Schley County GaArchives News.....A FATAL EPIDEMIC IN SCHLEY COUNTY June 24 1886 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Harris Hill http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00011.html#0002514 November 17, 2003, 6:20 pm The Atlanta Constitution The Atlanta Constitution June 24 1886 A FATAL EPIDEMIC IN SCHLEY COUNTY Ellaville, Ga., June 23--(Special)--There is a peculiar disease following the measles, which physicians call dyestery, that is raging in the northern portion of the county, and which proves fatal in from ten to eighteen hours. In a radius of three miles there has been about twenty deaths and it baffles the skill of the physicians. Mr. Joe Senter has lost all four of his children. So far it has proved fatal in every instance. This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 1.0 Kb