Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1905-08-05
Situation is Precarious.


New Orleans, August 4.-Extreme
measures which some of the country
districts are taking to guard them
selves from yellow fever threatens to
put temporary stop to train service
and may bring the federal government
into the fever situation in the south.
The most radical action thus far TAX
en- is that of the police jury Cf Calca-
sieu, the second largest parish in the
state 1t has passed resolutions or
dering that all traffic, travel and inter
course betweent Calcasieu and points
east, north and west shall cease at
once, and that no one shall be permit
ted to enter the limits of the parish
until further ordGrs. In consequence
of this resolution the Southern Pacific
has been ordered from today to run
no more trains through Calcasieu
which means an abandonment of the
through service of the line to the west.
The Watkins trains and the Kansas
City Southern trains have also been
stopped. 1t is understood that the quar-
antine in a day or two will be extend
ed oall freight trains. The effect
of the orders is stop all mail service
into or through Calcasieu.
Guards shot at Negro.
Rapides has shut her doors to every
thing except mail and fuel OIL At
Mermentau, La, shots were exchanged
between guards and a negro who was
trying to run the quarantine. Grant
parish has instituted shotgun quar-
antine, stopped all trains and shut
herself off completely from mail SER
vice Lafayette, La, has Issued Or
ders that only mail and disinfected
freight shall come into that parish.
TeISas parish has quarantincd all
passengers, baggage, household goods,
fruits and fabrics.
Precautions as radical as these have
been taken in many other sections OF
the south and there is apparently as
great a panic now prevailing as at
any time during 1897, the bulk of the
country laymen refusing to put their
faith in the mosquito theory. Although
the report of "a new eases. in the pre-
ceding "a hours would ordinarily have
a tendency to cause alarm here, peo-
pie find assurance in an ansa@sis Of
the detaile dreport made by the board
of health. 1t is shown that of the
54 cases 20 we're rooted out of con
cealment by Surgeon Farrar Richrad
son, of the Marine hospital service and
his assistants.
The area of infection is increasing
below Canal street, but the disease
Is making feeble progress above.
People Leaving Louisiana.
The exodus from Louisiana towns
where fever has appeared continues
A large number of people have gone
north and east from Shreveport and
points in that section of the state. At
Alexandria as the result of a mild case
there one hundred citizens chartered
special train to leave there today
Yet the patient that has caused the
panic is reported to have so far re-
covered as to be able to sit up in bed
and smoke a cigarette.
Owing to the guarantees there is
great suffering on the part of those
who are fleeing from the country dis
tricts of North Louisiana. Two thou
sand refugees were compelled to re-
main in their trains at Jonesboro, Ark.
The trains were surrounded by state
trops. So hurriedly had the trains
been made up that no provision had
been made for food and water and the
refugees were hungry and famished
but their pietous appeals for food were
refused. The unfortunate passengers,
many of whom were women and chill
dren, were not permitted to put their
heads out of the windows to geta a
breath of fresh air.
Local Pacific officials said today that
they did not expect that the redical
quarantine measures adopted In Cal
casieu would stop the passage of the
United States mails. The road has
arranged to carry the mail car with
an engine each day from one end
of the parish to the other. Trains
on the Southern Pacific today are only
running as far as Mermenton.
Mayor Behrman has issued an ap-
peal to merchants to conduct them
! selves SO that their employees may
assist in street cleaning work. A dis
patch from the Rigolets says,
The Louisiana naval reserves, under
Lieutenant Ivy, in the oyster commits
sion lugger Nunez, captured in Ship
Island canal the Mississippi patrol boat
Tipsey