The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1851-08-13

CHo,ERA ON rHE WESTERN Plans In q conversation
had yesterday with Major H. Pieot Of the Americsa
Fur Company who came down few days since, ON the
steamer st. Ange, given detailed aud full &C
count Of the prevalence Of among the indians In
About Fort Pierre in the year 1870 the FIRST Of
cholera occurred the 18th Of July Other eases followed
this, ct the disease eon,ibneu 70 spreau uu s VIZ
four hundred Missouri Sioux indians hsd iAen VIC
TINS 20 1t. A.. A. T.,
dams IL W. uld appear The cholera un'csted TO the
cattle and Major Picot states that from nis Know
ledge only fifty head Of cattle died Tor
which he cannot account unless 1t were cholera They
were seized with vomit ing and purxing and Ia
many instances indeed in the majority OF Instances,
do sh ensued after i've six hours from the manifesto
tion Of the symptoms The fact that cholera shy ud
declare itself animals may appear singular but
nevertheless true strange We recollsct, very WELL
one case this kind which occurred in 1919 when the
epidemic at its greatest height The steamer Alex
ander Hamilton bound for the Missouri river carried on
beard two rses which seized about the
time with violent purgpg, and died despite all the ord
nary remedies that were applied few hours only after
the fret indication Of illness.
WHEN The diseese raging most violently among
the Indians, council held, sfer whose decision the
entire nation struck camp and separated for various
quarters portion Of them took refuge in the noun
taDs and ths remainder journeyed towards the north
mountains and continued to commit sad ravage among
them. To add still to their mfortunes, the SIN Ill
pox broke out among them about the sane time, aud
while it its there from five to six hun
dred Of their numbers who f. victims to it, The traders
did all that lay in their power to alleviate the s-ering
about them They fortunately, well provided with
vaccine matter and Major PicCt supposes that less
than fifteen twenty thousand Indians vaccnsted
by them, TO start from the Of the first case
The most frs htfu paI spread itself among the indians
The eararcs of cholera in such malignant form
Neither interest friendship, nor parentage were
sufficient bonds TO keep them together in this time OF
affection Wives abandoned by their husbands
parents by their children and friends by their friends
The cholera also the small pox fingered from July
1850 to July, 1851 abatng in winter to considerable
extent In that time numerous children. and helpless
women aud old men who had been suddenly abandoned
By those that had hitherto supported them pick ID
up and Of by the traders. In the present
year the Indians who went to tA2 north the majority
are not vsccDatei 1t is apprehended that when thty
return while ayproprstins TO their the guns b'sn
kets and cothirg the invadS by thu small pox which
thrown away in the prairies the disease will intro
ducs itself among them.
The fact may be without it's interest. that in the
present when the party Of Sioux consisting OF
thous and famiiis went to the north they fell in With
party Of Blae See who in earch Of tho Crow
Indians The Sioux attacked them and murdered every
person in the party Not a single left to bear
the tale to bis nation.
After the Of the first few of the small
pox those Indians who had retired to the north became
particularly careful in their REORGANIZATION with
strangers Guards stationed about their village
whose duty ii 20 all strangers from approach
ing them aud further to shoot down such persisted il
crossing the line of their epcampent Major Picoi add
that very many Indians Of foreign tribes, well
the Sioux tribe itself murdered for the tina
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