The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-09-25
New Orleans Seems to be in
for a Bad Spell.
DEATH RATE, IS PER CENT
ONLY 16 PER CENT IN LAST
GREAT EPIDEMIC.
HEROIC DEATH OF FATHER MURRAY

Sunday Mayor Of New Orleans Has
fre-Fiends to Fight--Alarming
at Edwards.
New Orleans, La, Sept. 2.-Eminent
uhysic:ans 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
to localities. Thus far there have been
few less than one hundred cases and
Is deaths. The death rate is in the
neighborhood of 10 per cent. 1t was IN
1878, sixteen per cent; so that up to the
present time, the disease is about as
yirulent as it 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 DIR. Mon
l1zin for having failed to report case
Of suspicious fever. In one OF the morn
ing papers a few days ago, DIR. Monlu-
zin was quoted as saying that there was
little il any fever in New Orleans. and
that the prevailing sickness was ourman,
~ snn fever. which he described as con-
tagions or infectious, and quite hkeiy
to he attended with about the mortality
of yellow fever. This morning DIR. Mon
lnzin reported to the Board OF Health
the case Of Miss Dreyfous, who, he said,
. was suffering with yellow fever. 1t was
not long before the report was received
that the board had to report the death
of Mss Dreyfoils. An investigation
proved that Miss Dreyfous was taken
sick about six days ago and that Dr.
Nonluzin had failed even to report the
case as suspicious.
This was the record to-day:
Deaths: Salvador Casinir, 1923
Charles street.
Frederick Gund, $50 Marais.
Miss Dreyfous, 36 Bourbon.
New cases:
Child in the Wood family. Octavia, be-
tween St Charles and Pitts.
Miss Mccall, 1S4 Jackson
Miss Mamie McKeeley, 1919 st. Louis.
Gertrude Kerr. S31 Bourbon.
John APPEL, S32 Howard.
Kate Murray. colored, 1923 Magazine.
Rosala Balding, colored, 545 Wash
ington.
Joseph Reuther, S16 Robertson.
or the new cases, that in the Wood
family was developed where two cases
already existed.
The case of Miss Mccall is ON one of
the most prominent avenues of the city.
No previous ease has appeared on the
street.
OF the ninety odd cases in New Or
leans from the beginning, but four have
been among the negro population. There
cArsn1
those who are i'll, but the Board of
Health is daily discharging patients as
cured.
Mayor Flower to-day ordered force
of policemen to guard the Beauregard
school, which mob made an attemrt
to burn last night. Only a portion Of
the building was burned and it is still pos
sible to use the structure as a hospital
for the treatment of yellow fever pa
tients.
1t was shortly after midnight that the
mob applied the torch to the school and
thereby carried into execution threat
that had been repeatedly made during
Yesterday evening. When the firemen ar
rived on the scene. their hose was cut
but the department worked pluckily and
with the assistance Of squad Of police,
succeeded in extinguishing the flames.
The burning Of the school created intense
Indignation here and the outrage was
bitterly denounced. Every newspaper in
the city, in ringing editorials, has pledged
itself to support the mayor IN Whatever
action he might take to punish the cuI-
prits and carry into effect the original
determination to establish the yellow
fever hospital in the Beauregard school
house. A committee during the day call
10 airlSf
the use of the building as a hospital.
His honor fercely denounced the outrage
of last night. He said that such occur
rences would do New Orleans more harm
than all the yellow fever epidemics COM
bined. The question had arisen whether
there should be law and good order here
or anarchy. He proposed to exhaust ev-
cry power at his command to establish
peace, and he said that if it required all
the forces Of the city and State he was
determined that the Beauregard school
building should be used as a temporary
hospital.
A mob might threaten, but the city
had 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 who
would be sent to the school to receive
and care for yellow fever patients. In
the meantime, he said, he had summoned
Chief of Police CASTOR to the hall and
no effort or expense would be spared in
bringing to justice the men who had fired
the building last night The mayor has
the support of well nigh the entire com
munity.
The situation here is generally un-
changed. Freight is moving slowly and
there is practically no passenger traf-
fc The theaters are still open and a