The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-14

This telegram was received yester- day morning by The Advertiser from Dr. Sanders very soon after the autop- sy which was performed on the re- mains of the white woman who died in Castleberry Wednesday night. Since the receipt of the telegram further news came from Castleberry to the effect that the husband of the woman also succumbed during yesterday. They were both taken i'll at about the same time.
 Industrious Investigations by Dr. Sanders and Secretary c. A. Mohr of the Alabama Board of Health, through the entire day yesterday, failed to trace the origin of the infection in Castle- berry. tt
 Chief Clerk Walter R. Brassel1, of the Health Board, yesterday received instructions from pr. Sanders to put on strict quarantine of the entire re- mainder of the State against Castle- berry. This was done at once and trains which passed through the town yesterday did not pick up single pas senger In the strawberry town. It is not improbable that the whole County of Conecuh will be put under quaran- tine. This may be decided upon as a necessary measure on account of the fact that some few inhabitants of the infected town fled to the country round aDOuts beIOTe 0ie dfTlfdt UT IT. Oah- ders and Dr. Mohr on the scene.
 Safe Measures Adopted.
 oficial information reached Mont gomery during the day that the exodus from the town had stopped and all pre- cautionary measures had been taken to prevent further spread of the disease. Dr. Sanders gives the assurance that before noon yesterday the house in which the couple died had been effec- 1 AAA Ga more than likely that all the houses in the neighborhood will be fumigated and screened. The house in which the man and wife died Is in the center of the town and visible from the railroad station.
 On account of the singular fact that the two persons who succumbed to the fever had not left Castleberry during the summer there is no end of specuia- ton as to the source of their infection. As their home Is only a short distance from the railroad some believe that a stray mosquito from one of the refu- gee coaches that passed through the town from New Orleans might have inocuiated the woman first and the in- lection of the man followed.
 Castleberry is a watering station on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad and Train No. 4. running through Ala bama from New Orleans often stops in the town to take on water. It is possible that during these few minutes an infected mosquito stole out of a coach and began his troub1ous work. Yet 1t is a rule of the quarantine that these coaches are to be kept closed 1 while on stop at any place in Ala bama.
 In long distance conversation with Clerk Brassell yesterday, pr. Sanders said that he and Dr. Mohr would re- main in Castleberry to try to get con- troI of the situation. The promise of early frosts this year makes 1t fav- orable for the fight against the disease at this time The developments of the next few days in and around Castle- berry will be watched with intense in- terest especially in South Alabama whose integrity has ben remarkably ] preserved thus far in view of the great exposure since the Pensacola epidemic. l Catholic Priest Detained.
 Rev J. Fl. Cartissa. Catholic priest who was destined for New Orleans yes | terday, was removed from a train on the Western Railway yesterday at | Newman, Ga, where he will have to re- main two or three days longer In or der to observe the regulations of the | Alabama quarantine which prevents people from New Orleans who once pass | through Alabama from retracing into or through the State. The only way in which these refugees can get to New | orleans through Alabama Is to stay 1 out the seven days of detention. 1 The Alabama officer who ran across
 inc nriest says he was offered $5 if he
 would not interfere with his passage
 nm to New Orleans. This was refused
 and the passenger was taken off the | train at Newman
 Father Cartissa was returning from | New York where he had accompanied bIs niece to college. If he had stated hts circumstances before trying to
 nome through the State. Clerk Brassell
 said yesterday that he would probably
 have made an exception of the case
 as he has done in a few similar in-
 a.ancea But there was no application
 for nermission and the priest was de-