The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-10-21
FEVER GAINS GROUND
Montgomery Successfully Invaded b, the
Dread SGourge Yellow Jack.
FOUR THOUSAND PEOPLE FLEE THE CITY
Citizens Indignant Because Refugees
May Not Stop i'm tho Stnto.. New
Orleans Hrc"iss the Record with
Sixty New Casos nnd Six Deaths
bIississippi 0mciai Stntcmont.
Montgomery. Ala, october 20, 1897.

Montgomery, Ala, October 90, 1897.
The official bulletin, issued by the
Board of Health to-day at O'Clock.
names only five cases of yellow fever
| for the past twenty-four hours and one
death.
The death Is Pat White 4Gl Clayton.
| reported yesterday but sick for ten
| lays. "A post norton was held upon
his body this afternoon under the super
vision of State Health Oncer Saunders.
ana IT. is given out unoiiicially tonight
that 1t revealed clear proof that yellow
fever was the cause of the death
There is no panic here now. The ncr-
Nous people have all LEFT. Probably 1000
persons went away Sunday and Monday
by trains and private conveyance. a
special provided on the Louisville and
NaShNilie road last night did not carry
100 people, showing that the panic is
over "
There was Il petition filed with Mayor
CllsDy to-day from u large number Of
leading citizens asking that an cxpcrt
oil rational reputation he brought hcre
10 determine the character of the fever.
very many people doubt whether the
prevailing sickness is yellow fever, and
among them are a number OF physicians
some Of whom have been through yell
:ow FEVER cpidemics. The Board OF
| Health concurred with the Mayor in
granting his petition, and Surgeon
General Wyman was asked for an ex-
pert.
"A citizens committee. of which cX-
Governor Jones is chairman, to-day scnt
a scathinE protest to Governor John
ston at birmingham against the State
| quarantine regulations which do not
! perm}t refugees from here to stop Mt
any point in the borders of the state,
| even where 1t is safe and local aithori-
ties are willing to receive them The
| committee called on the Governor to re-
convene the State Board of Health and
| nave tho regulations rescinded
! An Associated Press telegram from
| birmingham Tonight announces that
tho state government has been tenn
porarily removed to Birmingham; tina
the Governor and all the State officers
| nave located there. This IS n distortion
OF tho facts. The State government IS
located here by the constitution and
cannot be changed except by vote of
| the people. There is no provision for
temporary removal
Furthermore all the State officers arc
| not located at Birmingham. Secretary
OF state jackson. Auditor White, Treas
| ureT Ellis and the Governors private
Secretary. Carey. are here They could
not get to Birmingham If they desired
because of State quarantine regulations
| issued by the Governor himself and also
| because OF Birmingham's regulations.
The officers named are on duty here
daily and most of the Governors duties
cannot DO transacted without the CO.
operation OF at least one of them
ALL RECORDS BROKEN.
New Orleans. La. Oct. 2o.-All pre-
Vions records as to the number of s,av.
cases We're broken to-day. Early in tho
evening sixty new cases had been en-
tered IN the books of the board at the
| same time there had been six dcaths
These had all occurred during the early.
| morning hours
| The weather to-day has been not un-
like that of the entire week. 1t has beer,
cool and 6ultry during The nights ana
early morning, especially calculated to
produce fatalities. Or the deaths to- dtly
two or three were the result OF moor
treatment
The most Important death of the day
was that of Ira T. I1ritton. Mr.. Britton
was the manager OF the General Electric
company here. lie came here about a
year ago from Columbus. o.
Pascal MaggestranO, who said he was
from Kansas City, walked into the
Charity Hospital last night and said he
was Ill. y rapid diagnosis showed that
| the man was suffering from yellow
FEVER. He was quickly taken 10 the
| Isolation hospital. but had not been
there many hours before he brca thed his
| last.
FEVER CASES IN MISSISSIPPI.
| Jackson Miss, Oct 20-Thc State
| Board of Health tonight issued the fol-
lowing statements:
DR.. Metcalfe reports from Nittn
| Yuma that there Is no new cas-, there
ana all the sick are doing well.
pr Purnell seeds the following from
Edwards: New cases in town to-day
one white and three colnrcd"
| DE- Watts reports three casts in
Queens lliil cighborhood-two whites
and one coiored. All the sick are doing
well and none are critically i'll.
| Dr. Dabney reports from Clinton
| Two cases under treatmcnt-Dr. Mil
Ter and Robert Mil!er-formcrly re-
! ported"