Morning journal and courier., 1888-08-14
THE FEVER PLAGUE.

THE FEVER PLAGUE.
 Jacksonville shut In on All Sides Business Stopped-Attempts to XII
 Fever Germs With Artillery.
 JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Aug. 13.-The feve
 panic continues. People are leaving the cit,
 by every known means of exodus. Macon
 Ga, which had opened it's gates to all refu gees, closed them to-day. The only knowr
 exit is through Atlanta and if Waycrosf
 maintains strict quarantine and the gov
 ernment establishes camp for refugees the
 present inhabitants of Jacksonville will
 be practically shut :, in on all sides.
 The Citizens Auxiliary association
 to the county board of health was in session
 all the morning. various matters being under discussion. The police force has been in-
 creased and six mounted police now patrol
 the streets night and day. No case of yellow fever has yet occurred among the negroes. Business is completely paralyzed and negroes out of work gather in knots in the streets and
 it is feared will soon begin to plunder and | pillage the hundreds of unoccupied houses in the city. Rumors of martial law are ahoat. By reason of the exodus the banks have been largely drawn upon for funds. No deposits are coming in. The Florida Say ings Bank and Real Estate Exchange, J. 0. I Greely president, this morning posted 8 no- | tice that the pressure upon it had forced it
 to take advantage of the si1-day rule with ! reference to the withdrawal of deposits I No funds will be paid out at present.
 This has not caused panic as yet. Lime, -1,I,, A. L. E. quantities. Tonight the 'concussion" theory of killing fever germs will be given prac- tical test. Wilson's battery, with five pieces of artilley, will begin firing continuously from o'clock for several hours. Nearly every hotel, boarding house and restaurant has been closed.
 Hundreds of stores are closed and the pro- prietors have fed. All others close at 5 o'clock and open at a. m. in order to avoid contact with the night air. All mails are fumigated by order of the postofice depart- ment. The Western Union office is seriously embarrassed, only about third of the operators remaining. The press reports for the Times Union could not be taken last night from the wires. The situa-
 tion at p. m. is ss follows: Only two cases of yellow fever reported in the city as occur ring in the past twenty-four hours. B. F. Dillyn, superintendent of the Western Union Telegraph company, and William Sheppard, residing on Church street. Deaths to-day, one; recovered, one; under treatment, nine teen; whole number of cases, twenty-five; total deaths, four.
 FOUR CARS WRECKED.
 Tumble Down an Eighty Foot
 Embankment-The Cars Destroyed
 by Fire-ManY Passengers Entured-
 The Fireman Burned to Death.
 PoRT JERv1s, N. Y., Aug. 13.-An e@t ;-I,4 l, IT-;o about quarter of mile west of Shohola at about one o'clock this morning struck lot of rocks which had been washed down on the track and the locomotive and four cars were wrecked. Engineer M. Fritz received a bad scalp wound, Fireman O'Hagan sustained a scalp wound and had both arms broken and Conductor Fred Long was injured about-the back. Express train No. west bound was due at the time of the accident and the for ward brakeman got a lamp from switch and tried to flag it, but failed, and the ex- press train crashed into the wreck and with the car loaded with horses, baggage car, mail car, smoker and one day coach was thrown from the track down an embankment eighty feet from the rails. The cars caught fire and were burned, but not until all the 8Q. the fireman on the express engine, was caught fast in the wreck and burned He said to bystander: 'fTell my wife am fast and can- not get out" Soon after report like pistol shot was heard and it was rumered that Newman had shot himself to escape being burned to death. Others gay he had no pistol.
 Following is a complete list of the casual ties: John Kinsella, engineer, scalded, it is feared fatally; Alexander Newman, fireman, burned; John Cannon, baggageman, badly cut; James Monohan, telegraph repairer, se- riously cut about the head; A. 0. Boynton and J. l.. Brown, mail clerks, both slightly injured; T. Gublin, brakeman, leg broken, \ John Jackson, brakeman, bruised; Thomas Decker, plumber, internally injured, prob- | ably fatally; John Casey and Thomas McCul- ! tough, line repairers, slightly injured.
 About twenty more passengers were hurt, \ some of them badly, but most of them \ slightly.
 The following were in the car with the | horses: Albert Dana, bruised; M. D. Storms, bruised and cut about the head; Albert Pye, Queens, L. l., chest and neck injured; Thom- as Pershong, Jerome Park, legs injured; | N. Y., knees injured; CIV. Abbey (eolored), | Middletown, arm broken.
 Of fourteen running horses in the car but ! two escaped. The others were burned. All \ of the injured were well cared for in the \ sleepers, hotels and private houses. Four | physicians from Port Jervis and two from ! Shohols were promptly sent to their relief.
 The horses burned belonged to Lily Lang tsy and Fred Gebhard, and the valuation placed upon them was $100, 900.