The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-01-10
SMALL POX SCARE
SUMTER REFUSED TO ALLOW
TWO AIhN WITH DISEASE
To Get OF the Train There, Quaran-
tined Them AL One Dny and Sen
Them Back.

Them Back.
The Sumter Watchman and South
ron says Thursday morning when
the eleven clock train came in tWo
cases of cudll pox vould have been
unloaded upon Sumter had i: not
been for the work of DR.. c. ". BiTnie
of that city who saved Sumtol from
the unwished-for and dreaded visit
ors, who we're two co!orei men
bound frou Marion to Lynch ,Irg,
one Of them just getting over the
disease and the other just taking a..
They were not allowed to get of Al,
Lynchburg, their desired destinat''a.
and so were brought on to Sumter
where they would have been Set fire:
had it not been that through the
warning Of DR.. Birnie. Mayor Ja"-
ming had had time to notify the
health ofIic, and station hin! with 4
policeman at the depot to keep ava!
any such undesirable visitors. The
Watchman and Southron says:
at seems that the men came from
Marion and were bound for Lynch
burg or at any rate that was the way
their ticket read. Dr.. Birnie got on
the train at Florence with them and
when the two men got off at Lynch
burg and we're Immediately hustled
back on the train by the city officials
at that place, who had received no
tifcation of the kind OF visitors they
were about to receive, Dr.. Blrnie at
once made It his business to find out
what the conductor expected to 10
with the two cases OF small pox. He
found that the conductor expected
to take them on to Sumter and turn
them off the train there. He did not
have time to get off the train at
Mayesville but he got some one to
telephone Mayor Jennings Of the two
cases of small pox and what the cun-
ductor expected to do with them,
Wuen ne SOL 10 sumter.
cat Sumter Mayor Jennings got in
hurry as soon as he had received
the telephone message from Mayes-
vile for he kne wthat it would not
take the train long to get here and
nmethiHg In:,$: be done before Il Al
lived. He at once got the health Of
Ger by phcne and told hi!n what his
lrtv waa Na also sent a policema.
long to see that things moved
'rncothly an! to help the health Of
fcer In case OF rec'. So when TIC
rain pulled in there they were both
ra;ting to see that no cases Of small
'nx got of IN The city OF Sumter
rhis they saw 10. and when the con.
1uctnr ns'sted, they mildly told him
hat they would tie his train down tc
he track and kep it there all day
'cr him. The conductor ob;cctei &c
his even mora thaa carrying on the
ages nf small pCx which we. G in the
TToElns anaTtmsnt OF tie cc!ore
'oach. The matter was finally settled
w the coach being run outside the
'ity limits and left on side track
-hile the rest OF the train pulled out
foT CGlumb bia.
"HeaHh Officer TowIes kept a strict
'iiarantine on the coach all ysster-
day unll last night when the evening
rain pulled out. The coach with the
we small no.; patients was attached
to It and the health officer rode rs
'ar as the city limits to see that the
train did not stop and that the two
undesirable ci:iztnE were taken 70
their homo town. or to eorle place
where the.~ were wanter more than
they were In Sumter"
Small rov seems TO be getting com
moa In different parts OF the State,
md 1t would be best for the au-
thoTltlea in this city to be on tn,
lockout. People with the disease
should not be allowed to be travelling
about the State rs the negroes above
mentioned were Watch the trains.