The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1886-10-29
For the Democrat Star.
THE v AT BILOXI,
A True Statement Of the Situas
tiOn.

/, Biloxi, Miss. Oct. -, l5c6.
Capt. p. X. Mayors, Editor D~emocFat-Star
The peculiar situation our uniOrt
innate town is now placed IN, passed
Is as ii were, before tue universe as q
o fever-sIricken community, impells
! me to say Il word in defense OF her
: and her people, aud give to those
/ desiring them some facts as to the
/. prevailing trouble; aud, as your
paper has a large circulation, | am
10 hopes these facts will meet the
r eyes OF the people pretty generally,
not from an NJ. DIS standpoint, but
from that of au humble citizen.
The FIRST intimation we had of
this sickness was in that portion of
our town known as Point Cadet.
A mai and woman, husband aud
wife, in the early part of August
visited this place in search OF work.
They came from Bayou Ia Battre,
Mobile county, Ala, aud finding
work they remained here, aud a
few days thereafter the husband
was taken sick aud before his entire
recovery the wife was infected
similarly, and from these two per.
sons those in the immediate yieini-
~ are said TO have incurred the
disease, resulting in u vigorous
quarantine for ten days, and the
said locality isolated for sometime
lohseI. We all supposed We had
seen the end of this trouble, but
subsequent events show the falIacy
of our hopes. Others living and,
IN fact, working at the same place
aud residing on the Back Bay of
Biloxi next took sick, aud in that
neIghbood several mild eases were
reported, but none resulting fatally
except one old man, a stranger to
us all, who for two months previous
~, had the swamp fever, aud OF
which he is supposed TO have died.
We next bear of sickness on what {
Is Known as Nixon's Green, where /
three children, all boys, died, and y
from Que of these caused so much ;
talk u consequent excitement !
hat outsiders woull have only 10 O
hear to he convinced that the SAT.
non Sconrge bad indeed made us n +
Your readers have seen many n
such cases. One of the others Il
Stance, of poor parents and Y
might say destitute and without n
lie necessary attention. The third. b
'uinpter, a sou of a woman well I,
.nown 10 your citizens, who took e,
on Sunday antl called in a ply. a
lclan Friday. These, with The "
OF Mrs. DIR. j. j. Lemon. &
nd yesterday that of Mrs. Ed
ards, are about the casualties "A
Overiug a period from August 81 b,
D date. Is this so fearful that two d,
lonsand five hundred people are I'd
} be afflicted with all the horlo rs ri,
a coid.blOOded quarantine, tor
DIV long no ODe knows, save from he
le lips of he who apparently holds L;
.e deStlnies OF this section in the nj,
OF bis hand, aud who asserted ON
at this should continue until ice M;
Two Inches thick /; then must we ne
ok 10 Providence and beSeech be
i'm TO send relief from the arctic. "a,
ould his His viSitatiOns to cold, Gle
T d-hearteG man could he more
'0rHbly demonstrated, then the or
poor would get relief from Pu
CHI human autOcrats, and laws tn,
lde not to inhict injury and IN. sol
Id misery upon the depressed OuI
lsses, as is our ease; but to pre-. val
MT mischief and just such out sor
geOus actions.
to me of American freedom hip
len, at the instance of such men a I
appeared before the Louisiana w,
ate Board of Health. OH Sunday
%recOunting horrors that were nus
Iply imagination, and for which yOU
; correspondents of the New Or Pet
ms States aud Picdyune have de. usu
lnced him, but for the same con. owe
ct the Times Democrat has sung and
name in high honor, while two tim
Ave hundred people are clos
lished. How | wish the National AS
would take this whole of v
tier OF quarantine 10 hand. AL. how
ugh / am a lover Of States into
hts, but | think if he govern. give
ut had the matter of quarantine SAYS
IN its power these petty Will
Ousies and irate feelings would zoe.
crop to the surface, and each saws
come nearer getting his just kept
erts; but to my subject. that
ne total cases OF fever for the anyl
E mentioned are, as near as | dive
ascertain from the physicians, to Il
nt Que hundred aud forty ; of wheI
'e DR.. Aldrich treated aboul sittil
ty--allfo bilious fever. Helost leggl
3 up to the death of Mrs. Ed. last
Dis, which occurred yesterday Tom
Maybln informs me that he the
TED some thirty for malarial silenl
r and has lost none. DR.. Pelaez
ted about ifty and lost none. MI
treatment WAS for the prevail caugI
though be says be called a, .;
! two or three of those that
, but too late to treat them Ierre'
This leaves forty 10 the S
'ther physicians whom | have are 81
SaeD. but hOfh danv tie ham,