The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1905-08-09
Has Made Its Appearance IN the
City of New Orleans
AND OTHER PLACES.
Three Hundred and Four People Have
Had 1t Up To Tuesday In New Or.
leans Alone, of Which Number
Sixty'Two Persons Have eM
Died of the Disease.
Died of the Disease.

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in the city Of New Orleans last Thurs
day, and since that time up TO Tues
day there has bsen three hundred and
four cases. OF this number sixty-two
cases have been fatal. The authori-
ties are doing all they can to sop
the disease, but up to Tuesday they
had not been very successful. Tue. g
we're twenty one new cases On that
day and FIVE deaths.
Qlarantines everywhere are being
drawn tighter. a nu1aber OF towns
IL Mississip:2 :2i and Louisiana are cut
ting themselves off from the world and
the shotgun quaractines are being
rapidly extended. Guards and in
spectors are being multiplied and trav-
el is being made increasingly difficult.
Even gasoline is apparently barred
from Vicksburg Many people have
left New Orleans for the interior.
While the feeling is constantly
growing more hopeful. there is appar-
entity no abatement Of the excitement
and there is 2anicky feeling in the
country districts Of Louisiana ard Mis-
sissippi Local business houses are
beginning to feel the lefects Of the
scare. They are receiving letters from
travelling men telling OF the cancella-
tion Of orders in Mississippi and else
where because of the reluctance Of the
country people to patronizs stores
which receive goods from infected
districts.
Much distress Is beginning to appear
among the Italian population growing
out of the practical expulsion Of the
fruit business from Louisiana on ac-
count Ct the quarantines, and relief
work is one Of the tasks which the
Italian societies and citizens commit
tees will now have to address them
selves to. a meeting Of representa-
tive Italians has been held and per-
manent organization formed.
A special to the Age-Herald from
Meridian, Miss, says: Five Italians
we're shot down by the guards OF the
detention station near Lunbsrton
Monday morning, two being killed and
three seriously wounded. DR.. Donald,
state health officer at Hattiesburg,
gave out the first inttmAtton o. the oc-
curence over the long distance tele-
phone chortly before noon and later
the details were obtained from other
sources.
A case Of yellow fever was developed
a few days ago among Italian refu-
gees from New Orleans in the suburbs
Of the town and the house in which
the patient lay Ill was isolated. The
state health authorities took care OF
the case while those who came In con-
tact with the sick man were detained
under guard at a camp provided for
the purpose. Five Of these, early
Monday morning, made an attempt to
escape. The guards repeatedly called
upon them to halt, but no attention
vas paid to the order.
The pursuing guards fired Volley
at the fugitivss, all OF them falling
in their tracks. From the best OBJ
tainable information two OF the ltal-
ians were Instantly killed by the vol
ley and the other three more OF less
seriously wounded. Lumberton is a
town on the New Orleans and Eastern
railroad, about 80 miles northeast OF
New Orleans and contains the only
case Of yellow fever thus far developed
in Mississippi.