The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-07-31
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provided for. This is the work to be don,
now.
Another Appeal to the People to Flee.
From the Memphis Appeal, July 20.
We entreat that every man, woman
and child who has not had the yellow fe
yer leave the city at once without day.
delay. There is nothing to be gained b
remaining here. Business is as effectu
ally killed for the next three months a!
if we had ten hundred cases instead O.
seven. Hereafter, until the health boart
announces that it is safe for the people
to come back, there will not be employ.
ment for any but doctors and nurses. All
mechanical business has or will be stopp
ed this week. No stores or Offices will be
kept open save where men are employees
who have had the fever. There will be
nothing to do. 1t will, therefore, be O
prudent thing for all to remove from the
city, and get as speedily as possible to a
place of safety. We may not have an
epidemic fever may stop as sudden.
ly as ii begun, but it will be most
sensible to act as if it were positive
that it was going to be an epidemic, and
take time by the forelock. A live man is
is of more value than n million dead
men. The past teaches that there is but
one and only one sure avenue of escape
from yellow fever-hight. Last year
ninety y-eight per cent. of all the white peo-
pie who remained here were taken with
the fever, seventy per cent. died. In other
words, only two ofevery hundred escaped,
and the doctors and nurses, after the ex-
penditure offabulous sums OF money, great
skill and sleepless vigilance, could only
save eighteen out of every hundred.
Surely we do not want these appalling
figures repeated. There is no known
specific for this terrible disease. The
doctors cannot grapplc with it with the
assurance that characterizes them in the
treatment of any other of our local fevers.
They have not yet been able to find o
medicine that will arrest the speedy
killing poison which disintegrates the
blood, and delivers its first blow at the
very seat of life. The best of them stand
appalled, at its suddenness of attack, its
overwhelming savage and relentless SUBJ
lection of the will, rs well as the ply
sique, to its purposes, and the wholesale
destruction of life that follows upon its
appearance. Two i'll ten is but a slim
chance for life. The theory of sanitary
statisticians is that the death rate in
whole year should not be more than
eighteen in thousand. These figures,
and the facts We have laid before our
readers, should be sufficient without
another word from US to induce the re-
moval at once of every one who has not
had the fever. When quarantine is de-
clared, as it may be, it will be too late.
All who are here then will be forced to
remain, whether they will or not. We
repeat, then, our urgent entreaty that
without waiting for further developments,
every man, woman and child leave the
city to-day, or at farthest by tomorrow
night, who has not had the yellow fever.
We advise this as q measure of precau-
tion justified by the dearly bought ex-
perience of the awful epidemic of 1878.
The Flight From Memphis.
MCKENZIE, Tenn, July 81.
Train after train load of Memphians
now almost hourly pass through here,
leaving q crowd of anxious people at the
plague stricken city waiting at the depot
there for the first chance to get away.
Memphians say that so determined are
the people to get out of that city that
they clamor with one another as a mob,
and those passengers with the most
strength and determination are those
who run over the multitude of more
timid people and escape. People have
crowded about the depot for Menty-four
hours before being able to get on the
train. Overcome with heat and fatigue
men, women and children sleep, closely
huddled together, until aroused and told
that the hour of their liberation is near
at hand. A fresh train has been made
up, and they pass out to the transfer
station, which is also always crowded.
Instead of waiting for trains to carry
them hither, they so out by every con-
ceivable conveyance, and by that means
often take the places of those who have
been forced to come out on the trains,
only to find that they have been deprived
of possibility of their early escape to a
more healthy climate. Restiye and COM
bative under these circumstances men
grow desperate and fight like tigers.
Rcvolvers are drawn in the most savage
determination, and bloodshed is only
prevented by the interference of a strong
guard. People p so closely sandwiched
in the trains that the heat becomes in
tolerable, passengers get restive, and al
most any one who makes it known can
be easily accommodated with knock
down. 4 general scramble for seats
continues all along the various lines
until the conductor gets rid of the jam
by dropping them here, there and every
where.