River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-08-17
FEVER SPREADS IN
CITY AND STATE
OVER A HUNDRED NEW CASES
REPORTED FOR ONE DAY.
TWELVE DEATHS ON SUNDAY
Epidemic Threatens to Tie Up Sugar
and Lumber Industries - Ba-
mana Trains from New Or
leans Stopped.

New Orleans, Aug. 14.--All records
during the present epidemic of yellow
fever were broken Saturday when the
official reports showed los new cases,
bringing the seasons total UP to 955.
twenty-five new sub-foci were discov-
cred
This condition of affairs within the
city IS paralleled by that in the sugar
belt where the plague is spreading rap
idly 1t also has shown in the timber
lands of southwest Louisiana. Labor
ing men are panic stricken, as their
principal methods of livelihood there
by are taken from them. Italians have
escaped from the Godchaux properties,
in ST Charles parish. Several addi-
tional cases of fever have developed
there, and on neighboring plantations.
Another was discovered at La Fourche
crossing.
Plantations Establish Guarantees
The result of this has been that the
plantations are establishing quaran-
tines of their own. Before fever was
announced in New Orleans, On a num-
Der of big estates refugee Italians
were received with open arms, be-
cause labor was scarce and every hand
was needed. Now it develops that
many of these were infected.
Sunday several big estates estab-
lished guarantees, with armed guards
around their places to keep infected
Italians out, while those plantations
where the infections exist have estab-
lished the cordons TO prevent the de-
parture of all working forces.
The official report of the fever situ-
alton to six p. m. Sunday for the day
was as follows: New cases, so; total
cases, 963; deaths, -; total, 154; new
sub-foci, IA; total, 202.
Banana Trains Stopped.
The government at Washington has
issued an order which was transmitted
to Surgeon White here directing him not
to allow any more banana trains to de-
part from New Orleans for Chicago or
any other point The action was taken
because of the fear that the fever mos
quito might be carried northward in the
cars, and thus spread the fever in the
northern states.
Many Timber Camps Stranded.
A number of timber camps are strand
ed, and the men with mails and express
have been refused permission to get
through to them. If labor is democrat
lied much more, the cypress cutters
will be thrown far behind in their con-
tracts. while further decentralization on
the sugar plantations will interfere Sc
riously with the seasons business if not
stopped before harvest time sets in.
Food Supply Cut Off.
Drastic quarantine regulations con-
tinue to tie up the business Of Louisiana.
Gueydan La. through the abandon
ment of train service, was cut off from
food supplies, ice and mail. The citi-
zens have partly overcome their troubles
by the organization of star route serv-
ice.
The attempt to open detention camp
at Fontainbleau, Miss, has been aban-
doned and the federal doctors and work
men have left there. A camp near New
vi lCohO may NC lOSolOds OOS
up to the present time the effort to open
up Mississippi to people from this city
has failed.
In other places moderate relaxation
is recorded Trains again are running
through Lake Providence, La, no cases
of suspicious fever being discovered
there or in the vicinity. Lafayette, La.
has rescinded it's previous action and
will recognize detention and health Ger
tificates and receive freight in disin-
iected cars.
Illinois Renews Vigilance.
Cairo. Ill.,. Aug. H.-Owing to reports
showing the alarming increase of yell
low fever at New Orleans, the Illinois
health officers stationed here and al
Thebes, H., have renewed their vigi.
lance Three additional guards have
been placed at the Cairo bridge and
large numbers have been detained to
watch the river banks to see that no one
enters the state without first being in.
spected. All steamboats, that will be al.
lowed to stop must land at the main
wharf at Cairo.
Servian Cabinet Resigns.