The record-union., 1897-09-25
THE FEVER
STRICKEN SOUTH.
Plague at New Orleans as virulant
as 1t Was in 1878.
Nine New Cases and Three Deaths An
ncunced Yesterday.
A Mob Makes a DastardIy Attempt
to Burn School Building
Which Was Used as a Hospital
for Yellow Fever Patients-The
Situation at Mobile.

Situation at Mobile.
NEW ORLEANS, Sept 24.-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 a few less than 1OO
cases and fifteen deaths. The death
rate is in the neighborhood of Is per
cent. 1t was in 1873 16 per cent. so
that up to the present time the disease
is. about as virulent as it was in the
last great epidemic New Orleans had
There were nine new cases to-day.
and the following deaths: Salvador
Casinci, 1923 Chartres street; Frederick
Gund, $50 Marais street; Miss Dreyfus,
old No. 80 Bourbon street.
OF the ninety odd cases in New Or
leans from the beginning only four
have been among the negro population
There are several serious cases among
those who are i'll, but the Board of
Health is daily discharging patients as
cured.
Mayer Flower to-day ordered a force
of policemen to guard the Beauregard
School, on which a mob made an at
tack to burn it last night. Only a. por-
ton of the building was burned and
it IS still possible to use the structure
as a hospital for the treatment of yell
low fever patients. It was shortly af-
ter midnight that the mob applied the
ch to the shoolhouse, and thereby
carried into execution a threat that
had been repeatedly made during yes
terday evening. When the firemen ar
rived en- the scene their hose was cut,
but the department worked pluckily,
and with the assistance of a squad of
police, ultimately succeeded in quench-
ing the flames The burning of the
school created intense Indignation here,
and the outrage was bitterly de-
nOunced.
Every newspaper in the city has ring
ing editorials, pledging itself to sup
port the Mayor in whatever action he
may take to punish the culprfts and
carry into effect the original determine
ton to establish a hospital in the
Beauregard schoolhouse.
A committee during the day called on
Mayor Flower to protest against the
use of the building as a. hospital. His
honor fiercely denounced the outrage
of last night. He said that such occur
rences would do New Orleans more
harm than all the yellow fever epidem-
les combined. The question had arisen
whether there should be law and or
der here or anarchy. So far as he
was concerned, he proposed to exhaust
every power at his command to eStab-
lish peace. A mob might threaten, but
the city had decided on the location
and all the threats in the world could
not deter him from his purpose to pro-
tect the Sisters of Charity, and the
surgeon who WOULD be sent to the
schooihouse to care for yellow fever
patients.
The Mayor has the support of we'll
nigh the entire community.
The situation here is generally un-
changed. Freight is moving slowly,
and there is practically no passenger
traffic The theaters are still open, and
au1usements are not restrained. But
that New Orleans is losing hundreds
of thousands of dollars by foolish quar-
antine is not to be doubted. The or
dering by the Southern Pacific Com
pany of the steamer Del NOrte from
New York to Galveston means that all
Eeastern freight destined for the Pa
cafic Coast will go through the Texas
port until the quarantine embargo
against this city is raised.
THREE MORE DEATHS AT MOBILE
MOBILIZE Ala.), Sept. 24-There have
been three deaths and three new cases
since the report handed out yesterday
at o'clock. The deaths were: John
G. Bourne reported last night; Rev.
Daniel Murray of St. Vincent's Par
rish: - Mcdonald. aged II years, a
new case; Frank Stewart, found yes
terd1y afternoon dying in a negro cook
shop, on Water street, near Church
street.
Stewart had been on a spree for the
past ten days, and was not supposed,
last night, to have the fever. When he
died. however, he turned yellow, and
thus caused the definition of yellow fe-
yer death.
Farher Murray was 30 years of age,
and a native of Middleton, County
Cork. Ireland He preached at st. Vim
cents last Sunday, telling the congre-
CATION to be prepared for the final sum-
mons ndl dAACAitOJA Ic W do leirA~Ai
sick. and had a continued high fever
from start to finish.
The bulletin to-day reports Al cases,
6 deaths, 10 discharged and Is under
treatment. 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
r,ofson moves along the ground.
The steady effort to get the string
encv of the quarantine against Mobile
modified is meeting with partial sue
cess The river boats on the Alabama
River and the Tombigbee left tonight
on the first trips for two weeks. They
will go up these rivers some 200 miles
carving heavy cargoes of all kinds Of
supplies. but no passengers. The rail-
roads are also doing more work and
bringing in cotton and general mer-
chandise.
YELLOW FEVER AT ATLANTA.
ATLANTA (Ga-), Sept a. - DIR.
James f. Alexander. President of the
Board of Health, furnished the follow
ing statement at l O'Clock this after
noon:
II paid a visit to the yellow fever pa
tient, Miss Carrie F. Lemming, at 119