The Asheville citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1885-1889, 1888-08-31
YELLOW JACK.
The Epidemic in the Land ofF'lowcrs
Increasing-A Sad State of Affairs.

route to the north, and tomorrow
will be likewise.
The hot, murky and rainy weather
of the past week is now having its
effect and it is thought the number of
cases will increa daily. The dis~
case also seems to be assuming a
violent type and people are greatly
alarmed. This noon Kohn, Furchgott
d Berdict, the largest dry goods
house remaining open, closed their
doors and several firms in other lines
did likewise. Groceries and drug
stores are the principal places now
open. AT the association meeting
o,day strong mention was made of
the need of good and experienced
yellow fever nurses, and the commit
tees were instructed to telegraph for
such nurses, if, in the judgment of
the committees, such nurses were
needed. There are so many cases
coming in that it will tax both ply
sicians and nurses to the utmost.
The gravity of the situation is now
acknowledged by the most hopeful,
as September, always bad month.
is approaching, and it is thought that
new cases will then come up to big
figures daily.
At the meeting attention was also
drawn to the fact that Jack Pollard,
who had been taken sick at Boulogne,
was turned back al Jacksonville with
out any assistance, which act resulted
in his death. 1t was urged that some
provision should be made for the
treatment of the sick at Camp Perry
A resolution covering this point was
adopted, reading as follows:
'tWHEREAs, Citizens going to Camp
Perry are likely to develop fever,
and proper examination of such
cases is matter of vital Importance,
and the moving Of such parties to
the hospitals of this city involves a
great and unnecessary risk to their
lives; therefore be it
Re8oIocd, That the surgeon general
of the Marine hospital services be
requested to have suitable hospital
established near said camp at tho
earliest possible moment.
To-day has been dark, gloomy,
and rainy. Quite number of the
patients are critically ill, among them
Mrs. D. J. Crowley, wife of the man
ager of the Western Union office
here, and Miss Minnie Bouse. Three
or four have been discharged in the
past twenty-four hours.
There is no longer shadow of
doubt that we have on our hands 4
regular epidemic. Thirty-four new
cases have been reported in the board
of heath Tor the twenty-fours end
ing at 6 o'clock this evening. They
are principally in the central and
eastern parts of the city, the infec-
ton apparently being carried by the
southwest winds of the past few
days in a northeasterly direction
Among the cases are Mrs. Judge Nc
Lean and two children; Miss Lead,
telephone operator; Mrs. Hopkins,
stamp clerk at the postofice, and j.
H. Stephens, local agent of the Sa-
vannah, Florida and Western railroad,
who has stood at his post and is
chairman of the railroad relief as
sociation, and Fayette Dancy, clerk
in the internal revenue Office Foul
deaths were reported for the same
time, among them Hugh D. Roberts,
A. H. Smith and sister, Rose De-
Lima, of St. Jeseph's: The citizens
association passed resolutions to day
requesting Surgeon General Hamil'
ton to establish hospital near Camp
Perry and leading colored citizens to-
day organized an auxiliary associ-
otien to assist the relief committed
and help keep order. A strong reso-
luton was passed denouncing as falls
kilograms to several northern paper
to the effect that the colored peopl
of Jacksonville were laWlessly plum
dering abandoned houses. Thes'
false reports were corrected two week
ago by telegram by committee o
citizens, consisting of the acting
mayor, president of the board o
health, president of the citizens san
itary association and the editor of th
Times Union. The colored peopl
passed resolutions voicing their ap
probation of the efforts of the citizen
to, relieve the distress of colore'
working people thrown out of en-
p1oyment, but expressing the opinion
that it will be utterly impossible t
sustain the needy. and urging th
importance of government aid in th
matter. They assert that ten thou;
and colored people viii soon be de
pendent on the relief committee, an
that $40, 900 per week will be requi1
ed to furnish them with the bare ne
cessities of life.
Judge Jones. of the county GRIN
inal court, held court and sentence
nearly all the prisoners in Jail VIII
plead guilty, to the chain ganl
where they will work on the road
in the healthy parts of the county
Several cases of fever have ar
peared in the county Jail.
With . few exceptions the mir
isters of the city are nobly at the
posts of duty. They are nearly a
on the relief committees for the dii
ferent wards. Prominent anon
them are Bishop Weed; Rev. d
Weller, Episcopal Father Kennl
Catholic Rev. DR.. Dodge, Presby
terian, and Rev. Mr.. Sharp, of tn
Southern Methodist church. Siste
Mary Ann is kept busy and all sil
tiers of St. Joseph's are eyer read
to nurse the sick and comfort tt
dying.
All hopes of ending the epidem
, before frost appears is abandone
. and the citizens have resolved
calmly and courageously confroI
the situation and do their duty ne
y.
WAsHISaToN, D. G., August 29.-