Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-08-04
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
 MAY BE CALLED INs
On Account of the Action of the Country Districts m the Neighborhood of New Orleans Southern Pa. ci6c Railway Ordered to Discontinue the Rushing of Certain Trains.

New Orleans, Aug. 4.-Extreme measures which some of the country districts are taking to guard them selves from yellow fever threaten to stop train service and may bring the federal government into the fever situation in the south. The most radi- cal action thus far taken is that of the police board of Calcasieu, the sec ond largest parish in the state. It has ordered that all traffic 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 or ders. As result the Southern Pa cific has been ordered from to-day to run no more trains through Calcasieu, which means an abandonment of the through service of the line to the west. The Watkins trains and the Kansas City southern trains have all so been stopped. It is understood that the quarantine in day or two will be extended to all freight trains. The effect of the orders is to stop all mall service into or through Calcasieu.
 Rapides has shut her doors to ey- erything except mail and fuel oil.
 At Mermentau. La, shots were ex- changed between guards and a negro who was trying. to unr the quaran- tine. Grant parish has instituted a shotgun quarantine and Lafayette, Ia., has issued orders that only mall and disinfected freight shall come in- to that parish. Precautions as radl- cal as these have been taken in many other sections and there is apparently as great a panic now prevailing as at any time during 1897, the bulk Of the country laymen refusing to put thelr faith in the mosquito theory.
 Although the report Of 54 new cases in the preceding 24 hours would ordinarily have a tendency to cause alarm here. people are finding assur- ance in an analysis of the detailed re- port made by the board of health. IL is shown that of the fifty-four cases twenty-nine were routed out of con cealment by surgeon Farrar Richard son. of the marine hospital service and his assistants. The area of infec- tion Is increasing below Canal street, but the disease is making feeble pro- gress above.
 where fever has appeared continues; At Alexandria, as the result of mia case there. 100 citizens chartered a special train to leave there to-day.
 Archbishop Chapelle has returned to the city from tour through Louisiana and expresses deep concern over the state of the public health. He VII issue a pastoral letter giving ms ad- vice to meet the emergency.
 There is great suffering on the part of those who are fleeing from the country districts of north Louisiana. Two thousand refugees were compelled to remain in their trains at Jonesboro, Ark. The trains were surrounded by state troops.
 So hurriedly had the trains been made up that no provisions had been made for food and water and the refugees were hungry and famished' but their appeals for food were re- fused. The unfortunate passengers, including many women and children, were not permitted to put their heads out of the windows to get breath or fresh air.