Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-09-30
DEATHS FROM FEVER
Two More Cases Reported at New
Orleans This Morning.
DISEASE BREAKS OUT At CLINTON
Two New Cases of Fever Reported
From Edwards.
DOCTORS ROUGH EXPERIENCE

NEW ORLEANS, La, September 3D.
Miss Annie Hughes died at Biloxi. Miss,
of yellow fever this morning. She came
fro m Illir OILS.
James Gray died in New Orleans early
this morning of the disease. He lived
on Esplanade avenue.
President OliDhant, DIR. Carter and DR..
Guiteras reached this city early this MORN
ing. They had lef, yesterday to meet
DIR. Swearngen and other health officers
with view to the raising of the quaran-
tine embargo against freight and had a
very rough experience At Raine "a mob
with shotguns prevented their further
progress, and they were ordered to turn
back which, under the circumstances, they
were compelled to do. During their trip
they had gathered up some twentyfour
REPRESENTATIVES of health boards and held
a meeting at Cade, at which they fully
discussed the situation here and elsewhere
and adopted resolutions tending TO relieve
the congestion of freight.
A committee was appointed to communi-
cate with the authorities on the lines of
the Texas and Southern Pacific, with a
view to securing an amelioration of pres
ent oppressive conditions. All those in
the party said they thought that the trip
would result in great good.
DR.. Guiteras takes his experience good
naturally, although surprised at the terror
evident in some of the country districts.
He will stay here at the st. Charles Hotel,
and will await orders before making any
attempt to proceed to Beaumont.
Filling the Hospitals.
The authorities today are busily engaged
in making arrangements for moving more
patients into the yellow fever hospital on
Canal street. There are more than a dozen
patients there now, but several others will
be moved in today. The doctors in charge
reported this morning that the mar Pierre
Pourblanc who died last night, and whose
death was not included in the official re-
port, had been brought to this city yester-
day in a moribund condition. There was
then no nope of his recovery, and he was
so far gone that little about MIN could be
learned.
DIR. A. Echinard reported to the hoard
that he had found a very suspicious case
on Royal street of boy who had been ut
the detention camp, and who had eeen
taken i'll. The apartment house IN which
he was found is filed with Turks and for
eigners, who are In a very ugly mood and
badly frightened. An extra force vas
sent to take care of these people and to
quarantine the premises
The board of health has made arrange
ments to provide Quarantined people with
apparatus for fumigating letters which
they desire to send to. the post Office Mail
business here has gone to smash, owing
to the number of trains that have been
taken off. and the fact that The, prejudices
of people in country towns are pitched SO
high that they will not even receive thor
oughly disinfected letters.
Fever Breaks Out MT Clinton.
JACKSON. Miss. September 3O.-The
state board of health has just received a
telegram from Clinton. ten miles west of
here and midway between this. city and
Edwards. acknowledging that there are
seven cases of yellow fever at that place.
The state board has been trying for
three days to send Or. Dunn from Edwards
to Clinton, but the plan has miscarried on
account of the refusal of the people o.
Bolton to allow the expert to pass through