The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-09-13
ASKING AID.
The Epidemic Ridden City Of Jack
sOnvilIs, Florida,
Without Funds to Cope With the
Cases Of Absolute Necessity.
The Genera .ity of the American Pso-
pie Appealed to for Aid.
The Latest News Records 81 New
Cases aid Five Deaths

Cases AID Five Deaths
JACKsoNvILE, Fla, Sept. cit was
understood with Surgeon General
Hamilton at yesterdays conference
that the government will pay for GER
tain sanitary work but not for nurses,
provisions and physicians for the sick
who are unable to pay these charges
themselves and for the general relief
Of the thousands now out OF employ
ment and who cannot be Accommodated
in the inadequate camps Of refuge.
1t was decided this morning by the ex-
ecutIve committee of the citizens aSsO-
Citations in conference with the board
of health and the acting mayor to issue
the following appeal.
ITO our Friends and Fellow Citizens of the
United States:
We, the authorized representatives
of the citizens of Jacksonville, recog-
niZing the fact that the epidemic has
reached such u stage that our funds
are Insufficient either Ia cope with the
many cases or absolute necessity for
the engagement of nurses. or Tor the
numerous other demands upon US, and
Whereas, Owing to the absence of
q business, many of our most liberal
citizens are unable to furnish further
funds, we now think we are justified in
accepting the many willing offers of
aid that have been received from you.
We therefore wish our fellow citizens
of the United States to know that we
will gratefully receive the aid they
have offered, and trust that any con-
tributions will be used for the benefit
of their needy and where they will
effect the greatest good. We request
that any such contributions may be
forwarded to James M. Schumacher,
president Of the First National bank,
and the chairman of our finance COM
mittee: Neal Mitchell, president of the
Duval county board of health; ID. Il.
Gerow, acting mayor, and Z. McQuaid,
acting president Of the citizens auxil-
iary association of Jacksonville, Flor
ida"
Our citizens have expended many
thousands of dollars of their own
means, but now recognize the fact that
owing to business being practically
dead they will be no longer able to re-
heve the sick and needy.
NEW CASES.
New ORLEANS, Sept. GA dispatch
from Jacksonville, Florida, to the
Timo8-DemOcrat says: The official bull
letin for the twenty-four hours ended
ats p. m. is as follows: New cases 81,
deaths 5, total number of cases TO date
1888, total number of deaths to date 43.
DIR. Porter of Key West has been tele-
graphed for, also DIR. ii. Il. Caldwell of
Sanford, the latter to take charge of
st. Luke's hospital. AS soon as posi-
bic the board will provide one or more
physicians who will be ON duty day and
night to attend gratis the stricken poor
who may need their services. A. &.
Stanzell, the head of the committee
which has charge of the census now
being taken to the depopulating of the
city, started off with sixty men this
morning on house to house inspec-
ton. Inquiries were made regarding
who and how many would leave the
city, etc. New cases are constantly
springing up and the list is larger than
ever. Aid is now needed of physicians
nurses and money. Jacksonville cannot
bear the burden longer.
A CHASTITY SPECTACLEA AT BAYARD.
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla, Sept. ga let
ter has been received disclosing a ter
rtbie state of affairs in the town of
Rayard, q small settlement on the line
OF the Jacksonville q st. Augustine
railroad. about twenty miles north.
William Ortgus had occasion to visit
the place, and ON nearing the settle
ment was attracted by a strong stencil
emanatlng from the VicinitH of a house
supposed to be vacant. Through Curl
Osity he hitched his horse and proceed
ed To investigate. Reaching the house
CHASTITY spectacle met his eyes.
Stretched upon couch was the body
of woman and in the same room were
the bodies Of five children. They had
evidently been dead for several days.
The boy, on realizing the horror
of the scene, fled precipitately. AS st.
Augustine is strictly quarantined
against Bayard and that vicinity the
news did not reach here until several
days after the occurrence. The country
people are hOrror-stricken, and even if
1t were known that, any OHe was Occu-
plying the house IL is unlikely any one
of them could have been induced to go
near 1t If they knew there was case
of yellow fever. 1t is supposed that the
unfoItunates were refug frt N Jack
sOnvillo and were stricken with the
disease after leaving the town.