Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-09-20
Figures Still Away Up
Yesterdays Record Almost
 Equalled the Day Before.
ITWAs 13O CASES AND IA DEATHS.

The Total Number of Deaths Nearly 300. Sunshine Brought No Relief Yesterday. Most of the New Cases are Colored Peo- ple-The Situation at Gainesville.
 JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Sept. 20.-The official bulletin for twenty-four hours reports 180 new cases of yellow fever and fourteen deaths The deaths are Mrs. Francis Owsten Nh' Eos ter Hugh Grunthall, Mrs Maggie Rebston, Mrs. J. w. Wallace, Mrs. James Smith, Geo. Thompson, Eliza Mosely, Hennie Warren, John O'Brien, Frank Foster, R. Richard, T. W. Olfeld, c. Ohler.
 Total cases to date, 1888; deaths, ITO.
 New Cases-Irene Butt, Mollie Weeks, Maggie E. Small, Anna Johnson, Sister Jo- sephine, w. H. Treadwen, Catharine Lopez, Miss H. S. Batzell, Francis O. Lewis, Louisa Hendricks, Eliza Weston, Hampton Tillman, John Hall, Eliza Boyd, Mrs. Anna Smith, May Smith, Miss Minnie Bowen, William Nichols, Joseph Keehe, Randolph Bolder, a child of Mrs. Noley, Miss S. N, Ewing, = Botenhamer and two children, Mrs A. E. Nor gan, Mir Warkabe, Mrs. Wilson, David An derson, Charles Carson, Mary Moffley, MT. Thompson, Mrs. Steinhausen, Bessie Wilson, Zack Haddock, Miss Davidson, Elizabeth Everett, Willie Barber, Isabella Oats, Rufus Vann, Lucy White, Harry Randall and three children, Maggie Johnson, Frank Med leo, Jr., child of Frank Turner, Mrs J. U. Villeret, George Thompson, John Reid, Judge Crillo, William H. Roberts, Miss Louisa Be lot, Robert Scott
 Total Number of Cases, white, 55; colored, 75
 The weather was bright and lovely, but the pestilence was not abated. A very large proportion of the 130 new cases are among the colored people in the suburbs. Efforts will be made to get this class of residents to take advantage of the camps of refuge being opened, but they dislike to leave the city. Rations will probably be withheld from able bodied persons, to force them to go to the camps, where they will be well fed.
 Mir. M R. Bowden, recently city editor of The Times Union, died of yellow fever last nigh. He leaves a wife and five children. His whole family had had the fever Mrs Bowden being still sick.
 Five new eases of fever are reported al Macclenny.
 Gainesville is deserted. People fled wildly at the first appearance of the fever. Hardly a business place is open. Railroad men fec too, and trains are practically suspended
 There seems to be no doubt that Fernandina has yellow fever The cases were at first re ported as dengue and a number of death: were kept concealed.
 The sudden death of the postmaster weel or so ago, which caused much comment al the time, is attributed to yellow fever.
 Rev. MT. Snowden, of the Episcopal churc1 at Macclenny, died yesterday. The other sick there are doing well and no new case are reported.
 Telegraph Operator Sweeney, of the West &n Union office, was taken sick last night He is native of Morristown, Vt, and cam here as a volunteer from Galveston since tn epidemic began.
 The situation at Gainesville, Fernandina Starke and St. Augustine is being investi gated. It is bitterly denied that there is feve at the three latter places. There is no feve at Ocala. The Ocala Rifles, who served in tn Fernandina riots, are quarantined near Ocala and no sickness is reported among them.
 A dispatch from Gainesville to The Times Union at noon, said: No new cases On death occurred Monday. The sick are a getting better. The excitement is subsidine Two-thirds of the people have left town They can leave freely via Waycross unt Thursday, when the surgeon general wi close that avenue