The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-08-13
ONLY THREE NEW CASES.
YELLOW JACK APPARENTLY NOT
MAKING MUCH EEADWAY.

YELLOW JACK APPARENTLY NOT
MAKING MUCH HEADWAY.
One of the Patients of Saturday Dead
-Rumors of a Stampede from St.
Augustine on Account of Three Sus-
picious Cases-Infected Buildings at
Jacksonville to be Destroyed.
JACKSONVILLE, FLA, Aug. 12.--The first
Sunday of the epidemic is a gloomy one.
The weather is hot and murky, and the
people meet in the street with very
discouraged countenances. At s o'clock
this morning the sanitary association began
work by putting fifty teams and largo
gangs of men all over the city, cleaning up
and hauling away and burning all the old
boxes and other rubbish. The yards of the
Florida Railway and Navigation road fur.
pished material for huge fires, while a
small-sized conflagration was made of the
pest-breeding fruit stands in the park, in
front of the Everett hotel, on Bay street.
EVERY WARD TO BE VISITED.
Every ward is to be thus visited and
every house, yard, closet, etc, carefully
cleansed. Huge fires of coal tar and pitch
pine are blazing away tonight in all parts
of the city, and thick clouds of smoke hang
like funeral pail over the city. Lime has
been scattered broadcast through the
streets and alleys, and in the sewers while
coperas, chloride of lime and other power
full disinfectants were freely used. The
entire city has a deserted look, and after 7
o'clock at night it might be taken for city
of the dead Not football is heard, aid
block after block is in darkness.
MANUFACTURES sUsPENDING.
The saw mills will probably close to-mor-
row, as well as other manufacturing estab-
lishments, throwing many people out of
employment. Much destitution will follow,
the people being too poor to get away, and
having nothing left to purchase food with.
The people still left are terribly panicy, and
if the new cases increase much faster, an
other hundred or more will leave. This
afternoon there was talk of burning the
wooden portion of the Grand Union hotel
This is the hotel where Mccormick was 1t
it is said also that the epidemic of 1857
started there.
OTHER BUILDINGS ON THE LIST.
There are several places that are being
inspected. and if they are condemned they
will be burned. The printing offices are
suffering a good deal. The Times Union
job office is closed and publication of the
Farmer and Fruit Gro,0er is suspended.
1t is hard work to get out the daily. Mr..
DaCosta is making plucky fight, and says
he will continue the Dispatch if a printer
can be found who will stay.
ONLY THREE NEW CASES.
Three new cases are reported to-day up
to 4 o'clock this afternoon. The patients
are:
Mrs. Patrick !. Fallon, wife of the city
jailer.
Edgar Davidson, freight agent of the
East Tennessee. Virginia and Georgia road.
A ohambermaid at Murry Hall, Pablo
Beach, where Capt. Tuttle died, is reported
as sick.
Mrs. McClelland, reported yesterday as
being sick at the Lafayette house, died this
morning.
BONFIRES TO BLAZE.
Tonight over 100 bonf1res of barrels and
boxes, covered with tar, will be burned
throughout the city. 1t is thought sure
that several buildings regarded as danger
GUS will accidentally" burn.
A rumor from st. Augustine is to the
effect that the people there are wild over
three suspected cases. To-night's train
brought over large number of passengers
who were ferried from South Jacksonville
to the Waycross depot, where they took the
evening train north. The report says that
people are flying from the town in a great
panic No particulars can be obtained
tonight.
Tampa rumors are to tho effect that there
are six suspected cases there.
On account of the crush of work to which
the operators hero are subjected now, the
local Office closes at 8 o'clock.
All the patients in this city are doing well
tonight.
SANFORD GUARANTEES.
SANFORD, FLA, Aug. 12.-Sanford has
established strict quarantine against all
infected localities. The fast mail train from
Tampa last night was stopped and the
train, crew and passengers were put off al
the quarantine camp, mile from the city
The city is very bealthy, and proper steps
will continue to keep it so.
sUwANNEE GUARANTEES.
JASPER, FLA, Aug. 12.-Suwannee Sui
phur springs has declared quarantine
against Jacksonville and all infected points.
Parties in the city having friends or rela.
lives there can rest easy about them.