Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-09-13
Yellow Feves 1naeasing It's Raw
ageo at Jauksoneine-Seveptv-
6eeen
New Cases and Ten Deaths Poe the
Day-Another Town Injected With
the Disease.
Hy.tsfious Sickness It Shalb,I1ls- OCEAN
Stsamsss In Collision Noeed Southsrn
General. Drowned.

low fever was raging at McClenny on the
Florida Railway & Navigation Company's
road, thirty miles west OF the city, were
confirmed yesterday. About twenty-five
cases have been reported from there Is
dengue fever, but there have been three or
fever. McClenny is q town OF 200 or 400
persons and the county seat OF Baker
County. Montgomery, Ala, has quaran.
tined against it.
The committee on depopulation com.
pleted the census of the city yesterday
and reported the total population RENAME
ing st 13,577-whites, S,Sls; colored, 9,s1s;
unwilling to leave, 10. $50, mostly colored
people; with means OF self support. 9, 365;
without means, 1856; refusing TO answer
Is to means, $3.50. It is expected that two
or three thousand will leave in ten or
twelve days. The complete depopul1tion
OF the city is impossible, and those with.
out means eau hardly be provided for in
the refugees' camps under . month or six
weeks, during which time it is feared tho
epidemic will have done its work aud hun.
dreds OF lives be sacrificed The negroes
are 10th to leave, being, told by politicians
that they will lose their votes by . change
OF residence.
Seventy.seven new cases were reported
to the Board Of Trade yesterday for the
twenty.four hour ended at six p. m. There
were eight deaths from yellow fever dur.
ing the same period. Among the prostra.
tions by fever are Hon. III. A. Lengle,
cashier OF the State Bank Of Florida and
chairman OF the committee of sanitation
Of the the citizens association, who had
worked indefatigably since the outbreak
Of the fever. The roll Of deaths is as fol.
lows: Dr.. Cone Williams, q prominent
druggist; N. A. Brotherton, clerk for
Kohn, Furchott & Co.; Mrs. Herrick, the
third OF her family Mrs. Davenport, colored,
A.C.Oswald, NC. Cliggott aud Mrs. W ash.
ington, colored The total number of cases
to date is 511; total deaths, 60. Dr.. c..
Walton, q druggist, died from what was
reported as bilious remittent fever. and
Miss Nellie Rogers, manager Of the Singer
Sewing Machine Company, died after the
official list had closed. The infant child
of Mrs. Wolf died yesterday, but, it is
said, not from yellow fever, though the
whole fanily-the mother and eight chill.
dren-have the disease, and one daughter
died Thursday.
At the Citizens Sanitary Association
meeting yesterday morning, q committee
was appointed to answer the statements Of
Camp Perry.
NOTED GENERAL. DROWNED.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn, Sept. Sword has
reached here that General William Terry,
one of the most prominent citizens of
Southwestern Virginia, was drowned
while attempting to cross q swollen creek
near Witheville, Wednesday. He was
nearly seventy-five years old. He sue.
ceeded s'Stonewalr' jackson in the COM
mand Of the famous ''Stonewall'' brigade
in the Confederate army.
MYSTERIOUS DEATHS.
VNCENNEs, Ind, Sept. S.-fsaac Wooley,
one of the proprietors of the Curreyville
Coal Company at Shelbyville, died sud-
denly yesterday. A few hours afterward
his wife suddenly expired, although she
had been apparently we'll. One OF the
children is now at deaths door from the
same my sterious disease.
BRIDGE SWEPT AWAY.
CHARLESTON, w. Va, Sept. IA flood
in the New River yesterday carried away
the new iron bridge of the Chesapeake &
Ohio railroad at Grand View, Involving a
loss Of $4,000.
HIS HEAD BIT OFF BY A HORSE.
MADISON, Ind, Sept. IA vicious horse
bit of the top Of the head of Robert
Banta's three.year-old son at Bradtow.,.
near here, yesterday, causing instant
death.
DAMAGES By PRAIRIE FIRES
ABERDEEN, d. T., Sept. 5.-Reports from
points west of here state that prairie fires
are doing great damage. A large number
of farmers lost their entire crops and farm
buildings.
Irish Catholic BENEVOLENT Union.
COLUMBUS, O., Sept. THE Irish Cath.
Ollie Benevolent Union to-day restricted