The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1897-10-06
Yellow Jack Still Reigns.
NEW ORLEANS SUFFERS
MOST FROM sTAGNA-
TION.


Killing Quarantine Parafyzes
Business Throwing Thousands
Out of Work
New Orleans, Sept % The yel-
low fever situation here continues
exasperatingly the same A daily
average of l3 to 90 cases and two
.deaths nss kept up But while there
IS no sign of an epidemical visitation,
the slow progress of the disease puts
obstacles daily Ia the way of the
merchant public, who. are anxious to
again resume trade with the surround.
irg country The record to day was
not unlike that of many other days.
ii tha. if showed a death through
sheer neglect Of the patient Twenty
one cases up to date have resulted
fatally. The facts are incon.rovertible
that at least ha.f died through neglect
or lack of attention
Bnsinesssis showing feeble signs OF
revival and the railroads are putting
forward snperhuman efforts to secure
q modification of the quarantine re.
gulations.
DR.. O.iphant's trip up the road to.
morrow at the invitation of the South
ern Pacific company, with a view tc
securing modification of existing
quarantine will settle one. way or
another whether or not trade is to
stagBate for several weeks longer or
whether it is partially to be resumed
at once The trip will also settle the
question of whether or not New Or
leans viii raise the bar against Gal
weston and other Texas points In
the meantime the Crescent City fnds
itself incapable Of shipping pound
of freight to the Lone Star State.
The result of this. of course. is the
throwing out of employment of thou
sands of people here The railroads
and manufactures, the Gig wholesale
and retail stores. have all dispensed
with the service of many of their
employees until business agaia picks
up
Now that the force of the sense.
less shotgun quarantine is being felt
the theatres more than ever are q
thermometer Of the injury that is be.
ing done the city The hotels have
done away with extra help, and have
cut off many of their hands and ev.
cry man, woman and child is living
with rigid economy. The condition
of afairs is due entirely to the strict
shotgun quarantipes that have been
established in the country when there
is DO possible chance of an epidemic
here Il is probable that some 100,
900 people have left town. but there
are still mere not fewer than 275. .000
and even those who were frightened
a fortnight ago. have come TO realize
that there is no possible chance for
an epidemic in September, 1878,
there were between 80 and 80 people
dying Of yellow fever daily. The
daily average since beginning of the
fever here is hardly one.
Mobile, Sept 2S-The noon re
port of the board of health to day
showed the effect ofy the excessive
hot weather of the past six days upon
the populace. The number of new
cases recorded for the past "a hours
was 10, all of the new patients hav.
ing been taken i'll from the 23d to the
26th.
Dallas. Tex, Sept. 28.-The yel-
low fever fright has struck the State
in earnest Nearly all the trains il
eastern. central and southern Texas
have declared shotgun quarantine
against Houston. In Brazos county
County Health Officer Tabor has
given orders to the effect that every
road entering the county will be
closely guarded and every suspicious
rumor sun down No passenger
trains will stop in the county here
after and there will for the presen
be no papers or other mail received
Practical jokers are warned against
trying to scare the public
At Dallas no passengers from
Houston will be permitted TO stop
although there has been 20 embargo
on freight and mail as vet The
Houston and Texas Central has
practically abandoned its train ser
vice out of Houston. only one train {
day running. The Missouri, Kansas
and Texas railroad is running trains
through Houston to GaIyestq, cars