Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1905 — GUARDED WITH GUNS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GUARDED WITH GUNS.

QUARANTINE RAPIDLY EXTENDINQ IN DIXIE. Yellow Scourge Spreads and Bayonet Quarantine Leads to New Crisis Between States—Whole Bonth in Grasp of Fever Panic. Yellow fever shotgun quarantines are extending, guards and inspectors are multiplying, and travel is becoming increasingly difficult Numbers of the towns of Louisiana and Mississippi are cutting themselves off from the world and ridiculous features are constantly bobbing up amid thg general gloom. In the map is shown the region that now is quarantained against New Orleans, the shaded lines indicating the territory that has taken stringent precautions against infection from yellow fever. Besides the States indicated, the cities of Philadelphia and Norfolk, Va„ have quarantined against the stricken city. While no official action has been taken at Cairo, 111., the precautionary adopted there virtually amount to a state of quarantine. Havana, Cuba, also has closed Its port to ships from New Orleans under the usual plague conditions, and the harbor and government officers at New York are diligent in the examination of vessels from the infected city. Military quarantine along the Mississippi threatens to bring on a state of affairs akin to civil war between that State and Louisiana. Hundreds of refugees are being driven back daily and matters were brought to a crisis yesterday when persons bearing health certificates from the government detention camp were stopped at the point

of the bayonet on the State line by Mississippi soldiers and told to return whence they came. Indignation at the shotgun methods of Mississippi is intense and Governor Blanchard of Louisiana has been notified of the latest complications. The border towns on the State line are sharing in the. 111-feeling engendered by the plague and retaliatory measures are being resorted to. In one instance, at Vidalia, La., the people have refused to permit registered mail to come from Natchez, Miss. >, While women and children knelt at the altars In churches Sunday and prayed that New Orleans might be delivered from the scourge of yellow fever, the husbands, brothers and fathers scrubbed and cleaned the city In an effort to eradicate mosquito breeding. Armies of men worked in all of the wards as on any other day. The work of oiling and screening cisterns progressed, and despite the heat great progress was made. Ministers of the gospel advised their congrgeations to work.

Railroad traffic out of the city Is practically paralyzed In both passenger and freight. Mississippi merchants are refusing to allow cars of freight purchased In New Orelaus to be set on sidings at their stores and are ordering the railroad companies to haul them back to their point of origin. Monday the Meridiun field artillery, Mississippi National Guard, was ordered to the coast to aid In keeping up the quarantine. The full State military organization of staff officers Is camped along the line of the Louisville and Nashville Road and a squad of men under ,a commissioned officer now escorts trains from border to border. Following the example of Natchez. Greenville, Miss., and Lake Providence and East Carroll parish, La., have declared a strict quarantine against the world.

REGION THAT HAS QUARANTINED AGAINST NEW ORLEANS.