The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-09-25

fact to the country and suggested that the
citizens be at once notified OF the situation. n
| notice was accordingly placed on the Clarion
Ledger bulletin board and in a few minutes
! the excitement was intense and universal.
| Hundreds left on the afternoon trains going
| north and south, and hundreds more left for
places IN the surrounding country Carriages,
wagons, drays and vehicles OF very description
! were brought into requisition and were rum
ming 10 and fro all night.
North Carolina Shuts Her Doors.
RALEIGH, NC, September 20.-[Special.l-
| North Carolina will close her doors TO refugees
| from the fever infected places in Florida. Tho
| state board OF health has taken action, disap-
/ proving 81 the influx of Florida people into the
| state, and has advised Governor Seals that, in
! the light of recent events, IL is extremely III
| advisable 10 permit it. DR.. Wood served calls
| General Hamilton's attention to Henderson
| Vile as a point in view and as illustrating the
| danger oil sending people by the train loads in
| North Carolina. a great many OF the refugees
broke their parole and scattered to various
points menacing Wilmington. Charleston and
Norfolk, and in view Of this fact the board
takes the action stated.
Feeding Twelve thousand People.
New YORK, September 20--Mayor Hewitt
today received a dispatch from James NJ. Schu-
nacher, chairman Of the finance relief COM
mittee at Jacksonville, stating that the
committee was assisting McClenny and Hen
Jacksonville, and was watching and keeping
posted about other places that may need as
ing food to L, $50 people
Trouble with Nurses.
JACKSONVILLE September 2l.-[Speciall-
The outside nurses sent here from yarions
cities and under various charges are creating
no end Of trouble. Many of them are no better
than Adventures picked up on the streets,
who have come here to make what they can
during the epidemic, and in any manner pos
sible. 1t is even limited In some quarters that
the criminal classes are not unrepresented
among them and that wholesale pilferng from
uuoccupied houses may be locked for as re-
suit There is no good evidence that such is
fact, however. The board Of health is order
ing all incompetent and insUbordinate nurses
under arrest; they are sent into quarantine at
Camp Perry for ten days and then are set
loose, but are not allowed to return 10 the city.
4 question IF law has arisen under the action
of the board. Has county board of health q
right TO deprive man or woman at present in
jacksonville, OF his or her personal liberty?
Can the board arrest these nurses, and compel
thom to leave the city?
The following paragraph appeared in the
Times-U MON this morning:
Miss sadie Davis, one Of the nurses who reached
this city last sunday from New York, was not Of
Harry Miners PARTY as has been erroneousiy stated
she and two others were sent here by the Jackson
vile relief committee, resident in New York IL Is
said that She has not tuned out TO be so efficient
aud faithful as could be wished, and she will
therefore, be sent TO Camp Perry by order Of the
board OF health, where she VIII remain In quaran-
tine PRIOR TO her return 10 New York. Yesterday
against her. The TWO MuTrays. one of the New
York siar the other Of tie Detroit Journal
have s5ady P ses8 ordered t into 1snn ne
health for good and sufficient reasons.
A Pathetic Incident.
The little Stocie boy, the only one now left
OF the entire family, was discharged from the
Sandhils hospital yesterday as cured of yell
low fever. He at once repaired TO his old
home, but found there only the family cat to
greet him. Upon learning that his parents
and brothers and sisters We're all dead, he took
the pet in his arms and pathetically remarked
that they would begin life anew together. j.
l.. Burch, one Of tho commissioners of pubic
works, was reported very low today But DIR.
Mitchell tonigh said that he was out of danger.
Birmingham Excited.
BIRsTISoHAs1, Ala, September d. [Spec-
ial.l-'Two new cases and no deaths but con-
tinued panic and ALARM is the news from
Decatur this afternoon. Quarantine officers
and passengers who came through Decatur
this afternoon, say SO far as they could see
from the car windows, all the stores and resi-
dences were closed, and the people were leav-
ing in wagons and on foot.
Brmingham's quarantine is now of the shot
gun variety and all fear OF on outbreak Of
fever hero has been allayed. Officers sta
toned on every public road and railroad en-
tering the city, and all trains, passenger and
freight, are carefully watched. Three coaches
filled with refugees from jackson, Mississippi,
passed through here this morning. Many of
them had tickets TO this city, having friends
and relative hcre, but they were not allowed
TO stop. Officers stood guard at the car doors
and saw that all tho refugees were carried
many miles beyond this city.
There was trouble ut the county Jail today
on account of yellow fever rumors. Some
of the prisoners became much alarmed and
claimed that being shut up in their cells would
give them fever The one hundred and ninety
prisoners We're lot out into the corridors forIex-
ercISo "a usual, but when ordered back to their
sol I.frs Ia pD urIn WOULD
do nothing with them, and the sheriff and
several deputies were called in. All the ring
leaders were put back in their cells by force
and placed in irons, after which the other prs-
oners went back quietly.
All the small towns IN north Alabama have
established the shotgun quarantine against
Decatur No one thinks OF leaving Birming-
ham, and there is not the least alarm here, but
the quarantine regulations are hurting trade
Decatur is now almost depopulated and
nearly every door is closed against the fleeing
people. They have left town in every imagin-
able way, and some have walked miles TO
board train only to find that they could enter
none of the cities and towns lying near them.
1t now looks rs il the fever took a rest after
the death of Spencer, the first victim, only to
dash down again on the Inflated place with
/ redoubled force.
DECATUR, Ala. SEPTEMBER 2i-To Dr. John b
/ CASTOR president Montgomery board OF health: The
crisis came last night The doctors at last admit
we have yellow fever. know of four eases here
/
positively and probably several The excitement is
intense. (signed) JERoNE COCHRAN, NJ. b,
The Feeling In n mphis.
| MEMPHIS, Tenn. September 2i.-A nom
| intercourse quarantine will go into effect at
/ noon tomorrow. kilograms from Grenada
/ Corinth and other Mississippi towns report a
shotgun" quarantine having been established
| against Decatur. Ala, jackson, Miss, and
| other infected points. IL is reported that the
| Illinois Central trains make no stops going
north between Canton, Miss, and Cairo, III
! MEMPHIS, Tenn, September 21.-The ex-
citement which prevailed hero today over the
| intelligence of the outbreak OF fever at Jack
| son, Miss., has Gained in a measure since the
city authorities resolved to stop passenger
/ travel on the railroads east of the Mississippt
river. Agents of all roads viii be notified not
10 sell tickets to Memphis no train will be
allowed 10 come nearer the city than ten
miles and a Gordon of armed pickets
will guard the dirt roads leading
into Memphis and no one will be allowed to
( enter. The same feeling prevails
in the state of Louisiana, Mississippi
Tennessee and Alabama, and extends into
/ Kentucky. Every town and city from Cairo,
Illinois, south TO Now Orleans have established