The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-02
HIDING CASES OF FEVER.
ITALIANS IN NBW ORLEANS BOTHER
N HEALTH BOARD.

Authorities Have TO Break Into Their Apart
nents In Some Cause.-The Fever Jumps
Rpysteriousiy Across tho Nississippi-Dr
s~u,terns ON = Roundabout Trip TO Texas.
NEW ORLEANS, La, Oct. 1.-Among those
stricken with yellow fever to-day was the Rev.
Beverly Warner, rector of Trinity Church, the
leading Episcopal church in New Orleans. Mr..
Warner was taking his vacation In New Eng
land. When the fever started here he re-
turned at once and has taken a leading part In
the measures TO put 1t down.
Antonio Sinacra was found dead from tho
fever to-day on ST. Philip street, in the italian
quarter. He came here from New York nftOnn
days ago and was taken with the yellow fever
almost at once. His family concealed the
disease. When the case was reported to tho
Board of Health the guards and fumigating
force had to break into the house, which was
barricadcd against them. They found Sinacra
dead and his wife lying across the body in
Mysteries and kissing the dead mans lips.
In the same neighborhood the Board OF
Health found the daughter of Santo Graffano
mortally i'll with yellow fever. Santo Graffano
was found dead Of the fever some six days ago.
but most Of the Italians in the house escaped.
1t was reported to the Board Of Health to-day
that Graffano's daughter was sick with tho
fever and had been so for five days. When the
inspector came he found the door of the house
shut against him. He went for assistance and
during the interval the family escaped with the
sick woman, who was bundled up in a sheet.
She was discovered, however, and placed in
charge of the sanitary police. The Board Of
Health finds 1t as difficult as ever to deal with
the Italians, who insist upon concealing all
cases of fever. generally with fatal result.
Two cases of fever were reported last night
from Algiers, the trans. Mississippi suburb Of
NAp, n,1na~, Eror- aya hao hnnp mazda IN
keep the disease out of that district, and a sys-
TEN of quarantine and inspection prevailed at
the ferries. 1t is impossible to explain how tho
fever got to Algiers, and 1t is one of the mys-
teries of the disease that 1t jumped a mile over
It iHf had ~V not BEEN te1 to sG New We Orleans snS for months aslns0p. 4
second case of yellow fever has been reported
from Jefferson parish, Just above New Orleans.
Louis. He said that never in his long expert;
snGe and his travels in all parts OF the world
than those who stopped the quarantine train at
Rayne on Wednesday.
would have shot us had we attempted to run
the train through the town."
DIR. Guiteras goes to st. Louis, with Texas as
his, ultimate destination, to investigate, the
Galveston dengue, If he is allowed to go there.
j. INCLUDED "a the Eastern mails for that place
Orleans Post Office, and finally had to be sent
to Lake Charles by way OF st. Louis before the
people there would receive it. There was a strong
disposition to reject the mails on the ground
During the height of Wednesdays scare in
Texas more than fifty towns in that State quar-.
antincd against the mails. The Texas panic
seems to be nearly over to-day.
The New Orleans Post Office is gorged with
hundreds of sacks of mails, rejected by into
rior towns. Some twenty towns in Mississippi,
half a dozen in Louisiana and Alabama, and all
of Texas are auarantined against mails from
New Orleans or mails passing through this city,
and there are scores OF other places which have
not quarantined., but are shut out by the stop
page Of railroad trains. An effort Is being
made to send these mails by way OF St. Louis
and Memphis, but many Of the towns refuse to
accept mails from any quarter.
New Orleans had thirty now cases to-day, with
a total Of 25s. The total deaths number thirty.