The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1897-10-01
TEXAS ALARMED
Nearly al Towns in That State Quar-
antinsd Against Fever
EIany YeuOW Fever cases in the Crescent
City Dying Through NsgIeot-0aaEaH-
tine Action Deh0uneed-Reperts
fsSm Mobile ana Edwards.

tine Action ACKNOWLEDGMENT
fsSm Mobile and Edwards.
DALLAS, Tex, Sept 99.-The yellow
fever fright has struck the state in
earnest Nearly al towns in eastern,
central and southern Texas have de-
clared shotgun quarantine against
Houston, on account Of the suspicious
ease Of Eva Duncan, the negro woman
whom the state health officer has or
dered guarded. In Brazos county
County Health officer Tabor has given
out orders to the effect that every road
entering the county viii be closed and
guarded and every suspicious rumor
run down. No passenger trains will
stop ia the county hereafter and there
will for the present be no papers or
other mails received. The railroad
company has been notified to put in
all perishable goods, -four and ice at
once from the north in car lots, the
same not to come from nor through an
infected point. Trains will no longer
be permitted to take sidings for pass
ing in Brazos county. At Dallas no
passengers from Houston viii be per
mitted to stop, although there has
been no embargo on freight and mail
as yet The Houston & Texas Central
has practically abandoned its train
service out Of Houston, only one train
day running. The Missouri, Kansas
& Texas is running through Houston
to Galveston, the cars being locked
north of Houston and nobody per
mitted to enter or leave the train.
THE SITUATION AT NEW ORLEANS.
New ORLEANS, Sept. 29.--The yellow
fever situation here continues ezasper-
atingly the same. A daily average OF
Is to 20 cases and two deaths has kept
up. But while there is no sign of an
epidemical visitation, the slow prog,
ress Of the disease puts obstacles daily
in the way of the fretful merchant
public, who are anxious to again re-
sumo trade with the surrounding cOun.
try. The record yesterday was not
unlike that of many other days, in that
it showed a death through sheer neg,
lect of the patient and of d cases up
to date having a fatal termination.
The facts are iEcontrovertible that al
least half die through neglect or lack
of attention. Business is showing fee.
bic signs of revival and the railroads
are putting forth superhuman efforts
to secure a modification of the quaran.
tine regulations. In the mean time
the Crescent city finds Itself incapable
of shipping a pound Of freight to the
Lone Star state. The result of this, @.
course, is the throwing out of employ
ment of hundreds of thousands of PEG
pie here, The railroads, the manu-
factories, the big wholesale and retail
stores 5have all dispensed with the
services Of many of their employees IN
til business again picks up, Now that
the force Of senseless shotgun quaran
tine is being felt, theaters and hotels
more than ever are a Thermometer o.
the injury that is being done this city
There have been a total of 1T cases Il
date and 21 deaths.
QUARANTINE ACTION DENOUNCED,
ST, LOUIS, Sept. 29,-The action o
the county health officers at Victoria
Tex, in instituting a strict quarantine
against all shipments from st. LOui,
or any other point in Missouri, is de
nounced by local business men as al
unwarranted action, calculated to d.
the business interests Of this city grea.
damage if not raised at once. It's moi
that the quarantine of Victoria county
is itself important. but it is feared
that the precedent thus set will spread
1t is generally believed by local bust
ness men that the Victoria quarantine
arises from the report that New Or
leans merchants are shipping freigh
to St. Louis, and, without breaking
bulk, are reshipping and rebilling
from here to Texas. That this is bein;
done is positively denied by every roat
leading into st, Louis,
INFECTED DISTRICTS BEING CLEANED.
| MOBILE, Ala, Sept. 29.-The noon re
port of the board of health YESTERDAY
showed the effect of the excessive no
weather of the past six days upon tn
| popuiace. The number of cases re
corded for the past "a hours was ten
all Of the patients having been take
| i'll from the 93d to the goth. One deaf
was announced. The boards sun
mary is "a cases, 9 deaths, so ree07ere
and IS under treatment. The work G
combating the disease goes on uncea,
| ingly. The whole fever infected dii
trict has been cleaned and disinfected
| the yards, sinks and drains streets an
/ cutters and the districts adjacent ar
now receiving like treatment Tn
exodus, so called, has apparently com
TO a standstil.
/ EDWARDS, Miss. Sept. 29.-Dr. DunI
Of the state board of health, gave til
/ Associated press the following las
| night: fThere has been one death {,
| day from yellow fever; total cases K
day, 21i total cases to date, 1se in tow
and eight in the country; number ser
/ ously Ill, six; number convalesceRt an
up, 30; total deaths to date, eight III
yellow fever situation seems to
growing worse daily. Five ont of th
six mentioned as seriously i'll have r
peated attacks Of black vomit tt
fever is fast moving down the whit
population and, at the present rate,
few immune nurses and dOct ors wi
soon have complete eontr oil Of Il
town
/ Capt. Quinton Campbell Dead
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