American union. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1859, 1855-07-21
From the Piitsaurg Dispatch
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them at once to take every means which
science has given them TO prevent the
of this disease i'm our city,
The Board of Health, the Street Com
missioners, and the police should use
every effort to remove nuisances and
prevent the filth from recklessly sacriG.
cling their neighbors, should the disease
appear which is now lowering over our
outskirts. Let oil dwellings in courts
aud alleys be as we'll ventilated as posi-.
ble--and every gutter cleansed, and we
shall have little to fear.
An intelligent friend, who visited the
only spot where the cholera has appea
ed in this neighborhood, on Friday af.
ternoon, gives us the following account
of it.
Tho disease made its appearances on
Thursday in building near some rail-
road shanties, on the Ohio River, below
the Marine Railway, in Charters town
ship. The house is a frame--one story
on level with the road and two below
the road fronting tho river, the main
building aud two wings contain ten or
twelve rooms. and is owned by Ger
man named John Snyder, who lived in
the lower portion--the remainder was
occupied by an lrishman named Kinney
as whisky shop and boarding-hous
for the Irish laborers on Murray and
Moorhead's section Of the Steubenville
Railroad. A few days ago this building
had no less than seventy-three inmates.
Snyder's portion was clean--but the re-.
mainder was filthy beyond description,
and beyond the imagination of any who
have not visited it. Kinney would re-
tail half barrel Of whisky day to the
degraded beings who there congrega,ed
and so great was their bestiality that
travellers were almost nightly compel
led to turn out oftho way to avoid riding
over the drunken wretches who lay in
the road.
On Thursday the cholera broke out
in this castle Of Indebtedness, and two
of those attake ed died-on Friday after
noon four more followed. Among the
deaths were John Snyder, Patrick Lar
ner, man named Fury, and Mrs. Fury.
When our informant visited the building
on Friday afternoon, he found two lit
tie girls dealing out the meanest kind of
whiskey to the railroad hands, but was
refused admission into the remaining
rooms of tho main building. Mrs. Sny-
der was then so low that no hopes were
entertained other recovery. 1.-THE up
per wing below the road, he found, in
one OF the rooms, a man stretched upon
the bed complaining of cramps--and a.
mother smoking pipe in the corner;
both men were drunk, and the fumes
of tobacco and whiskey were overpower.
ing. Offifteen families who had occu-
pied the house, but seven remained--
the others having fed.
Reforming to tho bar-room to make
inquiries, one Of the little girls engaged
in dealing out the liquor said "come a
long Ill show you dead man u and
led the way to miserable shanty, above
this building and between tho road and
the river, containing six hunks. Prone
on his face in the middle ofthe floor lay
the body Of stalwart Irishman, naked
to his shirt, which was thrown over his
head-the room horribly filthy, and the
corpse covered with flies. In one of the
| hunks, insensible, her laborious breath.
ing giving evidence that death was near
lay his wife-equally naked with her
husband, and like him coveerd by my.
Rad Of flies. After vain endeavor to
restore her to Consciousness, he arranged
the scanty clothing upon the bodies to
prevent the most indecent exposure
and fastened from spectacle of squalid
Indebtedness he has never before wit.
messed, with feelings which may be i'm.
agined. We learn with pleasure tina,
Priest Shehan, TO whose efforts in be-
behalf OF these people all bear testimo
N.Y. on being informed of the circum.
stance, took measures for the intermen,
of the bodies.
Our informant visited other shanties
and found several sick-but for every
one that was sick, he found score drunk
The whole Irish population were mo-
wing of-some going upon the hills, ant
others coming over to the city, in hopes
thus to avoid the dreaded disease.
Ono death was reported as having Ia
ken place little further from the city
on M'Keown's section Of tho railroad
at this end of tho Cork's Run Tunnel
where woman lay sick and not expect
ed to recover. Priest Shehan had di
rected tho funeral Of the dead in the
Catholic burial ground, on tho Steubon
vile turnpike.
Had the poor creatures who GROVE
tho shau,ies mentioned paid any regar'
to tho ordinary decepcios of life, LIVED
like human beings, and not been poison
ed by the horrible stuff retailod to then
as whiskey we should have escaped thi
disease, which may yet ravage our city
Ii has so far been confined to the imme
dia!e noighborhood in which Vt origina
ted-Aand we think none need be alarm
ed who pay due regard to cleanliness
and diet, unless forced to live in filth,
localities, and be poisoned by thci
neighbors. Is thore no ono, in Char