The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-10-09
YELLOW FEVER
OUTLOOK GLOOMY
Disease on the Increase In Mississippi
and Louisiana.
EPIDEMIC AT ATTIESBURG
twenty Cases Reported at Once In the
Little City.
TWENTY-ElGHT DEATHS TO DATE
Have Occurred From the Plague in
Louisiana Stampede from Natchez
Followed Announcement of the
Disease at That Place.
TWENTY-ElGHT DEATHS TO DATE

& Jackson. Miss, October S.-Jackson's
daily report of new cases of yellow fever is
increasing. Ten were announced for today,
three whites and seven colored. Two of
the new cases, Mr.. Wilcox and wife, are To-
Gated in Millsaps' college addition, hith-
erto unaffected locality and remote from
the original infected locality. There were
no deaths here today. The two thousand
or more negroes in the cordoned district are
without means of subsistence, and the re-
lief associations have begun to supply them
with necessary provisions. Ridgeland,
small settlement of people, 250 of whom are
lately from Illinois and other northeastern
states, developed three cases of yellow fe-
Yer in one family today. The colony is To-
Gated about eight miles north of jackson.
The two cases of fever in Natchez re-
ported yesterday have stampeded the
town.
special train loaded with refugees from
that place for points north passed through
Jackson tonight.
Madison reports four new cases of yellow
fever for today. Starkvile reports one and
Fayette two Hermanville reports one sick.
Taylors reports one new case and Harriston
one.
The fever at Orwood has about run its
course. There were no new cases today.
Oxford reports two new cases and one
death.
The situation at Water Valley is un-
changed.
In Louisiana
New Orleans, October S.-The following
is a recapitulation of cases of fever and
deaths reported in Louisiana up to October
s, 1898, o'clock p m:
IN City of New Orleans-Sixty-two cases
reported; IL Deaths.
At Harvey's Canal-Fourteen cases re-
ported three deaths.
In Frankn-Two hundred and ten cases
reported; seven deaths.
In Wison-Two hundred and forty-seven
cases reported; four deaths.
In Baton Rouge-Twentytwo cases re-
ported; two deaths.
In Houma-Eight cases reported; one
death.
In Clinton-Two cases reported; no
deaths.
In Plaquemine-Three cases reported; no
deaths.
In Jackson-Twenty-tw cases reported;
no deaths.
In Bowie-One case reported; no deaths.
In the following parishes (outsde of
towns above mentioned) cases were re-
ported IN lDefNilc pdiiSii, ot Ch'iiSo Pe'i
ish ST. James parish; East Feliciana par
ish; West Feliciana parish; Rapdes parish
(Alexandra); East Baton Rouge parish.
(Signed) EDMUND SOUCHON, M. d.
President Louis ana State Board of Health.
Fever at Hattiesburg
Meridian. Miss, October S.-Twenty
cases of yellow fever are reported from
Hattiesburg, Miss, town of about 5000
inhabitants, 11O miles north of New Or
leans, on the New Orleans and Northeast
ern railroad. The fever was brought there
by c. w. Rich wealthy lumberman from
New Orleans about fifteen days ago, and
the nature of the disease not being known,
large number of people were exposed ana
an epidemic of the plague is the result. Ihe
New Orleans and Northeastern road has
ordered all trains to pass Hattiesburg at
full speed. and the railroad telegraph Office
has been moved to Tuscanola, eight miles
north.
Situation Unchanged
Natchez. Miss, October 8.-The situation
here remains unchanged from yesterday.
No new cases of fever are reported and the
two cases already pronounced are tnor-
oughly isolated and doing well, with little
or no danger of the infection. Excitement
is now subsiding, and those that remain
here are calm A special train load of refu-
gees left for the north at Q p. m, and sew
eral have refugeed to the country. No
trains are allowed to run and business is at
a standstill. Many stores have closed their
doors, suspending business until further
developments.
Suspicious Case
Little Rock Ark, October S-Governor
Jones has requested the marine hospital
service to send a yellow fever expert to
Varnes, Ark, small town on the Valley
Route, seventy miles from Little Rock, to
examine and report case of fever at
that place. Two country physicians who
examined the case declared that they
showed symptoms of yellow fever, and
'neighboring towns at once quarantincd
against Varnes. The railroad authorities
were notified and trains were ordered not
to stop at that place. Two Pine Bluff
physicians have declared the patient to be
suffering from malarial fever.
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