St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-17
More Than Seventy New Cases
Reported to the Board Of
Health.
Brief Reference to the Lives
OF Prominent Men Who
Have Died.
Tw enty Years Ago Frank W.
Ely Was a Resident Of
Minnesota.
Special to the Globe.

JACKSONVILLE. Fla, Sept. l6.-Ihere
were seventy-four new cases and nine
deaths reported to the board of health
for the twenty four hours ending at p.
m. to-day. Total cases to date, 995;
deaths, l26. Fourteen nurses, sent
by Harry Miner from New York,
arrived to-day. Twenty-three nurses
from New Orleans also arrived.
Among the new cases to-day
are Col. Whitfield Walker, internal
revenue collector for Florida, and Mrs.
Walker. Col. Walker is doing well.
The weather is still unsettled. Main
street was covered anew with lime to-
day. The large list of new cases yes
terday was startling, but is partly attrib-
utable to more accuracy in reporting
cases, owing to the increased number of
physicians at work. The weather to-day
was better and somewhat cooler. 1t is
hoped that they rainy reason is nearly
over. Most of the sick are reported as
doing we'll. There are only four
or five cases regarded as critical.
The twelve young people from
East Jacksonville, who constitute
the population of Camp Potter, are all
well, and enjoying themselves. There
is good fishing at the camp, which is on
trout stream. There are thirty-fiYe
patients at Sand Hill hospital, and room
for fifty or seyenty-fve more. DR.. Sol
lace Mitchell proposes to stay there
all the time after this until frost comes.
He has been obliged to help the
city physicians hitherto. Rev. J. B.
Lyman, of st. Pauls church, Key West,
who has had yellow fever, has been
sent for by Bishop Weed and is eX-
pected by the first steamer. st. Luke's
hospital has room for thirteen more
patients, and is in excellent condition.
Yesterday was
A sADDAY
here. Jacksonville lost three of her
most prominent and valuable citizens,
and the grief felt by all at their loss is
fully shown. The banks were closed
out of respect to Mr.. Lengle, and other
demonstrations were made to the men,
ory of the others. The living cannot
stop long to contemplate the dead,
but in passing a, tribute and a
tear are dropped on their graves.
The board of health at present is badly
crippled, but is doing noble work. The
board consisted of Drs. Neal Mitchell,
r. P, Daniel, Henry Bacon, H. L.
Engle and 81. R. Kennedy. Dr.. Engle
is dead, DR.. Daniel is very i'll and DR..
Kennedy has a very sick wife at his
home, several miles out of the city.
This leaves DR.. Neal Mitchell to
transact the multifariOus business of
the board. The doctors that are arriv-
ing see to their own patients and, as in
DR.. MitchelFs case. answer thousand
and one questions every ten minutes.
The moment DR.. Mitchell appears on
the street he is Questioned about
every conceivable thing, almost as if
he was an encyclopedia. Added to
the health boards troubles is the loss of
its able young secretary, James McDOn-
aid, who was called away yesterday.
Everybody is working at high pressure,
and the result is that the doctors and
leaders are
THOROUGHLY TIRED.
and if taken i'll their systems will be too
greatly weakened for them to rally.
Col. L. F. Fleming, who died on Friday,
was brother of Francis 2. Fleming,
Democratic nominee for governor. He
was the senior member of the old firm
of Fleming & Daniel, and was
considered one of the best
LAWYERS in the state. Mr.. Lengle
was a financier of great ability, and was
president of the State Bank of Florida.
He was state treasurer under Gov.
BlOpham. and did much to establish the
states credit at the troublesome
and stormy time. In Frank w.
ELY Jacksonville lost one of
her sterling townsmen. Hundreds
here to whom he had endeared
himself by his kindly disposition will be
sad at this sudden an
nouncement of his death. Almost from
the beginning of the epidemic his house.
hold has been afflicted with the disease, !
but with the exception of the husband
and father all have recovered.
Public sympathy for mis- fam
lily is deep and sincere He came
here from Minnesota about twenty
years ago. He was in the insurance
business. Yesterday the weather was
somewhat pleasanter, as no rain fell,
but a hot sun poured its schorching
rays down without mercy, and the ex-
halation arising could be seen like a
thin mist. This is yellow fever
weather." said a doctor yester-
day, land you may now look for large
in the number of cases. But
it is a great relief for the sick, and that
we think good" Supt. B. f. Dillon, of
the Western Union. who has been
in constant attendance for the
last four days trying to get busi-
ness dispatches and specials" through
OIL poorly working wires, was taken
down Yesterday. All the men are doing
nobly, but they are oYerworked. w. j.
Wallace, the day chief, lost his child
Fridy. and his wife is dangerously i'll.
He. himself, is worn out with watch
ing. J. P. Rivers, night chief, is working
under great difficulties, and is giant
in the amount of work he accomplishes.
The press of the country has these barve
operators to thank for the specials re-
ceived, as it is only by their doing
large amount of extra work that they
can get them off.
Masons to the Rescue.