The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-09-28
AN APPEAL FROM TEXAS
THE ENTIRE STATE THREATENED
WITH YELLOW FEVER

tally in Latter City One Per Cent. Less
Than In lS7S-Temporary Hospital Set ON
Fire in New Orleans
Philadelphia, September 24.-The fol-
lowing urgent dispatch was received
today:
New Orleans, September 24.-Use
your influence with Mr.. Wanamaker
and other prominent Philadelphians to
appeal by wire to Surgeon General
Wyman to order DR.. Guiteras to inves-
tigate Immediately the very suspicious
fever now prevailing in Galveston,
Houston, Dallas and San Antonio. All
Texas is threatened and should be
guarded.
HORTER, TERTROU & CO."
This message was addressed to Geo.
Horter, of Haddonfield, N. j., the faith
er of the head Of the New Orleans firm.
Directly upon it's receipt consultations
were had with Mr.. Wanamaker, Straw
bridge & Clothier; Hood, FoulkrOd e.
Co., Colonel Grey and President Thorn
son, Of the Pennsylvania railroad, as to
the best means of securing a response
to this appeal.
Mobile, Ala, September 24.-There
have been three deaths and three new
cases since the report handed out yes
terday at 2 o'clock. Three patients
were discharged. The deaths were:
John G. Bourne, reported last right;
Rev. Daniel Murray, of st. Vincent's
parish, and Estis Mcdonald, Of Sa-
vannah, aged II years, a new case. In
addition, Frank Stewart, found yester-
day afternoon dying in a negro's house
on Water street, near Church. He had
been on a spree for the past ten days
and was not supposed last night to
have the fever. When he died, how
ever, he turned yellow and thus came
under the definition Of yellow fever
death. Father Murray was 80 years of
age and a native OF Middleton, County
Cork, Ireland. He preached at st. Vim
cents last Sunday, telling the ngr
cation to be prepared for the final sum-
mons. That afternoon he was attacked
with his fatal illness.
The bulletin today says Al cases, 6
deaths, 10 discharged and 16 under
treatment. With one or two exceptions
the sick are doing we'll.
DR.. George A. Ketchum, president of
the board of health, notes that the pa
tients all sleep on the ground floor. He
infers that the poison moves along the
ground and attacks those first in reach.
The steady effort to get the strin-
gency of quarantine against Mobile
modified is meeting with partial sue
cess. The river boats, the Carrier for
the Alabama river, and the HardcaSh
for the Timbigbee left tonight on the
first trips for two weeks. They will go
up these rivers about 200 miles, carry
ing heavy cargoes of all kinds of sup
plies, blu no passengers. The rail-
roads also are daily doing more work
and bringing in cotton and general
merchandise. They brought in 1900
bales Of cotton today n seven cars
of grain.
New Orleans, September 24.-Eminent
physicians believe that the work of the
board of health is productive Of good
results and that the fever is not spread
ing, but, on the contrary, is being con-
fined to localities. Thus far there
have been a few less h a 100 cases and
Is deaths. The death rate is in the
neighborhood of Is per cent. It was in
1873 16 per cent; so that up to the pres
ent time, the disease is about as viru-
lent as it was in the last great cpl
,demic that has visited New Orleans.
One of the sensations of the day was
the announcement that the board of
health had decided to prosecute DR..
Monluzin for having failed to report a
case of suspicious fever. In n of the
morning papers a few days ago, DR..
.Monluzin was quoted as saying that
there was little if n fever in New
Orleans and that the prevailing sick
ness was Burmah, or sun fever, which
he described as contagious or infec-
.tious, and quite likely to be attended
with about the mortality Of yellow
fever. This morning DR.. Monluzin re-
ported to the board of health the case
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suffering with yellow fever. 1t was not
long after the report was received that
the board had to report the death of
Miss Dreyfous. An investigation
proved hat Miss Dreyfous was taken
sick six days ago and that DR.. Mon
luzin had failed even to report the case
as suspicious.
This was the record today: Deaths
Salvador Casinir, 1923 Charles street;
Frederick Gund, 535 Marais; Miss Drey-
fous, SO Bourbon. There were also 8
new cases. OF the new cases, that in
the Wood family was developed where
two cases already existed. The case of
Miss Mccall, on Jackson street, is on
one Of the most prominent of
the city. No previous case has appear
ed on the street.
OF the ninety odd cases in New
Orleans from the beginning, but four
have been among the negro population.
There are still several serious cases
among those who are i'll, but the board
of health is daily ~discharging patients
as cured.
Mayor Flewer today ordered a force
of policemen to guard the Beaure-
gard school, which a mob made an at
tempt to burn last night. Only a por-
ton of the building was burned and it
it still possible to use the structure as
a hospital for the treatment Of yellow
fever patients 1t was shortly after
midnight that the mob applied the
torch so the school and thereby, car
tried into execution a threat that had
been repeatedly made during yester-
day evening. When the firemen ar
rived on the scene, their hose was cut, !
but the department worked pluckly I
and with the assistance of a squad of
police, succeeded in extinguishing the
flames. The burning of the school Gre