Evening journal., 1888-09-20
Figures Still Away Up
Yesterdays Record Almost
Equalled the Day Before.
1T WAS 1870 CASES AND IA DEATHS.

The Total Number Of Deaths Nearly 500.
Sunshine brought No Relief Yesterday.
Most Of the New Cases are Coiored Poo
plc-The Situation at Gainesville.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Sept. e0-The official
bulletin for twenty-four hours reports 130
new cases Of yellow fever and fourteen deaths
The deaths are Mrs Francis 0wsten. Mr. Pos
ter, Hugh Grunthail, Mrs Maggie Rebston.
1irs J. w. Wallace, Mrs james Smith. Geo.
Thompson, Eliza Mosely, Hennie Warren.
John O'Brien Frank Foster, r. Richard, r.
w Olheld, G. Ohler
Total cases 70 date, 1883; deaths, l70
New Cases-lrene Butt Mollie Weeks,
Maggie +. Small, Anna johnson, Sister 10
sephine, w II. Treadwell. Catharine Lopez,
Miss II. s. Batze Francis O. Lewis, Louisa
Hendricks Eliza Weston, Hampton Tillman,
John Hall, Eliza Boyd Mrs Anna smith,
May Smith, Miss Minnie Bowen, William
Nichols, Joseph Keehe, Randolph Bolder, d
child Of Mrs. Noey, Miss S. N. Ewing, --
Botenhamer and two children, Mrs A. II. Nor
gan, Mr.. Warkahe, Mrs Wilson, David An.
derson, Charles Carson, Mary Mofiley, Mr..
Thompson, Mrs. Steinhausen, Bessie Wilson,
zack Haddock Miss Davidson. Elizabeth
Everett, Willie Barber, isabella Oats, Rufus
Nann, Lucy White, Harry Randall and
three children, Maggie johnson, Frank Med.
leo, Jr., a child Of Frank Turner, Mrs J. u.
Villeret, George Thompson, John Reid, Judge
Crillo, William II. Roberts, Miss Louisa Be.
lot, Robert Scott
Total Number Of Cases, white, Is, colored,
"a
The weather was bright and lovely, but tine
pestilence was not abated A very large
proportion of the $50 new cases are among
the colored people in the suburbs Efforts
win be made 70 get this class Of residents tc
take advantage Of the camps Of refuge being
opened, but they dislike 10 leave the city
Rations viii probably bo withhold from able
bodied persons, 20 force them 70 20 70 the
camps, whore they win be well fed
Mr.. nj. X Bowtlen, recently city editor Of
The Times Union, died OF yellow fever last
night He leaves q wife and flvo children
His whole family had had the foyer, Mrs
Bowden being still sick.
Five new cases of fever are reported at
Maeclenny
Gainesville IS deserted People lled wildly
at the first appearance Of the fever. Hardly
business place II open Railroad men fled
too, and trains are practically suspended
There soeins 10 be no doubt that Fernandina
has yellow fever The cases were at first ~
ported as dengue, and a number Of deaths
were kept concealed
The sudden death % the postmaster a week
or 70 ago, which caused much comment al
the time, is attributed 70 yellow fever.
Rev Mr.. Snowdan, Of the Episcopal churcl
at Macclenny, died yesterday The other
sick there are doing wen, and no new cases
are reported
Telegraph Operator Sweeney, Of the West
ern Union Office, was taken sick last night.
He is a native Of Morristown, Vt, and came
here as a volunteer from Galveston since the
epidemic began
The situation al Gainesville, Fernandina.
Stuke and 81 Augustine is being investi.
gated ii is bitterly denied that there Is fever
at the three latter places There is no fever
at Ocaa The Ocala Rifles, who served In the
Feinandina riots, are quaiantined near Ocala
and DO sickness is reported among them.
A dispatch from Gainesville 10 The Times
Union at noon, said: No new eases Onf
death occurred Monday. The sick are all
getting better Tho excitement is subsiding
4 Two-thirds of the people have left town
They can leave freely via Waycross unit
Thursday, when the surgeon general vii
close that avenue