The Red Cloud chief., 1888-09-28

Great Alarm in the SOuth-Peopie Desert
ing Their Homes for Places Of safety.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Sept. 2A-The
executive committee of b sanitary COM
mission held a joint meeting with the re-
lief committee yesterday to discuss COM
olaints of abuse. Numerous cases of fraud
have been discovered and it is believed
that hundreds of able bodied negroes have
obtained relief through the different MEM
bers so as to attempt to lay up supplies for
winter. These will be cut of as rapidly
as discovered and sent to the refuge camp
or put to work. The branch cOmmissaries.
which ave been unduly multiplied, will
be abolished and a more rigid system
adopted to prevent imposition on the part
OF irresponsible parties. Chairman Stan
sells young men a found over a hum
applied for relief.
The total cases reported tOdate are 1,S'S;
the total deaths PIP. 4 strong east wind
prevailed ali day and a more hopeful feel
fng exists among the people. many intelli-
gent observers OF former epidemics believ-
ing that the worst is over.
A special from McClenny says for the
twenty -four hours ended at q p. m. there
have been two new cases of fever and one
death. A special train was sent to Nc
Clenny by the Jacksonville Relief AssO-
citation with supplies.
There is a much ill-feeling against a GER
tain marine hospital surgeon and it is
probable that the SurgeOn-General will be
asked to recall him.. The sick were re-
ported as doing very well this morning.
The inventor of a healing process called
the Decentralization cure (Of which nobody
seems to know the nature), claims to have
cured j. j. Dawson, a printer, who was
attacked by the fever Friday night, and
after treatment went to sleep and awoke
free from fever. There are scores Of al
legged preventives, but this is the only
known case of an apparent cure so far.
The regular physicians condemn such ex-
periments and deny that any good a
come of unscientific treatment.
DIR. Porter received a letter from Miss
Clara Barton saying: 'Your order obeyed.
Colonel Solihmayd will be withdrawn"
Colonel Soutiimavd was seen last evening,
hut was Very reticent about the matter.
He claimed that his nurses (those sent
from New Orleans were treated ~unju>t,y
in being sent back without due trial. He
added tina: he had sent a complaint to
Washington in regard to the mat
ter. He seemed surprised to earn
that he was to be removed. and Mt first
said tina: he did not understand it. Later
he said he had received a telegram
from Miss Barton stating that perhaps he
would be needed in Washington and tell
Ing him to prepare to move at any time.
He is rather bitter regarding the board of
health here and accuses the member of
treating him very badly.
The reports to the board of health yes
terday aggregated 1913 new cases of yellow
fever in the city and suburbs, ninety of
which were colored people. Among the
new cases were Captain William Somer-
Vile and DIR. Eddy, of the visiting physi- !
clans, and Rev, DIR. William H.. Dodge, of
the Southern Presbyterian Church, one of
the most devoted heroes of the epidemic.
There were ten deaths reported.
PANIC-sTRICKEN MEMPHIS.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, Sept. 2f.-The fears Of
the people Of this city over yellow fever !
are so aroused that a barrel of celery
packed in ice, sent from Michigan by ex-
press, was not allowed to be put off at
Woodstock, Tenn, a small station north
of here ON the Chesapeake. Ohio & South
western railroad. This incident will serve
to show the panicky situation of affairs in
this vicinity. Several packages sent by
express from Memphis to LaGrange, Tenn,
yesterday were burned by the alleged
quarantine officers of that town.. Hum
dreds of incidents could be related of a
similar nature, where the judgment and
common sense Of the intelligent people are
so carried away with fear that apparently
they have lost their reasoning powers, and
have only one desire now. and that is O
intercourse with the world. The effective |
ness of the quarantine is ridiculed. as par
ties from the infected districts do pass
through Memphis. On Saturday night
three ladies and q gentleman from n of
the stalled trains bribed a negro to drive
them in on his wagon.
REPORr FROM DECATUR.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, Sept. "A special
to the Americdn from Decatur, Ala, says:
yesterday was the glOomiest Sunday in
history, the sun even refusing
it's cheerful light to the small crowds at
the street corners or on the depot platform
watching the trains fly by them. There
are hardly more than $50 people in town
and two-thirds of these are cOlOred.
The special trains with about fifty refu-
gees left about midnight Saturday
night. 1t is scarcely probable that any
more will he permitted to leave. There
were but two cases and no deaths yester-
da~y-cheering news, were it not that SO
little remains for the scOurge to fasten it.
self on. One of the cases is DIR. W. G.
Buckly, one of the best physicians in De-
ca.ur. The total cases to date are L.;
total deaths, 4. as follows: A. d. Spencer,
DIR. Bowman, w. L. Prince and U. s. kib-
hey. The cases now under treatment are:
Fred Fralkenburg, Mr.. Weakley and
son. Mrs. Jones, son and daughter, W.
X. Francis, Joseph Graham, DIR. Buckley
and three others, names unknown. The
Bismarck Hotel is still open and feeding
that apply, whether they have money
or not. Two restaurants here are doing !
the same. The Western Union manager.
s. d. Armstrong, has never left his post
except for sleep. Joseph 7. Dixon. city
editor Of the Free Ldace, is still here.
Only two physicians have left-Dr. Taylor
and DIR. s. E. Cross. Both of them left on
account of sickness" !
NO-Man's-Land.
ST. Louis Sept. 23-A special from
Beaver, NO-Man's-Land, gives proceed
;uDs ~ tho Oklahoma Territorial cOnyau. |