The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-09-25
SET FIRE TO A HOSPITAL.
4 Mob Objects 10 The Use Of BtauTe8aTd
sChOOl House.
OFFICIALS WILL NOT Be BULLDOZED.
A Faithful Catholic Priest succumbs to
Fever In Mobile-Patients Found TO
Al Sleep on the Ground fbser,
Modifying the Ouarantins.

NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 2L-Emlnent
physicians believe that the work Of the
Board Of Health IS productive OF good
results. and that the fever Is not spread
ing. but on the contrary is being confined
10 localities. Thus far there have been
a few less than one hundred cases and
fifteen deaths. The death rate IS in the
nelghborhood Of Is per cent. It was in
1873 1G per cent, so that up to the pres
ent time the disease IS about as virulent
as il was IN the last great epidemic that
visited New orleans.
one OF the sensations Of the day was
the announcement that the Board OF
Health had decided 10 prosecute DR.. Mon
luzin FOR having failed to report a case OF
suspicious fever:
This was the record to-day:
Deaths-salvador Casinir. 1923 Charles
street; Frederick Gund, t35 Marais' Miss
Dreyfous, So Bourbon
New Cases.-Child IN the Wood family
Octavia, between Charles ana RUS
streets: Miss Mccall 1i5 Jackson; Miss
Mamie McNeeley. 1913 St. Louis; Ger
trude Kerr SN Bourbon; John APPEL, $50
Howard. Kate Murray (colored). 1928
Magazine. Rasalia Balding (colored). 5i5
washington: Joseph Routher. SIS Robert
street.
BURNED a HOSPITAL.
Mavor Flower to-day ordered a force
OF policemen 10 guard the Beauregard
School. which a mob attempted 70 burn
last night. Only portion Of the building
was burned. and 10 is still possible TO use
the structure as a hospital for the treat
ment Of yellow fever patients
It was shortly after midnight that the
mob applied the torch 20 the school, and
thereby carried into execution threat
that had been repeatedly made during
yesterday evening.
When,the hremen arrived on tho scene
| their hose was cut. but the department
worked pluckily and with the assistance
| OF a squad Of police. succeeded in eXtin-
| gushing the flames.
A committee to-day called on Mayor
Flower TO protest against the use Of the
building as a hospital His Honor hercely
denounced the outrage Of last night.
A mob might threaten, he said but the
! city had decided on the location and an
| the threats in the world could not deter
| him from his purpose % protect the SIS
ters of charity and the surgeon who
would be sent 10 the school 10 receive and
| care for yellow fever patients.
In the mca1timo. he said he had sum-
! mOned Chief of Police CASTOR 10 the hall
and no effort or expense would be spared
fired the building last night
The Mayor has the support OF we'll
| high the entire community.
A FAITHFUL PRIEST
MOBILE, ALA, Sept. N-There have
| been three deaths and three new cases
since the report handed out yesterday at
| 2 o'clock.
Father Murray. one Of the victims, was
thirty years Of age and native OF MID
dleton. County Cork ireland. After stu
! dying at the Jesuits. at Limerick. he, I'M
| ished in theology I'm the American college
| Of Rome. lie arrived IN Mobile IN le8'.
! From here he was transferred TO Birming-
| ham, Ala, and Bcssemer, Ala, ana ln
January last he was transferred TO Mont
gomery. Ala. Hearing that an assistant
was needed here, he offered 70 come ana
reached Mobile Soptcmbcr Sth. The fever
broke out a few days after his arrival
He preached at 81. Nincents last Sunday,
for the final summons. That afternoon
he was attacked with his fatal Illness
The bulletin to-day SAYS: FortY-onc
| cases six deaths. nineteen discharges, and
sixteen under treatment. With one or
two exceptions the sick are doing wei.
Dr. George A. ketchum, president OF lhe
Board Of Health, notes that the pauenls
| an sleep on the ground floor lie lnters
| that the poison moves along the ground
| and attacks those first In reach.
The steady effort 20 get The str5inTiEeIney i,I y
| OF quarantine against mobile nodi"ed u
meeting with partial eucCes-
OFFICIAL REPORTS
WASHINGTON. September 2i.-surgeon
General Wyman sent out to-day the Iol-
| lowing bulletin in regard 10 the 9ello"
"Tbe following cases OF yellow fever
were reported as occurring on the go ln-
slant: .,,,. $780,,
| Springs. 6: Scranton, 81, Edwards. %, At
| Ianta /. Louisville XIV. ]; reports from
| Biloxi and Barkey delayed.
| "The cases occurring al Atlanta ana
Louisville were those OF refugees.
| Surgeon Geddngs reported from JACK
son Miss. that the town OF Edwards
had been surrounded by a Gordon ana
that the fever cases i'm the county were
guarded.
traffic has been resumed on the Alabama
and Vicksburg road from Jackson 10
Meridian and that two medical inspectors
have beon assigned 10 the trains.
Dr. Wyman's advices tonight include
| the following:
At the Fontainbleau Camp OF Detention
| IS persons were admitted. and II dis
charged Total now In the camp 432. New
cases at Edwards to-day. %; total 70 date
From Atlanta. Surgeon sawtelle reports
"Case reported last night doing well:
no other cases In town and no suspects
/ on incoming trains to-day"
From New Orleans Surgeon Carter re-
ports that mains are now being thor
l oughly diSinfected.
From Nashville signed by the Mayor
| and Board OF Health:
at a called meeting OF the state Board
| OF Health this evening all quarantine or
ders heretofore issued were rescinded.
] Parties coming from infected districts
| will be allowed TO stop at any and all
| points in Tennessee, the western division
| OF the State excepted"
no FEVER IN SAN ANTONIO.
SAN ANTONIO. Texas. September "a
| A telegram was received here to-day from
| President OnDhant. OF the New Orleans
Board OF Health, inquiring as 10 the
| health conditions OF San Antonio and
stating that this city was strongly sus-
| pected."
The matter was taken up at the meet
| ing OF the Board Of Health here to-day
and the following statement issued:
/ There Is no case OF yellow fever or
| tmall-pox IN San Antonio and. 10 our
! knowledge. no case Of yellow fever IN all
/ Western Texas"