The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-10-13
ON A FEVER TRAIN.
Incidents of a Trip Sorthward of Panic
Stricken Refugees.
From the Atlanta Constitution.

Stricken Refugees.
From the Atlanta Constitution.
Never did man take a ghastlicr ride
than our CORE spondent when he lett the
Union depot with the train Of yellow
fever refugees from Florida.
The stop in Atlanta. the serving of
lunches, the excitement of the city,
seemed to have infected the crowd,
and from the moment the train pulled
out of the depot it was apparent that DR..
Cutters had lost control Of the crowd.
Men and women were nervous to an UNI
comfortable degree. A half-dozen
stronger spirits would organize on each
car and practically take charge of It. If
passenger complained of feeling UNI
well there was an instant demand for
him to be put off the train. In two cases
out of ten this demand would have been
enforced by main strength but for the
determination OF two or three humane
and determined men. In one car II
woman was taken with a chill, which in
a few moments was succeeded by fever.
She was Immediately taken from one
car into another, and the car she was
elected from was barricaded and no one
allowed to 90 out or in. This trick was
soon discovered, and as the rumor
passed that there were sick people on
this car, a quarantine was Immediately
established in every other car. The
consequence was that before the train
reached the Carolina line every car was
practically barricaded against every 9th
cr car and there was quarantine all along
the line. Having been locked up for
nearly two days and nights without
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hungry and thirsty, it is remarkable that
there were not actual tragedies enacted
on the train.
\ curious and ludicrous effect WAS pro-
duced at almost every station. The
crowd of loaters that usually hang about
depots came peering about the car win
dOWs 10 Investigate the train. | pom be-
ing in 'ormed that it was the yellow fe
YER train, they fled like sheep, and as
the contagion spread, one could see from
the car window whole villages scudding
around corners, and taking Tor the
woods, as the dread train moved its slow
and CHASTITY length along. At Westmin-
ster, or near Westminster, :. c., four of
the passengers were missing. 1t was
presumed that in some way they had
escaped from the car after the train had
pulled out, and took their chances by
jump iiOiH tIlt CdIH ana ddSll lIlO lnc
woods.
A very strange thing was done upon
the arrival of the refugees at lIendeg-
sonville. DR.. Guiteras removed all re-
straint upon reaching this point. There
WAS no quarantine established, and the
cXcursIonists who had been so carefully
guarded all the way from Florida TO
this point were at liberty to 90 where
they pleased.
When the train of yellow faced, gaunt,
and nervous refugees were dumped at
HcndersOnvile' gates Il scene was wit
messed which rivaled tie most affecting
scenes of war times. Men, who, in the
rush at jacksonville, had been separat-
ed from their families, hustled into cars
and locked up, and who had made the
entire trip without knowing whether or
not their families were on board, upon
being given their freedom rushed madly
from one group to another IN the too fire.
quently vain search for their loved ones,
until, worn out and completely undone
from loss Of sleep and nervous prostra-
ton, they sank to the ground unable to
90 farther, ant remained there until the
relief committee which had been organ
lied by the citizens carried them to the
hospitable homes of some of the vii
layers, where they were cared for.
Mothers with babes in their arms and
children clinging to their knees, as they
cried for food and water and a resting
place, were vainly searching among the
crowd for missing husbands. Children
were searching for parents, and parents
for children. 1t took the whole day 10
get the refugees com 'ortablv quartered =,
and this was not accomplished until long
lines of tents had been pitched il. every
part of the town.