Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-08-04
THE FEVER SITUATION
Federal Government May Be-
come Involved
OVER MAIL EMBARGO
EXTREME MEASURES AFFECT
THE TRAIN SERVICE.
Quarantine Plans Against Yellow
Plague Sections Are Becoming
Most Radical.

| New cases in New Orleans to noon Au.
! gust 4, II; deaths in New Orleans to noon
| August 4. A. total cases in New Orleans,
| 4+9; total deaths in New Orleans to date, SO.
The report to the New Orleans board OF
! health early today of four deal tbs and three
| new cases of yellow fever In that city
| seemed TO presage a considerable increase
| over yesterdays report. which stands as the
record mark for twenty four hours during
| the present invasion of the plague In the
| natural order of things the deaths must in
| crease with the large number of new cases
discovered in the past few days, and a large
death list is therefore but sequence the
| reports of new cases being the indicator OF
| the progress of the disease.
No reports of new cases or deaths any
where in the south outside of New Orleans
| have been received by the Associated Press
| up to noon today, and as the review OF con-
| dftions yesterday showed very slight in
crease III this respect, the assertion seems
| warranted that the authorities in the wide
| ly scattered localities which have found
| sporadic cases outside of New Orleans have
the situation well in hand
ASIDE from the fever itself, the conditions
brought about by the strict uuarantines
| are serious, and are felt in every line of
! commercial life. The railroads are badly
| Handicapped and in many Instances are un.
! able TO move passengers. the mails or
| freight The Southern Pacific railroad has
! its entire service on the main line discon-
| tinued because one parish in west Louis
lana refused to permit trains of any kind
to pass through day or night. Train SER
vice on the Louisville and Nashville rail-
road rs also disturbed, as was to be eX-
pected.
The regulations in regard to sleeping cars
have been changed more generally than
the coach service. Sepers south bound on
TINS line are stopped at Mobile. Ala. and
the occupants transferred to second day
coaches for the remainder of the journey.
North-bound passengers from New Orleans
twenty-five miles west of Mobile and there
transferred TO sleepers on the through
| trains for the north. The north-bound
| trains then run 20 Montgomery, Ala,
| without Stopping. The local business is
handled by the accommodation trains, but
anybody along this. division of the road
wishing TO board a through train must go
either to Mobile or Montgomery to do So
Beginning tomorrow the train leaving Gin
clnnau at IL pm. over the Louisville and
Nashville will be held at Mobile which is
reached in the night. AT daylight the train
will start for New Orleans. The Cincin-
natl and New Orleans limited on the same
road will be discontinued beyond Mobile.
Passengers for New Orleans will be COM
PEELED to wait for some time at Mobile.
The local train from Birmingham south
will be discontinued beyond Prattviile juno
ton beginning tomorrow.
The Illinois Central is stopping all its
south-bound trains at Harahan, La where
the transfer to screened coaches is made
under the same conditions as apply at Mo-
bile. The officials of the Illinois Central
report no serious delay to their train serv-
ice, Notwithstanding the strict and annoy
ing guarantees.
Telegrams have been received In Mobile
intimating that fruit vessels transferred to-
this city from New Orleans will again be
returned to the Crescent city on account
of quarantine restrictions at Mobile being
too severe. No definite action has yet been
taken.
Officials of several cities and towns in
Arkansas, mississippi and West Tennessee
make complaint that hurtful reports of the
prevalence of yellow fever are being spread
broadcast in some unaccountable manner.
The rumorS to be run down in every
instance possible and the perpetrators pun
iShed.
NEW ORLEANS, August 4-Extreme
measures which some of the country dis
tricts taking to guard themselves
from yellow fever threaten to put a stop
to train service and may bring the federal
government into the fever situation in
the south The most radical action thus
far taken Is that of the police board of
Calcasieu, the second largest parish in
the state.
1t has passed resolutions ordering that
all traffic travel and intercourse between
Calcasieu and points east, north and west
shall cease at once and that no one shall
be permitted to enter the limits of the
parish until further orders.
In consequence of this resolution the
Southern Pacific has been ordered from
today to run no more trains through CAL
casieu, which means abandonment of
~, of hn
west.
The Watkins trains and the Kansas
City Southern trains have also been stop
ped. 1t is understood that the quarantine
in a day or two will be extended to all
freight trains The effect of the orders is
to stop all mail service into or through
CalcaSfeu.
Radical Precautions.
Rapides has shut her doors to every-
thing except mail and fuel Oil. At Mer.
mentau, La, shots were exchanged be-
tween guards and a negro who was try
irg to run the quarantine. Grant parish
has instituted shotgun quarantine stop
ped all trains and shut herself off com.
pletely from mail service. Lafayette, La,
has issued orders that only mail and dis
infected freight shall come into that
parish. Tensas parish has quarantined
all passengers, baggage, household goods,
fruit and fabrics.
Precautions as radical as these have
south, and there is apparently as great q
panic now prevailing at any time dur
ing 1897 the bulk of the country laymen
refusing to put their faith in the mos
quito theory.
Although the report of fifty-four new
cases in the preceding twenty-four hours
would ordinarily have tendency to cause
alarm here, people here find assurance IN
an analysis of the detailed report made
by the board of health. 1t is shown that
of the nfty-four cases twenty-nine were
rooted out Of concealment by Surgeon
Farrar Richardson of the marine hospital
service and his assstapts The area OF
infection is increasing below Canal street,
but the disease is making feeble progress
above.
Exodus From Towns.
The exodus from Louisiana towns where
fever has appeared continues. A large num-
ber of people have gone north and east from
Shreveport and points in that section of the
state. At Alexandria, the result OF a
mild case there. 100 citizens chartered q