The record-union., 1897-09-15
YELLOW FEVER
IN The SOUTH,
Five Additional Suspected Cases at
New Orleans.
Officials Expect That at Least a Dozen
More Will Develop.
Every Town and Hamlet Within n
Radius of Thousand Miles Re-
fuses to Have Amy Intercourse
With the Southern Metropolis.

NEW ORLEANS, Sept 14.-At noon
to-day the Board Of Health announced
five additional suspected cases. These
will be definitely classed later in the
day, after the board experts have made
their examination.
Reports from Ocean Springs say there
have been four new cases. Surgeon
Wasdin, who is i'll, is doing well. The
Board of Health at l o'clock announced
that one of to-day's suspected cases was
found extremely suspicious. Another is
still under investigation. Others were
found to be harmless.
The Board of Health anticipates that
| there viii be other sporadic cases, oW-
ing to the number of people who man
aged to reach New Orleans before the
quarantine against Ocean Springs went
into effect. but there is no lack of con-
fidence on the part of the board in their
ability to prevent the disease from
spreading.
Helena, Ark, has set a pace which all
river towns are likely to follow. The
Board of Health of that city decided
that no boat from south of Vicksburg
should be allowed to land at that port
or any point within the quarantine linn
its of five miles of the corporate limits
of Helena. Monroe, which up to yes
terday held aloof, in spite of threats.
and refused to quarantine New Orleans,
felt compelled, on receipt of information
| that there are several cases of yellow
fever in New Orleans, to declare rigid
quarantine against this city.
OF the cities of the South in danger
n ic
that has refused to quarantine. and that
has invited all refugees within her
gates. The announcement at Bi. OK t a
a sDecial train over the Louisville and
Nashville viii go to Atlanta to-day has
been received with delight by many on
the coast, and it is probable that a large
number on the coast will take advan-
tage of the opportunity to get out of the
infected region.
No concealment is made of the expec-
tatiOn of the officials that possibly a
dozen cases more viii develop here but
the large export staff now employed in
fighting the disease are not less conf
dent than they were at the start that
they will finish yellow jack before frost
comes. A majority of the cases are i'm
proving, and a fatal result is looked for
in only one. The authorities expect any
other cases that appear to be sporadic,
and if they are all as widely separated
as are the present cases, the health Off
GERS do not believe there viii be any
alarm in the situation.
Within radius of /. 900 miles every
town and hamlet has refused to have
any intercourse with the city.
This morning the Northeastern Rail-
way took off two trains. So much in
formation has been telegraphed of the
existence of fever that the rural towns
no lon=er care to see trains from New
Orleans running through. The passen-
ger service has fallen off. as stops can
be made at few points south of Mason
and Dixons line.
The Southern Pacific took off two
trains to-day as predicted last night.
Many people are suffering in conse-
quence Of the quarantine regulations.
At Alexandria two residents who had
been to New Orleans, and who had run
the quarantine and got home, We're or
dered to leave the town in two hours. a
councilman and a schoolteacher. who
had managed to slip through the quar-
antine at the Rigolets, have been ar
rested in New Orleans and shipped back
to the detention point, where they will
be isolated and detained for the full
limit of time. Among the places that
have quarantine is Port Eads, near the
passes, and even the pilots who live in
New Orleans and bring steamships up
the river are meeting with difficulty in
travelling between Port Eads and New
Orleans
nd WI N ha
river to take orders from the ships have
been notified that they will not be al
lowed to stop at Port Eads.
Lafayette, La, has stopped the South
ern Pacific from changing its train
crews at that point. for fear of infec-
ton The Southern Pacific announced
this morning that it will sell no more
tickets to Texas points.
THREE MORE CASES AT MOBILE.
MOBILE (Ala), Sept. 14.-Three
cases of yellow fever We're officially an
nounced to-day by the Board of
Health This caused much more alarm
than did the discovery of the first
case, which was regarded as sporadic
The people who can are leaving for
points of safety.
DR.. Guiteras left to-day for Edwards.
Miss, induced thither to investigate the
dispatch received from there. When
asked upon what he based his telegram
to the Surgeon General that there
would be a spread of the disease here.
he said that the city had had a long
immunity from the disease, and that
there was much material for it to
feed upon.