The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-09-16
DISEASE AT EDWARDS.
And jackson Has COnniptiOn Fits
and the People Are Fleeing.

Jackson, Miss, Sept. 13.-EXcitement
Is at fever heat in this city today over
the yellow fever scare, caused almost
entirely by the presence of thirty cases
of dengue fever at Edwards, Miss,
twenty-five miles west of here. The
people have crowded the streets and
congregated around the bulletin boards
and many are fleeing to the surrounding
country. Packing boxes are at a pre-
MUM.
The dirt roads leading into town are
now guarded as well as the railroads.
At noon the mayor at Edwards tele-
graphed the Associated Press as follows:
There are only three new cases OF
dengue this morning. All doing well.
No yellow fever"
This afternoon the board of mayor
and aldermen held special meeting
and issued proclamat ton to the people
in which they say their fears are in no
wise relieved as to the situation in Ed
wards. but that the Dengue fever eX-
listing at that point would be kept ont of
Jackson. The board pledged itself to
inform the public immediately of the
first suspicious case of sickness in the
city. All public gatherings are pro-
hibited.
A card appeared in the evening papers
signed by eleven physicians, in which the
public is assured and the promise made
to advise them if it becomes necessary
for the people to leave the city in order
to protect their lives.
Dir. J. II. Purnell of Vicksburg has
returned to Edwards to again investi-
gate the thirty cases of dengue at that
point, and his further report is awaited
with great anxiety. From DR.. McLain,
the county health officer, who has just
passed through Edwards on his way
from Vicksburg, it is earned that at
least ten of the dengue cases at Ed
wards are regarded as decidedly sus-
picious.
DR.. Purnell, at Edwards, addressed
the following to the Associated Press
at p. M:
The conditions here are unchanged
practically. New cases of the disease
are developing, FIVE being added to the
list since last evening. The symptoms
are not increasing in severity, and with
the exception of Capt. w. A. Mont
gomery. who has been i'll since last
Thursday, there is no one whose con-
dition is considered alarming. Several
of the thirty patients under trea tment
are free of fever and are ont of bed. The
fever is mild. of short duration, and
while it is highly contagious, will cause
but very light mortality. no deaths
having occurred since that of Mr.. Cham
pion."
News comes from Nitta Youma. Miss,
small place between Vicksburg and
Greenville on the Mississippi Valley
road. saying that Malcolm Cameron. son
of Hon. John Cameron, once candi-
date for governor and prominent pol
itician. arrived at Militia Youma from
Edwards and was taken seriously Ill
with fever. and that the physician in
charge of the case regards it as very
suspicious one, and the little town is
in a wild state of alarm in consequence;
Additional news has been received
from Edwards confirming the report as
given out by County Health Officer Nc
Lean, to the effect that ten of the cases
there are regarded as decidedly suspi-
cious. 1t has been decided by the state
board of health to retain DR.. Purnell
at Edwards indefinitely. and all possible
steps are being taken by that board to
confne the disease to Edwards.