The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-08-07
TIE 7L'GHT FROM MEMPHIS.
s1r:rt.T. Ga-bolic .cId Over tho Pasacn-
ccrs---!t Fever Case discovered on Board.

Squirting Ga:bolic acid Over tho Pasaan-
ccr.---.s Fever Case discovered on Board.
It I;!izabeth:own The reporter me! DF.
T. :. Bell, who expressed himself 81
pleased with the precautions taken by
the officers. 1t was not long before the
Memphis train came along with its fee
ing passengers. The health officers and
the scribe boarded this train, and soon
the work of disinfecting began. There
we're not so many passengers aboard as
usual nevertheless there were enough to
furnish a picture of everyday occurrence
on the railroad. Business men and
young fellows just starting out in life,
mothers, grandmothers, babies, young
ladies, were all fleeing to the land of ref
uge.
The fore car was filled with baggage.
Into this DR.. Barnum and the scribe
crawlcd, and the former threw down q
bottle of promina. The smell from this
was so powerful that the medicine and
the newspaper man had soon to beat a
hurried retreat. They then went into
the first passenger car. which was set
apart exclusively for Memphis people.
These all seemed to be more or less tired,
but there was not the slightest indication
of yellow fever about any of them.
The squirts lamps, however, were turn
ed on. These instruments are not at all
the terrible tortures that they have been
pictured to be. They emit q fine spray
of carbolic acid, and are, of course, disa-
greeablc to those persons who dislike the
smell that comes from that chemi. al. If
there is anything in disinfecting at all,
the refugees certainly get the benefit of
il, for the young men who turn on these
lamps walk up and down the aisles in q
slow, deliberate way, unmindful Of
growls, sneers or satirical smiles of the
passengers. A policeman on his beat
could not be more imperturbable at
neighboring fight than are these disinfec-
tors at the disgust their instruments
arouse.
The Courier Journal reporter was espe-
cially amused at a fine-looking old South
ern gentleman, who regarded the squirt
lamp at first with q sort of curiosity,
which changed into disgust as soon as he
experienced the first wave of the smell.
His feelings were evidently not suited
for utterancc; he could only regard with
ironical despair the unruflled young man
who carried the lamp.
Several soung ladies iii the cars
screamed, "Here he comes again" when
ever the young man put in an appear
auce. They soon, however, got used to
the thing and found the smell not disa-
grecablc. IT il one Of these temporary
Inconvenience which should be submit
ted to without demurring.
In the second passenger car the C0u-
rier .JournM man noticed q young man
who was very yellow in the face, and
whose eyes had kind of glaze in them.
lie was lying on his seat, curled up. DR..
Orendorf informed the reporter that this
was the suspected case on the train, and
the only one. His temperature was as
certained, and this, with his general ap-
pearancc, warranted the officers in be-
lieving that this was genuine case.
The young man said his name was D.
S. Ledhetter. He graduated last year in
this city at The University of Louisville,
where he had the reputation of being
good student. He WIS, while here study
Ing, OF very delicate constitution, being
subject TO dyspepsia. lie has been en-
gagged in Bennington in the drug dispen-
sary of the City Hospital, and has been
Subjected to the cause" Of yellow fever.
He says il has been four days since he
was in Memphis, and he did not think
he had the fever, but he wanted to be
taken to our hospital. The poor fellows
voice, however, was unsteady and belied
his words, and his eyes had an appealing
look in them which gained the sympathy
of every one. He said there was not
much of fright in Memphis, the gener.
al opinion being that the plague would
only touch the city lightly. Capt. Rob.
inson, the conductor on the train, notified
the officers promptly at Elizabethtown
of the suspicious case aboard. He de-
served great credit for the care and dis
cretion he has shown, in which indeed,
he has been as valuable as health Off
Ger.
DR.. Orendorf took DR.. Ledbetter off
the train at the Short Line Junction, and
placed him in the yellow fever hospital,
where lie will be kindly attended to.
Tie young man got on the train at e To-
cal station, and was not through pas
seneer. He said that he had first gone
to Alabama, but the quarantine there
shut him out, and after wandering around
here and there, he had finally boarded
the train for Louisville from Il local sta
tion.-Loui>rile C5mier-JoUaal.