Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-09-17
ALI. WHO CAN ARE FLEEING FROM
YELLOW JACK
BUSINESS AT A sTANDsTILL
SITUATION AT NEW ORLEANS NO
WORSE YESTERDAY.
Seventeen Cases of Yellow Fever mt
Edwards and Thirty-fye That
Are Suspicious - Southern
Towns QunrnntininS
Against Atlanta.

Mobile, Ala, Sept. 16.-Tnis has been L
black letter day for Mobile. One new case
was announced at the noon meeting OF the
board of health, and two suspicious cases
were reported. This afternoon the first
patient Antoine Hagan. at the city hos
pital, died, and an autopsy was at once
held resulting in tine declaration that he
had undoubtedly died of yellow fever This
is the first death recorded here The city
begins to show the effects of the moving
away of all who could easily meet the eN-
pense of moving, and now those who are
NOT financially able are making heroic eS-
ertions to get the means with which 10
travel. To-day's developments have given
even the old StagerS desire 10 put uls-
| tance between them and the Infection Inc
wholesale merchants are doing no business
and only keeping open in order that the
country merchants may not De entifeiy oe
| prived of support.
| Edwards, Miss, Sept. 16.-At ciock
| this evening there are seventeen pro-
| nounced cases of yellow fever and thirty
| five other cases of similar symptoms. but
| not yet declared yellow fever. Both the
| Presbyterian and Methodist ministers,
Rev. Colonel Merry and Rev. Mr.. j. G. Cal
Ioway, respectively, were taken ill yester-
| day.
Ocean Springs, Miss, Sept. 16.-This has
been an exceptionally hot day, the ther-
mometer registering well up in the nine
ties. Four new cases of dengue were re-
ported to-day and one case of yellow fever
W. f. Bransford. He has been sick since
last Friday, and to-day Surgeon Murray
declared the case genuine yellow fever
The patient is III a critical condition.
New Orleans, La, Sept ia brignter
| outlook for New Orleans is evident to-
| night so far as the fever situation Is con-
cerned. The reports to the board We're OF OF
| twenty cases requiring investigation, there
were only ten to be looked into to-day and
: of these only three were pronounced sGs-
picious and two declared yellow fever. one
of the latter cases is situated in a thicsiy
populated district. The doctors have been
, unable to determine the origin OF either
: of the two cases reported to-day
} Tonight it was given out by the board
Of heath tina that ds Sne saTous s an ahe
! isting. OF the remaining eighteen cases.
l half at least are considered TO be practi-
: | cally we'll, but the board has decided not
i to allow recovered patients or any of the
: inmates of the houses in which they live
1 to venture into the street until a certain
i period of detention, during which the boa
d can complete it's work of disinfection. burn
ing bedeSthing and ba every5nHg h sgne neand ibn1 an
r is calculated to harbor germs; :,
n President oliiphant; Of the board OF
/. ell, said that the chances of crushing the
n disease in its incipiency had Infinitely inn
do nop Consider they are Yet out
% the woods, but they do not conceal then
| belief that the danger or the epluenic l
d rapidly being lessened.
d A large and important meeting or busi
l. | ness men and representatives OF the com
l. | mercial exchanges was held to-day to de
y | wise some means for the fumigation o
"a | merchandise and to secure a modification
of quarantine regulations instituted D.
towns in Louisiana, Alabama and Missis
sippi. !.
sent out to the surrounding country. ar
pealing to parishes, counties and towns
Cooperate with the Louisiana and fedora
ei authorities in curing the present para
lysiS of trade.
A fatal case of genuine yellow fever dc
veloped in the very heart of Biloxi to-da,
es There have been, altogether, twenty-tw
en- | cases of yellow fever in Biloxi, with oni
re one death-that of to-day.
- At Ocean Springs, no new cases nav
S been reported.
in Dr. Dunn accompanied by DR.. Bagg, vi
nd tied Scranton to-day, and reports hye cas-
er | of yellow fever there and four doubtf
ms cases. They also report one new case
let Barkley.
Ter Atlanta, Ga, Sept. 16-Several Southel
nd cities, including Charleston. Chattanoog
,es | Selma and Montgomery. have quarantine
led against Atlanta. The cities doing SO fe
that refugees might use their stay In A
ION | Ianta as a cloak for the securing OF a ce
rly tifcate of health. and might bring to the
rn- cities the latent germs of the disease