The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1905-08-04

FIFTY Four New Cases Largest Num-
Der In sinale Day.

ICY ~ Gsu8tE 6@ys
View orleans. Aug 4.--Y4Iiow fever
report d, to o'cioex Thursday even-
ing is. New eases -, total cases. 4s2:
deaths. 5 total deaths. 81. new substi-
tate focf. ~. total substitute foci. cs.
This Is the largest number OF cases re-
ported In single d-y.
The first case of what might be called
secondary infection from one OF the
sub-f-ci developed Thursday, but even
the there is reason to believe that it
is really a case OF Infection from the
original district. The patient is
brother of the first case that was re-
ported as suspicious on July 49, The
first case was contracted in the dis
trict, where the father Is a storekeep-
er, and the period of infection was July
5. and I. a case of secondary infec-
ton should have appeared I'm that
house July rs or a little later II has
appeared In the person of a young man
who has been working in the sam.
building whore his brother contracted
the Illness
The most severe phases OF the tiuar-
antine situation were made manifest
Thursday when the parishes of Rap
ldes and Cslcasieu stopped all through
traffic and thereby tied up the Texas
and Pacific and the Southern Pacific
railroads. They viii not allow trains 10
be run through their limits, with the
result that both systems are tied up
absolutely. Neither road has yet made
a move TO set aside these arbitrary
guarantees
A refugee who left New Orleans sew
erai days ago and tried TO get into
Mississippi on the Louisville and Nash
vile road. but was refused admission
Was brought back Thursday night I'm q
mesquite screen and placed in the
emergency hospital with fully ievel-
oped case OF yellow fever. He has bern
at Dunbar three uaYx ago and Acting
Assistant Surgeon Schiele of the ma
rine hospital service suspected his i'll
ness at the time. lie put him under
mosquito net while the chill WAS on
aud he has been protected ever since.
DR.. Wsssiin visited the place and pro-
nounc~d IL yellow fever and the man
was pat on Louisville and Nashville
- 49, ~tf' PAeSAAsA ~ sNEW tfiGgA8tH-
The board OF health received news
from Morgan CRY OF the discovery ot
three more cases on the Riverside clan
tation, Tour miles from the town. one
II a clerk la a store and the others are
Italians. The parish health officer re-
ports that there had been some light
cases on that plantation two weeks
ago. which had recovered
The FIRST encounter between the war
vessels Of the states OF Louisiana and
Aississippi took place late Thursday
afternoon at RigoletS bridge at the
point \. here Lake Pontchartrain emp
ties into the channel leading to Lake
EorKne.
The launch Majestic. armed sith
Colts rapid FIRE gun steamed u,I 10
the bridge and WAS hailed by the Mis-
sIrsfppi patrol boat Grace, comma need
by Captain Blunt. The Majestic In com
handed by Lieutenant T. u, Miller Of
the naval brigade lie reports that as
he steamed up ths TRACE came along
side and demanded The uame ana DIES
tinstien. When thfs v&s made known
the Grace got up sgeAia ana Immediate
iy left the Rsgoi~ts
Captain J. w ftost~ts.k. cognr4a ndeT
of the naval brigade sailed fer the
scene OF the tronbi- late Thursday aft
~rnoon Oh the steam yacht Marie be-
longing to Lawrence F'~hscher, which
has been impressed - tiA4 flagship Of
the armada To protect the louisa ma
lakes from further drpr-,iatioals BY the
Mississippi mosquito fleet. The Marie
has been transformed into a farrnida BILE
vessel with Colts ptd FIRE gun
mounted forward and another aft. and
sfar creA OF forty men. Fifty men
from the brigade went over on the
train In the afternoon. Four other
launches besides the Marie complete
the Loussian armada. All told the naval
brigade has $50 men under arms Quite
number are being held in reserve here
and the tnit~a states steamship
StraBxh~r which cannot navigate I'm
the lakes is being held i'm readiness tn
prvce~i to Mississippi sound In case
she IL nseded. ON the other hand Mis-
sissippt is making a more wArlike dem
onstration. She has no naval brigade
bu, has soldiers aud Governor yarcia
man called ouf more troops To do duty
on the coast These are all under com
mand of Adiutant General Fridge. who
has over 100 men there nov