The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-23
NOT A new CASE REPORTED
Absence Of All Forms Of Fever Very
Notable.

Such Was Brunswick's Official Report
for Yesterday Harris, the One Fever
Case, Conscious and Resting Easily.
The Exodus of Citizens Continued,
Many Fleeing without Means, and
The City Portrayed as a Picture of
Several Business Con-
Germs Pluokily Hold Out, and the
Mayor Will Remain to the End.
Brunswick, Ca, Aug. 22.--At six to-
night the patient, Harris, is conscious
and resting easily. To-day has been a
dismal one in Brunswick, and the people
left here have endeavored to cheer those
preparing to leave. Col. Charles 2.
GOODYEAR has been mingling constantly
amoung the people, endeavoring to lessen
their fright. He deserves unstinted
praise for his encouraging words to the
panic-stricken. At o'clock to-day this
bulletin was posted:
The board of health from their investi-
CATION, assure the public that up to this
hour there are no further yellow fever
cases. We find remarkable scarcity of
any fever cases, only one new case being
reported, and that not suspicious"
All the attorneys have signed an agree
ment not to take or bring any cases to
trial in any of the courts in the county
before October 30, 1898, The bankers
have agreed to keep open between the
hours of II in the morning and l p. m.
Government aid will be asked to help
Brunswick in her serious affection, and
committee consisting of Mayor Lamb and
Aldermen Maddey, 'Crovatt and Joerger
have been appointed to confer with Rep
resentative Turner in getting it.
TIE MAYOR WILL STICK.
Mayor Lamb is mingling with the peo-
pie, and will stick by Brunswick to the
end He feels justified in issuing his
proclamation to the people to leave, real
izing that if by any possible chance an
epidemic should come the less people here
the better it will be.
The East Tennessee officials, appreci-
ating Brunswic1ians' condition, have
given a One-cent-a-mile rate to all points
to Chattanooga. AT the depot all day
trunks have been handled, and this after
noon freight cars are being loaded with
baggage. The checks have run out, and
each person has to write two checks on a
cardboard and place one on the trunk and
have the other stamped In the yards the
passenger coaches and sleepers have been
crowded for several hours. Many women
and children climbed in the windows, all
the doors being locked, and when the
jam became too great many tried to get
out, and for two hours suffered for their
imprudenCe.
PICTURE OF DEsoLATIoN.
The Brunswick and Western passenger,
with six coaches, left at o'clock
crowded to the platform, but not half of
the refugees who have fed have money
enough to carry them any distance The
suffering and inconvenience they will en-
dure cannot be estimated. Those who
braVely remain are faring better than
their excited friends who have fed The
scene in the city cannot be appreciated
by one not on the ground Many stores
are closed and the proprietors gone. All
the factories except the ice factory have
shut down. Stagnation is everywhere.
Among the residences closed shutters and
bolted doors tell the tale of a commnitys
terror. Wagons loaded with furniture
have for two days and nights been driven
to country homes Refugees on foot,
horseback, and in every conceivable form
OF conveyance, have for hours made their
way to other places. Those whom
cooler ads have prevailed upon to stay,
look upon their departing friends with
sorrow. The reason why two cases of fe-
yer should cause such alarm can only be
attributed to the natural fear of yellow
fever. The town is in good sanitary con
dltion, The atmosphere is unfavorable
Tor an epidemic, as is evidenced by the
development of only two cases in fourteen
days, and the surgeons do not fear
spread. Every precaution has been taken
lor an emergency and in case necessity
should demand, Surgeon Hutton will es-
IaDllsh camp near Waynesville on the
Brunswick and Western road.
THE PATIENT AT NINE O'CLOCK
At nine o'clock tonight Peter Harris is
reported conscious and resting quietly.
Acting Health Officer Robert Burford re
ports no new or suspicious cases. Sur
geons Guiteras, Carter and Hutton join
nm in the report Atmospheric condi-
uous are unfavorable for an epidemic and
none Is expected. At this hour the East
tennessee train, three freight cars filed
with baggage and five with passengers,
pulled out. About four thousand citizens,
an told, are now out of The city Drs
branham and Dunwodoy at national
quarantine, Blackboard island, are Off
clalIy reported well and expected oleave
quarantine tomorrow. They will be al
lowed to return to Brunswick fifteen days
4Ioln The time they were sent out.