The Columbus commercial. (Columbus, Miss.) 1893-1922, 1898-11-13
The Commercial.
BOARD Of Supervisors.

ston and C. H. Jordan; associate
members, c. L. Lincoln, clerk and
II. S. Donnell, sheriff, when the tol-
lowing proceedings were had;
The report of DR.. Jno. Browning,
chief health officer of Lowndes
county. was received and ordered
spread upon the minutes. 1t is as.
follows:
To THE HONORABLE BOARD OF
SUPERVISORS OF LoWNDEs
COUNTY.
AS soon as yellow fever was re-
ported at Winona and several other
points on the Illinois Central Rail-
rad. a quarantine officer was plac-
ed on the main line of the M. q. o.,
10 run on both trains between West
Point and Macon, and the appear
ance of the fever at Hattiesburg
and Meridian, rendered his service
still more necessary.
On Monday night, Oct 3, learn
ed that there was yellow fever at
the A & M College. 1t had been
there since September 18th. l tel
egraphed at once to Mr.. Alexander,
master of trains for the M. d .. II.
r. requesting that the trains on
fine Starkville branch be discontin-
ned on account of yellow fever.
Supt. Clarke of the M. & .. H. H.,
replied promptly that the trains had
been taken of.
Next morning, Oct. 4th ] went to
Artes:a to drive the refugees out OF
this county and to keep them OUT
I gave MAYOR Mitchell of Artesla
authority to act as quarantine ON
Ger outside of his municipal Jurls-
diction, to employ guards to drive
campers out of this county and TO
guafd the roads leading from Ok
tibbeha county to Artesia, to keep
refugees out. DR.. r. l.. Bailey OF
Crawford had written offering to as
sist me. so | wrote to him from Ar
tesla to guard the roads leading to
Crawford.
be present when your honorable
hoard adjourned, when Mr.. L. b.
\ Franklin, president of the board III
formed me that the board had en-
powered him and me to protect the
county against yellow fever. Mr..
Franklin requested me to telegraph
10 Mr.. w. V. Cornell at Mayhem
and appoint him quarantine othcer
and instruct him to put guards on
all the roads leading to Mayhem
from Oktibbeha county. We sub
seouently visited Mayhem and Mr..
Franklin urged him to put more
guards on if required to keep refu-
gees out of this county.
Mr.. Franklin requested me 70
write to Messrs. Hairston and Jor-
dan to look after the guarding OF
the roads leading to Crawford and
Mavhew. He also requested me to
send a man to Waverly ferry on
Tuesday night Oct. 4th to stay
there until relieved next day.
yellow fever had been at the A.
an. College from Sept. 18th to
Oct. 3rd undecided or unpublished.
The crews on the Starkvllle branch
had been during that time associ-
ating with some of the residents OF
the 4. G. NJ. College, about one
hundred in number, and with crews
and people of Artesia. Therefore
Artesia was a danger point. quar-
antined Artesia for ten days and put
a relay between Columbus and Ar
tesla for the same length of time.
After that time the Alabama quar-
antine officer requested its continu-
ance. The NJ. & o. r. r., paid the
wages Of my relay inspectors at
the switch.
On the 4th of October Charles
Kline came from very near the A. Dc
M. College to his home in the Wat
son field east of Columbus. He had |
been staying for the five days be-
fore his return at his fathers house,
who was an employee of the A. q
M. College. During that time yell
low fever was at the college, so
thought it was best to put a guard
at his house and send him as soon
as possible to a detention camp I'M
til ten days had elapsed. Mr..
Franklin concurred in this.
During the existence Of yellow
fever at the A. G. M. College six
miles from the county line l visited
Artesia six times and Mayhem one.
During the existence of the quar-
antine, Supt. Clarke of the M. & o.
r. r., informed me that there were
a number of refugees from Stark
Vile and the A. & M. College who |
wished to go north. l authorized
him to send a passenger train to
carry them north, avoiding all con-
tact with the Artesia people. It |
would have been inhuman to have
refused to consent to this. He also
stated a little later that Starkvllle |
was short of food, so / requested |
MIR. Mitchell and DR.. Cook of Ar
tesla to superintend and direct the
pushing out of supply cars to the
county line, to be pulled on by the
Starkville crew and engine after our
engine had left.
Respectfully submitted,
JNO. BROwNRIGG,
County Health Officer Lowndes
Nl3 tbof the follovino