Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-09-24
THE SOUTHERN sCOURGE.
Railway Traffic, Owins
% the Rlgid Quaranslme.

The dreadful af1iction OF the city Of Jacksonville
grows worse daily. and although the place d
almost depopulated there IL o steady increase In
the number OF cases OF yellow fewer on saturday
l63 new cases were reported, bur only deaths
occurred OF Saturdays new cases 100 were
colored people. At q meeting Of the Citizens
Sanitary Association Saturday 0 resolution was
adopted urging Congress TO make . thorough
scientific Investigation OF the origin and progress
of the fever In Jacksonville in 1887 and Lass.
On sunday there were one hundred and thirty
| three new cases reported, ninety OF which were
colored people; There were ten deaths reported.
A favorable change in the weather yesterday,
| when strong dry east wind sprang up, gave rise
| TO q hope that the worst was over. IL Is now
almost certain that many hundred colored people
| have had fever and recovered without treatment
| or physicians. The old theory that they are not
liable 10 contract yellow fever has been exploded
IL has been demonstrated that they are almost as
susceptible TO attack as the whites but the issue
! Is rarely fatal with them, probably never unless
old and eminent local physician said: Negroes
never die OF yellow fever unless they call In
DOCTOR"
The executive committee Of the Sanitary Associ-
| alton held joint meeting with the relief commit
tee Sunday 10 discuss complaints OF abuse. Nu-
merous cases Of fraud have been discovered and 1t
Is believed that hundreds OF coored families have
obtained relief through the different members 30
as 10 attempt 70 lay up supplies for winter These
to the refuge camps or be put TO work. Chairman
Stansells young men have found over hundred
destitute white families VINO have not applied for
relief.
Dr. Porter has wired Miss Clara B8ton to recall
Col Southmayd, in charge Of the Red Cross nurses
lie Is reported TO be making trouble and dissension
here, and impairing the efficiency Of the medical
bureau thereby.
There were two new cases of fever and one death
az McGlenny on Sunday. Fever has also broken
SO great has been the exodus from Decatur,
Ala, that scarcely $50 people are left In the town
Two new cases OF yellow fever were reported yes
terday. The city Is well supplied with physicians
A perfect panic prevails in Memphis. It is esti-
mated that FULLY 1000 people have left there since
FRIDAY: They were principally women and chill
ureD, the wives and families OF merchants and
otnerst who, on the announcement OF the outbreak
at jackson, took alarm. Business Is virtually at o
standstlll Country merchants cannot come to the
city under the present quarantine regulations and
every small town adjacent has locked its doors
Local freight and passenger travel all railro IDS
Is suspended II Is the same from Louisville south
10 Mobile and New Orleans At many OF the sta
lions the south-bound trains, those coming from
81 Louis Chicago, Cincinnati, Louisville, and even
farther north and west, are not permitted to STOP
All freight and passenger trains on the Alabama
ana Great southern Railroad have been aban-
doned, owing TO the rigid quarantine at Chatta-
nooga and at other points on the line The Mem
phls and Charleston trains cannot enter Chatta-
nooga. Arrangements will probably be effected
whereby mail and express matter can be delivered
between Memphis and Stevenson.