The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1905-09-15
WORSE AT TALLULAH.
That Place and Lake Providenc,
Being Deserted
BY GREAT NUMBERS
Dispatches Received at yicksbur.
State That he Situation Is De.
plorable at Those Fever
Stricken Towns.

New Orleans Sept. 14.-Yellow fever
report up to s o'clock Wednesday even
ing is as follows; New cases. 4s: total
24I2; deaths. a; total 32s. new foci, s:
cases under treatment. 500; eases dis
charged. 1887.
While the fact that there was a gain
Wednesday of a large number of new
eases of yellow fever IT did not give the
authorities serious concern. The rea-
son for the sudden jump in cases with
in the past four or FIVE days has ben
the cause of much speculation and con-
siderable disappointment on the part Of
the public. The disappointment comes
Iarely from the fact that any increase
is bound to have a discouraging effect
elsewhere II therefore prolong the
existence OF guarantees. Various rea-
sons for the increase are suggested
among them the fact that tie hphysi-
clans are now turning up cases of the
slightest pretext, owing TO the example
that was recently made OF one of their
number,
The persistency with which the fever
has stuck to the Port Barrow neigh
borhood in Ascension parish. led the
state board of health to decide TO es-
tablish a hospital Oh The outskirts OF
Donaldsonville.
The death OF Sister Mary of 81. c.
celia at the Mount Carmel asylum
Wednesday calls attention to the fact
that the Roman Catholic church has
suffered quite severely during the pres
ent sickness. Sister Mary was the sec
ohd r~eligeuse TO die. and besides them
the church has sustained the loss Of it's
archbishop ana Father Green. Of its
ablest priests here.
The appearance Of yellow fever at
Hamburg. IN the Mississippi Valley
road. h,eatens TO tie up the country
along that route. Baton Rouge. Ham
burg and Ntcksburg are AN three 80 the
line n all are now Infected.
TWO new points of infection were re
ported outside Of the city. one is at
L@compte, in Rapides parish. and the
other IS Berwick, across the hay from
Moran city. Dr. Chasesigaaic reports
from Taljulah that out of ~fortv-twt
blocks thtrty-six are infected but the
people have manifested new nope and
have gone to work with "a VIII.
other country cases. Patterson. ST.
teen cases. one death.
Alexandra. one case.
Lafayette. one ease.
-, Elizabeth plantation. tvo cases.
kenner one case.
-. Rose, two cases tnHt~fde OF town.
Clark Cheniere, -four eases.
Natchez. Miss. two new cases.
Guifport. Hiss. one new case. one
death.
a dispatch from Eirksbarg saws the
Herald Of hat city has reported from
Lake Providence and Tallulah that the
NeIio" fever situation in those places
II daily growing more serious. the dis
ease becoming virulent. Al Lake PROV.
ideTce Wednesday there were three
deaths n new cases. Dur
ing the last TWO days Taiiulah had had
-four deaths and twenty-uiue new cases
effort is being made to deropulat4
the towns special trains "Wednesday
night carrying "Ner "a hundred peorle
i'".f Lake Providence and almost as
more from TaiIulah. At the lat.
it' place nurses ara badly NEEDED.
a ~i'l"}hnu" message received al
NItNsburg from TaIisisb brings neus
%" death from y,}lav fewer Of Miss
r loFr".e t,"". thee s.tvnd daughter uf 4
= h cot ut fudt sty. This makes the
Third death lr th, ,:uH family i1 40
DAYS Mrs GsG dying on Moe
day Miss Minnie tsoa the oldest
Tuesday. Tt. @rmp IN .s.avs
that the condition fhe~, fs ter.
'4hl" ana wAutnr 81. eta. ssse~wa n-tr-
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