The Charlotte Democrat., 1888-09-28
The Yellow Fever Panic in the South.

In lorlda, Dut tnere now seems 10 Dc u
terrible panic in Alabama, Mississippi and
the River ports of Tennessee. An official
Washington dispatch of the oath says:
kilograms received at the Postofice
Department to-day from various points 10
the South indicate that nearly all the rail.
road trains in Mississippi and Alabama
have been stopped by the people, who are
panic stricken, tor fear of the yellow fever
invasion. A postal official at Atlanta tel.
egraphs that trains running between Chat
tanooga and Meridian, Meridian and New
Orleans, Meridian and Shreveport. Aber-
deem and Durant, Greenwood and Jack.
son, Durant and Tehula, Atlanta and Ar
tesla west of Columbus, Miss, are not per-
mitted by the people to run, and the prob
ability is that Cairo and Mobile, Memphis
and New Orleans will be discontinued.
The onl y certain route now open to New
Orleans, it is stated, is by way of Mont
gomerY; and even this is constantly
threatened. The people along the Vicks-
burg and Shreveport Railroad, adds the
postal employe, seem to be a vast mob.
From Cairo, Illinois, the postmaster tel
egraphs that all trains on the Cairo and
Mobile road have been abandoned, as they
will be on the Cairo and New Orleans line
! today. The country below is in the
hands OF mob, and quarantine is every
where"
JACKSONVILLE, Sept. 24.-Up TO noon
there were some sixty cases of fever re-
ported, most of them colored. Only six
deaths so far have been reported. Six.
teen nurses arrived from Philadelphia,
but only three were accepted, as there
were bat three females needed, for there
is supply of male nurses here.
JACKSONVILLE, Sept. 23.-Eight long
weeks have passed since the first case OF
yellow fever-that of McCormick-was
developed at the Grand Union Hotel. To
night the official records show a total ol
,745 cases and 2O2 deathe. The daily
list of cases and deaths during the past
ten days has been fearful in a city the size
of Jacksonville, with two-thirds of it's pop
ulation absent To-day's record of new
cases was again broken, the footing-up
reaching the figure 1853. Of these, los
were colored people, who are freely re-
ported. 1t is now almost certain that
many hundred negroes have had the fever
and recovered without physician.
| The old theory that negroes are not liza
BILE to contract yellow fever has been ex
ploded 1t has been demonstrated that
they are almost as susceptible TO attack
as the whites, but the issue is rarely fatal
with them, probably never, unless the
fever is complicated with organic diseases
An old and eminent local physician said
to-day: "Negroes never die of yellow
fever unless they call in a Doctor"
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Sept. 24.--Al
through trains, both freight and passen
ger, over the Alabama and Great South
ern road have been discontinued since last
night, because of the rigid quarantine reg
ulations in Mississippi. A line OF pickets
has been established around this city, and
it will be continued until the danger il
over.
NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 24.-The Board
of Health has forbidden railroads to bring
into the city any coaches which have con
tanned passengers from infected districts
Local trains on the Illinois Central are
abandoned. Through trains run as usual
| All trains have been Withdrawn on the
| Northwestern Railroad as they were mol
allowed to pass Meridian or York. There
is not an infected place on the Queen ano
1
| cinnati
Mail trains are generally abandoned al
there is no rail connection now between
Chattanooga and Memphis, or Cairo
Mails have been directed via Nashville
Montgomery and New Orleans.
MOBILE, Ala. Sept. 24.-All through
passenger trains on the Mobile & Ohio
railroad were suspended tonight, owing
| to quarantine instructions in Mississippi
| Tennessee and Kentucky. Traffic will bt
resumed, Manager Clark says, when the
people get over their pauic.
MEMPHIS, Tenn.-TLe strict uou.inter
course quarantine regulations adopted BY
the city authorities yesterday, against all
passenger trains on all railroads on the
east side Of the Mississippi river, are being
rigidly enforced. Governor Taylor al
Nashville, was telegraphed to this morn
ing asking him to call out the military o.
the city, and to place them under orders
from the city authorities TO aid in the en-
torcement of quarantine orders. A spe
cial train from New Orleans containing
500 fleeing refugees from that city, Vicks
burg, aud other points along the line O.
the Louisville, New Orleans, and Mem
phls Railroad, will arrive at Lake View,
Miss, twenty miles south of Memphis this
afterroon. A special detail OF police will
meet the train, and coaches have been
provided by the several lines over which
they may have tickets, and transfer viii
be made there aud each coach will be
locked, and the passengers guarded
through Memphis and sent on to their des
tination. None will be allowed to stop.
JACKSONVILLE, Sept. 25.--The day
opened cold, damp, and very unpleasant
Up to noon to-day only few white cases
were reported. There are some forty
colored.
NATcHEz, Miss, Sept. 25.--A sus
plcious case OF lever was reported about
eighteen miles south of jackson, and not
very far from this city. This had the
effect OF increasing the excitement which
prevails here. ....
MEMPHIS, Tenn, Sept. 25.-The steam.
boat p. Q. Brown, from New Orleans,
bound to Cincinnati, passed this place at
midnight. She had $50 passengers, prin-
cipally from Vicksburg. No one was
permitted to disembark.
MERIDIAN, Miss, Sept. 25.-Every thing
Is shut down in this city on account OF the