Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1897-09-30
TEXAS ALARMED.
Nearly All Towns In the Lone Star
State Have Guaranteed Houston.
The SITUATION At new ORLEANS.
Many Yellow Fever Patients In the Crea-
cent City Dying Through Neglect
Quarantine Action Denounced
ports from Mobile and Edwards

DALLAS, Tex, Sept. 99-The yellow
fever fright has struck the state in
earnest Nearly all towns in eastern,
central and southern Texas have de-
clared shotgun quarantine against
Houston, on account of the suspicious
case of Eva Duncan, the negro woman
whom the state health officer has or
dcred guarded In Brazos county
County Health Officer Tabor has given
out orders to the effect that every road
entering the county will be closed and
guarded and every suspicious rumor
run down. No passenger trains will
stop in the county hereafter and there
will for the present be no papers or
other mails received. The railroad
company has been notified to put in
all perishable goods -four and ice a;
once from the north in car lots, the
same not to come from nor through an
infected point Trains will no longer
be permitted to take sidings for pass
ing in Brazos county. At Dallas no
passengers from Houston will be per-
mitted to stop, although there has
been no embargo on freight and mail
as yet The Houston Il Texas Central
has practically abandoned its train
service ont Of Houston, only one train
a day running. The Missouri, Kansas
A Texas is running through Houston
to Galveston, the cars being locked
north of Houston and nobody per-
mitted to enter or leave the train.
THE SITUATION AT NEW ORLEANS.
NEW ORLEANS, Sept, 29.-The yellow
fever situation here continues exasper-
atingly the same. A daily average of
Is to 20 cases and two deaths has kept
up. But while there is no sign of an
epdemica visitation, the slow prog.
ress of the disease puts obstacles daily
in the way of the fretful merchant
public, who are anxious to again re-
sumo trade with the surrounding coun-
try The record yesterday was not
unlike that of many other days, in that
II showed death through sheer neg.
lect OF the patient, and of 81 cases up
TO date having fatal termination.
The facts are incontrovertible that at
least half die through neglect or lack
OF attention.
QUARANTINE ACTION DENOUNCED.
ST. Louis, Sept. s9.-The action of !
the county health officers at Victoria,
Tex, in institutng strict quarantine
against all shipments from st. Louis
or any other point in Missouri, is de-
nounced by local business men as an
unwarranted action, calculated TO do
the business interests OF this city great
damage if not raised at once. tits not
that the quarantine Of Victoria county
is itself important, but it is feared
that the precedent thus set will spread.
INFECTED DISTRICTS BEING CLEANED.
MOBILE, Ala, Sept 99.-The noon re.
port of the board of health yesterday
showed the effect of the excessive hot
weather of the past six days upon the
populace. The number of cases re-
corded for the past "a hours was ten,
Ill of the patients having been taken
II from the a3d to the Goth. One death
vas announced. The boards sum
nary is GA eases, 0 deaths, 80 recovered
md % under treatment. The work of
combating the disease goes on unceas-
ngly, The whole fever infected dis
riot has been cleaned and disinfected.
THE SITUATION GROWING WORSE.
EDWARDS, Miss, Sept. Cdr. Dunn,
If the state board of health, gave the
associated press the following last
light: "rhere has been one death to.
lay from yellow fever; total eases to-
lay, 2l; total cases to date, $50 in town
md eight in the country. number scri-
'usly Ill, six; number convalescent and
Up, 30; total deaths to date, eight. The
elbow fever situation seems to be
rowing worse daily.
THE TCfEkA FESTIVAL.
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