The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-30
Day a Record Breaker at New
Orleans for Cases.
Saddest Story Of Scourge.
Mother and Daughter De-
serted in a Strange City
By a TerrOrized Husband.

patch from correspondent at English,
Crawford county, Ind: "a supposed
case of yellow fever is reported at
Miff1in, seven miles southwest of here
The patient is Edward McKinny He
returned from Jonesboro, Ark, last
Friday, was taken sick Sunday and
has not spoken since Numbers Of
people have recently died within a mile
of Jonesboro. Mckinney, 1t is said,
has true yellow fever symptoms. DR..
George r. Hazelwood, secretary of the
county board of health, refuses to ad-
NIT that it is yellow fever, but DR.. N.
w. King does not hesitate to pronounce
it genuine case and refuses to at
tend it."
The News has also received tele-
gram from DR.. Hazelwood as follows:
There is considerable excitement at
Mifflin, but in my opinion the case
there is not yellow fever" The state
board of health has not yet been no
tilted of the case at Miffiin.
NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 29.-Today
was a record breaker in the number of
new cases of yellow fever reported,
while the deaths equalled in number
those of any day since the yellow fever
was first discovered in the city. There
are various reasons given for the
spread of the disease, but the prin-
cipal ones are tWo-that the weather
turned warm again, and owing to the
much wider field to cover, the board of
health has had some difficulty in get
ting every house as closely guarded as
was possible when the cases were few
er in number and the trained officials
of the board were stationed about the
quarantined houses. The fact that the
death rate has been small and that
the chances of an epidemic have been
constantly growing less have made the
general public somewhat careless and
there has been increasing friction be-
tween the quarantined people and the
officers. Imprisoned inmates of houses
have been going over back fences and
sneaking out of side doors in order not
to be confined, and the result has been
that the more germs have been scat
tered and rapidly developed in these
warm days.
In no other season have the authorf-
ties been more strict in quarantining
houses and isolating inmates who
might be around the sick, and the re-
suit has been that every possible eff
fort is being made by certain elements
of the community to get the better of
the board. The increased number of
cases here has caused no general
alarm because the increase of deaths
has not been in proportion.
The death rate is a trifle under ~
per cent, when five or six days ago it
was shown to be above Is. The con-
cluSion therefore is natural that there
is no increase in the malignancy of
the disease. The authorities here still
believe that for some time longer the
new cases will occasionally exceed the
number on the books today, but they
are singularly one in the opinion that
the disease cannot attain the propor-
tiCnS of an epidemic.
The deaths today were: Giaccomo
Russo, 625 ST. Philip street; Emile
Tanners, 1906 ST. Andrews; Mrs Jen-
ME Afford 1904 Chartress. There were
twenty-four new cases today, among
them being A. Ravenel Smith, a mem
Der of a well-to-do family. Five cases
appeared on Jackson avenue one of
the fashionable streets of the city.
Most of the patients reported as i'll to-
day are of the better class. Late this
evening three cases were reported by
DR.. Separed in the Sisters of Christian
Charity convent, and earlier in the
day one appeared in the Poydras asy-
lum, so that there are four or five
charitable institutions that have had
to report cases in the past three or
four days.
The saddest and most sensational
case reported today was that of Mrs.
Jennie Afford, who was stricken with
the fever yesterday. Edward A Rep
pert, her son-in-law, greatly terror
ized, Immediately packed his grip and
fled North. leaving his wife to attend
her mother in strange city. Mrs Al
ford died this morning and was buried
in two hours and her daughter is alb
solutely Frustrated.
HOUSTON, Tex, Sept. 29.-Eva Dun
can, the negro woman who has been
under guard for three days, declared
to be suspicious case by State Health
Officer Swearingen, but by every local
physician to be suffering from dengue.
is getting better. The cotton exchange
and board Of trade held meeting to-
day, and passed resolutions requesting
Wyman tc send an expert here at once
to look at the case, and wired them to
him. Nobody here believes the woman
has yellow fever, but every town in
Texas has quarantined against Hous-
ten, and the situation is very serious
as the loss to trade is
a million dollars a day while it lasts
Two thousand men are out of employ
ment already on account of it, and the
list will grow daily 1t is hoped here
that the government will send Dr.Guit-
eraS or some Otner man whose reputa-
tion will be sufficient to allay the fears
aroused in the interior of the state.
HOUSTON, Tex, Sept 29-The two
who were sent to Victoria,
last night, to investigate an alleged
suspicious case of fever, returned to-
day. and will report to the state
health officers that it was a case of
common dengue fever. Towns ada
cent to Victoria have raised tie quar-
antine.
EDWARDS, Miss, Sept. 29.-Today"s
statement by the state .bQaEd of health
shows sfwenfy-four new cases; total
cases to date 236: cases under treat
119; seriously i'll, g. One death and
119; seriously ill, 8. One deathc and
two new cases are reported at Browns
vile.