, 1888-09-22
A PANIC PREVAILING.
Many Southern Cities Guarding
Against Yellow Fever.
Strict Quarantine Established
At Memphis.
In Places Armed Men Guard
the Railroads.

JACKSONVILLE, Sept. 1.-The omclal
report to-day shows lis new cases OF yell
low fever and fourteen deaths.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, Sept. 2l.-Al rail-
roads leading into this city will be notified
tomorrow not to sell tickets for Memphis,
as no train will be allowed to come nearer
the city than ten miles, and a Gordon Of
armed men will guard the roads, and no
one will be allowed to enter. The senti-
ment here is that Memphis can better af-
ford to spend a hundred thousand dollars
to keep the city free of infected persons
than to have ever one case of fever,
which would cost her merchants millions
of dollars in the loss of trade, not count
ing the lives of citizens which would be
j~eopardlzed.
This same feeling pervades throughout
the states of Louisiana, Mississippi, Ten
nessee and Alabama and extends into
Kentucky. Every town and city in the
states named from Cairo, ILL.,, south to
New Orleans have established a strict
quarantine against infected points, and, in
many instances, against the world.
Shotgun quarantine prevails along the
line of the Illinois Central from New
Orleans to Fulton, KY, and trains are
not allowed to stop at any of the stations
between Cairo, ILL.,, and Canton, Miss.
A regular panic seems to have seized the
people, especially in the smaller interior
towns where non intercourse is the watch
word, and armed men guard the roads
leading into those places.
CAIRO, Ills, Sept. 2l.-The city to-
day established quarantine against all
trains from the South on the Illinois Cen
trail and Mobile Il Ohio.
HELENA, Ark, Sept. 2l.-Strict quar-
antine has been declared. Trains from
the South are not permitted even to dis
charge mail.
JACKSON, Miss Sept. 2l.-The ex-
element of yesterday continues and is
greatly increased by three new cases of
fever this morning. Three. fourths of
the white population has fed. There is
but little food in the city and no trains
stop.
New York, Sept. 2l.-Chas. F. Peck,
believed to be a resident of Englewood,
n. j., was taken sick in a Seventh avenue
horse car this evening and was taken to
Bellevue hospital. The report to police
headquarters says it was rumored that he
was suffering from yellow fever.
A special from Natchez, Miss, dated
yesterday, says, The city is in a fever of
excitement tonight at the yellow fever re-
ports from jackson. Shotgun quarantine
will be established at once. A large ex-
cursion party from Natchez, which visited
Jackson, is shut out from their homes.
All trains in Natchez, Jackson and
Columbus railroads beyond Hamilton
having been stopped. A special train
will be sent out at IL o'clock tonight to
bring the Natchez people from points
along the road who haye not gone to
Jackson. By shotgun quarantine in 1878
yellow fever was kept out of Natchez,
and it is believed it can be done again.
CHATTANOOGA, Sept. 2l.-Chattanoo-
ga has instituted most stringent quaran-
tine against all infected points. No one
is permitted to enter the city without
giving a satisfactory account of himself.
Quarantine officers board every train, and
the city council has adopted an ordinance
infiictiug a foe of $500 on any person en-
tering the city from any injected district.
. A large reward is offered for the appre-
hension and CONVICTION of such offender,
and for the conviction of any one harbor-
ing refugees.
New ORLEANS, Sept. 2l.-It is re-
ported here that 0 portion of the railroad
track between Harrison and Nlcksburg
has been torn up by the frightened peo-
pie IN order to force trains to stop. Vicks-
burg and Natchez have both quarantined
most strictly and roads connecting them
with Jackson have been obliged to go out
of business for the present.
A Pcayune special says West Point,
Miss, to-day closed her gates, not only
against the fever striker districts, but
against the world. Armed police are
securing the city.
Special sale of IS pants this week at