The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-07-30
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antine.

Az nios o'clock every morning the
sloop bearing the cholera cases Departs
from the Falcon, ten miles soutf"e est,
ward 70 the quarantine burylng GROUND
ON staten Island. The long black out
line of the Falcon, which, without her
masts and feed from cargo, rises all
ruptly forty feet out of the depths, pre-
sents a strong contrast to the meager-
srz,d, bowl-yhaped, straightforward
dead ship that hugs the water and
drinks the waves as If to seek obscurity
and publication for her loathsome load.
They are all we'll mated-the gigantic
Falcon is tho huge monster that daily
belches out the victims whom the dis
ease it nurses is continually killing,
while the same repulsive sloop plays
lackey and teDder, carrying of the
pauseating remains of these that its big
ger brother refuses longer TO hold. The
two men who now manage the sloep,
and convey as well as inter the bodies,
are stalwart Russians of unusual
strength. BuE recently serfs in their
own country, they understand but
enough English, and possess but sutt1
Gent personality LITERALLY to obey their
sad orders and stolidity to perform their
disgusting, Though necessary work.
WHAT nature gave them IN muscle she
has withheld in sensibllity, The corpses,
say six, are laid in parallel lengths on
tho deck, partially covered with sail.
cloth. The breeze is exquisite, aud
ill., ill., -ha side Of the covering to show the
S midd U are ' womssbRi ER nj e.! A man OF
cad, between them an infant wh0se
prattling on EARTH is hnShed forever, be-
yond these a young wife, near her gray
| haired man, and at distance YOUTH
the vigor of early life visible even III
death, lie side by sido' Whlte GlsIoiteu
features the last stamp Which agony
| impressed, and tetid, lndescrlDaDle
! odOr that offeuds the air aud sickens the
senses, tell the dreadful story and snow
the more hoird effects OF the terrible
pestilence Fa1en hair, rounded tea:
lures, compact frame, the now paIIld
blue of The staIing eyes that Will not
shut, suggests their German birth. In
deed, the fatality is almost universally
among this class. Hundreds have lett
the grandeur and glory of the Rhine,
only To breathe their death gurgle at the
mouth of the Hudson, on the portals OF
the and wh,,her freedom, safety aud
abu daut OPP ctunity wooed then. Inc
sluo forces Il languid passage through
the waves Jba dash with q luonotonous
thud asaiuat he sides, while tie still
ues, Of the + and the silence of the
dead aro rud 8 marred by the lndlter
eut remarks tho dual crew, thar
which the CtrlslUnal Creaking of the
reotl,s IS main Ill is not hess grating to
the nse II. ground reached, the open
grave gapes eady for the dead Yet
death.breathi < bodies. More than i've
feet deep, q Two and q hall feet
wide, it ees3us spacious but when
it is remembered that six
dist, lted shapes that once were human
beings are TO 10 jammed i'll that hole,
disgust is felt 1t its shameful shallow
hess IL was Gug the night before, by
meu who ueve attend the burial, but
tbeii part of the work done aro aNeTse
or f,.rful of perintendipg the conclu-
| sion I the ho.,Id work. The cOrpses are
carried hurriu s graveyard, ana thrown
| Ill, III their OTC,r of size, which brings
| the Dung wi next the top, ana the ln-
faut upou ht breast. Neither cJmn,
shIoul, nor oy u box is there. StrohS
sands shovel ~ the waiting earth, ou
Tho almost ba bodies. Six SO near'y
fl up the CAV that but few spade nl
of earth suffice and these descend, Bot
with The riugil !, sound that salates the
Confined dead, 5ut with the dull, heavy,
cchol 5. soupc of dirt against 1esn
Perhaps nine ches OF clay covor the
uppe. most &C st, perhaps less, No
prayer, no MOT rers, no priest. 10 shroud,
10 cuiti1, uo f. nds, with o4e-sizth Of
one g,aYe, auo meager mogsel of earth
for tueir cove the daily augmented
CHOLERA dead ) p on 10y the side Of tho
ocean, and at 10 door Of a land IN
which, coming seek a home, they were
not able 10 Oh n decent tomb.--N 7
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