Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-09-22
FOUR DEATHS TODAY
Victims Of Yellow Fever at Various
Southern Points.
COOL WEATHER CONTINUES THERE
Detention Camp at New Orleans
Opened This Morning.
NEW CASES AT EDWARDS

NEW ORLEANS. September e2.-pr
Lowell died at go am DIR. Lowell Was
son OF Col Starr Lowell of Mississippi and
mad been i'll for more than a week. DR.
Loveii is said to have contracted the dis
ease from his attendance upon sick d.
tients.
"A second death from yellow fever occur-
req mere today. making eight in all Ii was
MISS Elizabeth Nussbaum. aged seventeen
years, of 1900 Galveston street.
Two new cases of yellow fever are re-
ported by the board of health today.
The city has decided to give $4,000 TO
the board of health.
bulletin from Biloxi. Miss reports the
death of Michael Levy. aged fifteen, early
this morning of yellow fever.
Three other cases here are under
eiose investigation. and enc Of these
IS AIRS "A. T. Wimberly. wife of the repub-
icsn member OF the national committee.
his wfe's illness.
among the cases reported yesterday were
Judge Lee, one of the secretaries of a..
COTTON exchange. and r. F. REYNOLDS
Ireish' agent of the Mississippi Valley
Two more cases of fever. Rubinstein. on
foydras street. and the second Celpi boy.
nave been discharged. Forty others arr.
steadiiy improving and are considered cut
OF danger. Three are dangerously in.
Inc camp of detention was opened this
morning at Oakland Park and a large num-
Der of Italian men, women and children
VIII be removed thither and given accom-
modatlon until the fever is stamped out
me camp has been rapidly put in shape
ana the refugees will find comfort IA BILE
quarters assigned to them.
The spell of cool wea ther continues and
tne mlidness of the twenty-seven cases in
the past two days is especially pronounced
ohlef CConnor has placed another engine
dt the disposal OF special volunteer force
and the downtown stTeeis, alleys and back
yards are being thoroughly scrubbed.
DISEASE SPREADS AT EDWARDS.
Eight New Cases and One Death Re-
ported There Today.
- EDWARDS, Miss. September 2a-New
cases OF yellow fever are reported as fol-
lows: C. r. KEox, J. ID. Boxtel, Miss
Downing, r. NJ. Perry. w. l.. Smith. Miss
Resale Howell, Harris Howell, Mrs. Roes
man; total. s. Total cases up TO date, 50.
There was one death, Miss Anna Henry.
Total deaths, J.
s. Nathan is reported sinking. The doc
tors say he cannot live Mrs Greaycs is
dangerously sick; all other cases are re-
ported doing well
Inc disease is rapidly spreading, and
while 1T is regarded as a mild type vet A
is feared it will become more malignant
owing 10 the cool weather now prevailing
We have more than a hundred families in
side our lines unaffected, with a total OF
about five hundred souls and Indications
are that nothing but killing frost can allay
the disease.
DIR. Purnoll has applied to the Howard
Association of Vicksburg for more help.
doctors and nurses. The Sisters of Mercy
hive in number. from Vicksburg. with
Father Prendergast. are doing noble work.
Tor which our people are exceedingly CRATE
ful: Our two ministers, Rev. Mr.. Galloway
and Rev. Mr.. Colmery, both reported con-
ralescent. Pat Montgomery has been dis
charsed; Capt. Montgomery is still improv-
ing, but not yet out of danger.
Forty-Two Cases at Biloxi.
message from DIR. Murray, in charge
of the yellow fever work at Ocean Springs.
il a telcg1 am to the surgeon general of the
marine hospital, says that he has Just
visited Biloxi. and that up to and includ-
ing the 10Th there had been forty-two
cf at that place and two deaths There
were also several undecided cases there
yesterday. He also reported one doubtful
case at Ocean Springs and one certain
case in a schooner sent from Biloxi TO the
gulf quarantine. He says he viii arrange
for the protection of the fleet.
DR.. Murray also stated that the camp at
Ocean Springs has a great number of i'm
munes who desire to go to New Orleans,
and that DR.. wasdin, who was attacked
by. the fever a week or ten days ago, has
recovered and soon viii be ready for duty
again.
DIR. Geddings, wiring from jackson, Miss,
says:
I'VE today believe the fever in this state
is confined to Edwards and the gulf coast"
He says there were twelve new cases at
Edwards yesterday, ten being among the
whites and two among the colored people.
There have been sixty-eight eases in Jack
son and vicinity to date.
DIR. Kalloch reports from Cairo that all
the cases there are doing well, and that the
steamer Alpha, from which The patients
were taken, is being disnfected.
The Treasury Department is making n
number of appointments for the marine
hospital service as result of the yellow
fever in the south. Two appointments OF
laborers at Ocean SPRINGS, one attendant
at New Orleans and one ut Cairo. ILL.,, were
made today. In addition, four appointments
of attendants at San Francisco were made
to fill vacancies caused by attendants being
sert 10 southern points
The salaries Of the appointees arc small,
ranging from $40 to SIS q month.
The extra expenses In this and in all
other matters relating TO the fever fight
are paid cut OF the big epidemic fund in
the treasury. Surgeon General Wyman can
draw on this fund for whatever is needed
Gen. Kidd Qualities ms Secretary.
General ]. H. Kidd. secretary of the deep
waterways commission, called on Acting
ment today and qualified in his new office.
III. esk-.