Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-09-30
HOSPITAL FIRED BY A MOB
Flames Kindled in a Building In Which
Fever Patients Were 10 be Treated.
ANNEXES REDUCED TO ASHES
Serious Riot In New Orleans
Thursday Evening.
FIREMEN ATTACKED BY lNCENDIARlES

New Orleans, La, Sept. "a. Efficient
work by the firemen, In the face of the
attacks of mob, enabled the depart
ment. between IL and O'Clock this
morning. to save the main norton M
the Beauregard School building, Only
the annexes of the structure were rs.
duced 10 ashes
After the mnssmeeting OF citizens.
held yesterday, riotous crowd gathered
around the building ind openly threat.
ened that, at tho first opportunity, il
would fire it. Throughout the after
noon Sister Agnes and number OF
Sisters of Charity, together with holm
from the hospital, had benn putting
the building in order for the reception
of yellow fever patients. Tho school
board, in the meantime, had removed
from the building every desk and othur
article OF furniture, and the hospital
people mad moved into the building all
| tho necosHary adjunctH for the troat.
ment OF yellow foyer patients. AZ
niR1tfall Surgeon Bloom OF the hos.
| ritGl, tue sisters aud others had been
warned that they had hast leave the
building. They die 80, beaded by
Sioter Agnes ami threaded their way
| through ,ienss crowd OF panic stricken
citizens. Then a small force of puics
was ordered To tho scene. but thu raub.
bent 40 incendiRI ism. waa sharper than
the guards, and, while the Police were
husily engaged in attempting to quoli
the riotous crowd in front OF tho bdI!d.
ing, two incendiaries, with n i've.
gallon can Of oil. proceeded to tho rear
and quickly had the building in ilame4.
An alarm was turned 10. but the first
neighboring engine had scarcely arrived
when its hose was cut. When other
eugines arrived, their hose also was
destroyed by the mob. Chief Garter
and Cant. Journe finally arrived in a
patrol wagon with large squad of
officers, who beat the mob back Then
the firemen went to work. and suc.
ceeded in preventing the absolute
destruction of tho building.
The action Of the mob was denounced
on all sides this morning. The school
is handsome building, finely isolated
and situated in the centre of large
square.
Mobile. Ala, Sept. 27.-The returns
at the Board of Health Office yesterday
for the "a hours ending at noon showed
five new cases Of yellow fever and no
deaths. with two patients discharged.
Thia leaves 81 under treatment.
So favorable report was not looked
for ny many, The weather hss turned
warm and the increase in the plumber
of cases h, previous two days seemed
preluGe to serious turn of the out
break. There is, however, no actual
change for the worse.
The deaths 80 far show a ratio Of IA
per cent.
Now Orleans, La, Sept. 81. Dr.
John w. Guiteras, thu noted yell1w
fever expert engaged by the Marine
Hospital authcritieH, arrived here on
special train early this morning. He
has not yet made known his intentions
as to when he will proceed to Texas,
whero it is his intention to examine
into the fever prevailing at Galveston
and other puints.
There is some anxiety in the sugar
district among planters us to obtaining
labor to work in the fields and in the
sugar houses. Most Of tho labor thus
employed ia from New Orleans and the
rightly OF the auarantins regulations
has made 1t well nigh impossible for
, planters to get tho help they require.