Reeder s station, on the Birmingham
Mineral road fifteen miles from Birming
ham. The wreck was caused by the rails
spreading. Every one of the twenty cars
were broken to pieces and pulled down
an embankment. Brakeman A. W. Sit
tle was instantly killed and Conductor
Lee Gardner and Brakeman J. A. Fuller
were severely injured.
Capt. R. F. Kolbs, Commissioner of
Agriculture of Alabama, left Montgom
ery for a tour of the Northwest. He is
accompanied by a party of thirteen gen
tlemen, representing as many towns, who
go in a special car. He also takes an
other car filled with specimens of Ala
bama products for exhibition. They go
direct to Evansville, Ind., and thence to
Des Moines, Sheldon, Council Bluffs,
lowa, through Minneapolis and St. Paul,
and back to Chicago. From there they
will go through Ohio, Michigan and
Pennsylvania. The object of the trip is
to advertise Alabama’s resources in the
interest of immigration.
Tennessee-
Chattanooga’s new Directory shows a
population of 46,000.
After digging in the ruins of the recent
fire at Chattanooga, nearly a dozen bod
ies were recovered.
News came to Chattanooga, that James
F. Decamp, a former prominent citizen of
that city, died suddenly in Cincinnati,
Ohio, from heart disease.
Wm. Baker, a butcher, of Knoxville,
on Saturday skinned a cow that
been poisoned. He had a sore finger,
which became infected. Baker is now 1
dying with spasms.
The O. I. Luce Manufacturing Co., en
gaged in the production of wire cloth at
West Nashville, a new manufacturing
suburb of this city, made an assignment
on Saturday. The assets are placed at'
about SIBO,OOO, while liabilities are
$120,000.
11. C. Bate, the United States signal
corps assistant, at Nashville, makes the
following report as to general conditions
in his weekly weather crop bulletin:
Since the last report there has been but
little change in the percentage of condi
tion, and that has been mostly for the
worse. In some places good local rains
have revived the lowering conditions;
this is true of the central portion of the
eastern division, and in most of the
middle division, while in the western di
vision there is beginning to be felt a se
rious want of rain to check the rapidly
falling percentages of conditions of the
late corn and cotton crops. In Smith
county the tobacco crop is reported
looking well. Fodder is rapidly drying
up, and the yield will be greatly' less
ened. Plowing for the Fall seeding of
wheat has been suspended in many places
on account of the dry condition of the
soil. In the middle and western divi
sions early corn is considered safe.
Two men had made ready a very
heavy blast in the face of the high bluff
at the mouth of Smith’s forks, near Lan
caster. It was composed of quite a num
ber of holes about twenty feet deep, and
with nine or ten kegs of powder to the
hole. Everything had been made ready
to touch the blast with electricity by
means of a wire connected with the bat
tery. A cloud came up in the meantime,
and as it was lightning, the men con
cluded to wait until the cloud passed
over. A flash of lightning, however,
came running along the wire from the
battery exploding the blasts with a tre
mendous noise. The whole side of the
bluff was blown off and it tumbled with
a tremendous crash down below. At
the time the blast occurred, two laboring
men were seen coming along down
under the bluff. They were vigilantly
searched for after the explosion, but no
trace of them could be found.
West Virulnin.
Information has reached Charlestown
that four of the Hatfield-McCoy gang are
working their way through the moun
tains of West Virginia toward the Nor
folk <fc Western Railroad. It is claimed
that their intention is to take a train at
some point west of Roanoke for Wash
ington und thence proceed North to some
locality where they will be beyond dan
ger of pursuit. '1 hey are desperate men
und will not be taken without trouble.
! WASHINGTON, D. C.
i .
BUSY TIMES STILL, IN THE NA
TIONAL CAPITOL
CONGRESS IN SESSION YET —MOVEMENTS
OF PRESIDENT AND MRS. CLEVELAND —
WHO ARE GETTING FAT SLICES.
tWCKEsnONAL.
In the Senate, on Tuesday, the discus
sion on the fisheries treaty was resumed,
and was addressed by Nir. Morgan and
much time was occupied by reading from
| diplomatic correspondence on the subject
of the seizure of American fishing vessels
during the last half century. In one of
the breaks in these readings, Mr. Sher
man, by Mr. Morgan’s permission, intro
duced a bill to declare unlawful, trusts
and combinations in restraint of produc
tion, and had it referred to the com
mittee on finance. It declares unlawful
and void all arrangements, contracts,
agreements, trusts or combinations be
tween persons or corporations made with
: a view, or which tend, to prevent a full
i and free competition in the production,
the manufacture or the sale of articles of
domestic growth or production, or in the
sale of articles imported into the United
States or that tend to increase the cost of
such articles to the consumer....
Mr. Sayers, of Texas, moved that the
House go into a committee of the whole
for the consideration of the general ap
, propriation bills. Mr. Townshend, of
I Illinois, championing the opposition of
1 the military committee to the fortifica
tions bill, inquired of the Speaker what
bill would be considered if the motion
I should prevail. The Speaker declined
I to state, declaring that that was a matter
I to be determined by the chairman of the
committee of the whole. Mr. Sayer’s
! motion was cairied—yeas 159, nays 9
J five more than a quorum, but the fight
i was resumed in the committee, Mr.
! Townshend objecting to the consider
i ation of the fortifications bill. That ob
-1 jection being reported to the House, on
the question whether the House would
direct the fortifications bill to be laid
aside, the vote resulted—yeas 17, nays
132—n0 quorum.
The Senate, on Monday, resumed the
I consideration of the fisheries treaty in
j open executive session, and was addressed
; by Mr. Call in support of its ratification.
! .. . Mr. Davidson, of Florida, intro
• duced a joint resolution in the House ap
propriating $200,000 to aid in suppress
! ing infectious diseases in the United
! States. Referred. Ihe floor was then
accorded to the committee on the Dis
trict of Columbia. After some time spent
■ upon measures local to the District of
Columbia, the Senate bill was passed
increasing to S3O a month the rate of
; pension for total deafness. Mr. Warner,
! of Missouri, asked unanimous consent
for the immediate consideration of the
dependent pension bill, but Mr. Walker,
iof Missouri, objected. The House then
! went into committee- of the whole on the
' fortification appropriation bill. No time
■ was consumed in general debate, and
■ the committee immediately proceeded to
the consideration <>f the bill by sections.
cowsii’.
John H. Dance has been appointed
; storekeeper and guager at Atlanta, Ga.
The will of Gen. Sheridan has been
prob.ted. He left property amounting
to $20,000.
In the Senate the bill reducing the
! postage on fourth-class matter to one
cent was passed.
The Secretary of the Treasury has ap
pointed Isaac W. Hightower to be gauger
! at Ludville, Ga.
i The magnificent war-ships Charleston
and San Francisco, will be in service in
! less than three months.
i Charlie Crisp, son of Judge Crisp, of
Georgia, has been appointed to a clerk
ship in the Interior Department.
President Cleveland has issued an or
der, placing General Bch< field in perma
nent command of the armies of the Uni
ted States.
Col. Elliott has secured the establish
ment of a new postoffice at Sykesland,
Richland county, S. C-, with Wm. Sykes,
postmaster; also at Horace, Sumter
county, S. C., with W. W. Denis post
master.
Acting Surgeon-General Stoner has re
ceived a telegram on Monday from Dr.
Mitcheil, at Jacksonville'Florida, as fol
lows: The official bulletin for the last
twenty-four hours new cases, 3; recov
ered, 1; deaths, 1 (Mrs. W. S. McClel
land); under treatment, 17. Number
Os cases to date, 21; number of deaths to
date. 3.
The River and Harbor bill became a
law on Saturday without the President’s
signature. No memorandum made, but the
President stated that while the bilk c m
tained items to which he could not sitrn
his approval, the great bulk of work pro
vided for is so imp to the beat in
terests of the country, thuthewks unwil
ling to obstruct it by bis veto.
(f 1.25 Per Annum; 75 cento /or Six Month*;
■ 50 cents Three Month*; Siafie Copiw
( • cento- -In Advance.
The Senate litis confirmed the nomina
tions of J. E. Bacon, minister to Para
guay and Uruguay; Rufus Alt Gee, envoy
extraordinary and minister plenipoten
tiary to Sweden and Norway ;R. B. Roos
velt, minister to the Netherlands; Lam
bert Tree, envoy extraordinary and min
ister plenipotentiary to Belgium; aiid O.
L. Scott, minister to Venezuela.
A VENDETTA.
There is trouble again in Pike county
between the Hatfields and McCoys. Frank
Phillips, sheriff of Pike county, who inade :
the former arrests, and whose daring
deeds made him famous, appears to be the
coveted prize of West Virginians, who
seem destined to get his scalp. The
trials of the Hatfields were set for Pike-;
ville on Monday. Last week, Phillips waft
out through the county securing
es, and when in the neighborhood'
of Beter, the scene of the formed
bloody encounter, he was approached by.
three men who claimed to be detectives,
and who demanded his surrender. Phil
lips replied by whipping out his revolver
and opening fire on the trio. He shot
the belt off one Alexander, well knowd
and secured his three revolvers. No
one was hurt in the melee. The three
retreated minus their hats, weapons etc.
The next day they returned with nine re-’
emits in search of Phillips and his body;
guard, and the West Virginians were!'
again repulsed. The Hatfield squad to
the number of sixty, passed the mouth
of the Bet<?r creek and Captain Hatfield
told an old miner that he had
leave, as there was going to be trouble?
Shortly afterward he heard a skirmish,’
between the Hatfields and the McCoys,
the latter being forty-five strong and ly
ing in wait for their enemies. After the,
smoke of the battle had cleared away itl
was discovered that three Hatfields were
killed and two wounded, while three of
the McCoys were slightly wounded. The
end is not yet, but the Kentuckians have
the best of them, inasmuch as they are
thoroughly organized and well armed.
AN EARTHQUAKE.
The Steamer City of Sidney, which ar
rived at San Francisco from Hong Kong
and Yokohama, brings through the Ja
panese journals the particulars of
the volcanic eruption of Bandai bank on
the 15th of July. The details of the
catastrophe came in a somewhat de
spoiled form. The Choya Shimbkn dis
patched a special reporter to the scene.
According to his account the villages
surrounding Bandii heard the strange
rumbling sounds and felt the shocks of
the earthquake from 13th. These pheno
mena continued intermittently for two
days and nights, but not being attended
by any serious r< suit no great disquiet
was felt. On the morning of the loth,
at about 8 o’clock, smaller Bandai San
trembled aud roared violently. Imme
diately afterwards ashes begun to fall,
the sky suddenly grew dark and the
rumbling sounds continued, accompanied
by violent earthquakes and Hare of daz
zling (lame. The crest of the smaller
Bandai San appeared to be lifted bodily
upwards and then to full again with a
tremendous noise. Then followed show
ers of red mud, mingled with large
stones, spreading havoc around. Such,
indeed, was the nature of nearly all
erupted; and mud with no small stones,
but accompanied occasionally by heavv
rocks. Nearly 500 were killed.
CONVENT BURNED.
It was about ten minutes past eight
on Munday night when Mother Superior
>'■ nes, vicar of the eastern provinces, saw
smoke in the u .per p ,rt of the convent
ol the Sacred Heart on 132 d street, New
York. Mother McDuffy had charge of
fifty children who were all in the chapel
praying at the time, and the feast of the
Assumption is on Wednesday, and the
a!tar w-s all decorated. Mother Duffy
got the children together and took them'
through the porch to St. Joseph’s shrine
i : the rear of the building and away from
dang. r. The women might have extin
guish'd the Harms, it i-> thought, as the
fire worked along slowly at first, but
they seat out an alarm for the firemen,
who promptly responded. The laborers
employe 1 about the place started to
work with a small hose. The difficulty
w'as a scarcity of water. When the fire
men arrived they fir t could find no wa
ter except what wa in a little reservoir
in front of the h use. Beside the build
ing was on a hill and the engines had to
be pulb dup the hill with ropes. The
hose of three engines were finally put
togetle ran I water drawn from St.
Nicholas and Tentii avenues, a distance
of 2.1.100 fe< t, to hydrants, but they were
un it le to save the building.
SAILORS DIE.
Qu iruntiue physicians at Lewes, Del.,
report that the steamer Ardungorm lost a
steward at Havana and afterwards a first
engineer cm the vi jage, both having died
of y< How fever. The crew at present
are all well.
NO. 44.