The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-10-16
YELLOW FEVER.
incidents of the W eek in the Stricken ID
tries

Edwin Martilf editor of the Times-Union.
were taken to their last resting place by many
friends and fellow-citizens. The employees OF
ghe 1lnes-t mon were present and the few re-
nainlng members OF the Jacksonville Press
eiuo assisted in the mournful obsequies. The
asst hours of the faithful editor were very
painful and affecting. In his delirium he
gave orders in every department of the nights
york. Hundreds of useful men have fallen
shus at the post of duty, and the highest cour-
age hus been quite unavailing against the ap-
proach of death.
THE FOLLOWING SAD STORY
y related this evening as showing the
amount of suffering that may exist for hours,
discovered. Had it not been for r. Paxon, of
khis city, Herman Damon, clerk at Marvin.
Denham u Co.'S, would probably be in his
grave victim to neglect and yellow fever.
pr Damon lives in Layilla, in the same house
where Rev. Mr.. Barbour died. and he was
very much oppressed by the latter's death, so
much so that his friends in his neighborhood
were afraid that he, too, might become i'll.
Saturday. night, as Mr.. Paxon, who is in
fhaFse Of L;ttletield & Steers candy establish
home he saw 'nis li e35y in was Mr. SG pas
mons room, and thinking he might be
lonesome, called to invite him to dinner Sun
day. On going TO the door and knocking, and
finding no answer, Mr.. PaXon pushed it open
and hearing weak voice from MIR. Dam
pms room, he went up stairs and found him III
bed with very high fever, and not soul to
attend to his wants. Seeing the condition of
the sick man, Mr.. Paxon Immediately rushed
home, prepared some warm orange feat tea,
snd returning gave it to Mr. Damon to drink,
powered him mp, and then went for the doctor.
When the latter arrived the patients tempera-
ture was found to be 104, and the medi-
cal man Immediately advised that
the Sandhills at once, for, if they waited till
morning. it would be impossible to move him.
Mr. Paxon thereupon got Ia carriage, and
wrapping Mr.. Damon up carefully, he was
was doing well.
The Situation at Decatur.
DECATUR, Ala, October S.-TWo new cases.
bo!h coiored. DR.. Williams and Lizzie Jackson are
dying. Allow me to say few words for the future
now while they will be read and remembered. Ali
gases come. from exposure in infected district
Or to the sick. No cxposure-no yellow fever. If
You Keep away from the fire, you won't get burned.
Absolute isolation i, absolute safety. No need of q
stampede no need Of panics Instead Of running
away, let every man isolate himself and family in
bis o%n house and cut off all the intercourse with
the world outside and he will remain safe even in
the midst of an epidemic.
JEROME CocHRANE, State Health officer.
The Doctors Wife Returned.
JACKSON, Miss, October "a new feature
in the situation has developed itself today aud
which is greatly to the discomfort of several
of our citizens, who in their anxiety to return
home did so in violation of the quarantine
maximum penalty for such an offense a fine
of five hundred dollars and imprisonment for
Shirty days. The offenders arrested today by
health officer Todd are Mrs. Writ Johnston,
ChaS. T. Hooker. Jr., Mr.. j. Sproules Carries
Zutter, Brsnnin Thompson, Charlie Young,
III. M.McLeod and theIsev Coleman. The two
latter are colcred.
The circumstances of Mrs. Johnstons return
are somewhat peculiar, and are worthy Of ex-
ptanatloD. She returned to Jackson early in the
epidemic when every one else was feing from
town, in order to be with her husband Dr.
Writ Johnston, chief health officer of the
state, and whom she thought would be in dan
ger owing to the serious condition of affairs
growing out Of the establishment of quarantine
stations and the proposed refuge camp, it being
his duty to see to the enforcement of the law
in that respect. Mrs. Johnston rode into town
on horseback early i'll the morning, surprising
her friends greatly, but none so much as her
husband, whom she found asleep. In Justice
to Dr.. Johnston, it is proper to state that he
reported the return of his wife to the health
officer upon the day of her arrival in town.
a trial OF the cases will be held to-
morrow morning before Mayor Henry, who
will, no doubt, vindicate the law fully and i'm
partially 1t is now very generally understood
that the quarantine viii be raised on Friday
pext, SO. in view of the very short time to wait
st will be well for abscntees to take warning
by their more unfortunate fellow refugees, and
exercise their patience for u few days longer.
JACKSON, Miss, October 10.-Of the vio-
lators OF the quarantine law only Mrs. Writ
Johnston, wife of DIR. Johnston, secretary Of
She state board of health. appeared in court
this morning. A fine of twenty-five dollars
was imposed upon her, which was promptly
paid.
Developments in jacksonville.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla, October 11.-TSpecal.1
Yesterdays storm was very severe one, and
Its fury was greatest about midnight last night.
All the streams and creeks are swollen, and
many bridges swept away. The refugees in
the suburbs and nearby country living in inn
proyised houses camps and tents have suffered
severely. Sergeant Townsend, OF the United
States signal service office, says the velocity of
the wind reached forty miles per hour at one
O'Clock this morning
The other day your correspondent detailed
the sad circumstances connected with the
death, by yellow fever, of an Ohio tourist
named Smith. Tonight another victim of the
disease, and also named Smith, merits notice
She was the wife of James f. Smith, a pho
tographer. AMI the pair occupied rooms ad Join
ing Meneely's gallery, on Bay street, near
Hogan. Meneely is absent from the city, and
Smith has charge of the gallery. On
Monday last, DR.. Summers was
called to attend them, and was surprised
that he had not been summoned before, for
she had already reached a stage Of yellow
fever decidedly dangerous. Tho husband had
made an engagement to 20 to Camp Perry to
take views and thither he went, leaving his
wife in charge of the physicians She fingered
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about 70 o'clock last night She was buried
this morning. The husband returned only to
find her gone. there being only one daily refu-
geo train TO and from Camp Perry. Mrs
Smith was young woman much liked, but
death overlook her with neither friend, rela-
tive nor husband at her side.
Perhaps no one man in all Florida has been
moro severely afflicted by the epidemic than
Captain Frank p. Fleming, the democratic
candidate for governor, at present making
canvass of the state. First. his young
nephew, Fleming, died of the fever. then his
and law partner, Louis I. Flem-
ing. Next, his relative and p friend Henry
L'Engle. Judge Whitner, another of his law
partners, followed these. On Tuesday OF last
week, his law partner and life long friend
Colonel j. j. Daniel. In introducing Captain
Fleming to an audience at Barlow. night or
two ago. Judge Hanson said This gallant
OF Florida, democratic, from
She opening hour of the campaign, has been
hssailod by such trials as has never confronted
. candidate in this state. yet lie has carried
our banner aloft, and his physical and mcntal
gufferings the sad bereavements which have
lis home, have enlisted evorywhere
koartfolt sympathies for his gallant and heroic
sfforts. lfelected, and nothing but death can
forstall that event, the same iron nerve, the |
same power of endurance and his unconQuer-
able determination will mako his adfni,tictra-