River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-09-27
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Inc Entlre Traffic system of the south
Paraiyzed by the Quarantine Against

The Entire Traffic system of the south
Paralyzed by the Quarantine Against
Yellow Fever-rhe Plaques Progress.
Z JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Sept. 25-The vel
low-feyer bulletin for Monday showed lI3
new cases and deaths. Total cases re-
ported to date, 1851; total deaths, 2l7 Ii
Is impossible 10 approximate the number
OF cases that have not been reported to the
Board Of Health. One physician has had
over 100, few of which have been re-
ported.
a special from McClenny says three new
cases occurred there. Plant City is free
of few, and people have been admitted
TO the place for the first time in sixty
days
FERSASDINA Fla, Sept. 25.-Yellow fe-
yer was officially declared yesterday to
be here. The Board of Health issued the
following bulletin;
THE Board OF Health announces that the re-
suit Of an autopsy held at IL m. this day on the
body Of Mr. Hood demonstrates the existence
OF yellow fever in this city"
DECATUR, Ala, Sept. 25.-State Health
Officer Corcoran reports that no new cases
have occurred. We have plenty Of doctors
and need no help at present. There have
been five deaths to date, and Of the fifteen
persons now sick only four are dangerous
are being reopened and confidence re-
stored.
Jackson, Miss, Sept 25-There have
been no new cases or deaths since Sunday
morning. The total population is l,9gl -
three fourths colored. The Howard Asso-
citation is receiving some financial help and
has secured some supplies No mails are
allowed TO leave here; mail matter NAV be
received from one train every twenty-fou
hours as il dashes By. Two carloads Of
tents arrived here at the asylum switch
The first case Of fever in 1873 occurred
August 81; the first death September s and
the last death November 2S The total
number of cases was 400; the total number
Of deaths, 81.
JAcksoN, Miss, Sept. 25.-The fifth day
of the EPIDEMIC opened with lowering
skies. threatened rain and cold We have
had two mails IN five days, no express and
no probability of any being received.
Medical stores are running low. Pike
County MISSY people threaten to tear
up the railroad track and burn the
bridges unless the Illinois Central
trains are suspended, so that we who
have stayed are denied medicine. provis-
ions and every thing needfuL How long
the telegraph force can stand the terrible
demand upon their strength is a problem
we are studying The one bright spot is
the action of the people of Sharon, Tenn.
DIR. Guilbert received the following from
the refugee train that left here on Friday
night:
Not station has permitted us TO stop since
leaving jackson. ABOUT a mile from Sharon,
Tenn. the people placed baskets of lunch along
the track, and we took them aboard. Besides
this lunch we have Oaly seen shotgun quaran-
tines. We are hopeful of getting TO our desti-
nation some way or other. All well, but worn
out"
New ORLEANS, Sept pa suspicious
case of fever was reported yesterday about
eighteen miles south of jackson in the di-
rection of Natchez. The party sick nursed
Policeman torrance, who died o.
the fever at jackson on Thursday There
is also suspicious case of fever at Mile 5
Station on the Natchez Jackson & Column
bus railroads about midway between
Natchez and Jackson.
CAIRO Ill, Sept, 25-There have been but
four deaths from yellow fever this season
in the valley between Cairo and the gulf,
but the Illinois Central is losing i, 600 a
day on account of them. Not a wheel
rolls on the Mobile q Ohio Seven
roads are shut out of Mem
phis Steamboats, after running the
gantlet of shot guns for hundreds of miles
are tied up as fast as they arrive at the
levees at st. Louis, and the entire traffic
system of the South is paralyzed. Even
as far north as Anna, in this State, these
absurd quarantine regulations are en-
forced
Secretary John II. Rauch, of the State
Board of Health of Illinois, has arrived,
and he is very sangune as to the safety Of
Cairo and vicinity, and regards the pres
ent quarantine restrictions unnecessary.
The sanitary conditions are satisfactory.
Nav ORLEANS, Sept 25-Only through
trains on the Illinois Central are running,
all local trains having been abandoned
on account of the guarantees. All trains
on the Northeastern railroad have
been withdrawn because the authori-
ties of Meridian, Miss, and York, Ala,
refuse to permit trains to pass those
points. Mail trains generally are aDan-
doned and as there is no rail connection
now between Chattanooga and Memphis
for Cairo mails have been delivered via
Nashville, Montgomery and New Orleans.
Monday the Board of Health granted
authority TO run trains on the Natchez,
jackson a. Columbus road, to carry moth
ing but freights and medicines and bring
in cotton and cotton seed, but rs soon as
the order became public the people rose
up en- masse and declared they would tear
up the tracks if the running of trains
could not be otherwise prevented. The
railroad company thereupon abandoned
the project, and all employees of the road
are likely to be suspended until the fever
scare is over.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, Sept 25-The Board OF
Health authorities have determined tC
place the same restrictions on the railroads
west of the river as have been enforced
against those on the east side, and after
o'clock to night no passengers arriving al
West Memphis on the Kansas ",
Springfield 81 Memphis, Iron Mountain
or Memphis q Little Rock railroads will
| be allowed to cross the river unless sup
! piled with passes from the Memphis Board
| of Health. The militia force, consisting
! of members of the Chickasaw Guards
| Memphis Merchant q ,uaves and Schorl
Zouaves, went ON daty yesterday, and are
now guarding all roads leading into Mem
| phis.
All passenger trains on the Louisville
! New Orleans q Texas railroad between
| Memphis and New Orleans have beer
/ abandoned and none of the other lines are
running their usual number
| ST ] oUIs, Sept. p Many hundred refu
| gees fleeing from the yellow lever arrived
| in St. Louis yesterday. All trains from
| ,he South have been crowded, and tht
1 hotels are all filled with the panic stricken
| Southerners No quarantine has beer
| established here, and this great influx O.
| refugees has alarmed the citizens, WHIT
| are agjiat.ng for action by the city author