Show r I Yellow Fever f NEW ORLEANS October 17The State Board of Health having received information infor-mation of the prevalence of fever at Biloxi Mississippi eighty miles distant and the death there of a number of persons from this cause held a special meeting today to consider the matter I Statements before the board showed that an itinerant mechanic na ued Sumpter who came from Biloxi died yesterday at Mississippi City Pnysi cians pronounced Sumpters disease bilious fever but one of the nurses said he vomited black stuff Dr Walker made the alarming statement as corning corn-ing from people rom Biloxi that nearly every family there had cases of fever He was told that in all there existed up to last night 270 cases that for the past two weeks people here being buried quietly at night and that in the daytime bodies were laid away surreptitiously Mr Charles Marshall Superintendent the Louisville Nashville Railroad stated that he was told that Dr Lemon had pronounced the cause of his wifes death at Biloxi as yellow fever Marshall had received a telegram from the station agent which bore the information that there were thirty or forty cases at Biloxi and that Drs Lemon and Mavbine had advised abrut the nature of the fever Dr Lemon adhering to the belief that it was unquestionably yellow fever The toard thereupon issued a notice to the officias of Biloxi declaring strict quarantine against it 1 |