The herald., 1897-09-25
is SLOWLY
SPREADING
In Spite of Watchfulness
and Skill
DEATHS FROM YELLOW fever
MORE NUMEROUS WITH EVERY
PASSING DAY
New Orleans Begins to Grow Anxious
Over the Tremendous Financial
Loss Which Results
Associated Press Special Wire.

Associated Press Special Wire.
MOBILE, Ala, Sept. 24.-There have
been three deaths and three new cases
since the report handed out yesterday at
2 o'clock. The deaths were: John G.
Bourke, reported last night; Rev. Daniel
Murray of st. Vincent's parish; - Nc
Donald, aged II years, a new case. Frank
A. Stewart was found late this afternoons
dying in a negro cookshop on Water
street, near Church street. Stewart had
been on spree for the past ten daysand
was not supposed last night to have the
fever. When he died, however, he turned
yellow, and thus caused the definition Of
yellow fever death.
Father Murray was 80 years Of age
and native of Middleton, County Cork.
Ireland. He preached at St. Vincent's
last Sunday, telling the congregation to
be prepared for the final summons. That
afternoon he was taken sick and had a
continued high fever from start to finish
The bulletin today reports forty-one
cases, six deaths, nineteen discharged
and sixteen under treatment now.
With one or two exceptions the sick are
doing well.
DR.. George A. Ketchum, president Of
the board of health, remarks that the
sick of the fever are dwellers in one
story houses; that is to say, sleep on the
ground floor He infers that the poison
moves along the
The steady effort to get the stringency
of the quarantine against Mobile modi-
{. y, toI ,o
river boats on the Ala bama river and the
Tombigbee leftto night on the first trips
for two weeks They will go up these
rivers some 200 miles, carrying heavy
cargoes of all kinds of supplies, but no
passengers. The railroads are also doing
more work and bringing in cotton and
general merchandise.
AT NEW ORLEANS
NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 24.-There was
efficient work by the Fire Department
in the face of attacks by mob on the
main portion of Beauregard School last
evening. Only the annexes Of the struct-
ure were reduced to ashes. The alarm
sounded at 1880.
After mass meeting of citizens,
riotous crowd gathered around the build
ing and openly threatened at the first
opportunity that they would fire it,
Throughout the evening, Sister Agnes
and a number of Sisters of Charity, to-
gether with help from the hospital, had
been putting the building in order for the
reception of yellow fever patients. The
School Board, meantime, removed from
the building every desk and other ar
ticles of furniture and the hospital peo-
,,11 svto hrri11 &c ,t,G
other necessary adjuncts for the treat
ment of patients.
At nightfall the surgeon of Bloom Hos
pital the Sisters and others had been
warned that it would be better to leave
the building. They did so and threaded
their way through the dense crowd Of
panic-stricken citizens. Then small
force of police was ordered to the scene.
While the police were engaged in at
tempting to quell the riotous crowd in
front of the building, two incendiaries
with a five-g gallon can of oil proceeded
to the rear and quickly had the building
in flames. An nalarm was turned in, but
the first neighboring engine had scarce
ly arrived when the hose was cut. When
other engines arrived the hose was also
destroyed by the mob. Chief Caster
and Captain Jourge finally arrived in a
patrol wagon with big squad of Of
ficers which beat the mob back. Then
the firemen went actively to work and
succeeded in preventing the absolute
destruction of the building.
Eminent doctors believe that the work
of the board of health is productive of
good results, and that the fever is not
spreading, but. on the contrary, is be-
ing confined to localities. Thus far there
have been few less than a hundred
cases and fifteen deaths The death
rate is in the neighborhood of Is per
cent. 1t was in 1878 sixteen per cent, so
that up to the present time the disease is
about a virulent as in the last great cpl
demic New orleans had.
There were nine new cases and the
following deaths:
Salvador Casincie, st. Charles street.
Frederick Gund, Marais street.
Miss Dreyfous, Old Number 36 Bour-
bon street.
Of the ninety odd cases in New Or
leans from the beginning only four have
been among the negro population.
There are everal serious cases among
those who are i'll, but the board of health
is daily discharging patients as cured.
Mayor Flower today ordered force of
policemen to guard the Beauregard
school, on which a mob made an attack
to burn last night. Only portion of
the building was burned and it is still
possible to use the structure as hos
pital for the treatment of yellow fever
patients. Every newspaper in the city
has ringing editorials. pledging support
to the mayor in whatever action he may
take to punish the culprits and carry
into effect the original determination to
establish a yellow fever hospital in the
Beauregard schoolhouse. A committee
during the day called on Mayor Flower
to protest against the use of the build
ing as hospital. His honor fiercely de-
rounced the outrage of last night. He
said that such occurrence would do New
Orleans more harm than all the yellow
fever epidemlcs combined. The ques-
ton had arisen whether there should be
law and order here, or anarchy. So far