The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-09-24

Only Nine New Cases NJ New Ori~ans and
One at Mobile with No Deaths Yesterday.
1.-TWO New Cases NJ Cairo-A Scare at So.
Louis No Fear: There From the Mebtss
:Refugees-The Disease. Assuming . Moro
Violent Type as EdwHrd.
St. Louis. September e1.-This city
had a yellow fever scare today. but
there seems to have been but little
foundation for IL according To Health
Commissioned StarkloN. who made an
examination of the suspected case and
declared that IL showed not a single
symptom Of the dreaded disease that Is
raging in the outh. The suspect il
William Tript, 80 years OF age. who
reached the marine hospital Monday
morning. He had a high fever and said
he came from the government dredge
boat Alpha, engaged in revetment work
near East Cairo, Ky. DIR. c.. E. Decker,
a physician in charge Of the marine
hospital, became interested in the case
when he was told by Tript that he had
been working on the Alpha, for that
boat had been used to transport several
cases of yellow fever to the marine hos
pital at Cairo, Ill. Thinking 1t a case
for investigation, he telephoned
Health Commissioner Starkloff, but IL
was 10 o'clock before that doctor could
get to the hospital. He examined
Tript and then returned to his office in
the city hall, where he was seen by a
representative of the Associated Press.
In regard to the case DR.. Starklon
said: III have made a thorough exam
ination of Tript with Doctors Jordan
and Decker. The analysis as presented
to me makes the case to be one of ordi-
nary intermittent fever. If ii is yellow
fever it is of a very mild type. There
are lone Of those alarming symptoms,
such as suppression of the kidney func-
ti6ns and constipation-the two things
that kill in yellow fever. Besides, the
man had an appetite for breakfast. He
looks yellowish and has foul breath,
like all malarial patients. Tript says
his home is in Illinois, and that for sew
eral months he had been working on the
dredge boat Alpha near Cairo. He has
been sick for several days. He boarded
a box car on the Iron Mountain road
in the Cairo yards early Monday and
came here. When he left the box car
he went directly to the marine hospital.
/ shall have the patient sent to quar-
antine, where DR.. Woodruff Is in
charge, and take all necessary precau-
tiOns."
Two hundred clerks, with their fami-
lies, employed in the general officesof
the Mobile and Ohio Railroad Com
pany at Mobile, Ala, arrived here to-
night, temporary headquarters OF the
road having been established in this
city until after the yellow fever has
died out in the south. DR.. Starklon was
asked what would be the effect or SO
many people from the midst OF the
fever stricken district coming into this
city. He said he had nc fear that they
would spread the plague. At the worst
there could only be sporadic cases p
these would be quickly reported to the
ted. The doctor declared that it was
too old here for a spread Of h dis
ease.
New Orleans, September 21.-There
were nine cases of yellow fever report
ed to the board of health this after
noon at 6 o'clock, when the days work
of the physicians ended. There were,
however, no deaths recorded, and the
doctors all agreed this evening that
the situation was steadily improving.
The fever at present, instead OF devel-
oping into a malignant type, is as mild.
if not milder, when it first ap-
peared here; as witness, twenty-seven
cases in two days without a single
death. Tonight the inspectors OF the
board of health reported that most OF
the cases that had come under their
observation were progressing favora-
bly,. There are only two cases which
give the attending physicians any rea-
son for alarm.
Up to the present time there has been
little dread of the fever. Some cases
are appearing about town but the
board of health thus far has been en-
abled successfully to quarantine each
case that has appeared. Confidence Is
steadily increasing.
Mobile, Ala, September 21.-This was
nother day Of favorable report. There
was only n new case reported, a child
named Willie Goodloe, living in the in
charged, leaving under treatment
twenty-eight, all of whom are pro-
| crossing favorably. There have been
but three deaths and none since yes
terday. So many Of the reported cases
ave failed to further develop the
yellow fever characteristics that not q
few of the doctors seem disposed to
! doubt the correctness of the diagnosis.
and one of the most experienced OF the
doctors has been heard to "a hat he
would not report any more Gases al
suspicious. He would wait until the
symptoms became u~nmistakable.
Vicksburg, Miss, September 21.-The
evening report from Edwards was not
SO favorable, DR.. Purnel stating that
the disease was assuming a more seri-
Gus form; that he had some cases of
black vomit. Colonel Robb died this
morning. Other patients were reported
| grayely i'll.