River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-08-03
SOUTH IN A PANIC
OVER THE FEVER
CONTINUED SPREAD OF AWFUL
PEST IN NEW ORLEANS.
COMMERCE is PARALYzED
Quarantine Lines Kill Business
Stricken City Is Isolated-Resi-
dents Work to Prevent
Spread of Disease.

parts OF the city remote from the ORR
| ginal infected districts new foci are APP
pearing. But the health authorities
are hopeful, and the citizenship-rich
and poor, women as we'll as mems
working, with the awful memories of
| quarter of century ago as an inspira-
tin, to throttle the epidemic in it's in
fancy II human energy can do it, it
will be done
Sundays Record.
New cases reported up to six p. m.
Sunday. 81; total cases to date, 2S3;
deaths Sunday, 3; deaths to date, 81.
Though it was Sunday the work of sani-
tation, fumigation, oiling and screening
went on just the same, and will continue
daily until the city has been thoroughly
screened and made mosquito proof.
| City Is Isolated.
New Orleans is an isolation hospital.
Apprehension of contagion, born of the
dread past, has caused the neighboring
states to inclose the Crescent City of
the south within the walls of quaran-
tine. The last gap in the wall was filled
when the entire state of Tennessee. fol-
L
lowing the guarantees established by
Memphis and Chattanooga. closed its
doors against the city and all points
where yellow fever is prevalent.
mississippi, with Gov. Vardaman
firm in his determination that no refu-
gee from Louisiana shall cross the
state line or set foot on the gulf shore.
hens the stricken city on one side.
Texas interposes a barrier even to a
pathway to healthful zones on the
other side. The waters of the gulf of
Mexico are the only refuge for those
who might flee, but at ports beyond the
gulf the quarantine still raises it's
hand, not only against the residents of
New Orleans but travellers unfortu-
nately caught here at this time.
| Women Join in Crusade.
Every cart to hire in the city has
been requisitiOned by the public works
department, and the citizens commit
tee. Hundreds of barrels of lime are
being used. in the effort 10 purify
streets, cutters and back yards. The
masses of the people think the disin-
fectants serve double purpose-kill-
| ing germs and putting fever-bearing
mosquitoes out of the way. The Era
club, one of the chief womans organi-
cations of the city, has volunteered it's
services to DR.. Warner, proposing to
hold parlor meetings daily in order
| that the women of the city may be in
| structed in the crusade against the
mosquito and the best methods of rid
ding the city of them.
Panic in Small Towns
A dispatch Saturday from Drs. Was
din and Donald, who are in charge of
the case at Lumberton, states that no
new cases have appeared and they feel
| confident of their ability to stamp our
the infection without further spread.
The order requiring all persons to ex-
hibit health. certificates before entering
Mississippi went into effect Saturday.
The most disquieting news in the yellow
fever situation Saturday is the evidence
that panic is increasing in the small
er towns of Louisiana and Mississippi
and that disposition is growing to re-
vive the disastrous commercial quaran-
tines of 1897, when some of the country
towns even refused to receive ice or
| hardware from New Orleans Columbia.
La, bars all kinds of merchandise ex-
cept hardware. Utica, Miss, will not re-
ceive freight of any kind; Osyka, Miss,
will take no fruit or vegetables; Jack
son, La, wants no household articles
from New Orleans. Several towns in
Tennessee and others along the Missis-
sippi Valley road in Mississippi refuse
to allow express MATTER of any kind to
be put off; Port Gibson will not take
bread nor anything wrapped in burlap
that may be shipped from this city.
Some OF the Texas towns are asking that
the mails be fumigated.
Bayonet Quarantine in Force.
| Gulfport, Miss, July 31-Gov. Var
daman, acting for the board of health,
has placed Adjt. Gen Fridge III charge
OF the state quarantine service, and all
future aggressions. against the yellow
plague in Mississippi will be conducted
under military auspices. The advance
detail of officers and men stationed at
Camp B. F. Ward, who were preparing
the grounds for the encampment of the
Mississippi national guard, will be uti-
ilzed to supplant the civil force now on
duty throughout the state and the most
stringent quarantine will be rain
| tanned. Gen. Fridge has issued imper
alive orders to the soldiers to maintain
the quarantine at the point Of the bay
onet.
States Quarantine Strict
Jackson, Miss. July 81 = Although
Gov. Vardaman has placed Adjt. Gen.
Fridge in charge of the quarantine
against Louisiana. he has not called out
| the state militia Gen. Fridge has been
given several officers and privates of the
national guard to aid him in enforcing
his orders. The general himself is in
charge of the quarantine along the gulf
coast and this embraces the train sery-
ice. The other officers ard men have
been detailed for duty at other points
where refugees may seek to enter Mis-
sissipi. Thpse men. while members OF