Telegram to Governor Perry from Enterprise, Florida, October 16, 1888

Date: October 16, 1888

Series: S 577 - State governors' incoming correspondence, 1857-1888.

County Correspondence - County Boards of Health of: 1888 Escambia, Putnam, and Volusia

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Form No. 44.

NIGHT MESSAGE.

THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY.

This Company TRANSITS and DELIVERS messages only on conditions limiting its liability, which have been assented to by the sender of the following message.

Errors can be guarded against only by repeating a message back to the sending station for comparison, and the Company will not hold itself liable for errors

delays in transmission or delivery of Unrepeated Night Messages, sent at reduced rates, beyond a sum equal to ten times the amount paid for transmission; nor

in any case when the claim is not presented in writing within thirty days after sending the message.

This is an UNREPEATED NIGHT MESSAGE, and is delivered by request of the sender, under the conditions named above.

THOS. T. ECKERT, General Manager. NORVIN GREEN, President.

NUMBER SENT BY REC’D BY CHECK

16 S D 41 DH

Received at 2:00 PM Oct 26 1888

Two deaths& twelve cases

so far, all done that could be done. Armed

cordon around place. Surgeon Poosey here

with nurses & tonight will have supplies & more

nurses from Camp Perry – Will turn

 

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