Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1898 — FEVER SCARE HURTS RAILROADS [ARTICLE]

FEVER SCARE HURTS RAILROADS

Illinois Central Losing $15,000 a Day by the Quarantine. It is estimated that the Illinois Central Railroad is losing $15,000 a day on its Southern business as a result of the stringent yellow fever quarantine. It hps completely tied up the Yazoo and Mississippi Vqtlev division and Jias bmjiy hampered ajj traffic on the Ifaain line, rnlp ing off all the passenger trains except The' double through vestibule service. The effect upon the railroads is a more serious question than the fever itself, which is of a very mild type." Other railroads running into New Orleans are hampered in much the same way. Passenger coaches on all the roads are locked tight after leaving the New Orleans depot until they get through the States of Alabama. Mississippi and parts of Tennessee and Texas.