The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-04

total cases in New Orleans, 449. Total
deaths in New Orleans to date, S6.
y New Orleans, Aug. 1.-The report to
the New Orleans board OF health today
gpf four deaths and seventeen new cases
sof yellow fever in that city seemed to
Spresage a considerable increase over
yesterday report, which stands as the
siecord mark for twentyfour hours dur
ding the present invasion OF the plague.
SIN the natural order of things the
deaths must increase with such large
number of new cases as has been dls-
covered in the past few days, and
large death list is therefore but Sc
souence, the reports OF new cases being
the indicator Of the progress OF the dis
ease.
~ No reports of new cases or deaths
Sanywhere in the south outside OF New
Orleans have teen received by the Asso-
9ciated Press up to noon today, and as
the review Of conditions yesterday
Showed a very slight increase IN thls
#respect, the assertion seems warranted
that the authorities in those widely
scattered localities outside OF New Or
Cleans, which have found sporadic cases,
have the situation well in hand.
* Blow to Commerce.
& Outside of the fever itself, the con
sditions brought about by the strict
quarantine are serious ana IL are IelS Ill
every line of commercial life.
81 The railroads are badly handicapped
and in many instances are unable to
move passengers, the mails or freight.
The Southern Pacific road has its en-
stire service on the main line dlscon-
stinued because one parish in west Louis
lana refuses to permit trains OF any
kind to pass thru, night or day., !,
& Train service on the Louisville 4
Nashville railroad is also disturbed
Sleepers southbound are stopped at Mo
bile. Ala, and the occupants trans
ferred to screened day coaches tor the
remainder Of their Journeys, North
bound passengers from New Orleans are
miles west Of Mobile, and there trans
Sferred to sleepers on thru trains, which
then run to Montgomery, Ala, without
stopping: -,
Its southbound trains at Harahan, Ala"
where the transfer to screened coache:
lis made under the same conditions al
apply at Mobile.
Shotgun Quarantines.
Rapides has shut her doors to every
thing except mail and fuel oil. A
Mermentau, La, shots were exchanges
between guards and negro who wa
trying to run the quarantine. Gran
parish has instituted shotgun quaran
tine. stopped all trains and shut her
self off completely from mail service
Lafayette, La, has issued orders tina
only mail and disinfected freight sha!
come into that parish. Tensas paris
has quarantined all passengers, bag
gage, household goods, fruit and fax
RIGS. M. f.. 49,,
Precautions as radical as these hav
been taken in many other sections c
the south and there is apparently q
great "a panic now prevailing as at an
time during 1897, the bulk Of the coul
. try 1aymen refusing to put their fa1t
4 in the mosquito theory.
Exodus Is Heavy.
h The exodus from Louisiana toW1
where fever has appeared continues.
large number Of people have gone mort
and east, from Shreveport and points
that section of the state.
W. At Alexandria, as the result OF a mi
cease there, 100 citizens chartered SD
d. {cial train to leave there today. Yet tt
patient that has caused the panic
reported to have so far recovered as
Owing to the guarantees there
great suffering on the part Of those wi
are fleeing from the country distric
of north Louisiana. Two thousand re
ugees were compelled to remain in the
trains at Jonesboro, Ark. The trai
were surrounded by state troops.
hurriedly had the trains been made !
that no provisions had been made
food and water, and the refugees we
n hungry and famished, but their piteo
appeals for food were refused. T
unfortunate passengers, many of who
were women and children, were not pt
smitted to put their heads out of t
windows to get a breath Of fresh a
Tho the armed forces Of MississiI
and Louisiana have been in touch
twelve hours no reports of a sanguina
collision have reached here from t
Rigolets. The situation is not regard
as acute.