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THE WEEKLY TELEGRAPH: UCDR. BRANHAM IS.IN HIS GRAVEAfter His Strong Fight Against the Fever He Gave Under Late Yesterday Afternoon.WRAPPED IN HIS COUNTRY’S FUGIlls Body Wi( Uld to Rtat by Moon* light— Cartar and Hatton Will Go t» Quarantine.— Rcfugeas Hay XUturn Home.X*tttiWcTlotBrunswick, Aug. JO.—(Special.)—Surgeon Branham died today at 5 o’clock, lingering twenty-six hour# in an unconscious state.As soon as the death w« bulletined Urge crowds of sympathising friends fathered on the street comers and discussed the unfortunate man’s fate.Surgeon Hutton ordered the finest steel rolled, silver mounted casket In the city eent to the house. It wu left near the gate and 8urgeOn Carter and assistants carried It into Cie house. The body was wrapped in sheets soaked in bichloride of mercury, and around the lifeless form a large national flag was rolled.On leaving Washington Surgeon Hut-Ion h*d a premonition that Branham would die, and, prompted by this, he placed the (lag in his trunk.The casket and remains were brought to the Quarantine IHniu and there Surgeons Hutton and Guitteras. Undertaker Moots and his son Will placed Tt in the hearse. It was Quickly transported to the grave and in toe new cemetery and in the .presence of tlva Telegraph correspondent, the surgeons and under- I ad taker and minister. lowered to Its last 1 H resting place by the light of the cloud- | dimmed moon. - vlttRe*nontiCeui SIM T1mmBai1UDcmvu*cutcsE.TtitImViLaiIs)l*vMoUilt;IUIMoIf ahe#-hoh©i?BUewK#La*1*U1»Cirliti•1 ml 7 vclcA Qolet Fantril. * j«It4-\0It.r-*et*is,moflieIdmfie»h«Ul\VheillheororDd*v-m*le-Rev. Edward F. Cook of McEndres Methodist church read the burial ter- I of vices, the crave was covered and (he I V, party returned to town.Dr. Branham’s brother did not reach . here and he died without bearing in ] %j his unconscious state the loving message from his sick wilt in far-off Maryland.Surgeons Hutton and Carter’s sorrow I «lt; Is great, but they did all humans could 1 * to orlng to life their stricken comrade. Surgeon Carter's faithful and self-sacrV flctng care -is worthy of remembrance. I d By The bedside of Dr. Branham he watched for days and nights without a thought of his own peril, and, with faithful nurses, tried to ease the suffering man. To Blackbeard quarantine I at they will now go to pass the time 'Of I f1 Incubation that wMl t*H whether they I * will be the victims of their faithfulness. I if The case was the hardest fought In the history of the disease and Surgeon I j, Carter's care for the dead and Hutton’s I r for the living to prevent the fever has | M earned the gratitude of the people of Brunswick, who sU regret tbs fatal ending.Bley Return Home - ] pThere will be no raoce case* and Surgeons Cullers#, Hutton and Horsey say positively it will not spread and Bruns- a wick refugees can mum to tbrir homes b without fear of danger. Burgeon Cutters* say# it is the first time In ths history the world over that the local au- I U thorttiee took precautions to keep from i * •pceading before a patient dted, and * Brunswick's* authorities deserve unstint- I A ed praies from the people of the South | JJ for their noble work.All the.carpets and bedding in the I 5 Branham house will be burned and r the house washed from cellar to roof 11lt; with btchlorlde of mercury and the ground disinfected with carbolic acid.a*«Vtttedmtedroter-glintX-ay.In*theitu*ikjuseairUUltry sf the C*lt;t. I 48ur«e0n Branham was ordered by the I 2 government three weeks ago to take I charge of the Iocs^quarantine station. 1* On arriving here he complained of ma; I laria, but went about his duties. Lant [ j Wednesday afternoon he witnesied a 11 ball game here, and the hot sun drove I fever to bis brain. Thursday morning I j Health Officer Dunwody brought him I * to Brunswick from quarantine and he I, was carried to the home of Citr Phym-1 J clan Branham, his cousin, and Batur-l] day morning his case was pronounced 11 yellow fever. The subsequent action* | of the local authorities and the aid I * rendered by the government have been | lt;daily told by ths Telegraph correi-pondentThe last act ia nearly ended and the curtain will soon be lowered, abutting from eight the anxiety and suipense of Brunswick's one yellow fever case, the first In seventeen years, the last, the people pray, that will ever visit this brave dtv by the sea.l«T«ns*Vi QssrailUfRavannah, /Aug. 20.-{8peeUI.-A rigid quarantine against fort Tampa. Fla., want into effect hero thU afternoon. tt having been reported to th. health omcer by tha mayor of Port Tamp* that there were eight caaea of yellow fever there.EIGHT CASES AT TAMPA.:t J CbarJette* IU. Ord.r»d * It I,idQearamiftat*
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Macon Weekly Telegraph
Macon, Georgia, US
Mon, Aug 21, 1893
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