The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-09-15
DAD FOR NhH ORLEANS
Many Towns and Cities 0uaran.
tine Against Her.
ALL INTERCOURSE Is CUT OFF.

Fear of Yellow Fever Closes the Gates of
Cities Against the Metropolis of the
South-The Physicians Hope to Keep the
Plague in Check Until the Arrival of
Jack Frost Some of tie Trains on Rail-
ways Abandoned.
New Orleans, Sept. 15.-Little addi-
tional information touching the fever
situation in the city is obtainable at the
board Of health. Five suspicious cases
were reported Tuesday morning, but at
o'clock the board of health announced
that only one of the new cases was
found extremely suspicious. Another is
still under investigation. Others
were found to be harmless. No
concealment is made of the ex-
pectations of the officials that possibly
dozen cases more will develop here.
but the large expert staff now employed
In fighting the disease are not less con-
fdent than they were at the start that
they will finish yellow jack before frost
comes, or at least keep him very groggy.
a majority of the cases are improving
and fatal consequences are looked for
in only one instance at present The
authorities expect any other cases that
appear to be sporadic, and if they are
all as widely separated from each other
as are the present cases, the health Of
ficers do not believe there will be any
alarm in the situation. The city is so
tightly tied up now and so many hands
are lifted against her that there is no
longer any commotion created when
this, that or other town Institutes quar-
antine.
Railway Trains Abandoned.
Within a radius of 1000 miles every
town and hamlet has emphatically re-
fused to have any intercourse with the
city. Drummers who are on the road
are tied up in small towns and no or
ders are coming in and the country
people are at present paying no bills.
Tuesday morning the Northeastern rail
way took off two of its trains So
much information has been telegraphed
of the existence of the fever here that
the rural towns no longer care TO see
trains from New Orleans running
through their towns The passenger
service has therefore fallen off as stops
can be made at few points south of
Mason and Dixon's line, and the North
eastern considered il best to reduce its
quota of trains. The Southern Pacific
took off two trains Tuesday. Many
people are suffering as a result Of the
quarantine regulations At Alexandra,
two residents Of that place, who had
been to New Orleans and who had run
the quarantine and gotten home. were
ordered to leave Alexandra i'm two
hours. A councilman and school
teacher. who had managed to slip
through the quarantine al the Rigolets
have been arrested in New Orleans and
shipped back TO the detention point
where they will be isolated and detained
for the full limit of time.
POr. Ends l. Cautious.
Among the places that have quaran-
tine is Port Eads, near the Passes, and
even the pilots who live in New Or
leans and bring steamships mp the riv-
er. are meeting with some difficulty in
travelling between Port Eads and New
Orleans. Oil and coal men who go
down the river to take orders from the
ships have been notified that they will !
not be allowed to stop at Port Eads |
which remembers her experience with
the fever in 1878. Lafayette, La, has |
stopped the Southern Pacific from |
changing its train crews at that point |
for fear of the infection. The Southern |
Pacific announced that it will sell no |
more tickets to Texas points. At the |
residences Of Edward McGinty and DR.. |
Lowell uptown, the same system of |
quarantine has been put into effect as |
at other infected points. Police OFF, |
GERS warn people not to stop in the !
neighborhood and sanitary officers have |
taken charge of the premises and sur (
rounding places and are thoroughly dis |
injecting them.
Excitement at jackson, Miss,