Mecklenburg County NcArchives News.....Typhoid Fever July 27, 1897
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The Semi-Weekly Messenger (Wilmington NC) July 27, 1897
Mr Hamond is the fourth person to die of typhoid fever in a year, in Capt.
Ryder's office. The other victims were Messrs. N L Luttrell and F M Breeland,
operators, and C W Hardin, chief dispatcher. Capt. Ryder's office, which
includes the dispatches and all other offices located in the Charlotte depot,
occupies the second floor of the building. That four strong, active young men
should have died in this office, in a year, of typhoid fever is proof beyond
discussion that there is something radically wrong with the sanitary
arrangements of the building. Besides the four deaths recorded, Mr Kirkman, also
one of the operators, was stricken down with fever several weeks ago, and is now
ill at his home in Greensboro; Mr Hamilton, who works in Mr Southgae's office,
in the room adjoining Capt Ryder's office, went home sick yesterday; Mr Fred
Laxton, one of Capt Ryder's clerks, left for his home in Morganton Monday
afternoon, sick; Mr Penny, another operator, has been feeling so unwell for
several weeks that he got leave of absence and left yesterday for a month's stay
at his home in South Carolina. The men who work on the upper floor of the
building are almost panic stricken.

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