Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-09-22
DEATH RATE INCREASING
THE SITUATION in JACKSON
WILLIE DlSHEARTENlNG.
a Train Load of Refugees Starts for
ucndcrsunviilc, N. C.-Improyo.
mrnts at Camp Pcrry-Dis-
trcssipg News from Mac
clcmny-A Young Man
in Fear OF the Epi-
dcmic Commits
Suici(lc

Heavy rains still continue ut Jacksonville.
Wednesday morning it came down III tor
rents, flooding tho streets in several places
even with tho sidewalks Tho effects OF
these storms can already be seon i'll tho III
creased death rate. Tho people are very
mllcl, dcprcss Il over tho gloomy outlook
More doctors; and nurses arc needed. The
doctors arc all oycrworked and need rest.
they arc unable to attend to all OF The
patients. One man went TO seven different
doctors and another one TO eight before they
could gctattcntion. a committee has boon APP
pointed TO attend TO this special feature, With
Geo. Wilson us chairman, to which all appll-
cations should be made I'll. Z. Price, 0young
grocery clerk, living i'll Oaklan !, small
suburb, committed suicide b. taking laud-
mum. His body was found on tho street
and caused u sensation. Ho has been wol'-
ricd over yellow fever, and ended his life to
avoid it.
The refugee train finally got of with about
80 people. There had been 10 general lime
given for st1rting and most of the people
seemed entirely lost regarding it. Anumber
gathered ut tho depot as early rs = o'clock,
/ fully determined To BIZ Oh time. at $50 tile
train pulled ont. ltcorsistcd uf seven ,llapi-
tutcl and ancient lpokiuS passenger co1cleS
Of the East Tennessee, Nmyini.s and tieorgia
road and baggage AID combination car.
Az Canlp Perry about severity iiro moro
ioinel the larty and DR.. Guitrras went on
through with them. just hefp." they left
The depot Il tcle gram WAS read from iirnlcr-
sonvil., i. T., spying that the Refugees
would lac quarantincd thcrc ten days before
| being allowed 10 20 else where 10 TO this
crrctualy the authorities of North Carolina
have ordered two companies OF State troops
there TO enforce the qllarantining ut the
depot. AS the train gliirl cut the stay-at-
homes waved lingering farewcils.
Tie situation is extremely discournging
Tie damp, rainy weather still continues, aud
the death rate increases. 1t is now seen that
tho hospital accommodations are inadequate
to the great number Of c1scs besides the
many additional ut the Sand Hills Hospital.
The Knights Iemplar are considering the
ACCESSIBILITY of establishing other yellow fevcr
hospitals. Great improvements arc being
made ut Camp Perry.
The colored camp has been removed TO ono
side and Il parade formed between it and the
white camp Tho railroad section cottages
are Doing put up Us luSU rs JOSSlulc OflH OIL
Diclicy's portable pavilion barracks is TO be
nut up for tho us Of ladies' exclusively. \
large guarti.iiuuse is to DO built, and new
ami much larger dining-halls are being pre-
pared, which will afford separate accomno
dalion for black and whito
Surgeon Posey, who was ordered by tho
S,rgcon-Gencra to investigate the nature Of
the MacClcnny epidemic, passed through
cn route to Camp Perry, but he was dumb as
IAN oyster regarding his investigation, having
been instructed not to talk to newspaper
men. But it was learned from other sources
that there had been some forty cases there
six or seven deaths.
y dispatch from Henderson says: "Dis-
tressing news comes from the town of
MacClcnny. The cases aggregate eighty
The town is being depopulated. There is
no need Of nurses, physicians and supplies.
Sancrson has established rigid quarantine
against Ill infected points in the county and
State. This was not contemplated but was
necessary for self-protcction. Sanderson is
clear of all sickness whatever. Business is
prostrated and great Excitement prevails.
All trains passed through the station at high
spec.i. All communication is cut Off They
have tel graphed the Surgeon-General to
place q Gordon around tho town of Mac
Clcnny."