The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-09-14
Every Town Within 1 900 Miles
of New Orleans
Is Enforcing Rigid Quarantine
Against That City.
BUSINESS PARALYZED.
Railroads Have Taken Off Many
of Their Trains.
Drummers are Tied Up In the
Interior Towns.

New Orleans, September Little in
formation touching the fever situation
in this city is obtainable at the board
of health. No concealment is made of
the expectation of the officials that pos
sibly a dozen cases more will develop
here, but the large expert staff now en-
ployed in fighting the disease are not
less confident than they We're at the
start that they will finish yellow jack
before frost comes, or al least keep him
very groggy. A majority of the cases
are improving and fatal consequences
are looked for 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 the present cases.
the health officers do not believe there
will be any alarm in the situation.
The city is so tightly tied up now and
so many hands are lifted against her
that there is no longer any cOmmotion
created when this or that town in
StituteS quarantine. Within radius of
1000 miles every town and hamlet has
refused to have any intercourse with
the city. Drummers who are on the
road are tied up in small towns and no
orders are coming in and the country
people are at present paying no bills
This morning, the Northwestern rail-
way took off two of its trains. SO much
has been telegraphed of the existence OF
fever here that the rural towns
longer care to see trains from New Or
leans running to their towns. The pas
senger service has therefor fallen off as
stops can be made at few points south
of Mason and Dixon's line and the
Northeastern considered it best to re-
duce its quota of trains. The Southern
Pacific took off two trains today as it
was predicted last night. Many people
are suffering as result OF the quaran-
tine regulations.
At Alexandra, two residents of that
place, who had been to New Orleans
and who had run the quarantine and
gotten home, were ordered to leave AL
exandria in two hours. A councilman
and school teacher who had managed
TO slip through the quarantine at the
leans and shipped back to the desten,
| ton point where. they will be isolated
and detained for the full limit of time.
Among the places that have quarantine
is Port Eads, near the passes and even
| the pilots, who live in New Orleans and
bring steamships up the river, are met
with difficulty in travelling between
| Port Eads and New Orleans Oil and
coal men, who go down the river to
take orders from the ships have been
notified that they will not be allowed ta
stop at Port Eads. Lafayette La, mas
stopped the Southern Pacific from chan
ging it's train crews at that point for
nc announced this morning that it will
sell no more tickets to Texas points
AT the residences of Edward Mckinley
and Dr.- Lowell up town, the same Sys-
tenn of quara ntine has been put into
effect as al other infected points. Police
officers warn people not to stop in the
neighborhood and sanitary officers have
taken charge of the premises and sur
rounding places and are thoroughly dis
injecting them.