The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-10-02

mas instructed ChIef BellisSario to rearrest her
and put her ON the refugee train tomorrow il it
takes every sanitary guard and policeman in
the city to do the job Mrs. Crowley is under
stood to have secured rs COUNSEL j. II. Sum
mers, who has applied for writ of habeas
corpus. There is fun ahead.
Indignant Mississippians.
JACKSON, Miss, September 60 Special j
The day dawned beautifully bright, with no
new cases and no deaths in the last twenty
four hours.
Mr.. Moss, of the Illinois Central
railroad, rendered those anxious to get away
reilef train, and agreed to sell round-trip
tickets to Chicago for $40, good to return at
any time, and there were many willing and
anxious to go, but the train had TO be
abandoned, because of threats by the people
living north of Jackson TO tear up the track
and burn the bridge if any attempt was made
to run tho train through.
Last night about twenty-five or thirty men
tagged the switch engine down before it
reached the switch and declined to allow the
station 10 be established there, or anything
taken away. What was put off last night was
brought away because coming from New
Orleans, st. Louis, New York and other
points. There might have been infection, but
under the penalty of death all were warned
not to visit the switch again. This high
handed outrage, participated in even oy some
OF our state officials, is thoroughly condemned
There is not enough provisions in town today
to feed those remaining here one week. if
every store in town was depleted. Amongst
the negroes great suffering is now experienced.
Many are without q morsel of food, and the
Howard association, while doing all they can,
are almost powerless. They have neither
money nor provisions, and, while willing to
act, cannot do q thing, because nothing is al
lowed to stop or be sent here.
The Shotgun In Alabama.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, September 26-[Spe-
cial. AS cool weather aud less fever Quets
the panic in some sections of the south, it
seems to increase at other points. At Amory,
Miss. yesterday the city authorities raised the
quarantine and agreed to allow trains to PASS
through the town. A mob of citizens was in
formed, and armed with shotguns they stood
guard on the railroad and refused to let any
trains pass. The town authorities were de-
nounced in resolutions, and hung in effigy, be-
cause they raised the quarantine.
AT Tuscum9ia, Ala, distractions were
placed on the track and one engineer, who re-
fused fused to heed the signal to stop.
slow, however, and no lives were lost.
A gentleman from this city tried to get to
Faunsdale. south Alabama to see his wife,
who was visiting there. He was escorted out
of three towns by armed guards, after being
compelled to leave quarantine train thirty
miles from his destination. Then he secured
horse, but was chased five miles by country
mon and fired at three times. He was finally
compelled to walk twenty miles under guard
to station, where he could get train back to
this city.
A hotel clerk in this city made a wager this
morning that he could create panic in thirty
| minutes. He started out telling that there
were two cases of yellow fever at the hotel.
He was arrested before he had gone a block,
and the officers had to conceal him to save
him from the indignant citizens.
The body Of the man who died in the woods
forty miles north of this city Saturday was
seen by buZzards. The county people and
local authorities would not go within half q
mile of it. The dead man was refugee from
Decatur, and it is supposed died of yellow
| fever
Shotgun quarantine regulations are not with
| out ludicrouS Incidents Captain Frank White,
prominent lawyer Of this city, volunteered
for quarantine duty, and was sent to Ensley
city. He soon found suspicious character,
who became much confused when asked where
he came from. When closely questioned, he
said:
stranger, give me some good tobacco"
"Will you tell the truth if L do?"
eyes"
White passed over half a plug Of tobacco,
and putting huge piece into his mouth, the
refugee said
"Well, won't lie any more-I left Decatur
three days ago.
A Sad Death.
| w. II. Ford, o telegraph operator, died at
| the Sandhills hospital today. His case is
| both sad and mysterious. He came here about
| four weeks ago from Bay City, Michigan, hav-
! ing volunteered to work in the Western Union
| Office during the epidemic. A short time ago
| he was taken sick with fever, but recovered,
went to work again too quickly and had Q re-
| lapse, and died about noon today. Dr. Sollace
| Mitchell suspected that Ford was not his right
name, and only q few hours before death asked
him to toll his story, that he might communi-
cate with the dying mans family. Ford adj
mitted that his name was assumed, but refused
| to disclose his real one.
The Mississippi Plan.
JACKSON Miss, Septempber 27-[Special. ]
| The last outrages reported is the destruction
of the Lynch creek bridge, just south of town.
The Little j. bridge, over the same creek, is
| threatened. An attempt was made to turn
back supply train on the Vicksburg and
Meridian railroad this evening. No attempt
is being made to send mail. Daily mails are
| received.
Protest Against the Plan.
WASHINGTON, September 27.-Genoral M9a.
ager Gault, of the Qneen and Crescent route,
today telegraphed the postmaster general
| from Cincinnati, protesting against the quar-
| antine obstruction of their line at Meridian,
Miss, and other points which, he says, pre-
vents his company from handling their trains
and carrying United States mail. There is no
| epidemic, he says at Meridian, nor is there
any along their lines where mob law seems to
prevail. He asks the protection and aid of
p 0at9d stptSs arhaS that at tt tsS
may resume the running Of trains.
| A reply was sent that the department would
| not attempt to force the mails through in OPP
! position to state quarantine laws.
| A dispatch was received today from Atlanta
from railway mail official stating that there
Gro indications Of breaking up of the quaran-
tine in Mississippi and, as he expresses it, "a
tendency to return to reason"
TIE Quarantines Should All BE Raised.
DECATUR, Ala, September I'll desire to
say through the associated press that, in my
deliberate judgment all the town and county
guarantees in north Alabama, along the
Louisville and Nashville and the Memphis and
Charleston railroads, may be safely removed.
There may be a few cases among them, but l
don't believe the fever will spread ut this sea
son of the year, and with the sort of weather
we are having. The case at Hanceyil,e, Bob
Stewart, is yellow fever; West at Hartgell,
has not yellow fevor. In Decatur not more
than ten cases are 'under treatment-all doing
well. No new cases areported The relief
committee is ready to give help to all that
need IL. JEROME COCHRAN,
State Health Officer.
A Mississippi steamer Loaded With Refugees
ST. LOUIS, September 27.-The steamer City
OF Providence, which runs regularly between
this city and Natchez, arrived here yesterday
, afternoon with nearly 200 people, chiefly
women and children on beard, who have fed
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