The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-09-25
DEATH ROLL ENLARGED
yellow Jack Claims Three Additional
Victims In New Orleans,
DEATH RATE IS FIFTEEN PER GENT.
Mob Fires school House DcsIgnnted
as Temporary IIospiinI-Thrce
Deaths at Mobile, Including IL
Young Priest Official Statement
by Surgeon General wSman.
New Orleans. La, Sept. q. 1897.

New Orleans La, Sept. 81. 1897.
Em:rlcnt physicians believe That the
work of the Board OF Health Is pro due
tive OF good results and that the fever
Is not spreading, but on the contrary Is
peing confined to localities. Thus far
there have been II few less than one hun
ured cases and fifteen deaths The
death rate is in the neighborhood of IL
per cent. 1t was in 1878 1G per cent;
81 tnat u to the present time the dis
ease Is about as virulcnt as 1t 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 to prosecute DR.
Monluzin for having failed TO report n
case OF suspicious fever. In one of the
morning papers FEW days ago DR.
h.ealuzin was QuO'cd as saying taat
there was little. Il any, fever in New
Orleans and that the prevailing sickness
was nurmah, or sun fever, which he
uescfibeu as contagious on infectious,
ana quite likely to be ATTENDED. with
about the mortality or yellow fever
ms morning. DR.. Monluzin reported to
! me Bo;t'd OF Health the case of Miss
Dreyfous, who. he said, was suffering
with yellow fever. II was not long
| before the report was received that the
Doard had TO report the death OF Miss
'c>'''- All INV proved llitlt
MISS Dreyfous was taken sick about
SIN days ago and that DR.. NIonluzin had
1aiied even to report the case as sus-
| picious.
This was the record to-day: Deaths:
Salvador Casinir. 1923 Charles street:
frederick Gund, 535 Marais; Miss Drey-
ious' 10 bourbon, ana eight new cases
Oh the ninety odd cases in New Or
leans from the beginning, but four have
pcen among the negro population There
are still several serious cases among
those who are ILL.,. but the Board of
Health Is daily dscharglng patients as
cured.
Mayor Flower to-day ordered a force
or policemen to guard the Beaurcrard
School, which n mob made an attempt
10 burn last night. Only a portion of
the building was burned and II is still
possible TO use the structure as n hospi-
TAI Tor the treatment of yellow fever
patients.
IL was shortly after midnight that the
inop applied the torch TO the school and
thereby carried into execution n threat
that had been repeatedly made during
yesterday cNcning. When the nrcmcn
arrived on the scene their hose was cut
put lhe department worked pluckily and
WIN me assistance or squad Of police
succeeded In eNtinguishing the flames.
The burning Of the school created in
'>''''N l'''it hitiOH mere ana the Olltrl
was bitterly denounced. Every news
paper in the city. in ringing editorials
| mas pledged itself to support the NIayor
| IN Whatever action he might take 10
punish the culprits and carry into cf-
rect the original determination TO cstaih-
llsh the yellow fever hospital In the
seauregard Schoolhouse. a committee
during the day called on Mayor Flower
| 10 protest against the use of the build
ing as hospital. HIS Honor flerccly
| denounced the outrage OF last night He
| sad that such occurrences would do
| New Orleans more harm than all the
yellow fever epidemics combined. The
question had arisen whether there should
be law and good order here or anarchy.
lie proposed to exhaust every power at
his command to establish peace. and he
| SAID that II 1t required all the forces Of
! the city and State he was determined
| that the Beauregard School building
should be used as Il temporary hospital
| y mob might thera ten, but the CITY
mad decided on the location, and all the
| threats in the world could not deter him
| from his purpose to protect the Sisters
| OF Charity and the surgeon wlro would
be sent 10 the school no receive and care
for the yellow fever patients. In the
| meantime. he said. he had summoned
| Chef OF Police Castor TO the hall and
! no effort or expense would be spared
| III bringing ITO justice the men who had
| fired the building last night. The
| Mayor has the support of well nigh the
entire community.
The situation here in general is un-
changed. Fre!ght is moving slowly, and
there is practically no passenger traffic
| The theatres are STILL open and amuse-
| ments are not restrained Burt New
| Orleans is losing hundreds of thousands
| of dollars by quarantine is not to be
| doubted. The ordering by the Southern
| Pacific company of the steamer Ell Mort @
| from New York 40 Galveston. means
| shat all Eastern freighrs destined for
the Pacific coast will go through the
| Texas port until the quarantine cmbar-
| so against this city is raised