Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-09-29
From the Fever District
INc- AsrNG DISTRESS AMONG
TEE POOR AT JACKSONVILLE.
PITEOUS APPEALS FOR AID.
More Favorable News Comes from Other
Points-ModIfyfng Quarantine ReGu-
la~tIons-Peopie Becoming More
Quiet-Relief Measures.

AN1N GbNit|hNSt 49, ~ = tSt
yune's Jacksonville special says: The
weather is still cool and bright. Most of
our sick friends are better. In fact we
have mostly good news from everywhere.
The report of three cases at Ellaville
proves to be a hoax. There are only
three new cases at McClenny, and Carl
Saueris is the only death. Two of the
old cases are doubtful. AT ~Fernandina
there are no new cases at all. m some
of the doctors there still hesitate to pro-
nounce the fever prevalent there yellow
fever.
The steamer Gulf Stream sailed from
F~ernandina, taking many passengers,
and also carrying back all her non per-
ishable freight intended for the interior.
Fernandina does not consider the situa-
ton sufficiently serious to warrant a
daily bulletin, although they nave there
300 cases Inc twenty deaths. A tele-
graph operator is now down with the
fever.
JACKSONVILLE, Sept. %. - The cpl
demic drags along with most melancholy
mono yony. Our people, while becoming
familiar with scenes of suffering, death
and sorrow, do not relax their efforts to
relieve those in distress n conserve
the public good. There are few in
habited houses in which there are not
sick persons. Many houses are private
hospitals. The general distress among
the poor is daily increasing, and piteous
appeals for relief come from the country
districts to which refugees have fed,
whose means are becoming exhausted.
Thu work of the relief committees thus
Increases, while at the same sine disease
Trims their ranks. Within another week
probably twenty thousand people, nine
tenths colored, will have to be fed by
charity. The disease now seems to be
Selling mainly on the colored suburbs.
Col, j. j. Daniel is very low and there is
little hope of his recovery. He has de-
voted himself almost exclusively to pub
lie service since last spring, in connec-
ton with the fever at Plant City and
here. His naturally delicate constitu-
tion at last snccumbed to the strain, and
grief at the death of friends and rela-
tives helped to break him down SO that
he had little strength to resist the
ravages of the. fever when he was at
tackled.
One hundred and thirty-one new cases
were reported by the board of health-91
negroes and 40 whites, 8 deaths. Total
cases, 1858; total deaths, 237.
Yesterday DIR. Grossert was arrested
and sent to Camp Perry, though not
without some difficulty. An increase of
the mounted guard is being put In mo
tion by Judge Bellisars, who will require
about 200 men for the purpose. John
A. Webb and his e1ectro-poise are treat
ing about thirty cases, and proposes to
cure all kinds of diseases by the Same
means. He says he will treat all Corners,
and has called for volunteer cases. When
the fever is in its first stages he says he
will infallibly cure it.
Operator Ford died this morning. 1t
is learned that his true name is Turner,
n that he Is a native of Bay City,
Mich. AT noon 1t was reported that
Operator Hallenback had the black
yomtt, but the report can not be verified.
The epidemic here has developed a de-
gree of Ignorance IN the part of some
foreigners and colored people that is
painful to contemplate. They fall VIC
Tins to the fever, and instead of making
the fact known and receiving proper at
tention they resort to all manner of sub
terfuges to conceal it and themselves.
This almost Invariably results in great
suffering and DEATH This is caused In
some instances by a foolish fear OF the
authorities, and that it will cause the
sick pecuniary loss. II they would make
e. v SoiidkulCh hhoNA Nbby WOulU ut
cared for, their sufferings lessened, and
perhaps their lives saved, with little cost
to themselves.
DR.. Eddy of Louisville is critically i'll.
: TIE small towns of Mississippi have
generally relaxed their quarantine regu-
lations SO n to permit the running of
the railroad trains under prescribed re-
strictions. Baton Rouge, Vicksburg and
Shreveport have, also modified their quar-
antine regulations to the extent of al
lowing freight trains to be moved.
At Meridian the quarantine against all
outside points has been raised SO far as
the moving of freight trains is concerned,
At jackson, Miss, the situation con
tlnues to improve. Reople are getting
more quiet and relief measures are work
ing satisfactory.
A special from Gainesville reports a
case OF yellow fever there, being that of
Maj. Grunnell, formerly superintendent
of the Florida Southern railroad, who
volunteered to take charge of the fumi-
eating of infected places. The con-
valescents are all doing well.
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