The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-09-22

sicians, are successfully concealed from
notice until they have existed for a con
siderable time.
WORSE AND WORSE
JACKSONVILLE, FLA, September 2l.-
Eightv-three cases OF yellow fever al
O'Clock tlis afternoon have been reported
VERY warm weather aud fever on the in
crease. Several whole families are re-
ported down.
HEROIC ELECTRICIANS.
Advices from the country lying con
tiguous 10 the city indicate that fever
will prevail there among refugees soon.
The following telegram was received last
nicbt AZ The Western Union Telegraph
Office. and is highly appreciated there:
"NEw YORK, Sept 90.
"Tttgrqpl Operators Of J'sckson5iile, Fla ::
The World has to-day started a
specal subscription in your behalf, and
has headed it with 500 An appeal has
been made to the public to reward you
for your zeal and devotion TO their IN
terests.
(Sighed) 81. F, GRAHAM
The newspaper fraternity hopes that
this fund will run mp into the thousands,
for the operators have certainly worked
early and late and under untold disadvdn-
tages 10 serve the press and the pubic.
II anv men have shown themselves he
yoes during The epidemic, the telegraph
men are well up on the list The mes
senger bows. too, should not be forgotten,
nor the telephone operators.
CAUSES OF THE INCREASE OF THE SICK.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla, September 81
For four successive days tae
thermometer bias gone abore ninety
and has not al night fallen 70,
seventy This remarkable heat partly tx-
plains the increase of fever. IL is further
explained by the fact that the colored
people who have heretofore been treat
ing their sick with various household
remedies without calling in a physician,
are now since the establishment of a free |
medical bureau and free nurses, reporting !
their sick and asking medical attention.
Probably not less than a.thOusand cOlOred |
people of Jacksonville have bad the fever
iD mild form and have recovered, but |
these cases have never been reported. |
The nervous strain on physicians and
preachers and relief committees is very
great A physician in a large practice
said Il would give a thousand dollars
10 get away from here, not because tear
the fever. for have had ii, but the ner-
yous strain sometimes becomes almost
unindurable. Yesterday afternoon when
/ came back from my round of visits
was ia state Of complete collapse !
was alarmed at my own condition j
went 10 bed and gave orders that on no
condition whatever was TO be disturbed
for two hours, and after sleep felt re
freshed.' 81
AN HEART RENDiNG INCIDENT
Yesterday little boy named Sparck
was discharged from Sand Hill cured.
lie returned home TO find his father,
mother. and al the other members OF the
family dead and buried, himself leit
utterly alone in the world.
DEATHS HARVEST
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. September et.-l
Jacksonville people are incensed at
Mayor Smith, interview published in a
Cincinnati paper, i'm which he is reported
as saving that he doubts that even a
killing frost will destroy yellow fever Ia
jacksonville Il isyery hot today and
death viii reap a harvest.
MORE QUARANT1NING.
MEMPHIS. Tenn, Sept 21-Quaran-
tine against Decatur, Ala, having been
declared by the counties OF Sheiileld,
Tuscumbia. Athens and Limestone, Ala,
Vicksburg. Mississippi, has done the
same against jackson, Mississippi, and
Lagrange, this State, has quarantined
against the world.
. MEMPHIS FRIGHTENED.
MEMPHIS, September 21.-The excite
ment over the news from Decatur has |
beeu Quicted TO some extent, though |
great uneasiness still prevails.
DECATUR EXCITED.
NASHVILLE, September 2l-The night |
train on the Decatur road had between |
800 and 400 people on board from De-
Catur, twelve Of them beund for Nash |
Vile They were passed by the State |
quarantine officials but the State officials |
would not allow them to stop in Nash |
vile and they wentOn About fifty,went
TO ~. Louis and the rest to Louisville. |
The refugees say the excitement in De
thtut Is luutscIDdOle.
THE SITUATION 40 BETTER.
CINcINNATI, September 21.-A special
to the Eceniag Post from Jacksonville, |
Fla, saws: The situation this noon Is |
certainly no better Fully sixty cases
are reported at the Medical Bureau, but
no names can be obtained as all have first
10 be Investigated and reported upon be- |
l. II. 81 -
A large number of these new cases are
colored and many are in the suburbs.
The deaths are Laura McCreary, Ella
Oulahan, Susie Lemon, William Palmer
(colored), and j. w. Foster Mr. J. l.
Burch, one of the Board of Public
Works is critically i'll. Drs. Daniel and
Caldwell are doing well DR.. Matthews
is among io.days new cases.
NATCnEZ EXCITED.
NATCHEz, Miss, September 81 Great |