Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1897 — FEVER GAINS GROUND. [ARTICLE]

FEVER GAINS GROUND.

Uneasy Feeling in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. New Orleans 14 Mobile, Ala 4 Ocean Springs, Miss 40 Perkinson, Miss 1 Barkley, Miss 4 Near Scranton, Miss 1 Biloxi, Miss.. ...43 "Edwards, Miss 3 Late dispatches say there are more yellow fever cases in New Orleans, and it would be folly to deny the prevalence of a decidedly panicky feeling throughout Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama because of the presence of the plague in each of those States. The fact cannot be disputed that the disease is gradually spreading. There are four cases in Mobile, and the facts seem to show the disease was Introduced from a point other than the Mississippi sound towns. Cablegrams from Nicaragua say the plague is spreading there, giving a new source of danger to the coast cities. Yellow fever also exists at Savannah, according to late reports. In Mississippi the trend of affairs is even more gloomy, though that State has the advantage of having been practically turned over to the federal health officials. Ocean Springs, where the plague first took hold, has about forty cases of- fever. There is one case at Perkinson, a little town on the Gulf and Ship Island Railroad. The fever was traced from Ocean Springs to Barkley, Miss., a settlement of but four houses and a postoffice. Mrs. Saunders, who died in Ocean Springs, was buried in Barkley, and soon after the funeral her son, her husband and two other people died in the town. One case exists about midway between Scranton and Pascagoula, Miss. At Biloxi, Miss., there are forfy-three cases of all sorts. Fifteen of these are declared to be yellow fever and seven others are strongly su» pcted of so being.