The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-09-16
BRONZE JOHNS WORK.
HE HAS STIRRED UP INTENSE So
LICITUDE AND ANXIETY AT
NEW ORLEANS.
CASES ONLY SUSPICIOUS"
THE SANE OLD SONG THAT THE
EXPERTs STARTED OFF WITH
AT OCEAN SPRINGS.
POOR B0L0X| IN THE FEVER'S GRIP
POOR BN0XI IN THE FtVER'S GRIP
People Have No Confidence In New
Orleans Reports and Are Wisely
Observation-Disclosures Effort Is
Being Made to Keep the
Fever Confined.

New Orleans. Sept. 1O.-The appear
ance of this mornings papers with the
announcement that there were twelve
suspicious cases in one square in a re-
mote section of the city, and that three
cases had developed upon the death of Il
young lady who had come from Ocean
Springs, created an alarm in the public
mind in the early hours of the day, and
Il report in the early forenoon that one
of these cases had proved fatal intensi-
fed the excitement. The latter. report
came that a man, as the resultnDf ex-
cessive dissipation, had died im the very
square in which these suspicious cases
had been found. In the conrse of half
an hour after the first sensational report
reached the board of health,l the mis-
representation was, corrected and the
afternoon papers succeeded in allaying
the temporary excitement that had arisen
from a singular 'juxtap0stion of circum-
stances. Throughout the afternoon the
situation locally continued to improve,
DR.. Olliphant were so favorable that re-
newed confidence was enforced in the
officials of the board.
Just before the board met. DIR. Olli-
plant said to reporter of the Asso-
ciated Press:
"There is marked Improvement in
the situation in the city. l may state,
unofficially, that all the patients in the
st. Claude street square are better. l
have not received a report from the board
of experts whom I requested to make Il
visit during the day. but / have learned
from our inspector who is assigned to
the premises that apparently none of
the patients is at present in danger. We
are still considering the cases as suS-
picious. because their fever is similar to
that which has prevailed at Ocean
Springs. They have not been declared
yellow fever. but they are under com
plete surveillance. and the board of
health is giving them undivided atten-
ton and has fully ascertained enough
to say there has been no case in the city
of New Orleans the symptoms of which
would Justify us in CHASING 1t as s"s-
picious.'
This morning. under Instructions from
Superintendent Harrahan. the Illinois
Central attached Il special car to their
early train leaving at 9 o'clock. which
carried Superintendent Dunn. Doctors
Hunter and Quinn of the Mississippi
board of health, and General Agent
Leake. The party made its first stop at
Macomber, where the car was detached
and where they advised the authorities
as to the active steps taken both IN New
Orleans and on the gulf coast An en-,
zinc will carry the train up the road all
the way to Memphis. and stops Will be
made at every station of Importance and
the situation likewise explained. in order
that a panic in the country may ne pre-
vented and the imposing of unreasonable
quarantine restrictions prevented. Ar,
irving at Memphis, the special car VIII
he transferred to the Mississippi valley
road and the party will return 10 New
Orleans. stopping at all important poiI,s
and seeking, to quiet the tears 3i; 'n of
npople. 1t is hoped that tins WISH OF
pff;cials in whom the people have conn
.Sance will have the effect of changing
undne restraint of trade and of restoring
tho neace of mind of those who are ex-
e's Suroaon Murray of the marine hospital
sorvice stated tonight that Ocean Springs
from now on would be the Official mead
o,,orters for the entire coast marine nos
p p;tai service. DR.. Murray has estan-
,i;sbad his Office in the railway depot; ne
notnrned this afternoon from f0ntalhee-
hleon which is three miles from the gun,
unJ where hp has ordered the camp 10
hn bm;lt 1t had been originally IN
.tonded 70 establish the camp at tne
n,nutb of the Pascagoula river put tnas
niouildI have necessitated the building OF
"oui harf 1000 feet long. and this COULD
he done inside of two weeks. llIne
u !lo' rDervthing now. and the change was
Is S az a. Fontainebleau. Those who were
il maui, - the camp of detention Will De
tlS5 nnominal prisoners for ten days ana
NJ tbn nypiration of that time me!
II at ~, nv signs of affection they VIII De
snoM; dod with government health Ter
p .sootes and permitted to go where Tue!
please tod case, but one which shows the
a sap % the quarantine regulations
rlgluis! orted from Ocean Springs TO-DAY
WaS Orleans lady had sent her chliorenii
A New "a Tho other 8, to the Springs. anu
one anu IN the habit of visiting them
Weekly , The declaration Una. IT,. st Fishing of
hod neIisted there and the e end his nm.
IL may, Gordon around the town Ioun SINCE , then
sont,pata woman in this CITY: Sill s;nl, and
both children have been taken s,on nos
. poon mother has tried by every nie h1t per.
tn i ~ tidV cot into Ocean Springs, nu. bon p
slple n mass through the lines .! nas ones
mi kod bor and her suffering niue o"
reiuseu he cared for by strangers Ocean
nay neo hundred and forty people III