The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1854-10-06
vol. XIv.--No. 40.
A Horrid Picture.

OCCuIIeu III cIdHknn tnlS buNUmcI'
The cholera frs, b,oke out here in the
family OF Thomas M. johnson, and his
daughter, young lady. was the first VIC
iim:a The next victim was on Irish la
borer, at house adjoining Jo6nson's.--
Then ssveralof JohSson's family were
taken with the disease, but all recovered
except one son, hale, healthy yeupg
man, who survived tho attack but few
hours The next were two young men
wio "waked," with yonng Johnson 1.-The
night after his deaih; and one OF these,
sR esiimuble young man, in strange
land, named Richsrd Lauring waa Fuchr>
Fisd Of BY the disease. THE other re-
covered. An lrshman named Ward,
who has lived many years in this vicinity,
was in the johnson family during their
sickness, and, fHeling somewhat inds>
posed, went 10 bis home in the country,
was taken with cholera the same evening,
aud soon died, This residence was Tho
house or Thomas Ward, two miles sas,
Of this place. Here then commenced
other scenes that humanity weeps to
chronicle. A poor colored man, by the
name Of Rodin Jones, J never think OF
him but am reminded Of old Rodin and
his cholera scenes in the Wandering Jew)
watched over Ward TWO days aud night,
saw him die and committed him TO The
tomb, when he took the cholera. So ev.
ident did il now seen that the disease
was contiguous, that it was difficult 10
procure the poor mortal The requi
site ateAlion. His domicil was q
wreiched lovel, in the woods upon the
premises Of Ms. Ward, and detached from
any other residence. Rodin did not lack
for medical alteadence, for DR.. Evans fur
nished him with the best known reme>
dies, ana could good nursing have heen
procured, he nigh, have recovered, and
the scene that followed been avoided.
lie was convaiscent, 80 as to be about
the roarn. when bis wife, and family one
or his Children, were tsken down, which
30 ansrung poor Rndin's scusibili,ies,
that, in FL of slerangement, ho snaich-
0d up his whisky bollle, pitched head.
foremost through the only window there
was IN The shanty, carrying The sash wph
him, aud disappeared in the WOO Is a, a
inia hour at night, leaving hls vito and
child 10 die "ssliisu and alene - Il my
he well TO remark here, 'hat Robins wife
had no negro blood in her. She was
mixture Of Indian and Irish. Rodin also
was mixture, so ,hs, then ch'ldren were
but shade darker Than many Of ouf
NEST "independent voters" However.
the next morning after Robins mys'eri,
Gus exit, his wife and child, lad about
Riae years old, were fonnd dead, with no
attendant but an old negro and three
small children. Such had now become
the alarm, that no person seemed willing
to perform the last sad duties due the
dead. They had net been properly cared
for, were filthy in the extreme, and in .
den that humanity would blnnclr 10 enter
Add 10 ,hjs that the thermometer was a,
90, and the work Of decomposition rap
IDLY going m, the subjects laying as
ihoy had died, tho graSping aeonies oI
doath pictured upon every liDeament o.
their cptcasses--eyes and mouth open
10 their widest extent, the mother upon
o wrelched mut Of straw, the child upon
the hard dnor, as filthy as pu,rc fiction
could make ,hsm-- ii is no. strhngo tba,
no person would willingly offer then
burial. They were finally hnddled TO-
gather into one box, and shuffled boneatl
the sod. A man named Moserove, anc
the old negro referred 10 before, were
hired 10 place the dead in iheir rude box
Mosgrovo runaway before receiving the
pay for bisssewices TO The dead, and il
his fight took The diseased lady's shoct
and scpe other worthless articles, to en-
Joy for a brief fmomen,, 70. the next da,
foundhim dead with cholera, and th'
sadservices required 10 be performe,
FOR him, which, luckily, was done in
more becoming manner The negro wk'
insists MoHgroye, also too the choler
but is yet living @,5, Ss
MOI TO lose sight, however, Of ole
Rodin, after he left the house on ,h'
night referred to, he seemed to hav'
wandered in The woods from place /,
place, resting as occasion required, be
side log, or beneathta a tree, uDtil h
had wandered q mile OF so from home
where lie was found, two days after hi
fight, in Clear Creek, with one arm
,bfuken, and depJ; making the third on
in the family. There wereaow but tw'
Of Robins family lefhand they souph
refuge in the house of Mr.. WsId. TIL,
eldest Of slhese, was takenssick in tn
afternoon sfieraha burial of his mothe
and brother, and while yet able to wall
was led away fiom the house by Ward
into the woods, where ,he old negro la,
sick upon some straw uuder a tree, an,
there left TO battle wiihthe diseass, with
cut assistance Of any kind whatever; "a
,bs old negro, willing though hs nigh
have been, wes unable 10 render an,
Thus the shades ofnight gathered aroun
this picture Of darkness, and sbnt OH
froro hunnan uiaioo th;o snaoa ~ ;na H. hi