Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1905-09-15
Will DepopuIate Two Towns.


New Orleans, Sept 14.-With steps
in progress to depopulate both Tallu
lah and Lake Providence as much as
possible, and with an ample fever
force now at work at both places, the
country situation shows some improve
ment as to yellow fever, the advices
from other sections presenting no ag.
grayation of conditions.
Out Of forty squares in Tallulah sc
are infected, many of the victims be
ing people Of prominence, and. some
being desperately i'll.
Formerly Naval OFFICER j. B. Sny.
der, is among the late cases. Six
outside doctors and fourteen nnurses,
including four Sisters of Mercy from
| Vicksburg, are on the scene, but Dr..
Chassaignac, who is in charge, has
asked for able boiled immunes to be
sent to assist in the sanitary work.
About 200 people, non-immunes have
been sent north from Tallulah and
| Lake Providence There is now per.
| feet harmony between the citizens and
the doctors. and Dr. Chassaignac is
encouraged to believe that the situa,
tion will steadily improve from now
on
DR.. Weaver sends an encoura ging
report from st. Rose and Prean- Grove
which was one of the worst nests OF
| infection. There are no new cases OF
deaths at either place and the resi-.
dents are now obeying the rules made
for their benefit.
At Patterson, p patients remain in
! the hospital Cases appear in con:
| siderable number in the town, but
are generally mild New cases are
reported at several points in the state,
where there were fever before but no,
| where is there Indication of a spread
sufficient to give alarm
Vermilion parish has joined these
parishes which are appealing to DR..
| White to- continue the detention camp.
The Abbeville board of health wires
that the camp is a safeguard to the
state at large,
italian Commits Suicide.
A suicide, due to yellow fever, has
been reported Antonio Angelo. an
Italian. was attacked by the disease
In his delirium he got out of bed. sc.
cured a revolver and blew out, his
brains. He leaves a widow and two in.
fant chfl1rren.
Superintendent Haley, of the Brad.
| street company agency is back from
trip to the east He reports bust
| ness men and financiers as optimistic
concerning the future of New Orleans
and calls attention to the fact that he
| bank clearings of New Orleans for
| last last week showed an advance OF
| S2.9 over the same week last year.
Among the victims of the. vel
, low fever are Arthur Wilson, the prin
cipal state witness in a brutal murder
| that grew out of the cistern screening
| ordinance early in the campaign. Will
son was the only man who saw the kill
ing Of John Condor by Austin Ma
ioney, notorious hoodlum He died In
the emergency hospital
Shreveport Suffers Heavily.
Shreveport, which has been the
wrost sufferer in the state in the busi
ness way as result of tie yellow fe
yer, all its trains having been Gu
off, is making energetic effort to re
open communication with the outsid
world. There has never been a case O
yellow fever In the town, and none
on the outskirts since the single case
that caused the panic there, AMI hun
dreds of people who fed from the cit!
or who went away on their annua
vacations are now anxious to return.
y DR.. White has agreed to do all h,
can to assist the Baton Rouge mer
chants to move freight into the inte
rior and has notified governor Blan
: char1 that he will sent Surgeon Cor
! put there to organize a disinfectini
. system.