The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1897-09-25
YELLOW FEVER VICTIMS.
New Orleans Death Rate Averages
Fifteen Per Cent. { ..,,.,s.
THE WORK OF INOENDIARIEs.
Efforts to Destroy school Building
Which Had Been Set Aside For Yell
low Fever Patients Arouses tho Ire
of the Mayor.

Which Had Been Set Aside For Vel.
of the Mayor.
New Orleans, Sept. 25.-Thus far there
have been a few less than a hundred
cases and Is deaths from yellow fever.
The death rate Is in the neighborhood
of Ii per cont. 1t was in 1878 16 per
cent, SO that UP to the present time
the disease is about as violent as it
was in the last great epidemic New
Orleans has had.
One Of the sensations of the day was
the announcement that the board Of
health had decided to prosecute DR..
Monlusin for having failed to report
case Of suspicious fever. Yesterday
Dr. Monlusin 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 of the death Of Miss Drey-
fous. An investigation proved that she
that DR.. Monlusin had failed to report
the case.
Efficient work by the fire department
in the face Of the attacks of mob,
enabled the department to save the
main portion of the Beauregard school
building. Only the annexes of the
structure were reduced to ashes. The
alarm was sounded at 1890 a. m. After
u mass meeting Of citizens riotous
crowd gathered around the building and
openly threatened that at the first op-
portunity they would fire it. Sister
Agnes and number of Sisters of Char
ity, together with help from the hos
pital, had been putting the building in
order for the reception Of yellow fever
patients. The school board In the
meantime had removed from the build
ing every desk and other article Of
furniture, and the hospital people had
moved into the building cots and other
necessary adjuncts for the treatment
of yellow fever patients.
When the mob surrounded the build
Ing the police were quickly summoned,
but two men eluded their vigilance.
stole to the rear with five gallon can
OF oil, and quickly ignited the structure.
The fremcn were quickly summoned,
and though their hose was cut they
prevented the absolute destruction Of
the building.
The school Is a handsome building,
entirely isolated, and situated in the
center of large square. There was
no danger of infection from it, and the
people in the neighborhood are unduly
alarmed. Unless. however, a COM
pany of soldiers is ordered out to pro-
tect the building, it is not improbable
aIt .,,iJ l,n Ia
to destroy it. A special squad Of police
guards the building at present.
The burning of the school has created
intense Indignation here and the out
rage was bitterly denounced. A COM
mittee during the day called on Mayor
Flower to protest against the use of
the building as hospital. His honor
fiercely denounced the incendiary out
rage saying the question has arisen
whether there should be law and good
order here or anarchy. So far as he
was concerned he proposed TO exhaust
every power at his command to es-
tablish peace, and he said that IL 1t
required all of the forces of the city
and state he was determined that the
Beauregard school building should be
used as a temporary hospital. In the
meantime he said that no effort or eX-
pense would be spared in bringing to
justice the men who fired the building.
The mayor has the support in his
course of well nigh the entire COM
munlty.
The situation here Is generally un-
changed. Freight is moving slowly, and
there is practically no passenger traffic.
The theaters are still open, and amuse-
ments are not restrained. But that
New Orleans is losing hundreds of
thousands Of dollars by foolish quar-
antine Is not to be doubted.
There were three deaths reported yes
terday. and seven new cases. Among
the cases is that of u child in the Wood
family, on Octavia street, where two
cases already existed. Another case is
that of Miss Mccall. of Jackson street.
This IS one Of the most prominent ave-
nues of the city. No previous case has
appeared on the street.
Reports from other sections show that
at the Fontainbleau camp of detention
So persons were admitted and II dis
charged yesterday; total now in the
camp, dS2 At Mobile there were 3 new
cases and deaths: under treatement.
IL. New cases at Edwards, 20: total
to date, 1873.