The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-20
BXpEL ITALIANS WITH GUNS.
LOUISIANA TOWNS SUSPICIOUS.
FEARING THE FEVER.

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They Arrived at Now Orieans-Missis.
sippi Towns Setting Up the Most Rigid
Quarantine-Many Doctors Are Now III
NEW ORLEANS, Aug. ia party Of fifty
Italians who reached here to-day over the
Mississippi Valley Railroad say they were
driven out Of the towns Of Baker and
Zachary. La, at the point Of shotguns.
They tried to leave tho train at several
points before reaching here, but were
not allowed to do SO and werc COM
pelled to como to New Orleans. The
italians were all healthy and no objection
was made to their landing here. They
brought . large amount OF baggage and
household stun and had evidently loft their
former homes for good.
No explanation Is given from the towns
they left as TO why they were forced to 60.
hut there Is a strong prejudice against
Italians In most Of the small towns OF tho
fever belt. In nearly all Of them no Italians
have been permitted to enter and In some
they have been compelled TO pass through
the detention camps, but tho case to-day
Is the first reported whore they have been
driven out OF town.
The situation at Leo, In LAfourohe parish;
10 unfavorable. The place u fishing set-
Element on the Gulf coast near tho mouth
Of Bayou Lafourche, rather than . town.
The settlement numbers probably 1000
persons, nearly all Of whom are engaged In
fishing 1t Is very near CheniAre Canun-
anda, where the great Gulf hurricane Of
1898 drowned over 1000 persons. The popu-
lation Is of the same character as that at
the Cheniere, simple and largely illiterate.
1t Is from 80 to 100 miles from a railroad,
being by water, up Bayou Lafourohe.
q route very little used, or by Bayou Bara-
taria or the Mississippi River to New Or
leans, with which there Is CLOSE oommunioa-
ton, the fishermen selling their 6sh and
oysters in the city market.
Cut off by the present epidemic, little
was known OF the condition OF the fishing
settlements on the Gulf coast until Dr.
Stark, health officer Of Lafourohe. hear
ing that there was much sickness there
persons sick. some from yellow fever, and
some apparently from dengue,. but the
two so mixed that it was impossible to dis
tinguish them. The situation was aggra-
waited by the fact that the local doctors
practising among the saeT r. f OK ,sSsr
Little difficulty was encountered in tracing
ehe disease to New Orleans, as the bigger
landing for 6sh boats In New Orleans IL
Immediately IN front Of the French market,
the original center Of infection In New
Orleans.
DR.. Stark found that tho fever had broken
out at Lee in June, three weeks or more
before its existence was known TO the
health authorities Of New Orleans. and two
months before It was brought to light,
beenlfound in Jefferson parish. at Hanson
CITY, Shrewsbury and MoDonou ghvile,
which are suburbs Of New Orleans. Jefferson
has had Eve pronounced cases OF fever,
all Of which died. In st. Charles, just above
been found. Gov. vardaman has ordered
an investigation Of the outbreak Of yellow
fever at Mississippi City, with the purpose
OF oriminally prosecuting any physioians
Of that town who failed to report cases Of
The Louisiana State Board Of Health
has ordered the Calcasieu parish board to
disregard the quarantine established by
the City Council Of Lake Charles against
all freight from New Orleans, as being be-
such a quarantine. Adams county. Miss,
has increased its quarantine force, and now
has a Gordon OF armed guards drawn around
the entire county. The Volunteer South
rons. a military company o. vioksburg.
quarantine service on the Gulf coast. Vioks-
burg has quarantined against the coast
because Of the outbreak at Mississippi City,
and the Southrons. whose quarantine SER
OF their homes by an ungrateful town.
case Of yellow fever has developed at
Starkville, Miss, traceable to Mississippi
City. The victim Is member Of the Stark
Vile Guards, and was serving with GOV:
vardaman's quarantine army on the Gulf
coast.
There were only four deaths to-day,
with fifty-eight new cases reported.