The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-29
ShOt-Gun guarantees Established by
Central and Southern Districts.
HOUSTON'S SUSPICIOUS CASE
RESULTS IN AN ALMOST COMPLETE
PARALYSIS OF TRADE.
Nineteen New Cases at New Orleans
Twenty-one ut Edwards and
Ten at MOBILIZE

DALLAS, Tex, Sept. 2S.-There is a sug-
picious case of sickness at Houston and as
q result the yellow fever fright has struck
the State in earnest. Nearly all towns in
eastern central and southern Texas have
declared shotgun quarantine against Hous-
ton. In Brazas county County Health Of
fieer Tabor has given out orders to the eff
feet that every road entering the county
will be closely guarded and every suspi-
cious rumor run down. No passenger trains
will stop in the county hereafter and there
will for the present be no papers or other
mails received. Practical jokers are warned
against trying to scare the public The rail-
road company has been notified to put in
all perishable goods, flour. and ice at once
from the North in car lots, the same not
to come from nor through an infected point.
Trains will no longer be permitted to take
sidings for passage in Brazos county. At
Dallas no passengers from Houston will be-
permitted to stop, although there has been
no embargo on freight and mail as yet
The Houston & Texas Central has prac-
tically abandoned its train service out of
Houston, only one train day running. The
Missouri, Kansas & Texas is running trains
through Houston to Galveston, the cars be-
ing locked north of Houston and nobody
Galveston's quarantine against Houston
is absolute. Nothing but kilograms are per-
mitted to pass between the two places.
Freight, however, can go through Houston,
but must not be stopped there. All the
towns along the Southern Pacific and west
of Houston and on the Houston q Texas
Central have established shotgun quaran-
tine Navasota, in Grimes county, is COM
pletely cooped up. There has been no mail
since Wednesday and no prospect of any
soon. Guards are stationed on all the roaCS
and persons not known to the guards,
whether they have health certificates or not
are fumigated. There is a famine of cot
ton ties and newspapers have been forced
to suspend business because they have no
paper. Business is dead and no person is
permitted TO leave the country. Beaumont
has quarantined against Houston. WASH
ington county has laid an embargo on ev-
erything from all over the world. Robert.
son and Wharton counties have done the
same. Henderson county has established
quarantine against all infected towns Sew
eral coachloads of refugees from Houston
went through Dallas county, but were not
allowed to stop. They said there was great
excitement in Houston when they left.
Many of them were going to points in the
A dispatch from Victoria, Tex, says:
Yesterday a suspicious case of sickness was
given to the public by Victoria's Board OF
Health it being that of Mr.. w. II. Suggs,
who came to Victoria three weeks ago from
east Texas. He was taken sick Sunday
night and DR.. Thornton proclaimed 1t sus-
picious case. This morning notice was
given the railroad officials that no trains
would move on this division till further or
ders, and to-day Victoria is isolated. Yes
terday and last night nearly every vehicle
that was obtainable was engaged to take
the people to the farms in the country.
Galveston quarantined against Houston
Monday night, but the Galveston Health
Board does not regard the sickness of Miss
Eva Duncan, the negress. at Houston as
yellow fever. State Health officer Swear
ingen insists that the Houston case Is sus-
picious just as he did the Beaumont case.
Subsequent events proved Swearingen was
wrong at Beaumont. as 70 cases have de-
veloped among the family of the boy who
died of jaundice. AS SWearingen maintains
his stand that the Houston case is sus-
picious so long will Galveston quarantine
be maintained.
A dispatch from Houston says: Regard
ing the suspicious case of fever here the
State Board Of Health officers have requested
the Houston Board of Health to issue the
following bulletin this evening: Case some-
what suspicious but strictly guarded.
have no apprehension of result. Board OF
Health unanimous in declaring the case
nothing more than Inflammation of kid
neyS."