Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-12-27
PESTILENTIAL SCOURGE.

INC Stre6G In new xOrk-HundredS Ol
Persons Exposed-The Disease in Chica.
go-Proposing to Call Out tho Illinois
Militia to Regulate Matters.
JERSEY City, Dec. 26.-Joseph McLea-
ry, of 122 Pavonia avenue, was sent tc
St.Frances hospital three weeks ago to un-
dergo treatment for alcoholism, subse-
quently he was attacked with small pox,
and the sisters concluded to have him re-
moved to small pox hospital. On the
arrival Of the ambulance Thursday
McLeary refused to go into the hospital
When the vehicle disappeared the man
dressed himself and made his escape and
went to his home
/ To-day through his wife's importuni.
ties and promise to accompany him, he
consented to 60 to Snake Hill, and Mrs
McLeary left the house for the purpose
OF ordering an ambulance. During Mrs
McLeary's absence John Lymons entered
the house and got the sick mans consent
to accompany him to second precinct
station house. Laymons then assisted
McLeary whose face was one mass OF
sores through the streets to the station
house. Meantime DR.. Paul who had
seen the men in the street hurried
to the station house and reported that
McLsary was in dying condition and
advised the sergeant not to admit him.
The doors were at once fastened. and
when Lymens arrived with his charge ad-
mission was refused, and the sick man
was deposited on the sidewalk, where,
after few convulsive shudders, he died,
Leymons then attempted to force his way
into the station house, and was arrested
and locked up.
An hour after the body was removed,
but not before 700 people, the majority OF
them children, had congregated, and the
cloth that had been placed over the dead
mans face was actually removed by
these childred number of times After
the removal of the body the entire block
was fumigated. The street was crowded
for some time later by people discussin g
the occurrence.
CHICAGO, Dec. 26.-Small pox seems to con
tinue in the city at the same rate of mortality
and increase as heretofore. One of the chie1
causes is that the country towns send theil
cases to this city for the authorities to care
for. A man was discovered in the outskirts
of the city who had been taken with the dis
ease while working on farm in Du Page
county, and at once had been hustled off tc
Chicago. His face was mass of blotches
and he was steering for the pest house. The
disease las broken out at the county hospital
three cases being discovered there. They
were, of course, taken away, and all visiting
at the hospital has been interdicted for the
present.
Two trains of immigrants by the West
phala arrived to-day from New York. Health
officers, learning of their approach, boarded
the trains outside the city and finding nc
smallpox cases, merely hustled the immi
grants through the city to their western des-
tination.
At Mount Carmel, Ills, several deaths from
smallpox pox having occurred, the mayor Or
dered that services in all the churches be stop
ped. One church refused to rec
festival. The mayor telegraphed for advice
to the state board Of health, who instructed
him to compel obedience to his order, by force
if necessary, and to call for the state militia
to aid him, in case the ordinary officers were
powerless. They also instructed him to have
every person who attended the festival vaccin-
ated. This incident illustrates the activity OF
the state board in stopping the scourge, and
their apprehension that it will become cpl
demic.
A Texarkana special says a man with a
fully developed case of smallpox appeared on
the streets there and mingled with the crowd.
He was arrested and quarantined outside the
city. The citizens are apprehensive that the
disease will become epidemic.