Evening journal., 1893-09-19
YELLOW "JACK" SPREADING.
BRUNSWICK AUTHORITIES REPORT
NEW CASES.


Business Is as Dull as II Brunswick Never
Had Any Business-W white Citizens In
Despair-Many of Those In sthe Place
VIII Face.the Disease Rather Than Go
Through the Detention Camps.
SAVANNAH, Sept. 19.-Several more
suspicious cases of yellow fever were re-
ported at Brunswick last night The
Board of Health at it's noon meeting
issued the following bulletin: -Four
new cases have developed in the last
twenty four hours, one patient was dis
charged, and no deaths are reported,
leaving nineteen cases under treatment "
Six weeks ago in Brunswick, when it
was announced that there were two cases
of the fever there, the railroad station
was crowded, and two trains, carrying
nearly thousand people, ran out of the
city bound for the highlands of North
Georgia.
The exodus continued, and although
there had been only five cases of the
fever reported, the town had been half
depOpulsted
From 5000 to 5000 persons had for
saken home and business and sought
refuge elsewhere.
Then, after a lapse Of sixteen days,
the fever was declared ended last week,
and quarantine restrictions were raised
The tide turned home again. Hun
dreds had taken up their residences il
Brunswick again when tine fever sud
denly sprang up once more.
Three cases were reported on Friday
two on Saturday, eleven on Sunday GnC
four Monday. Other cases are looked
upon as merely suspicious and the officia
report at noon tomorrow will probably
show that the fears were well-founded
and that they must be added to Uhs
plaques list. There are now only about
800 whites in the town. The rest ar'
negroes.
a private telegram received here las
night says:
Business is as dead as if Brunswick
had never had any business. No vesse
can cope here for cotton or naval storel
and nothing can be shipped out of th'
town by rail. Brunswick is simply
dead town awaiting resurrection anS
I
killing frost. The weather the pas
three days has been hot and favorable t
the rapid spread of the disease. Satur
day was one of the hottest days eve
known in September, and eleven new
cases were reported on Sunday. Tha
night it cooled off somewhat, and Monday
four new cases were reported. 1t wa
hotter to-day than yesterday and tn
result will probably be an increased
+ number of new cases tomorrow.
''The white citizens have almost givei
up in despair. They see three months o
isolation before them, with strong
probability Of the fever sweeping score
of them into the grave. In pas
epidemics it has done its worst work il
the closing weeks of September and dur
; ing October. Yesterday two car load
of people got away.
i "Tbey will be The last to escape tn
4 camp Of detention near Waycross whicl
opened to day. There were man,
women and children sent off, and tn
parting scenes were Of most patheri
character.
1.-The negroes do not seem to car
much about the fever. To hundred o
them it simply means free rations for
time with chance of dying.
"The handling Of this part Of the POP
ulation will soon be a serious problem
. are generally accepted as truth.
'Ihe general belief among those bes
informed on yellow fever matters
that tie epidemic has now a good gri
1 on the town"