The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-09-27
TRE PENINsuLA,s PEsILLENcE.

y
ures are being put in force to keep out
any infected passengers or freight.
Memphis feels secure from an inva-
sion of fever provided all the energies
Of the people are directed toward that
end by enforcing quarantine against
infected points. This plan is being
carried out and al meeting of the
cotton and merchants exchanges, held
this forenoon, committee Of six was
appointed to cooperate with the city
authorities in the heroic efforts being
made to protect Memphis. The city at
present is healthy and If money and
vigilance are the oaly requisites Mem
phis will continue so.
A conference Of the special commit
tees OF the two exchanges and the city
authorities was held this afternoon at
2 O'Clock and the following was unani-
mously adopted:
Resolved, That the president of the
taxing district be requested to stop all
passenger travel into Memphis from
the east side of the Mississippi river,
and that strict nOn-intercOurse and
passenger quarantine be established.
The limit of this resolution to be sub
ject to the future action OF the commit
tee.
A special telegram from Grenada,
COrinth and other Mississippi towns to
the Evening Scimeter report that q
shotgun quarantine has been estab-
llshed against Decatur, Alabama, j lack
son, Mississippi, and other infected
points. 1t is reported that the Illinois
Central trains make no stops going
north between Canton, Mississippi, and
Cairo, Illinois.
MEMPHIS, Sept. 2I.-The excitement
which prevailed here to-day over the
int L.
at jackson, Mississippi, has claimed in
measure since the city authorities
this afternoon resolved to stop paSsen-
ger travel on all the railroads east of
the Mississippi river. This includes
the Chesapeake, Ohio 81 South
western, Louisville s. Nash
vile, Memphis & Charleston,
Birmingham. Illinois Central. and
Louisville s. New Orleans s. Texas.
The pressure was so great from the
people for non-intercOurSe that the
committee of six from the produce
and merchants exchange who are act
ing in connection with the city
authorities, voted unanimously
for the adoption of the reso-
luton, favoring non-intercourse
commencing at noon tomorrow.
Agents of all the roads mentioned will
be notified not to sell tickets for Mem
phiS, as no train will be allowed to
come nearer the city than ten miles,
and GORDON of armed pickets will
guard the railroads leading into Mem
!, phis and no one will be allowed tC
enter.
The sentiment here is that Memphis
can better afford to spend hundred
thousand dollars to keep the city free
OF infected persons than to have ever
one case of fever which would cost heI
merchants millions of dollars in loss
of trade, not counting the lives of heI
citizens which would be jeOpardized
This same feeling prevails throughout
! the states of Louisiana, Mississippi
y Tennessee and Alabama, and extends
into Kentucky. Every town and city
!. in the states named from Cairo, I'LL
! nois, to New Orleans have established
= strict quarantine against infected
points, and in many instances agains
the world. Shotgun quarantine pre-
|; walls along the line of the Illinois Cen
l trail all the way from New Orleans
|: to Fulton, KY, and trains are not al
lowed to stop at any of the stations
between Cairo, Illinois, and Canton
Mississippi. A regular panic seems t.
have seized the people, especially in TIT
smaller interior towns, where nOn-in'
8 tercourse is the WatchwOrd and armed
men guard the roads leading
I into those places, The latenes,
: of the season and the near approach o
!. cool weather is favorable for the safet,
of those places not now infected and
: feeling of security will prevail. prOvid
! ed there is no further spread of tn,
fever from Jackson, Mississippi ant
= Decatur, Alabama.
I AT JACKSON, MISS.
II JACKSON, Sept. 2l.-The excitemdn
: of yesterday continues, and is greatly
: increased by three new cases Jhii
Charles Daley and Frank Kavanaugh
all workmen on the new railroad de
/ pot. No deaths have yet occurred. i
is generally conceded that all the case
= originated here and were caused by ex
q cavations and disturbing filthy sewer
f on the depot grounds during the pas
: two months. Three-fourtes of tn,
5 white population have fled; the stores
are nearly all closed and there IS bu
f little food in the city for the cant ge
r aways." No trains stop heIe.-A specia
: train will be furnished tonight TO
such as wish to go through to the north
taking on passengers some dis
tance north of the city
v A SHOTGUN QUARANTINE.
b NEW ORLEANS, Sept. GA specia
: from Natchez, Mississippi, dated yes
1
excitement last night over yellow feve
T reports, and a shotgun quarantine vii
n be established at once. "A large eXcur
sion party from NatcheZ which visited
jackson are shut out from their homes
q Ali trains on the Natchez, Jackson
b Columbus railroad beyond Hamilton
!, having been stopped. a special trail
q was sent out at ii O'Clock last night t,
r bring in the NatcheZ people from
: COOper's Wells, Harrington and Othe
: points along the road who have no
4 been to Jackson. By the shotgun quar-
: antine in 1873 the yellow fever wa
B, kept out of Natchez, and it is believed
it can be done again.
l YELLOW FEVER AT NASHVILLE.
2 NASHVILLE. Tenn. Sept. 21.-At {
b late hour last night seventy refugee:
3 train two miles south of Decatur. Ala
: bama. arrived in this city. The officer
I met the train at MallOry'S station, six
Q teen miles out, and informed the ref
| ugees that they could not be permitted
Ito stop at Nashville. Twelve of thu
number had tickets for this city
Those who did not pass through Deca
: upon its arrival here. The conducto
? reported that several stopped
{ at towns along the road. 1t was Learned
! that great excitement prevailed at De
catur and that last night the people
fed in all directions, going in vehicles
3 and on foot, as the trains are not per
3 mitted to stop in the city. 1t is reporte'
] that one hundred more refugees from
, Decatur will arrive in the city to-day
a They will not be allowed to get of
/ here. Most of those who went through
/ are bound for points north of the Obi
/. river.
: AT BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA.
: BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Sept. 21.-Sinc
4 tue development of two new cases o
: yellow fever at Decatur al extra mum
j. Der of quarantine officers have beel
!: employed to meet incoming trains, boil
!, freight and passenger. The dirt road
: leading into thecity are closely guarde,
and the sentiment is to adopt the shot
gun policy if necessary to enforce tn
quarantine which has never been re
y Taxed since Spencer's death at Decatur
t AT SELMA.