The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-10-13
Owing to the Yellow Fever
Scare Shotgun Quarantine
Is Maintained.
BUT THE PLAGUE is OF A
MILD TYPE.
Two Deaths From the Dread Dis
ease and Thirty-FiVe New Cases
at New Orleans.
special Dispatch to THE CALL

AUSTIN, TEXAS, Oct. 12.-The most
serious situation now confronting the peo-
pie of Texas is the almost complete
blockading of travel, owing to the yellow
fever scare. Many trains on all the prin-
cipal lines have been abandoned and local
lines have stopped running entirely.
Both divisions of the Houston anu Texas
Central and the Southern Pacific are tied
up most effectuaIly tonight, not a single
wheel moving, save in the extreme north
ern portion of the State.
Every small town in the State is rapidly
organizing shotgun guarantees. so trains
cannot stop except at the big cities. The
situation in the entire State is highly
panicky, and the feeling is one OF grow
ing alarm and apprehension. By to-
morrow night, unless the situation is
soon relieved, the great southern and GEN.
trail portion of the State will be practi-
cally without any railroad facilities, as all
trains will be stopped.
GALVESTON, TEX, Oct. 1.-THE situa.
ton in Galveston at this hour is hopeful.
II is agreed that the fever is Of mild type
Yesterday there were sixty cabin passen-
gers booked to leave On the New York
steamer this morning that being the only
way 10 get out of the city. Thirty of these
Cancelled their engagements and did not
CO. The Board of Health issued an ad-
dress to-day declaring the disease to be of
a light type and stating that eleven cases
have been reported, all told, and that
these eleven are either recovered or con-
valescent. The first mail since Saturday
night arrived to-day-three tons OF It.
The principal lines are bringing freight
into Galveston and being allowed to re-
turn their boxcars north. Free commune
cation was established between Houston
and Galveston to-day. DIR. Guiteras ha.
ton last night. He went out to the State
quarantine station at the entrance OF the
harbor and spent the night.
1t was decided by the Board of Health
to-day 10 be unnecessary to close the
schools.
DR.. H. A. West of the Board of
Health this afternoon reported Isador
Mayer, a fisherman, aged 46, living at
Thirty-second street and avenue z, as
an absolute case Of yellow fever.
HOUSTON, TEX, Oct. 12-The city
woke up this morning to find itself in
quarantine by the declaration of the
State Health Officer, SweaTingen, based
on the statement of Gulteras that four
cases of yellow fever existed here. The
public schools were not opened, and this
fact created some alarm. Few trains left
town and all were well filed. The cases
have been promptly isolated. The city
health officer to-day carefully Investigated
several cases called to his attention by
physicians, but pronounced all of them
dengue. All four cases are isolated, but
no new ones were found. No trains are
running now except one between here
and Galveston.
NEW ORLEANS, La, Oct. 12-The
fever situation grew no worse here to-day
but at the same time there is no rift yet
showing through the clouds, and the
promise is not bright for an I'm m ed late re.
opening of the avenues of industry.
Daylight had hardly come this morning
before two deaths had been announced,
but no other fatalities had gone down on
the books when night fell. The cases to-
day are, as usual, widely scattered and
have increased somewhat the total num-
Der OF cases under treatment, but at the
same time there nave been a large num-
Der of cases discharged to-day and the
death percentage has suffered fall.
The official bulletin tonight shows
thirty-hve new cases and the following
deaths: Joseph Colette. Allen Giles.
There has been for some time a general
impression that the fever was confined
solely 20 the houses of the poor, but it has
likewise found its way into the houses of
the rich, and there were handsome man.
sions to-day on Jackson avenue and other
fine residence thoroughfares, from which
the ugly red and yellow flags hung. Of
the new cases included in the bulletin to-
night those of Mrs. Hunter c. Leake, wife
of the general agent of the Illinois Cen
trail Railway: James r. Anderson.
prominent supply agent representing
Eastern houses; and of Mrs. Eakin, wife
of the superintendent of the Standard Oil
Company, are said to be of a somewhat
mild type. These are the most prominent
cases reported to-day.
MOBILE, ALA, Oct. 12.-There were
many new cases OF yellow fever brought
to light in the past twenty-four hours.
No deaths have occurred in the past
forty-eight hours. There are three more
cases reported on the steamer Kate, living
at Magaz lie Point, three miles above the
city. A hospital will be established there
and the ship disnfected.
The fever is making greatest progress
along the center of the residence porto
of the city in the Broad street and the
Spring Hill avenue districts, but still it is
not at the ratio noted at the beg in ming OF
The outbreak, while the virulence of the
disease has not notably increased.