46 TEQUESTA A great number of citizens became panic-stricken and left town regardless of the quarantine, some riding bicycles, some on horses and in wagons and many by foot.... There was a young pioneer attorney who took to his heels and left Miami so fast that it was reported in conversation that "He was going at such a rapid pace down the path, when a Molly Cottontail jumped up in front of him, he yelled 'Rabbit, get out of my way if you can't lead the pace.' It was reported, 'the rabbit escaped to the side and he proceeded northward very rapidly."'4 In the local press there are repeated statements that there was no panic. Some people, however, decided to go north to visit relatives or took an extended cruise on a seagoing vessel. Others, including John Seybold, a prominent baker, pitched tents in the pine and pal- metto woods beyond the city limits where they spent the nights, coming into the city after sunrise to take care of business. It was believed that sleeping in the woods, away from the city, avoided the contagion that caused yellow fever.25 The disease struck again when I. R. Hargrove, a dancing in- structor at the Hotel Miami, became sick about September 19, after spending the night aboard the cattle boat, Laura, moored at the city dock at the foot of today's Miami Avenue.26 Hargrove was taken to his room on the second floor of the Hotel Miami, where he was seen by Drs. Jackson and Horsey and nursed by friends, but ultimately died on September 26. The hotel was promptly quarantined, the occupants and anyone who had contact with Hargrove sent to deten- tion aboard the quarantine vessel, the Santa Lucia, and the Hotel Miami disinfected, "using bichloride of mercury wash, sulphur dioxide fumes and formaldehyde gas, first pasting all openings and making the building as air-tight as possible."27 Scare Is Over Starting September 26, the sheriff and doctors carried out daily canvasses. When no new cases appeared, the canvasses were dis- continued after sixteen days. The editor of the Metropolis believed the "yellow fever scare is over.'"28 Restrictions on travel and busi- ness were relaxed and citizens breathed a sigh of relief, but the relief was short-lived.