The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-09-23
THE DREAD S|}0URGE.
THE sAFFRON-HuED MONSTER
HAS SPREAD WHILE THE Ex-
PEBTs DIAGNOSED.
THEIR WONDERFUL EVOLUTION.
FIRST MALARIAL, THEN DENGUE,
THEN SUSPICIOUS, ANn THEN
GENUINE YELLOW JACK.
FULLY, fOOLISHNESS AND fRlGHl
siexe Whole Commandments
HOnses Close i'm Jackson ana
Churches in Meridian-AII
Traffic StOpped-New Or
leans stu Hopeful.
FOLLY, FOOL|SHNESS and FRIGHT

Jackson, Miss. Sept. 1a.--All the fear
of the citizens of Jackson in regard t
the sickness prevalent at Edwards hav
been realized. DR.. Guiteras, the gov
eminent expert, has confirmed seYe
cases of yellow fever and says there ar
many suspects.
First the cases were reported as ma
larial, then. after a time, they became
dengue: another wait and they were pro
nounced suspicious. and finally declare,
to be the genuine yellow jack. Durin,
all this time the disease has beel
spreading rapidly at the rate Of five o.
six new cases daily, until there Gre now
forty cases In existence at Edwards
The evolution of the disease from ma
LARA TO yellow fever was such that the
people now regard deDgue as simply 4
more convenient term than yellow fever
Dr. Guiteras arrived mt Edwards on a
special train Mt o'clock this morning
and proceeded Mt once TO work. A tel
egram addressed to DIR. Guiteras asking
for information on the situation Mt Ed,
wards ELECTED the reply that he had no
statement for publication. Shortly af.
forwards DR.. Purnell. who has been at
Edwards for several days, wired the
state board of health:
"Dr. Guiteras arrived this morning.
We have visited n number of cases and
the following are pronounced yellow
fever: w. A. Montgomery. Pat Mont
rett. u. II. Suttle, Miss Mamie Austin,
three miles out in the country: Mrs.
Champion. G. II. Hall"
At 10 a: m. the following report was
made by DR.. Guiteras:
Edwards. Miss, Sept. J5.-Wyman.
Washington-The diagnosis of yellow
fever made In six cases by DR.. Purnell
is confirmed. He has two other cases
that have not seen. There are many
children sick with what is probably II
mild type of the disease. The cases
are not confined to one locality, but are
all traceable to the Anderson case.
which came from Ocean Springs. The
medium of distribution appears to have
pion, who died, was Il prominent man,
and many people congregated In the
house during the illness. DR.. Purnell
IL immune and recommend him as com
petent to take charge of the situation if
necessary. ! shall leave this afternoon
for Mobile unless otherwise directed.
"GUITERAS."
The state board has instructed DR..
Purnell to place n Gordon of guards
around Edwards ut once. Report says
that the disease has also appeared at
Clinton and Smiths, towns near Ed
wards. The state board has ordered
the discontinuance of trains on the
Woodville. Miss. branch of the Yazoo
and Mississippi Railroad.
The following order was promulgated
today by the state board of health:
state Board PrOclamatiOn.
"Vicksburg, Miss, Sept. 15.-To all
Citizens of the State of Mississippi,
hallway Officials. and Other Transpor
tation Lines. and All Newspapers: On
account of the yellow fever at several
places along the coast in this state and
several cases of yellow fever at Ed
wards. and reported suspected cases at
various points throughout the state I'M
til further orders by this board no per-
sons will be allowed to get off trains or
boats at any station or point in the
state of Mississippi, and no freight,
baggage, mail or express is to be
handled by the railways or other trans
portation companies from infected
places. No trains will be allowed to
stop at infected places; any person from
non-infected communities whose desti-
nation Is beyond the state of Mississip
pi, will be allowed to board trains at all
points not infected with fever. Trains
running to or from places not infected
by yellow fever will be allowed to get
off at the terminals.
up. J. HUNTER, MD.
"W. ID. KRUGER,
Executive Committee Mississippi State
Board of Health"
1t is stated that an expert has been
requested to proceed to Nitta iouma
Miss, to investigate the case of NAL
colin Cameron, who came from Ed
wards, and to completely isolate the
case.
Shotgun Policy.
Yazoo City has issued orders for a shot
gun quarantine to be enforced. No trains
are allowed to stop except to exchange
mails at the quarantine stations, No
passengers are allowed TO leave the train
at all, and all mail and express must be
fumigated.
Guards armed to the teeth are placed
along the county boundaries. but in spite
of these rigid rules several have managed
to get in, some even coming from in
fected districts.
Two drummers who came Monday
were taken yesterday and put in quar-
antine A telegram was received at the
governors Office today, asking that
be used by quarantine officials. 1t also
stated that there was one new case of
yellow fever reported from Edwards. The
telegram was from Doctors Hunter and
Kriger
Business Houses Close.
A decided and complete panic has pre-
vailed in Jackson all day. Everybody
has left town that could do so. The bust
ness houses have closed and the news-
papers have suspended publication and
closed their offices. Jackson has a popu-
lation of 10000 people and two-thirds of
these have deserted the city.
AT | p. m. Mayor Wharton received
the following from DR.. Hunter at Nicks-
burg:
II have bad message for you. Doctors
Guiteras and Purnell agree that there
are seven cases of genuine yellow fever
at Edwards and many suspects.
capt. Montgomery's condition Is about
the same. The board of health recon-
mends that you get all the people who
want to go out of town on the trains to-