The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-09-29

One Death i'm T6at City-The Daily Ayers
ng.the came In New Orleans.

WASHINGTON, y. c., Sept. %.-Actins
Assistant Surgeon Porter at Mobile, re-
po-ts that the second case Of yellow fever
admitted to the United States Marine
Hospital last night, is in no way connect
ed with the first case. The necessary
precautions against the spread or the
disease have been taken.
Passed Assistant Surgeon Glennen re-
ports ten new cases and one death from
fever in Mobile.
Word has been received by Or. Wyman
that mails arc now received in Lafayette
parish This parish refused for time 10.
allow trains 10 pass through 1t, for fear OF
infection.
From Atlanta. Ca. Surgcon-Gencrat
Wvman received a dispatch saying there
were no suspicious cases on trains ar
riving there to-day, nor arc there any
I'm the city. -.
ton camp at Mount Vernon BARRACKS
leaves Atlanta tonight
At Ocean Springs Surgeon Murray re-
ports one case and at Scranton iive cases,
Ten refugees We're admitted at the Fon-
tainebleau camp OF detention to-aay GAY Niiu
twentv-eight persons were discharged.
At Biloxi for the twenty-1our hours
ending al o'clock tonight There wese
thirteen new cases and one deatn.
NEW ORLEANS, LA, Sept. @.-The
yellow fever situation Is exactly the same.
A daily average of eighteen to twenty
cases. and two deaths. has kept up, but
while there is no sign OF an epldemical
visitation. the slow progress OF the disease
puts obstacles daily in the way OF the
merchant public. who are anxious TO again
resume trade with the surrounding coun-
try The record to-day was not unlike
that OF many other days, In that II show
ed "a death through sheer neglect or the
patient Twenty-one cases up 10 date
have resulted fatally. The facts are In
controvertible. that at least half died
through neglect.
The railway people are putting forth
super-human efforts TO obtain q nlodiiica-
ton Of the quarantine regulations. In
the meantime the Crescent City finds
itself incapable of handling 4 pound OF
freight 10 Texas. The result of this Is the
throwing out of employment OF thousands
of people here.
The railroads the manufactures. the
big wholesale and retail stores. have all
dis~ensed with the service of many OF
their enploves until business again picks
un. Now that the force OF the severity
OF the quarantine Is shown the hotels
have done awav with extra help ana nave
dope away with many hands and every
man. woman and child is living with
rigid economy.
The condition OF affairs is due entirely
10 the strict quarantine that has been
established in the country when there Is
no Dossiblc chance OF an Epidemic here
II Is possible that a number Of refugees
have left town. hut there are still here
not less than two hundred and seventy
Gvo thousand and even those who were
frightened away a while 0go have come
to realize that there Is no possible chance
for an eDidernlc.
In September. ls7s. there were between
seventy or ninety people dying OF yellow
fever. daily. To-day the daily average
since the beginning Of the ewer here IL
hardly one.
This was the record to-day:
Deaths - Louis Quisnell. 1i0s Dante
street; Miss emma fleetwood, 7z7 Lower
line. 4
New Cases--Mrs. ID. Crickett lfi4 Cam
bronze: Jessie X. Wilkinson. 1913 Jack
son avenue: Sarah Lea. 1910 Dublin ave-
nue; j. w Brunwick. 10 Miro; Miss Fam
ME Hewitt, lis Jackson: Louis Quisnen,