Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-09-30
1T HAS RESULTED IN PARALYZING
BUSINESS IN HOUSTON.
TRAIN SERVICE SUSPENDED.
QUARANTINE AGAINST BEAUMONT
LIKELY TO BE RAISED.
Fever II Spreading In New Orleans
Four Deaths and Twenty-Five
New Cases There Yesterday
AT Other Fever In
fected Points.

Dallas. Tex. Sept. $50 far as North
Texas is concerned, the quarantine situa-
tion is said to be distinctly better. The
diagnosis of the case at Victoria showing
1T to be dengue and repeated statements
OF prominent physicians at Houston that
| the case there is dengue have in a meas
ure reassuied the public. But in the south
ern section of the state, the scare has abat-
! ed little, If any. DR.. Swearingen. state
health officer, has officially declared off
| the quarantine against Beaumont. though
he still insists that the Houston case must
remain isolated until thorough diagnosis
can be had Train service south of Hous-
| ton and in fact, all over South Texas. is
badly demoraized. The International &
Great Northern and the Houston & Texas
Central have taken off their night trains
and but little freight is moving. At near
ly, II not quite. 100 towns, no passenger
trains are allowed to stop and sale OF
tickets to those places has been discon-
tinued and freight from stated points Is
only allowed to land. The loss to business
has been enormous. Much is expected from
the approaching visit of DR.. Guiteras. as
nothing less than the positive assurance
of an eminent expert, such as he, will
allay public fear.
Houston, Tex, Sept. 29-The two physi-
clans 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 officer that it is a case of
| common dengue fever Towns adjacent to
| Victoria have raised the quarantine.
| The negro woman, Eva Duncan, who has
been under guard in Houston for some
| days, is reported as improving. This city
| is tied up by quarantine. The Cotton ex-
, change and the board of trade held meet
{pcr aufhOriZed n telegram
! to Surgeon General Wyman, asking that
| an expert be sent here at once to look into
| the matter and allay the fear which the
| over-cautiousness of the state health Off
| Ger has aroused. DR.. Swearingen went to
Beaumont this morning, and it is expected
the quarantine against that point will be
raised, as no fever cases or any suspicious
symptoms have appeared there.
The International & Great Northern and
| the Missouri, Kansas & Texas have sus-
| pended train service into this and out of
| this city entirely, and the other roads have
| cut service to minimum. There are over
| 2QO0 idle men in the city, and business Is
| suffering terribly.
| DR.. Swearingen, on his return from Beau
mont tonight, issued the following proc
| lamation:
ITO the People of Texas.
1.-The quarantine against Houston can be
| raised with perfect safety, but If a single
"R. NJ. SWEARINGEN,
''State Health Officer"
| New Orleans, Sept. 2s.-To-day has been
| record breaker in the number of new
| cases of yellow fever reported, while the
deaths equaled 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 getting every house as
| closely guarded as was possible when the
| cases here were few in number and the
| trained officials of the board were sta
| toned 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 nave
made the public somewhat careless, and
there has been increasing friction between
the quarantined people and the authorities.
| 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 more germs
have been scattered and rapidly developed
in these warm days.
To-days deaths numbered four, and the
new cases twenty-five.
Total cases of yellow fever to date, 204;
total deaths from yellow fev0' to date, 25.
Among the cases reported to-day is Ra-
yenel Smith. member of well-to-do fam
lily. Five cases appeared on Jackson ave
nue., one of the fashionable streets of the
city. Most of the patients reported as ill
| to-day are of the better class.
Late this evening three cases were re-
| ported to DR.. Shepard in the. Sisters of
Christian Charity convent. and earlier in
asylum. 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 to-day was that of Mrs. Jennie
Afford; who was stricken with the fever
in-law, greatly terrorized, Immediately
packed his grip and fled North, leaving his
wife to attend her mother in a strange city.
buried in two hours; and her daughter is
absolutely prostrateds
big report Of ten new cases was offset to-
day by small report of four. The only
death in the twenty-four hours ending at
dustrial gardens. reported last night. To-
tai cases to date, 6S: deaths, 10; Gonzales
cent and recovered. 81; under treatment. a.
There Is much destitution in the families
of the poorer classes of the infected dis
trict. The families in which sickness has
world. and their food supply soon gives out.
The Cant-Get-Away Club is ministering to
their necessities with great energy, and is
Edwards, Miss, Sept. 29.-Dr. Dunn, Of
the state board of health. gave the Asso-
| ciated Press the following statement:
Total new cases for the day, "a: total
number Of cases to date. 2s6: number of
| cases under treatment. 109; number conva-
lescent and discharged. 11s; number seri-
: ousy i'll. s."
DR.. Watts of Brownsville, reports two
| new cases at that place. A child named
Taylor died of the fever there to-day
The Edwards doctors are kept busy with
not moment to spare. having hardly time
to give in their daily reports.
Mobile, Ala, Sept. 29.-Nine new cases
Of yellow fever and one death. that of
Mrs. N. o. Franklin. were reported at
Scranton, Miss, to-day.
Supposed Case in Indiana.
English, Ind, Sept. ga supposed case
of yellow fever is reported at Aliffiin. seven
miles southwest of here. The patient Is
Edward McKinny. He returned from Jones'
boro,, Ark, last Friday. took sick Sunday
and has not spoken since. Dr. George r.
Hazlewood. secretary of the county health
board, says 1t is not yellow fever but Dr.
n. w. King pronounces it genuine case
and refuses to attend it,
To Investigate Yellow Jack.