Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-10-09
4 FALSE REPORT ABOUT YELLOW FEVER AT WARNER CREATES
 ALARM.
  Board of Health Establishes a Quar- antine-.-An Investigation of the Case Shows It to Be Malar- ial Hemateria or h
 Other Words Swamp
 Fever.
 

It became rumored on the streets Saturday afternoon that case of yellow fever existed atsVarner, Lin eo!r county, about thirty miles southeast of Pine Bluff on the Iron Noun tain railroad.
 Mayor Bell immediately tele. graphed to Drs. Price and Morley at Warner and received an answer that they diagnosed the case as yell low fever.
 The receipt of this Intelligence created great excitement. Mayor Bell immediately called meeting of the board of health for three o'clock, at which time there was 8 full at- tendance,
 Mir. H. D. Avery, @ citizen of hin- eoln county who WAS at Warner Fri. day, was present and made state ment to the board. He stated that the alleged case of yellow fever was Mir. Watt Stitt, reputable young man of the community who lived on 8 farm and also worked on the rail- road; that the young man had not been out Of the county in several months aud had had no opportunity to contract the disease; that he had been afflicted with chills and fever and boils, and had been unWell for several days. and that all the indi. cations simply pointed to bad case of swamp fever. On the strength of this statement and the improbability Of the case being yellow fever, members of the board privately requested that the evening newspapers make DO an. nouncement of the supposed case until further developments and more definite information could be ascer= tained,
 Dr. Price was telegraphed to for a diagnosis by wire, aud when this was received the physicians present expressed themselves as being of the opinion that the case vas sim ply swamp fever, whose symptoms are very analogous to yellow fever. At this juncture telegam was also received from Dr. c. M. Taylor aud other physicians. at Little Rock, stating, in their opinitn, from de- scription and the history of the case, it was nothing more than what is commonly called swamp fever. A telegram was also received from Gov. Jones stating that he had telegraphed to Washington asking that a marine hospital expert be sent to Warner to examine and re- port on the case.
 On motion of Capt. N. T Roberts, a strlct quarantine was established against Warner, Grady, Dumas and Rockville, and all railroads and all dirt roads entering Pine Bluff be fguarded by health officers until fur ther developments.
 On motionao Mr " T. Woold- ridge, Dr. P. H. Pendleton, an ex- pert of twenty five years experi- ence with swamp fever, and Mr J. B. Johnson, a yellow fever immune who had suffered three cases and nursed many others, were requested to proceed to Warner On a special train and examine and report on the case. Each volun teered to do so and left the city on special about 7:30 o'clock last night. About l0:30 Mayor Bell received the following telegram:
 "Varner, Ark, Oct. 3, 1893. Mayor D. c. Bel, Pine Bluff
 l have examined the case and con- sider it malarial hematefia.
 F II. Pendleton, N. D
 Dr. Pendleton aud Mr. Johnson returned on their special after mid night. Each prepared an interview for the Graphic as follows:
 Da. pESDLEV0N
 ssIhere is no history of exposure to iafsetioo. Patient had been al 1 his father in-laV's ; tea miles away l f.,.... roii-nnd fc,-. taan Inolf .nnnfh