The Savannah tribune. [volume] (Savannah [Ga.]) 1876-1960, 1888-08-18
GRIM JACK"
OF YELLOW TINGE, INVADES
FLORIDA, CAUSING A PANIC.

PEOPLE STAMPEDE FROM JACKSONVILLE
MACON, GA, INVITES THE REFUGEES AND
THEN GUARANTEES AGAINST THEM.
Surgeon General Hamilton, Dr. Sim
mons, of Charleston, Mayor Lester of
Savannah, and Capt. r. g. Fleming, to-
gether with a number of health officers
and railroad officials, met in conference
at Waycross, Ca, on Sunday, to discuss
the situation in reference 10 the present
Scourge at Jacksonville, and to devise
ways and means for succoring the people
and otherwise aiding them. 1t was de-
cided that it was necessary to speedily
deplete the city of Jacksonville that the.
disease might be more quickly stamped
out. In order to do this place of refuge
was necessary. It was decided that Il
camp of refugees be established, and that
Boulogne, on the line of the Savannah,
Florida & Western Railroad, thirty-six
miles from jacksonville, in Nassau county,
be selected To this end Surgeon-Gen-
eral Hamilton will have government tents
shipped Immediately to the ground, and
the camp ground will be inaugurated at
once. No sick person will be retained,
but sent back to the city.
The mails will be fumigated at Way
cross, Dupont and Chattahoochee, as
well as Gainesville. The transfer of
passengers and baggage takes place at
the SO mile post, three miles south of
Waycross. All passengers not properly
certifcated are placed in the rough cars,
and not allowed to leave the coaches at
the station, The strictest patrol is kept
up by the inspectors from Brunswick,
Savannah and Townsville. The trains
are passing there crowded and it is pitt
eous to see the wo-be-gone expressions of
the faces of women and the wonder
ing gaze of the children flying to escape
the terrors that are pictured behind
them; caring nothing for baggage or
worldly belongings going-going any
where only to be going. AS the trains
with locked doors slow up at the depot
the heads are poked out at the windows
as if in mute appeal, only to be directed
TO place of safety. There is no fear at
Waycross.
Being asked if he would express an
opinion on the probability of the yellow
fever sweeping Jacksonville, DR.. Hamil-
ton replied indirectly, saying, however,
that he would advise everybody to leave
the city. "Just now the disease appears
to be Of mild type, he continued.
"Until we have further data it is unsafe
to express positive opinion one way or
another. All who can possibly leave
should do so. Fugtives not only save
their own lives in nine cases out of ten,
but save the lives of others by robbing
the pestilence of so much material which
1t would feed upon. No disease is so
susceptible by quarantine than yellow
fever. In 1876 when Savannah had it so
bad, Charleston, which is but little more
than one hundred miles off, kept it out
effectually by strict quarantine. There
is no reason why any of Jacksonville's
neighbors should contract the fever if
they keep the refugees out. 1t did not
originate in Jacksonville this Summer
but was imported Plant City was not
free from fever at any time during the
past Winter" Quarantine Officers Webb
and Baughn were at work on all the north
bound trains on the East Tennessee, Vir-
ginia and Georgia and Central railway
trains coming into Macon, Ga, Officer
Baughn being stationed at Fort Valley
duo W CUD at NlduuCy. AS 6dCA CAolh
arrives, they board it and come on to
Macon, en- route finding out all parties
from the infected districts and informs
them they Will not be allowed to stop, but
continue on their journey. Most of them
go on through. One or two have raised
& protest, but when they learned that
they were liable to be arrested if they
stopped, they continued on their way.
The officers accompany each train some
distance beyond the city to see that nc
one jumps off and comes back.
A special to Jacksonville, received
Sunday, reports three new cases and one
as the days record in that city one
suspicious case has developed at Pablo
Beach, where Capt. futile, Of the Louis
vile and Nashville Railroad, died. Three
suspicious cases have developed at st.
Augustine, and stampede from that
city has begun.
The quarantine lines below Brunswlck
and all points in Florida is now FULLY
established and thoroughly guarded at
all points. Inspectors are stationed at
Jesup, Waycross, st. Mary's, Owens Ferry
and Burnt Fort while the steamer Mis-
chief, is patroling the mouth Of
the harbor, off Jekyl river
The Brunswick Ga. board o.
health has taken every precaution neces