Omaha daily bee., 1905-07-30
LINES DRAWN TIGHT
Interior Towns Refusing to Receive Many
Glasses Of erohandise.
PASSENGER SERVICE IS DlsARRANGED
Local Trains Discontinued and Regular
Excursion Runs Abandoned.
PROGRESS OF PLAGUE IS CHECKED
Only seventy-Five Cases Are Now
Under Treatmcnt--seven DesthF
Yesterday-An From one
Source.

NEW ORLEANS, July 29-The following
is tho report of the health authorities on
yellow fever up to p. m today:
New cases, %
Cases to date, 266.
Deaths today, T.
Deaths to date, 81
New foCi 2.
Deducting the number of deaths and the
number of recoveries II Is believed that
there are not more than seventy-hve cases
under treatment, II that many.
Considerable encoura cement has been
drawn from the fact that only two new
foci have developed. One of these is a
nurse who attended patient al hospital
and the other is in the vicinity of Milne
burg, where there had been a suspicious
case recently, but which had been spirited
away before the authorities got hold of II.
Quarantine Lines Drawn Tight.
The most disquieting news in the situation
today is the evidence that panic is increas-
ing in the smaller towns Of Louisiana and
Mississippi and that disposition is grow
ing to revive the disastrous commercial
guarantees of 1897, when some of the coun-
try towns even refused to receive ice or
hardware from New Orleans Several
| towns in Tennessee and others along the
Mississippi valley road in Mississippi refuse
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put off; Port Gibson Will not take bread
nor anything wrapped up in burlap that
may be shipped from this city. Some OF
| the Texas towns are asking that the malls
! be fumigated
The increase in the number of deaths and
cases OF yellow fever today Is not causing
anxiety. All but one of the dead are Italians
| or Austrans, who hailed from the original
! focus of infection. OF the new cases there
is only one point of infection among the
/ best element OF the population and that has
been traced to the original infection. No
| further points of infection have been dis
covered outside the city except near wag-
Faman, in jefferson parish where Dr.
Brady was sent by the state board. Louisi-
ana will not quarantine against Lumberton
because Of the case in that town.
Spread OF disease Prevented.
The success of the physicians In prevent
ing serious outbreaks in new neighborhoods
in which the disease has appeared Is, OF
course taken to mean that practical results
| are being obtained from the thorough sys-
tenn of screening which is now In vogue. So
thoroughly has the work been systematized
that instantly a case is reported represen-
tatives of the board, armed with screens
| and disinfectants, are hurried to the house
of the sufferer and every precaution Is
thereafter taken to make him or her Inn
mune to the attacks of the stegomyia'
Meanwhile good results are showing from
the establishment Of the emergency hos
pital, which is serving to relieve certain
districts of serious and thereby
enabling expeditions disinfectlon of infected
premises,
Cleaning of the City.
The conference Of the representatives Of
| ba health hoa I'd of he arto
states which DIR. souchon has called to
meet here tomorrow is not likely to ma
terialize. DR.. Souchon has received no
acceptances of his invitation. Reports
which have been sent out from here that
there is any conflict between the scientific
forces which are directing the fight against
the fever are entirely misleading. Dr.
Beverly Warner sent message to the
clergy appealing to them for assistance
in the present emergency. I'VE ask" he
said that you will urge your congrega-
tions, whether the believe in the mos
quito theory OF not, that they will give
hearty assistance to the authorities who
are attempting TO stamp out the mosquito
as at least one source OF infection"
In connection with the street clea ming
work the mayor has now under consid-
GRAFTON a petition to set aside the two
special days next week to be called street
cleaning days, when all the forces not
engaged in sanitating the city will be sup
plemented by additional aggregations OF
helpers In an effort to complete the work.
PRnIcky Feeling Spreads.
The railroads continue TO be seriously
, hampered by guarantees. The decision OF
, the conference of health authorities al
: Memphis to recommend a quarantine q
, the entire state OF Tennessee against in.
gs % ~ -
panicky feeling outside of New Orleans
; Every day now some half dozen little
| towns are suddenly scratched on the list
OF open towns. and very often the EN-.
barge is clapped on so suddenly that
passengers are left there with tickets al.
! ready purchased. The Southern and Texas
Pacific on the west bank of the river are
heavy sufferers
1t was said at the marine hospital ohicel
that passengers from New Orleans wer,
no longer permitted to travel in Texas
and only the most insignificant stations
2 | are open TO Louisiana. Quarantine hai
: been established so thoroughly along tn,
= line of some roads that big cards bearinl
Z bold black letters have been posted II
n the ticket Offices and depots announcinl
4 ! that all tickets bought for any point ou
OF New Orleans are purchased at the pur
chasers' risk and subject to the restric
}. tions OF quarantine
Demand FumiEatiOn of Freight
r Local representatives Of lines which run
Y through Mississippi were advised in tele
n grams today that no person from New or
leans would be permitted to travel on
train through that state without a healtl
N | certificate. This affects through passenger
y for the north, east and west Before the!
had received these orders ticket ONCE
here had sold large numbers OF tickets L
n people intending to leave tomorrow an,
-. Monday and thereafter they we're busy try
Ing TO locate these ticket holders In orde
J. to save them from being taken from train
y, and thrown into detention camps in tn
adjoining states. In the interior towns o
d some OF the nearby states little attention
J. has been paid q the mosquito theory an
" there has been demand for the fumigatin
Of freight cars sent to New Orleans [
Z haul freight from that city. Some Of Ii