The age-herald., 1897-10-27
Refugees From Montgomery and
 Selma Said to Be There.
MANY FOOLISH TELEGRAMS
Were Received Asking if There Was Yellow Jack Tn BirmIngham-Report From Nashville
 Denied-A False Romor Started.
TOWNS QUARANTINED AGAINST
 BIRMINGHAM.

1 Anniston, Ala.
 Columbus. Miss.
 Fort Payne. Ala.
 GadsIden, Ala.
 Annlston, the city nesting between the city which declared itself open and bsde welcome to all yellow fever refugees in | defiance of the state quarantine laws has been quarantined against
 Information was received by Governor Johnston yesterday that a number of regugees from Montgomery and Selma, | were quartered in Anniston. Directions were at once given to quarantine An | niston.
 There are also towns which have quar- antined against Birmingham. The rafl- roads received numerous advices yester- l day that some of the smaller towns had established strict quarantires against the | Magic City. pr. Sholl, chairman of the i committee of public health, was kept busy answering foolish telegrams asking if there were any cases of yellow fever in Birmingham.
 The reply was always: No yellow fever and mo suspicious cases" B1ming- ham has mo desire to suppress anything. The medical authorities and Mayor Evans say that if case should be found it will at once be reported to the world. Frost, the Yellow Jack germ killer came again yesterday morning in liberal quantities. It is expected every morning for several days. This las doubly re- assuring effect, and the doctors express themselves more confidently than ever that yellow fever could not live here, should a sporadic case appear. False Report Mississippi has quarantined again-t the | entire state of Alabama. Monday night a report was sent from Columbus. Miss, l that two cases of yellow fever existed dn Birmingham.
 | It was probably this false report that made several towns quarantine against | Birmingham yesterday. Monday night | telegram was received by The Age Her aid from Columbus and negative reply was given. Yesterday Dr. Sholl made the same reply to a similar query. The authorities here received notice early yesterday morning that steps will be taken in Chattanooga to quarantine against Birmingham. When Chattanooga was given the true situation the matter was dropped.
 It was rumored on the streets that there was a case of yelofw fever in the Maxwell hotel in Nashville. Such ad- vice was received by railroad men here and dispatch was printed in an after | room paper.
 No such report was sent out from Nashville by the Associated Press, and special query failed to elicit such reply. Last night Col A. M. Shook, of Nash vile, who has be,n in the city several days and was preparing to return, tele- graphed President J. w. Thomas of the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis railroad to know whether the rumor could be verified. In reply MT. Thomas sent the following:
 "Aston'shed at your telegram. The e T not word of truth in the report. There is not and has not been any case of sick ness in any way res: mbllng yellow fever at the Maxwell house, and there is no case elf sickness in the house of any kind"
 IL is thought that when the towns which have quarantined against Bir- mingham are correctly informed they will be. rais:d.
 The railroads are suffering from the strict quarant.se regula icns. Where the trains are not proh lbited altogether the running of them is rendered vsry un- satisfactory.
 Since Mississippi has quarantined against Alabama, a regular camp has been established at the state line on the A laasama Great Southern. The crew from Chattanooga can go no further than this camp. A crew from Meridian comes out to the state line and takes charge of the train.
 The mails are also rendered very ir- regular. Mails from Montgomery are a day late and no mail at all is received from points between that dty and Ssl- ma. It takes some ingenious measures to get cnails to many points, but so far the section mentioned is the only one entirely cut off.
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