Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-09-14
NEW CASES OF FEVER
One Reported From New Orleans and
Four at Ocean Springs.
QUARANTINE RULES TIGHTENING
Physicians Think They Have the
Disease Under Control.
TROOPS GO TO ATLANTA.

NEW ORLEANS, September 14.-At noon
| today the board of health announced five
| additional suspected cases. These will be
denitely classed later in the day, after the
board of experts has made it's examination
Reports from Ocean Springs say there
have been four new cases. Surgeon Was
din. who is Ill, is doing we'll
| The board Of health, at 1 o'clock an
| nounced that one of today's suspected
| cases was found extremely suspicious,
| another is still under investigation. 9th
ers were found to be harmless
AS general rule, the experts make
thelr diagnosis in the daylight, so that the
reports OF Few cases are not to be expected
until noon or later. No concealment is
made Of the expectation of the officials
| that possibly q dozen cases more will de-
| Velop here, but the large medical staff nov
| employed in fighting the disease are not
Iess cohndent than they were at che start
| that they will finish yellow lack before
1rost comes, or at least keep him yery
grcggy.
Existing Cases Improving.
majority of the existing cases are i'm
proving, ana fatal consequences are looked
lor IN only one instance at present. The
authorities expect any other cases that
appear TO be sporadic. and if they are all
| as widely separated from each other as 3 re-
the present cases the health officers do not
believe there will he anv aIarn, ~; ~ ~.
situation AiA ~he
The city is tightly tied up now and so
many hands are lifted against her tnat
tnere IS no longer any commotion created
"nen tnis, mat or another town institutes
quarantine. Within a radius of 900 miles
every town and hamlet has empha atically
refused TO have any intercourse with the
city. Drummers who are on the road are
tled up IN small towns, and no orders are
coming IN and the country people are at
present paying no bills. This morning the
northeastern railway took off two of its
trains. ~ 49,
So much information has been telegranbed
Oh the existence of the fever here, that
rural towns no lor ger care TO see trains
from New Orleans running through their
towns. The passenger business has there
10 aoi aaiieh OH because stops can be made
a. out rev points south of Mason and
DIXON s line and the Northeastern con-
sldered IT best to reduce its quota of trains
me Southern Pacific took off two trains
tooay' as 1t was predicted last night.
suffering From the Quarantine.
Many people are suffering as a result of
the quarantine regulations. At Alexandria
TWO residents of that place, who had been
10 New Orleans and who had run the
quarantine and gotten home, were ordered
to leave Alexandria in two hours A coii1,-
Gilman and school teacher who had
managed to slip through the ouarantine
at the Rigolets, have been arrested in
New Orleans and shipped back to the de-
tentlon point, where they win be isolated
and detained for the full limit tf time
among the places that have established
quarantine is Port Eads, near the Passes.
anu even the pilots, who live in New Or
leahs ana bring steamships up the river,
are meeting with some difficulties in tray-
cling between Port Eads and New Orleans
oll and coal men who go down the river
70 take orders from the ships have been
notlned that they will not be allowed to
stop at Port Eads, which remembers her
experience with the fever in 1878 La
fayette, La, has stopped the, Southern
faclfic from changing it's train crews at
Southern Pacific announced this morning
that it will sell no more tickets to Texas
points.
Physfcians' Houses Quarantincd,
AT the residences of DIR. Edward Nc
Ginty and Dr.. Lowell up town the same
system of quarantine has been nut into
effect as at other infected points Police
officers warn people not to stop in the
nefghborhood, and sanitary officers have
taken charge of the premises and surround
ing places, and are thoroughly disinfecting
them.
Troops Flee From the ScOurge.
Special Dispstch to The Eveoine Star.
ATLANTA, Ga, September 1.-THE
United States troops who have been cta-
toned at New Orleans will come as refu-
gees to Atlanta today. Yellow fever has
scared the soldiers out of the crescent city
and the authorities ordered the troops to
Fort Mcpherson. They will come today
with Col. j. w. Scully, who is quarter
master of this division. There are two bat
teries of the 1st Artillery, with about 200
nj txvin a;
rect to the barracks, where they Will go
into camp.
News from Washington yesterday morn
ing was to the effect that the troops frora
Jackson barracks at New Orleans would
be sent to Chickamauga National Park.
but telegram received here later in the
day was as follows:
Troops ordered to Mcpherson. I 20 with
them ]. w. SCULLY."
Colonel Scully teegraphed the officials at
Washington that he deemed 1t advisable
where they would be beyond the danger of
infection. There has been no fever or sick
ness in the Jackson barracks but there are
several cases reported close by which have
caused alarm. Major Russell will be in
command of the troops while they are sta
toned here. The troops will bring with
1aem nsin a. al tbsr arms furniture and paraphe
everything else will be brought.
No Advices Received.
No information in regard to the yellow
fever situation on the Gulf of Mexico was
received at the Office of the surgeon gen.
eral Of the marine hospital before noon
today. While the officials are generally dis
posed to accept the theory that no news
Is good news, they decline to speculate upon
the situation.
PAUL DEPIERRE COMMITS SUICIDE.
Former Vice Counsel of the French
Republic mt New Orleans