The sun., 1897-10-25
FEVER PROSTRATES TRADE
FELLOW JACK CAUSES GREET
DIsTRES IN THE sOUTH.

Three states TIED Up In Quarantine ana the
People In n state or Terror-The rover
IL n Grent BuEnbeo-The Death Rate IL
Abnoruniiy Lsw-Some or the sta,npedcs.
MONTGOMERY, Ala, Oct. 2i.-A very distress
ing state OF affairs exists In tho states OF Ala-
bama. Mississippi, and Louisiana on account OF
tho yellow fever plague. These states nave
auarantnes against each othor Commerce has
been almost entirely abandoned in the southern
half Of these States and the railroads have prac-
tically ceased running. Tho plague coming at
tho beginning OF tho cotton marketing season
will work an injury that IL will probably require
several years TO repair.
The panic that follows the announcement Of
case OF y elbow fever In Southern town cannotbe
imagined elsewhere. This dsoaso Is the southern
bugaboo 1t Is mysterious malady thnt travels
almost ont tlrcly by night, and the physicians have
never learned much about II. The disease In
each epidemic is 30 different In its manifesto
tions from what 1t was in preceding opidemics
that tho physicians are almost Invariably mis-
led in diagnosing the first cases that appear,
and tho plague is epidemic In most places be-
fore 1t Is recognized as yellow fever.
This has boen tho experience of almost every
city that has been affected this year. Mont
gomory had about fifty cases, 1t Is believed.
before the existence OF the disease was an
| nouncod on last Monday by the Board OF Health.
| Under tho state quarantine law every town.
| city, hamlet. and community stood quarantined
| against Montgomery.
| The people hero became panic.stricken at
| once. The trains from here had TO pass through
| the state without stopping, but as rapidly as
thcy could be filed into stations they were
loaded down with passengers. Tho mad rush
has continued almost up to this time.
| Selma. forty miles away, was stricken yester.
| day. A dozen cases we're found yesterday. an d
| to-day 2,4O0 OF the 200 white residents fled.
| The can't.got-aways in the stricken city have
! filed up every available farmhouse and negro
| cabin. and many woll. .todo families throughout
| the South are living In tents In the oods,
quarantining themselves against the world.
| Tho disease has within month spread
| throughout the territory from New Orleans to
Memphis. Tenn. and Montgomery. Tho fol-
lowing are among the stricken towns and cities
in Alabama: Mobile Flomaton, Selma. Wager.
| Wheelcrsvile, Whistler, Mount Meighs, and
| Notasulgs.
| Tho death ratio in the present epidemic is
| phcnomenally small and the greatest injury
| will therefore result from interruption to busl-
ness. Frost is due in this latitude in a few
wesks and heavy frost is always death to the
| epidemic.
| ATLANTA, Ca. Oct. 24.-The transient popula-
| tion OF Atlanta has been increased by reason of
| tho yellow fever refugees from the infected
| parts of the South. From the beginning of the
epidemic Atlanta has opened her gates wide to
| refugees. and, although the city has been
| thronRed with strangers from Now Orleans, Mo.
| bile and other places. tho record was broken
| yesterday and to-day BY the arrival OF people
from Montgomery and tho othor smaller towns
| OF Alabama where cases have developed and
stampeded tho inhabitants.
| There begins to be scarcity OF hotol accom-
| modations and tho mombers of the Legislature
which will convene TO morrow, begin to fear
that they will not be able to secure their usual
| headquarters. The Alabama town of Selma is
almost devoid OF inhabitants on account Of the
| development OF case OF fever. At Camp De
| tenton. on the outskirts, several suspicious
cases are being detained but so high Is the alt
tude OF the city and so remarkable its record o!
immunity from epidemic that there is little un
easincss felt.
MEMrriis, Tenn. Oct. 24.-President Thron
that four new cases OF yellow fever had been
| discovered in South Memphis near the oriRina
McFerrn case. A family of three on st. Mar
tin street was stricken, and II is thought al
will die before morning Miss Margaret Green
white. the fourth case. will probably die.
BRSnNGnAM, Ala. Oct. el.-Tho Alabams
OF here on account OF yellow fever.
NEW ORLEANS. La, Oct 2i.-Thcre was
fall g Off n 90 h new cases ami deaths to-day
deaths To tota ca cs to datei. .lo5 the deaf h,
100. Tne situation elsewhere is /: Bay It. Louis
eight new gases: Edwards. MI So enew ca o
cases; New Albany, Miss. ono case; Mont
gomery, eighteen new cases, with two deaths
in tho city and one in the suburbs: Pascagoula
two new cases; Scranton. Miss, nine new cases
Selma, three new cases, two suspicious, and one
death; Mc'nphis, four new cases.