The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1905-09-21
SHORT ON COFFINS
Fever Victims in LeeviIle
Buried Only in Sheets.
SITUATION DEPL0RABLE
Little Town Entirely Cut OF From
Outside World--NeW Orleans ..
Official Report for
Thursday.

A New Orleans special says: Some
idea of the deplorable condition that
prevailed at Leeville, La, before re-
lief doctors and nurses reached the
scene was given Thursday in an In
terview with man from that vel.
low fever stricken town who had
been there throughout the epidemic.
The arrival was Manuel Encalade,
who said it was Impossible to pic
ture the full horror Of the situation
before help was forthcoming. Com
munication was cut off with the city,
the food supply ran low, the medi'
cines kept in the town store were ex-
hausted, it was impossible to get cof-
fms for the dead and many of those
who escaped attack packed their be-
longings and fed to other points.
At first the lumber intended for a
new house was used to make boxes to
inter the dead, but when this gave out
bodies were simply wrapped In
shrouds and buried.
Mr.. Encalade brought list OF
thirty six who had died in the set
tlement up to September and sa.l
1t was not improbable that numbers
of those who fed to isolated settle
ments along the coast had also sue
cumbed.
Mr.. Encalade said that since the
physicians and nurses had arrived,
the situation had steadily improved
and that the end of the epidemic was
probably near at hand because there
was little more material upon which
it could feed.
DR.. Brady returned to New Orleans
Thursday nigbt from a tour of in
spection of the Barrataria country
and Leeville. He reports that con-
ditions at Leeville are pitiable, that
of seven babies born there since the
fever broke out, all have died, eitlssr
of yellow fever or of lack Of nutri-
ment, because taeir mothers could not
feed them. He says the people seem
to be dazed. and there Is danger Of
an outbreak of scurvy because of
lack of necessary food. A carload
of food was sent on by New Orleans
merchants. The fever has practically
been eradicated from the lower Bar
rataria country, though there is con-
siderable in the upper district.
There was nothing new in the sit
uation at New Orleans beyond the
increase in number of new cases and
deaths. There were really seven yel-
low fever deaths, but one of them
does not appear On the record 1t
is the case of an Italian who, in the
delirium of his fever, secured a re-
volver and blew his brains out.
The official report Thursday was
as follows: New cases 40, total to
date 2,462, deaths 6, total 329, new
foci Is, cases under treatment 316,
discharged 1,S17.
In the country, the situation at
Tallulah is improving under the
management of Drs. Cassaignac and
Won Esdorf.
Other country reports we're:
Patterson. 20 cases, 2 deaths: Ken
ner, s cases, deaths; st. Rose, 2
cases, BaSrataria 2 cases; Clarke
Cheniere 1 DEATH Sarpy, 2 cases;
Berwick 1 death; Houma cases;
Tallulah, 26 cases, no Deaths
Mlssissippi-Gulfport case in sub
urbs; Mississippi City, 1 case: Vicks-
burg two cases.
The marine hospital service re-
ports that there have been 106 case-
all told in the Gulfport territory, of
of which only 13 are now under treat
ment.
Four Gases at Pensacola.
Two deaths and four new cases. Is
the report officially announced Thurs
day night at board of health head
quarters in Pensacola.