The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-07-31
the poor are driven from the city and are
provided for. This is the work TO be done

the poor are driven from the city and ar
provided for This is the work 10 be dom
now.
Another Appeal to the People 10 Flec.
From the Memphis Appeat July 20.
We cntreat that every man, woman
and child WHO mas not had the yellow fc
yer leave the city at once without day'
delay. There is nothing to be gained b,
remaining here. Business is as efIectu
ally killed for the next three months a,
II we had ten hundred cases instead O
seven. Hereafter, until the health boarc
announces that it is safe for the people
TO come back, there will not be employ.
mcnt for any but dOctors.and nurses. All
mechanical business has or will be stopp
Ell this week. No stores or Offices will be
kept open save where men are EMPLOYED
who have had the fever. There will be
nothing to do. 1t will, therefore, be a
prudent thing for all to remove from the
city, and get rs speedily as possible to a
place OF safety. We may rot have an
epidemic-the fever may stop Us sudden.
ly rs il begun, but it will be most
sensible to act rs if it werc positive
that it was going to be an epidemic, and
take time by tho forelock. A live man is
Is OF more value than million dead
men. The past teaches that there is but
one and only one suro avenue of escape
from yellow tover-flight. Last year
ninety 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 ofcvery hundred escaped,
ana the doctors and nurses, after the ex-
penditure OF fabulous sums Of money, great
skill and a slcepless vigilance, could only
savo 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 feyers
They have not yet been nblo to find a
medicine that will arrest the speedy
killing poison which disintegrates the
blood, and delivers it's first blow Mt the
very seat Of life. The best Of them stand
appalled, mt its suddenncss of attack. its
overwhelming savage and relentless sub
Jcctlon of the will, rs well as the ply
sique, to its purposes, and the wholesale
destruction of life that follows upon its
appearance. Two in ten is but q slim
chance for life. The theory of sanitary
statisticians Ii thnt the death rate in n
whole year should not be more than
eighteen in n 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-
clarcd, rs it may be, it will be too late.
All who are here then viii bc forced 10
remain, whether they will or not. We
repeat, then, our urgent entrcaty 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 n measure of prccau-
ton 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 crowd of anxious people at the
plaguc-stricken city waiting at the depot
there for the first chance to get away.
Mcmphians say that 80 determined are
the people to get out of that city that
they clamor with one another as mob,
and those passengers with the most
strength and determination aTo those
who run over the multitude of more
timid people and escape. People have
crowded about the depot for twenty four
hours before being able TO get on the
train. Overcome with heat and fatigue
men, women and children sleep, closely
hnddled 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 10 carry
them hither, they go out by every con-
ceivablc 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
more healthy climate. Restivc and COM
bativc under these circumstances men
grow desperate and fight like tigers.
Rcvolvcrs are drawn in the most savage
determination, and bloodshed is only
prevented by the interference Of strong
guard. People arc SO closely sandwiched
in tie trains that the heat becomes in
to.erable, passengers get restivc, and al
most any one who makes it known can
be easily accommodated with q knock
down. A general SCRABBLE for seats
continues all along the various lines
until the conductor gets rid Of the Jam
by dropping them here. there and every
where.